MCSE Contracts in the Thames Valley

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for MCSE qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 143 149
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -8
Contract jobs citing MCSE 3 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.11% 0.25% 0.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.28% 0.72% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 7
10th Percentile £614 £287 £328
25th Percentile £625 £363 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £475 £613
Median % change year-on-year +35.38% -22.45% +61.18%
75th Percentile - £551 £638
90th Percentile - £560 £647
South East median daily rate £538 £543 £425
% change year-on-year -0.92% +27.65% -7.61%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

MCSE is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,063 979 1,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 40.34% 34.39% 28.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 656 676
10th Percentile £213 £317 £263
25th Percentile £415 £410 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +3.57% +1.63%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £591
90th Percentile £688 £685 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +7.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 45 30
10th Percentile £18.05 £18.90 £16.75
25th Percentile £41.63 £27.00 £19.20
Median hourly rate £58.30 £64.68 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +207.61% -0.12%
75th Percentile £71.41 £74.79 £48.75
90th Percentile £87.41 £80.25 £80.54
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £58.13 £44.50
% change year-on-year -1.34% +30.63% +11.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing MCSE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for MCSE in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MCSE in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for MCSE in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MCSE in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for MCSE in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSE within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
Buckinghamshire +27 3 £643 +71.49%
MCSE
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior VMware Architect
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Zachman Framework
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) NCSC
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware