MCSA Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) formerly Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for MCSA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 336 441
Rank change year-on-year +37 +105 +168
Contract jobs citing MCSA 5 9 36
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.059% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.18% 0.21% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 33
10th Percentile £428 £305 £306
25th Percentile £470 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% -25.00% +28.62%
75th Percentile £638 £678 £606
90th Percentile - £800 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £350 £480
% change year-on-year +57.14% -27.08% +20.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,762 4,242 6,586
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.88% 27.64% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,865 2,651 4,417
10th Percentile £350 £325 £381
25th Percentile £425 £440 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £730 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 269 292
10th Percentile £19.10 £15.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.51 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -33.85% +33.22%
75th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.78 £83.84 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

MCSA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing MCSA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MCSA trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing MCSA.

MCSA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing MCSA over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

MCSA daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing MCSA.

MCSA hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (40.00%) Skype for Business
3 1 (20.00%) Confluence
3 1 (20.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (20.00%) IaaS
1 1 (20.00%) PaaS
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) Skype
2 2 (40.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) H.323
3 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
3 1 (20.00%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Service Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (40.00%) PKI
3 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (40.00%) Security Hardening
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (20.00%) NsoIT
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) MCSE
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (20.00%) MCP
4 1 (20.00%) OCA
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) SCCM
2 2 (40.00%) OPNET
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) PowerCLI
3 1 (20.00%) SCOM
3 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Veeam
3 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (20.00%) VMware