MCSE Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for MCSE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 - 103
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing MCSE 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.069% - 0.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.33% - 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £483 £550 £483
% change year-on-year -12.18% +13.99% -1.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.75
Median hourly rate £25.84 - £13.50
75th Percentile - - £15.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 - £13.50
% change year-on-year - - -22.86%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 607 361 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.00% 23.40% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 255 210
10th Percentile £306 £302 £299
25th Percentile £413 £375 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £476 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% -3.84% -5.71%
75th Percentile £574 £565 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
England median daily rate £526 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +0.10% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 19 10
10th Percentile £19.69 £18.51 £14.83
25th Percentile £21.33 £23.16 £20.88
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% -37.13% +40.89%
75th Percentile - - £54.38
90th Percentile £43.96 - £63.75
England median hourly rate £52.83 £25.15 £54.00
% change year-on-year +110.07% -53.43% -0.81%

MCSE
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

MCSE job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

MCSE
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing MCSE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing MCSE

MCSE
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing MCSE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing MCSE

MCSE
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSE within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 September 2026. 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
South Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
MCSE
England

MCSE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SNMP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Service Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Ticket Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) A+ Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) ECDL
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) NDS
2 1 (50.00%) NetIQ eDirectory
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) VMware