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 29 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 132 145
Rank change year-on-year -37 +13 -18
Permanent jobs citing MCSE 5 16 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.081% 0.68% 0.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.59% 1.96% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4 16 9
10th Percentile - - £41,337
25th Percentile £27,750 £32,500 £43,421
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,847 £35,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% -22.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £39,949 £38,750 £48,750
90th Percentile - £55,000 £50,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £35,000 £39,750
% change year-on-year +35.71% -11.95% -11.67%

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 846 815 918
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.69% 34.81% 22.36%
Number of salaries quoted 369 232 358
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £38,500 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year +40.26% -13.48% -11.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,750 £65,000 £71,625
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 29 August 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
Nottinghamshire - 3 £39,194 -
Derbyshire -7 2 £28,500 -18.57% 2
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 (60.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) DHCP
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) NX-OS
3 2 (40.00%) IP Telephony
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Law
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) 1st Line Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) 1st Line Support
2 2 (40.00%) 1st Line Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) IT Support
2 2 (40.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (60.00%) PKI
3 2 (40.00%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Availability Management
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Culture Change
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Digital Forensics
2 3 (60.00%) Information Security
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Open Source
2 3 (60.00%) Product Management
2 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Project Management
2 3 (60.00%) Server Management
2 3 (60.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) ITSM
4 1 (20.00%) Coaching
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CCNA
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) CCNP
3 2 (40.00%) MCSA
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) SLA
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (60.00%) vSphere
2 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Draytek
3 2 (40.00%) FIS
3 2 (40.00%) Mitel
3 2 (40.00%) WatchGuard