MCSA Jobs in London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for MCSA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) formerly Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator England / London
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	476	466	460
Rank change year-on-year	-10	-6
Permanent jobs citing MCSA	137	175	215
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in London	0.37%	0.44%	0.48%
As % of the Qualifications category	1.61%	1.82%	1.86%
Number of salaries quoted	119	140	203
Median salary	£40,000	£45,000	£40,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	-11.11%	+12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than	£28,300	£25,500	£24,800
10% offered a salary of more than	£53,000	£60,750	£55,000
UK excluding London median salary	£39,000	£31,500	£34,000
% change year-on-year	+23.80%	-7.35%

MCSA is in the academic qualifications and professional certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all academic qualifications and professional certifications cited in permanent job vacancies advertised in London.

Academic & Professional Certification London
Permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications	8488	9627	11588
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London	23.04%	24.39%	25.85%
Number of salaries quoted	6546	8091	9456
Median salary	£55,000	£55,000	£52,500
Median salary % change year-on-year	-	+4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than	£32,500	£32,500	£30,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£85,000	£75,000	£80,000
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£42,500	£41,500
% change year-on-year	-	+2.40%

MCSA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London citing MCSA as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Qualifications category.

MCSA
Salary Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCSA in London.

MCSA
Salary Histogram in London

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing MCSA in London over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

MCSA
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSA within the London region over the 3 months to 26 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	+28	37	£42,500	-15.00%	1
Twickenham	-	12	£47,500	-
Hounslow	-	4	£42,500	-	1
Uxbridge	+4	2	£47,500	+90.00%
Croydon	-	2	-	-
Chiswick	-8	1	£42,500	+32.81%
Harrow	-	1	£27,000	-
Mitcham	-	1	£35,000	-
Surbiton	-	1	-	-
Ealing	-	1	£31,000	-
Wimbledon	-	1	£26,500	-	1
MCSA England

MCSA
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT jobs citing MCSA also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads across the London region with a requirement for MCSA.

1	291 (100.00%)	Microsoft Certification
2	229 (78.69%)	Windows
3	201 (69.07%)	Microsoft
4	199 (68.38%)	MCSE
5	192 (65.98%)	Active Directory
6	172 (59.11%)	VMware
7	145 (49.83%)	Windows Server
8	134 (46.05%)	Office 365
9	112 (38.49%)	Cisco
10	110 (37.80%)	VMware Infrastructure
11	108 (37.11%)	Windows Server 2012
12	106 (36.43%)	ITIL
13	101 (34.71%)	MS Exchange
14	85 (29.21%)	Cisco Certification
15	84 (28.87%)	Citrix

15	84 (28.87%)	Microsoft Azure
16	82 (28.18%)	Hyper-V
17	80 (27.49%)	Windows Server 2008
17	80 (27.49%)	DNS
18	79 (27.15%)	CCNA
19	71 (24.40%)	Firewall
20	69 (23.71%)	Windows 7
21	66 (22.68%)	SCCM
22	64 (21.99%)	MCP
23	62 (21.31%)	MCITP
24	60 (20.62%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
25	58 (19.93%)	SharePoint
26	57 (19.59%)	DHCP
27	56 (19.24%)	SQL Server
28	52 (17.87%)	SAN

MCSA
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	101 (34.71%)	MS Exchange
2	58 (19.93%)	SharePoint
3	44 (15.12%)	Exchange Server 2010
4	35 (12.03%)	Exchange Server 2013
5	24 (8.25%)	Skype for Business
6	19 (6.53%)	Exchange Server 2007
7	15 (5.15%)	IIS
8	12 (4.12%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
8	12 (4.12%)	SharePoint 2013
9	8 (2.75%)	Apache
10	6 (2.06%)	CloudStack
11	4 (1.37%)	Exchange Server 2003
12	3 (1.03%)	SAS
13	2 (0.69%)	OpenStack
14	1 (0.34%)	Confluence

Applications
1	48 (16.49%)	Microsoft Office
2	5 (1.72%)	Microsoft Excel
2	5 (1.72%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
3	1 (0.34%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	5 (1.72%)	Dynamics CRM
2	1 (0.34%)	Eikon

Cloud Services
1	134 (46.05%)	Office 365
2	84 (28.87%)	Microsoft Azure
3	44 (15.12%)	Amazon AWS
4	8 (2.75%)	SaaS
5	5 (1.72%)	Amazon EC2
5	5 (1.72%)	Amazon S3
5	5 (1.72%)	Azure Active Directory
6	3 (1.03%)	Amazon CloudWatch
6	3 (1.03%)	Amazon ELB
6	3 (1.03%)	AWS CloudFormation
6	3 (1.03%)	Cloud Computing
6	3 (1.03%)	Virtual Private Cloud
7	2 (0.69%)	Akamai
7	2 (0.69%)	IaaS
7	2 (0.69%)	OneDrive
7	2 (0.69%)	PaaS
8	1 (0.34%)	Dropbox
8	1 (0.34%)	G Suite
8	1 (0.34%)	Google Cloud Platform
8	1 (0.34%)	Mimecast

Communications & Networking
1	80 (27.49%)	DNS
2	71 (24.40%)	Firewall
3	57 (19.59%)	DHCP
4	52 (17.87%)	SAN
5	39 (13.40%)	LAN
6	37 (12.71%)	TCP/IP
7	32 (11.00%)	WAN
8	28 (9.62%)	Internet
9	26 (8.93%)	VPN
10	23 (7.90%)	VLAN
11	20 (6.87%)	Wireless
12	18 (6.19%)	iSCSI
12	18 (6.19%)	Skype
13	17 (5.84%)	VoIP
14	13 (4.47%)	Network Security
15	12 (4.12%)	NAS
16	11 (3.78%)	Cisco ASA
17	10 (3.44%)	Fibre Channel
18	9 (3.09%)	IPv4
19	7 (2.41%)	IPv6

Database & Business Intelligence
1	56 (19.24%)	SQL Server
2	15 (5.15%)	SQL Server 2012
3	5 (1.72%)	Crystal Reports
4	4 (1.37%)	BusinessObjects
4	4 (1.37%)	SQL Server 2014
4	4 (1.37%)	SQL Server Integration Services
4	4 (1.37%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
5	3 (1.03%)	Amazon RDS
5	3 (1.03%)	Data Warehouse
6	2 (0.69%)	Azure SQL Database
6	2 (0.69%)	Big Data
6	2 (0.69%)	SQL Server 2008
7	1 (0.34%)	MySQL
7	1 (0.34%)	Power BI
7	1 (0.34%)	SQL Server 2005
7	1 (0.34%)	SQL Server Analysis Services

Development Applications
1	8 (2.75%)	MSI
2	5 (1.72%)	Visual Studio
3	4 (1.37%)	JIRA
4	2 (0.69%)	Sonatype Nexus
5	1 (0.34%)	Bitbucket
5	1 (0.34%)	Git (software)
5	1 (0.34%)	Team Foundation Server
5	1 (0.34%)	TeamCity

General
1	50 (17.18%)	Finance
2	18 (6.19%)	Telecoms
3	15 (5.15%)	Marketing
4	12 (4.12%)	Law
5	9 (3.09%)	Banking
5	9 (3.09%)	Legal
6	6 (2.06%)	Retail
7	3 (1.03%)	Advertising
7	3 (1.03%)	Investment Banking
8	1 (0.34%)	Back Office

Job Titles
1	61 (20.96%)	Support Engineer
2	57 (19.59%)	Infrastructure Engineer
3	48 (16.49%)	Analyst
4	40 (13.75%)	3rd Line Engineer
5	29 (9.97%)	Systems Engineer
6	26 (8.93%)	Infrastructure Analyst
7	22 (7.56%)	IT Engineer
8	21 (7.22%)	2nd Line Support
8	21 (7.22%)	IT Support
9	20 (6.87%)	Administrator
10	19 (6.53%)	2nd Line Engineer
10	19 (6.53%)	Infrastructure Support
11	18 (6.19%)	Support Analyst
12	17 (5.84%)	3rd Line Support
12	17 (5.84%)	Architect
12	17 (5.84%)	Network Engineer
13	16 (5.50%)	Server Engineer
14	15 (5.15%)	3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
15	14 (4.81%)	Infrastructure Architect
15	14 (4.81%)	IT Support Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	8 (2.75%)	Web Services
2	6 (2.06%)	.NET
3	5 (1.72%)	HTML
3	5 (1.72%)	XML
3	5 (1.72%)	XSLT
4	2 (0.69%)	Software Packaging
5	1 (0.34%)	.NET Framework
5	1 (0.34%)	Ajax
5	1 (0.34%)	AngularJS
5	1 (0.34%)	ASP.NET MVC
5	1 (0.34%)	Entity Framework
5	1 (0.34%)	HTML5
5	1 (0.34%)	jQuery
5	1 (0.34%)	JSON
5	1 (0.34%)	LINQ
5	1 (0.34%)	NHibernate
5	1 (0.34%)	REST
5	1 (0.34%)	Twitter Bootstrap
5	1 (0.34%)	WCF
5	1 (0.34%)	WPF

Miscellaneous
1	48 (16.49%)	Data Centre
2	26 (8.93%)	Management Information System
3	20 (6.87%)	Clustering
4	15 (5.15%)	Analytical Skills
5	13 (4.47%)	Computer Science
6	12 (4.12%)	Blackberry
7	11 (3.78%)	Public Cloud
8	7 (2.41%)	Linux Command Line
9	5 (1.72%)	Device Driver
9	5 (1.72%)	Social Media
10	4 (1.37%)	Hedge funds
10	4 (1.37%)	PKI
10	4 (1.37%)	Replication
11	3 (1.03%)	Enterprise Software
11	3 (1.03%)	Fintech
11	3 (1.03%)	Handset
11	3 (1.03%)	iPad
12	2 (0.69%)	Derivative
12	2 (0.69%)	Driving Licence
12	2 (0.69%)	EMC VNX

Operating Systems
1	229 (78.69%)	Windows
2	145 (49.83%)	Windows Server
3	108 (37.11%)	Windows Server 2012
4	80 (27.49%)	Windows Server 2008
5	69 (23.71%)	Windows 7
6	42 (14.43%)	Windows 10
7	37 (12.71%)	Linux
8	25 (8.59%)	Windows 8
9	19 (6.53%)	Windows Server 2003
10	12 (4.12%)	Unix
11	9 (3.09%)	Windows XP
12	8 (2.75%)	Mac OS X
13	7 (2.41%)	CentOS
14	6 (2.06%)	Ubuntu
15	5 (1.72%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16	4 (1.37%)	Android
17	3 (1.03%)	Debian
17	3 (1.03%)	Oracle Linux
18	2 (0.69%)	Solaris
18	2 (0.69%)	Windows 2000 Server

Processes & Methodologies
1	106 (36.43%)	ITIL
2	27 (9.28%)	Project Management
3	24 (8.25%)	Disaster Recovery
4	22 (7.56%)	Mobile Device Management
5	18 (6.19%)	Presales
6	15 (5.15%)	Customer Requirements
7	14 (4.81%)	Service Management
8	12 (4.12%)	High Availability
8	12 (4.12%)	ITIL V3
8	12 (4.12%)	Migration
8	12 (4.12%)	Root Cause Analysis
8	12 (4.12%)	Software Deployment
8	12 (4.12%)	Time Management
9	11 (3.78%)	PRINCE2
9	11 (3.78%)	Virtual Infrastructure
10	10 (3.44%)	Application Packaging
10	10 (3.44%)	Kalman Filter
10	10 (3.44%)	Network Monitoring
11	9 (3.09%)	Business Continuity
11	9 (3.09%)	Test Automation

Programming Languages
1	35 (12.03%)	SQL
2	34 (11.68%)	PowerShell
3	7 (2.41%)	VB
4	6 (2.06%)	C
4	6 (2.06%)	C#
4	6 (2.06%)	JavaScript
5	5 (1.72%)	VBScript
6	4 (1.37%)	XPath
7	3 (1.03%)	Shell Script
8	2 (0.69%)	T-SQL

Qualifications
1	291 (100.00%)	Microsoft Certification
2	199 (68.38%)	MCSE
3	85 (29.21%)	Cisco Certification
4	79 (27.15%)	CCNA
5	64 (21.99%)	MCP
6	62 (21.31%)	MCITP
7	60 (20.62%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8	34 (11.68%)	Degree
9	14 (4.81%)	CCNP
9	14 (4.81%)	Citrix Certification
10	11 (3.78%)	CCA
10	11 (3.78%)	ITIL Certification
10	11 (3.78%)	MCSD
11	9 (3.09%)	Computer Science Degree
11	9 (3.09%)	MCTS
12	7 (2.41%)	VCP5
13	6 (2.06%)	A+ Certification
13	6 (2.06%)	MCDST
14	5 (1.72%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
15	4 (1.37%)	CCENT

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	22 (7.56%)	SLA
2	4 (1.37%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	2 (0.69%)	Cyber Essentials
3	2 (0.69%)	Cyber Essentials PLUS
4	1 (0.34%)	ISO/IEC 20000
4	1 (0.34%)	Sarbanes-Oxley

System Software
1	192 (65.98%)	Active Directory
2	110 (37.80%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	82 (28.18%)	Hyper-V
4	40 (13.75%)	vSphere
5	29 (9.97%)	XenApp
6	22 (7.56%)	XenDesktop
7	20 (6.87%)	VMware ESXi
8	17 (5.84%)	Virtual Servers
9	6 (2.06%)	Terminal Services
10	4 (1.37%)	Microsoft App-V
10	4 (1.37%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
10	4 (1.37%)	Virtual Machines
11	3 (1.03%)	Terminal Server
11	3 (1.03%)	VMware Server
11	3 (1.03%)	VMware Workstation
12	1 (0.34%)	iptables
12	1 (0.34%)	XenServer

Systems Management
1	66 (22.68%)	SCCM
2	19 (6.53%)	Backup Exec
3	12 (4.12%)	WSUS
4	11 (3.78%)	vCenter Server
5	8 (2.75%)	SCOM
6	7 (2.41%)	ServiceCenter
7	5 (1.72%)	Cisco CUCM
7	5 (1.72%)	Nagios
7	5 (1.72%)	SolarWinds Orion
8	3 (1.03%)	Cacti
8	3 (1.03%)	Microsoft Clustering
8	3 (1.03%)	Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9	2 (0.69%)	EMC VPLEX
9	2 (0.69%)	IBM BigFix
9	2 (0.69%)	Icinga
9	2 (0.69%)	McAfee ePO
9	2 (0.69%)	Nexpose
9	2 (0.69%)	QRadar
9	2 (0.69%)	SCVMM
9	2 (0.69%)	Trend Micro Deep Security

Vendors
1	201 (69.07%)	Microsoft
2	172 (59.11%)	VMware
3	112 (38.49%)	Cisco
4	84 (28.87%)	Citrix
5	36 (12.37%)	HP
6	31 (10.65%)	Dell
7	18 (6.19%)	NetApp
8	16 (5.50%)	Draytek
8	16 (5.50%)	Veeam
9	10 (3.44%)	Bloomberg
9	10 (3.44%)	EMC
9	10 (3.44%)	Reuters
10	9 (3.09%)	Juniper
10	9 (3.09%)	Symantec
11	8 (2.75%)	Apple
11	8 (2.75%)	AppSense
11	8 (2.75%)	IBM
11	8 (2.75%)	NETGEAR
12	7 (2.41%)	Meraki
12	7 (2.41%)	Mitel