MCSE Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) formerly Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes with a requirement for MCSE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - 38
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing MCSE 6 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.86% - 2.07%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.44% - 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile £576 - £495
25th Percentile £590 - £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £508
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.62%
75th Percentile £633 - £549
90th Percentile £645 - £560
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £600 - £508
% change year-on-year - - +1.62%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 417 72 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 59.74% 29.88% 44.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 55 108
10th Percentile £412 £319 £311
25th Percentile £477 £408 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £493 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% +6.49% -7.50%
75th Percentile £610 £548 £519
90th Percentile £638 £578 £560
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £493 £463
% change year-on-year +11.68% +6.49% -9.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 3
10th Percentile £14.23 - £20.96
25th Percentile £19.26 £15.12 £24.35
Median hourly rate £38.72 £15.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +149.81% -48.33% +121.08%
75th Percentile £43.75 £17.87 £34.00
90th Percentile - £39.40 £36.40
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +53.96% -16.17% +121.08%

MCSE
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

MCSE job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

MCSE
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing MCSE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing MCSE

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Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing MCSE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing MCSE

MCSE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) PKI
2 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (66.67%) Identity Management
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) RBAC
2 3 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 3 (50.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Matrix Organization
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 2 (33.33%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) MCSA
3 2 (33.33%) CCNP
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) NCSC
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) VMware