MCSA Contracts 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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 - 165
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing MCSA 2 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.097% - 0.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.39% - 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £260 - £532
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 - £645
90th Percentile £590 - -
London median daily rate £270 £433 £550
% change year-on-year -37.57% -21.36% +4.76%

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 513 527 711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 24.88% 22.97% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 336 436
10th Percentile £315 £369 £322
25th Percentile £453 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £675 £657 £680
90th Percentile £763 £775 £820
London median daily rate £526 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.09% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 3
10th Percentile £25.11 £20.33 £16.89
25th Percentile £26.13 £20.50 £17.31
Median hourly rate £31.78 £27.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.69% +50.00% -61.60%
75th Percentile £55.06 - £50.88
90th Percentile £65.39 £37.05 £70.60
London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -16.17% -45.45% +34.15%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing MCSA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for MCSA in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MCSA in Central London.

Daily rate trend for MCSA in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MCSA in Central London over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MCSA in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MCSA in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for MCSA in Central London

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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 17 August 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 - 2 £425 - 3
MCSA
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) Intranet
1 1 (50.00%) IP Telephony
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop 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
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) MOS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Apple
2 1 (50.00%) Avaya
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Polycom
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Wyse