MCSE Job Trends in the East Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for MCSE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 126 141
Rank change year-on-year -42 +15 -26
Permanent jobs citing MCSE 14 21 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.21% 0.90% 0.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.63% 2.36% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 13 21 6
10th Percentile £26,750 - £44,211
25th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,500 £35,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% -24.32% -21.28%
75th Percentile £29,250 £37,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £37,809 £55,000 -
England median annual salary £36,000 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +2.86% -12.50% -15.79%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East Midlands

MCSE falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 860 888 990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.79% 37.93% 26.46%
Number of salaries quoted 436 236 269
10th Percentile £27,823 £28,000 £28,200
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £62,500 £50,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,817 £67,500 £76,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -0.86%

MCSE
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MCSE relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

MCSE job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

MCSE
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing MCSE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing MCSE

MCSE
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSE within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derbyshire -7 11 £28,500 -18.57% 1
Nottinghamshire - 3 £39,194 -
MCSE
England

MCSE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) AWS
1 11 (78.57%) Azure
1 11 (78.57%) Entra ID
1 11 (78.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (100.00%) Firewall
2 11 (78.57%) IP Telephony
3 3 (21.43%) DHCP
3 3 (21.43%) DNS
3 3 (21.43%) NX-OS
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) GitLab
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
General
1 11 (78.57%) Telecoms
2 3 (21.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) IT Support
2 6 (42.86%) IT Support Technician
2 6 (42.86%) IT Technician
2 6 (42.86%) Support Technician
3 5 (35.71%) 1st Line Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) 1st Line Support
3 5 (35.71%) 1st Line Support Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) IT Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) IT Support Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Support Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 13 (92.86%) Driving Licence
2 11 (78.57%) CCTV
3 3 (21.43%) Data Centre
3 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
3 3 (21.43%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (78.57%) Linux
2 11 (78.57%) Windows Server
3 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) ITIL
2 11 (78.57%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (78.57%) Incident Management
2 11 (78.57%) ITSM
3 3 (21.43%) Availability Management
3 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 3 (21.43%) Culture Change
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Digital Forensics
3 3 (21.43%) Information Security
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Open Source
3 3 (21.43%) Product Management
3 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
3 3 (21.43%) Project Management
3 3 (21.43%) Server Management
3 3 (21.43%) Storage Management
4 1 (7.14%) Coaching
4 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
1 3 (21.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) CCNA
1 14 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 14 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (78.57%) CCNP
2 11 (78.57%) MCSA
2 11 (78.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 3 (21.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (78.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (21.43%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (78.57%) Hyper-V
2 3 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (21.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (21.43%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (78.57%) Draytek
2 11 (78.57%) Mitel
2 11 (78.57%) WatchGuard
3 3 (21.43%) Cisco
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
4 2 (14.29%) FIS