MCSA Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) formerly Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for MCSA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 619 633 639
Rank change year-on-year +14 +6 -144
Permanent jobs citing MCSA 142 122 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.20% 0.30%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.73% 0.55% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 97 113 184
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,800 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £41,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -3.53% +6.25%
75th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £55,175
90th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £68,750
UK median annual salary £43,114 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.44% -5.56% +12.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

MCSA is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,515 21,982 22,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.48% 36.54% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 12,241 8,204 10,270
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,603 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +3.21% +1.42%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.28% +8.23% -

MCSA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing MCSA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for MCSA in the UK excluding London

MCSA
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MCSA in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for MCSA in the UK excluding London

MCSA
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing MCSA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for MCSA in the UK excluding London

MCSA
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +40 63 £39,000 +6.85% 5
North of England +61 37 £40,000 -21.95% 5
Yorkshire +97 22 £37,500 -23.47% 2
Midlands -26 18 £43,227 +13.76% 4
West Midlands +17 11 £43,227 +64.67% 2
North West -6 11 £45,000 -18.18% 3
East of England +14 10 £42,500 -15.00% 10
East Midlands -25 7 £33,750 -25.00% 2
South West -26 7 £33,000 -19.51% 5
Scotland -53 5 £48,500 +25.16% 2
North East - 4 £29,500 -
Isle of Man - 2 £50,000 -
MCSA
UK

MCSA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 46 (32.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (14.08%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.82%) IIS
4 1 (0.70%) Apache
4 1 (0.70%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (14.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.70%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.70%) PTC Creo
2 1 (0.70%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 83 (58.45%) Azure
2 64 (45.07%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (28.87%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (28.17%) IBM Cloud
5 16 (11.27%) Entra ID
6 11 (7.75%) AWS
7 9 (6.34%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (4.23%) OneDrive
8 6 (4.23%) Twilio
9 5 (3.52%) Azure Stack
9 5 (3.52%) GCP
10 2 (1.41%) Google Workspace
10 2 (1.41%) Mimecast
10 2 (1.41%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.41%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.70%) IaaS
11 1 (0.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (25.35%) Firewall
2 22 (15.49%) DHCP
3 20 (14.08%) DNS
4 19 (13.38%) VPN
5 17 (11.97%) LAN
5 17 (11.97%) TCP/IP
6 15 (10.56%) VLAN
7 12 (8.45%) VoIP
8 11 (7.75%) Internet
8 11 (7.75%) WAN
9 10 (7.04%) SAN
10 9 (6.34%) Wireless
11 7 (4.93%) WLAN
12 6 (4.23%) NAS
12 6 (4.23%) Network Security
13 4 (2.82%) SSL
13 4 (2.82%) VSAN
14 3 (2.11%) Bluetooth
14 3 (2.11%) IPv4
14 3 (2.11%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.93%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.41%) Power BI
3 1 (0.70%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.70%) Chocolatey
2 1 (0.70%) Git
2 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.70%) JIRA
General
1 41 (28.87%) Public Sector
2 36 (25.35%) Social Skills
3 7 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.23%) Law
5 5 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (3.52%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.82%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.82%) Police
6 4 (2.82%) Retail
7 2 (1.41%) Finance
7 2 (1.41%) Legal
8 1 (0.70%) Banking
8 1 (0.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (13.38%) IT Support
2 18 (12.68%) Support Engineer
3 14 (9.86%) 3rd Line Support
4 12 (8.45%) IT Engineer
5 10 (7.04%) Analyst
6 8 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (5.63%) IT Manager
6 8 (5.63%) IT Support Engineer
6 8 (5.63%) Server Engineer
7 6 (4.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 6 (4.23%) IT Technician
8 5 (3.52%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (3.52%) Hardware Engineer
8 5 (3.52%) IT Support Technician
8 5 (3.52%) Senior
8 5 (3.52%) Support Technician
8 5 (3.52%) Systems Manager
8 5 (3.52%) Technical Engineer
9 4 (2.82%) Service Analyst
9 4 (2.82%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.70%) .NET
1 1 (0.70%) AngularJS
1 1 (0.70%) ASP.NET
1 1 (0.70%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (0.70%) XML
1 1 (0.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (28.17%) Blockchain
1 40 (28.17%) Distributed Systems
1 40 (28.17%) Hybrid Cloud
2 16 (11.27%) Data Centre
3 11 (7.75%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.23%) Clustering
4 6 (4.23%) Replication
5 5 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.82%) PKI
6 4 (2.82%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.11%) CCTV
7 3 (2.11%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.11%) Mobile Computing
7 3 (2.11%) Raspberry Pi
8 2 (1.41%) Fat Client
8 2 (1.41%) iPhone
8 2 (1.41%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.41%) Smartphone
8 2 (1.41%) Thin Client
9 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 85 (59.86%) Windows
2 63 (44.37%) Linux
3 57 (40.14%) Windows Server
4 45 (31.69%) CentOS
5 43 (30.28%) Debian
6 40 (28.17%) Alpine Linux
7 12 (8.45%) Windows 10
8 8 (5.63%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (4.93%) Apple iOS
9 7 (4.93%) Windows Vista
10 6 (4.23%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (2.82%) Android
12 3 (2.11%) Unix
12 3 (2.11%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (2.11%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (1.41%) Mac OS
13 2 (1.41%) Ubuntu
13 2 (1.41%) VMS
13 2 (1.41%) Windows 2000
13 2 (1.41%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (28.87%) CI/CD
1 41 (28.87%) DevOps
1 41 (28.87%) Task Automation
2 40 (28.17%) Artificial Intelligence
2 40 (28.17%) Co-Creation
2 40 (28.17%) Data Science
2 40 (28.17%) Functional Testing
2 40 (28.17%) Separation of Concerns
2 40 (28.17%) Technology Transformation
3 38 (26.76%) ITIL
4 32 (22.54%) Customer Service
5 31 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (10.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (9.86%) Kalman Filter
8 13 (9.15%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (9.15%) Email Filtering
9 12 (8.45%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (8.45%) Proactive Monitoring
10 11 (7.75%) Web Filtering
11 8 (5.63%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.15%) SQL
2 8 (5.63%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.70%) Bash
3 1 (0.70%) C#
3 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.70%) MATLAB
3 1 (0.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 142 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 102 (71.83%) MCSE
3 43 (30.28%) Azure Certification
4 33 (23.24%) CCNA
4 33 (23.24%) Cisco Certification
5 28 (19.72%) Degree
6 25 (17.61%) MCP
7 15 (10.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 13 (9.15%) A+ Certification
9 11 (7.75%) Network+ Certification
10 9 (6.34%) Security Cleared
11 8 (5.63%) SC Cleared
12 7 (4.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (3.52%) CCNP
15 4 (2.82%) DV Cleared
16 3 (2.11%) CompTIA Security+
16 3 (2.11%) MCDST
16 3 (2.11%) RHCT
17 2 (1.41%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.34%) GDPR
2 5 (3.52%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.41%) SLA
4 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.70%) QA
System Software
1 70 (49.30%) Active Directory
2 40 (28.17%) Docker
3 34 (23.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (15.49%) Hyper-V
5 11 (7.75%) vSphere
6 3 (2.11%) KVM
6 3 (2.11%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 41 (28.87%) Terraform
2 40 (28.17%) Kubernetes
3 16 (11.27%) SCCM
4 7 (4.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.93%) SCOM
5 4 (2.82%) WSUS
6 3 (2.11%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (2.11%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 82 (57.75%) Microsoft
2 47 (33.10%) Red Hat
3 41 (28.87%) IBM
4 38 (26.76%) VMware
5 18 (12.68%) Cisco
6 10 (7.04%) Draytek
7 9 (6.34%) Apple
8 8 (5.63%) Dell
8 8 (5.63%) Google
9 7 (4.93%) Citrix
9 7 (4.93%) HP
9 7 (4.93%) Veeam
10 5 (3.52%) Meraki
10 5 (3.52%) Sophos
11 4 (2.82%) LogicMonitor
11 4 (2.82%) SolarWinds
11 4 (2.82%) SonicWALL
12 3 (2.11%) Freshdesk
12 3 (2.11%) Palo Alto
12 3 (2.11%) Ubiquiti