MCSA Jobs in the East of England

Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) formerly Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for MCSA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 207 228
Rank change year-on-year +37 +21 +2
Permanent jobs citing MCSA 4 10 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.12% 0.16% 0.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.23% 0.62% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 7
10th Percentile £40,225 £26,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,313 £36,000 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £42,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% -26.09% +27.78%
75th Percentile £55,625 £43,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £56,750 £55,000 -
England median annual salary £37,500 £43,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -12.79% +1.18% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

MCSA 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 of England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,703 1,606 2,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 51.94% 26.24% 42.51%
Number of salaries quoted 637 1,101 613
10th Percentile £31,050 £26,000 £27,150
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £47,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -6.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £66,225 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,995 £59,600
% change year-on-year +0.01% -7.73% +8.36%

MCSA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing MCSA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for MCSA in the East of England

MCSA
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MCSA in the East of England.

Salary trend for MCSA in the East of England

MCSA
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing MCSA in the East of England over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for MCSA in the East of England

MCSA
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSA within the East of England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2025. 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
Hertfordshire +32 1 £52,500 - 1
Cambridgeshire +29 1 £55,000 +29.41% 1
Suffolk -14 1 £36,000 +30.91%
Bedfordshire - 1 £55,000 -
MCSA
England

MCSA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) Internet
3 1 (25.00%) IPv4
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) VSAN
3 1 (25.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Software Packaging
1 1 (25.00%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Android
3 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) CCNP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
3 1 (25.00%) MCITP
3 1 (25.00%) MCP
3 1 (25.00%) MCSE
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Firmware
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (50.00%) vSphere
3 1 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (25.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
3 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Dell DRAC
1 1 (25.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (25.00%) vRealize
1 1 (25.00%) VxRail
1 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) EMC
3 1 (25.00%) Isilon
3 1 (25.00%) McAfee
3 1 (25.00%) Mitel
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds