MCSE Contracts in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for MCSE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 202 227
Rank change year-on-year +21 +25 -45
Contract jobs citing MCSE 19 13 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.33% 0.23% 0.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.74% 0.63% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 27
10th Percentile £300 £173 £268
25th Percentile £350 £291 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +1.60%
75th Percentile £556 £563 £638
90th Percentile £568 £588 £658
England median daily rate £438 £494 £425
% change year-on-year -11.39% +16.18% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.31
25th Percentile - - £21.09
Median hourly rate - - £29.38
75th Percentile - - £37.34
90th Percentile - - £41.94
England median hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £19.43
% change year-on-year - -9.91% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,569 2,055 2,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.65% 36.29% 31.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,493 1,316 1,570
10th Percentile £350 £300 £312
25th Percentile £450 £418 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £619 £625
90th Percentile £725 £700 £688
England median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 130 92
10th Percentile £17.80 £21.99 £17.00
25th Percentile £38.54 £42.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £62.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +37.78% +8.43%
75th Percentile £70.39 £73.59 £60.56
90th Percentile £87.46 £77.21 £69.88
England median hourly rate £40.66 £55.00 £41.36
% change year-on-year -26.07% +32.99% +14.88%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing MCSE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for MCSE in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MCSE in the South East.

Daily rate trend for MCSE in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MCSE in the South East over the 6 months to 19 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MCSE in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MCSE in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for MCSE in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSE within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 June 2024. 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
Hampshire +3 14 £538 +57.62% 1
Surrey +19 5 £375 - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (68.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (47.37%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (52.63%) DHCP
1 10 (52.63%) DNS
2 6 (31.58%) Fibre Channel
2 6 (31.58%) SAN
3 5 (26.32%) Firewall
3 5 (26.32%) iSCSI
3 5 (26.32%) TCP/IP
3 5 (26.32%) VPN
4 4 (21.05%) NAS
4 4 (21.05%) SSL
4 4 (21.05%) VLAN
4 4 (21.05%) VoIP
5 1 (5.26%) LAN
5 1 (5.26%) MPLS
5 1 (5.26%) Network Security
5 1 (5.26%) WAN
5 1 (5.26%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) JIRA
General
1 12 (63.16%) Social Skills
2 9 (47.37%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (47.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Test Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) Integration Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) Test and Integration Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Wintel Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) PKI
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (78.95%) Windows
2 10 (52.63%) Windows Server
3 9 (47.37%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (26.32%) Linux
5 4 (21.05%) Unix
5 4 (21.05%) Windows 10
6 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Agile
1 9 (47.37%) Critical Thinking
1 9 (47.37%) Regression Testing
1 9 (47.37%) Test Scripting
2 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (21.05%) Change Management
3 4 (21.05%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (21.05%) Security Management
3 4 (21.05%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 3 (15.79%) Storage Management
5 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (10.53%) Patch Management
5 2 (10.53%) Project Delivery
6 1 (5.26%) Conflict Resolution
6 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 1 (5.26%) ITIL
6 1 (5.26%) Server Hardening
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (73.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 10 (52.63%) MCSA
4 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
4 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
5 5 (26.32%) Degree
6 4 (21.05%) CCNA
6 4 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (21.05%) MCTS
7 1 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (5.26%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
2 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (78.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (52.63%) Active Directory
3 4 (21.05%) Firmware
3 4 (21.05%) vSphere
4 1 (5.26%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) SCCM
2 1 (5.26%) Backup Exec
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Microsoft
1 15 (78.95%) VMware
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco
2 1 (5.26%) Citrix
2 1 (5.26%) EMC
2 1 (5.26%) McAfee
2 1 (5.26%) Veritas