MCSA Contract Job Trends in Central London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for MCSA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 127 131
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 +68
Contract jobs citing MCSA 2 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.100% 0.086% 0.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.35% 0.34% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £224 - -
25th Percentile £283 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 - £565
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.62%
75th Percentile £518 - £580
90th Percentile £582 - -
London median daily rate £438 £315 £550
% change year-on-year +38.89% -42.73% +37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
London median hourly rate - £112.00 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

MCSA 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 564 585 556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 28.09% 25.14% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 355 346
10th Percentile £350 £309 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £647 £636 £683
90th Percentile £738 £741 £789
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 7
10th Percentile £22.95 £24.78 £16.26
25th Percentile £25.47 £28.94 £21.95
Median hourly rate £25.99 £72.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.03% +20.42% +39.53%
75th Percentile £28.94 £112.00 £69.38
90th Percentile £40.15 - £75.25
London median hourly rate £25.47 £37.50 £49.88
% change year-on-year -32.08% -24.82% +9.03%

MCSA
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MCSA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

MCSA job vacancy trend in Central London

MCSA
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing MCSA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing MCSA

MCSA
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MCSA in Central London over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MCSA in Central London

MCSA
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing MCSA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing MCSA

MCSA
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSA within the Central London region over the 6 months to 22 December 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
City of London -7 2 £395 - 4
MCSA
London

MCSA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) MCP
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) VMware