MCSE Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) formerly Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire with a requirement for MCSE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 51 77
Rank change year-on-year +28 +26 -2
Contract jobs citing MCSE 15 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 6.36% 0.63% 0.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.96% 1.67% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 3
10th Percentile £605 £614 -
25th Percentile £618 £625 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £643 £375
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +71.49% +36.36%
75th Percentile £743 - £491
90th Percentile - - £554
South East median daily rate £650 £538 £558
% change year-on-year +20.93% -3.59% +31.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 94 180 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 39.83% 37.82% 44.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 144 325
10th Percentile £321 £357 £269
25th Percentile £416 £416 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £517 £470
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% +9.95% -1.05%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £550
90th Percentile £630 £773 £625
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 1
10th Percentile £16.38 £15.85 -
25th Percentile £17.50 £18.00 £9.50
Median hourly rate £35.75 £22.50 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.89% +125.00% -56.00%
75th Percentile £64.06 £27.50 £10.50
90th Percentile £67.50 - -
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
% change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Job postings citing MCSE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Job vacancy trend for MCSE in Buckinghamshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MCSE in Buckinghamshire.

Daily rate trend for MCSE in Buckinghamshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MCSE in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MCSE in Buckinghamshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MCSE in Buckinghamshire.

Hourly rate trend for MCSE in Buckinghamshire

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Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSE within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes +24 13 £630 -2.03% 2
Bletchley - 1 - -
MCSE
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) IaaS
1 8 (53.33%) PaaS
1 8 (53.33%) SaaS
2 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 7 (46.67%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (73.33%) VSAN
2 3 (20.00%) BGP
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (20.00%) MPLS
2 3 (20.00%) NGFW
2 3 (20.00%) OSPF
2 3 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (20.00%) VPN
2 3 (20.00%) WAN
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (13.33%) DNS
3 2 (13.33%) Firewall
3 2 (13.33%) VLAN
General
1 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Architect
2 11 (73.33%) Technical Architect
3 10 (66.67%) Senior
3 10 (66.67%) Senior Architect
3 10 (66.67%) Senior Technical Architect
4 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 4 (26.67%) Principal Architect
4 4 (26.67%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Senior VMware Architect
5 2 (13.33%) VMware Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Principal Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (66.67%) PKI
3 7 (46.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 15 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 15 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 14 (93.33%) Containerisation
2 14 (93.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 14 (93.33%) Continuous Integration
2 14 (93.33%) ITIL
2 14 (93.33%) Microservices
2 14 (93.33%) Zachman Framework
3 11 (73.33%) DevSecOps
4 10 (66.67%) IT Strategy
4 10 (66.67%) Matrix Organization
4 10 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
5 8 (53.33%) Use Case
6 7 (46.67%) Requirements Management
7 5 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
8 4 (26.67%) DevOps
8 4 (26.67%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (26.67%) Prototyping
8 4 (26.67%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (86.67%) Security Cleared
3 12 (80.00%) SC Cleared
4 11 (73.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (33.33%) CCNP
5 5 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (26.67%) DV Cleared
7 1 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (93.33%) NCSC
1 14 (93.33%) NIST
2 10 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 11 (73.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 11 (73.33%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (73.33%) Cisco
2 11 (73.33%) Palo Alto
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft