MCSE Contract Job Trends in Basingstoke

Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) formerly Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Basingstoke with a requirement for MCSE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MCSE 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basingstoke 4.24% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 4.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £600 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £650 - £104
% change year-on-year - - -81.82%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Basingstoke

MCSE falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 247 172 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 87.28% 80.00% 80.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 143 42
10th Percentile £475 £409 £397
25th Percentile £500 £481 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £614
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -4.24% +4.43%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £649
90th Percentile £725 £725 £688
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -1.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - £24.18
25th Percentile - £34.00 £26.31
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +12.00% -
75th Percentile - £36.00 £40.00
90th Percentile - - £51.25
Hampshire median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -35.71% -41.67% -

MCSE
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MCSE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

MCSE job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

MCSE
Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing MCSE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing MCSE

MCSE
Daily Rate Histogram in Basingstoke

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MCSE in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MCSE in Basingstoke

MCSE
Hourly Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing MCSE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing MCSE

MCSE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) Fibre Channel
1 11 (91.67%) iSCSI
2 2 (16.67%) VSAN
3 1 (8.33%) Structured Cabling
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Architect
1 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 10 (83.33%) VMware Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
1 11 (91.67%) Windows Server
1 11 (91.67%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
1 6 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 5 (41.67%) Edge Virtualization
2 5 (41.67%) Performance Analysis
3 4 (33.33%) Operational Stability
4 2 (16.67%) Coaching
4 2 (16.67%) Prototyping
5 1 (8.33%) Budget Management
5 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2
5 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Project Management
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (91.67%) DV Cleared
2 11 (91.67%) Security Cleared
3 5 (41.67%) VCP5
3 5 (41.67%) VCP6
3 5 (41.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) NFS
1 11 (91.67%) VMware ESXi
1 11 (91.67%) vSphere
2 9 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (16.67%) VMware NSX
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
1 11 (91.67%) NetApp
1 11 (91.67%) Splunk
1 11 (91.67%) Veeam
1 11 (91.67%) VMware