MCSA Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for MCSA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 - 138
Rank change year-on-year - - +44
Contract jobs citing MCSA 3 0 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% - 0.30%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.69% - 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £193 - £532
25th Percentile £205 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £450 - £645
90th Percentile £555 - -
Central London median daily rate £250 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 437 502 609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.99% 23.77% 20.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 308 365
10th Percentile £327 £363 £343
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £555
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +0.23% -3.48%
75th Percentile £664 £657 £694
90th Percentile £738 £764 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile £22.28 £21.80 £16.89
25th Percentile £26.00 £23.75 £17.31
Median hourly rate £28.15 £27.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +50.00% -58.26%
75th Percentile £64.66 - £47.75
90th Percentile £79.34 - £65.60
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £27.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +27.70% +50.00% -58.26%

MCSA
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for MCSA in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MCSA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MCSA

MCSA
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MCSA in the City of London over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MCSA in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MCSA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MCSA

MCSA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
1 1 (33.33%) Intranet
1 1 (33.33%) IP Telephony
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Mac OS X
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) MCSE
3 1 (33.33%) CCNA
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (33.33%) MCP
3 1 (33.33%) MOS
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) Apple
3 1 (33.33%) Avaya
3 1 (33.33%) Polycom
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Wyse