MCSA Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) formerly Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for MCSA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 387 416
Rank change year-on-year +74 +29 -44
Contract jobs citing MCSA 75 66 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.28% 0.30%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.99% 0.85% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 45 48
10th Percentile £221 £223 £177
25th Percentile £313 £363 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £480 £358
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% +34.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £556 £650 £441
90th Percentile - £686 £488
UK median daily rate £388 £490 £403
% change year-on-year -20.92% +21.74% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 13 25
10th Percentile £14.16 - £13.25
25th Percentile £14.48 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% - +3.33%
75th Percentile £21.37 £15.75 £15.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

MCSA 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,548 7,727 7,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.85% 32.88% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,354 5,167 5,193
10th Percentile £270 £286 £257
25th Percentile £425 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £600
90th Percentile £725 £709 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 930 631 529
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.12% +42.86% -
75th Percentile £63.29 £65.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £67.84
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £43.46
% change year-on-year -25.93% +24.26% +14.36%

MCSA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for MCSA in the UK excluding London

MCSA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MCSA in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for MCSA in the UK excluding London

MCSA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MCSA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MCSA in the UK excluding London

MCSA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MCSA in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for MCSA in the UK excluding London

MCSA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
East of England +44 48 £100 - 10
South East +17 10 £538 +11.98% 5
South West +12 8 £538 +13.16% 5
Scotland +48 6 £325 +47.73% 2
North of England +5 3 £325 -50.00% 5
Yorkshire +20 2 £325 -22.16% 2
North West +3 1 £400 -38.46% 3
MCSA
UK

MCSA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 20 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (21.33%) Confluence
3 6 (8.00%) IIS
4 4 (5.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (17.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (17.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 45 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (6.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 41 (54.67%) Wi-Fi
2 18 (24.00%) DHCP
2 18 (24.00%) DNS
3 4 (5.33%) SAN
4 3 (4.00%) LAN
4 3 (4.00%) WAN
5 1 (1.33%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.33%) Firewall
5 1 (1.33%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.33%) MPLS
5 1 (1.33%) Network Security
5 1 (1.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.33%) VPN
5 1 (1.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (21.33%) JIRA
General
1 28 (37.33%) Retail
2 21 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 20 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (21.33%) Military
5 4 (5.33%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.33%) Marketing
5 4 (5.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 41 (54.67%) Analyst
1 41 (54.67%) Service Analyst
1 41 (54.67%) Service Desk Analyst
2 16 (21.33%) Integration Engineer
2 16 (21.33%) Test and Integration Engineer
2 16 (21.33%) Test Engineer
3 13 (17.33%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
4 9 (12.00%) Support Engineer
5 8 (10.67%) 3rd Line Support
6 5 (6.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Service Delivery Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (1.33%) Deskside Engineer
9 1 (1.33%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.33%) PKI
2 10 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (44.00%) Windows
2 26 (34.67%) Windows Server
3 22 (29.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (8.00%) CentOS
4 6 (8.00%) Debian
4 6 (8.00%) Linux
4 6 (8.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (4.00%) Windows 7
5 3 (4.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (61.33%) ITIL
2 44 (58.67%) Customer Service
3 41 (54.67%) Incident Management
4 17 (22.67%) Service Delivery
5 16 (21.33%) Agile
5 16 (21.33%) Critical Thinking
5 16 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (21.33%) Regression Testing
5 16 (21.33%) Test Scripting
6 13 (17.33%) Mathematics
7 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (5.33%) PRINCE2
9 3 (4.00%) Computer Science
9 3 (4.00%) Employee Productivity
10 2 (2.67%) High Availability
11 1 (1.33%) Cybersecurity
11 1 (1.33%) Database Security
11 1 (1.33%) Server Management
11 1 (1.33%) Storage Management
11 1 (1.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.33%) SQL
2 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 75 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 46 (61.33%) A+ Certification
3 31 (41.33%) SC Cleared
3 31 (41.33%) Security Cleared
4 29 (38.67%) MCSE
5 16 (21.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 10 (13.33%) CCNA
6 10 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (9.33%) Degree
8 6 (8.00%) RHCT
9 5 (6.67%) MCP
10 3 (4.00%) CCNP
10 3 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (2.67%) CCENT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (57.33%) Active Directory
2 26 (34.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.00%) Hyper-V
3 6 (8.00%) KVM
4 1 (1.33%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 48 (64.00%) Citrix
2 41 (54.67%) ServiceNow
3 38 (50.67%) Microsoft
4 26 (34.67%) VMware
5 6 (8.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.67%) Cisco
7 1 (1.33%) Dell
7 1 (1.33%) HP
7 1 (1.33%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.33%) Veeam