MCSE Job Trends in London

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

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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 357 433
Rank change year-on-year -63 +76 +21
Permanent jobs citing MCSE 20 24 30
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.084% 0.20% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.42% 0.67% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 9 21 25
10th Percentile £46,250 £24,750 £33,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £33,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £82,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £68,250
England median annual salary £47,500 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +35.71% -12.50% -11.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,765 3,570 5,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.08% 29.08% 27.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,834 1,988 2,896
10th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,625 £67,500 £67,850
Median % change year-on-year +4.63% -0.52% -3.07%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £101,375
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

MCSE
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

MCSE job vacancy trend in London

MCSE
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing MCSE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing MCSE

MCSE
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing MCSE in London over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

Salary histogram for MCSE in London

MCSE
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSE within the London region over the 6 months to 10 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
Central London 0 1 £62,500 -16.67% 1
MCSE
England

MCSE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 8 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (50.00%) AWS
3 9 (45.00%) Azure
4 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) SAN
1 3 (15.00%) VoIP
2 2 (10.00%) iSCSI
3 1 (5.00%) Firewall
3 1 (5.00%) LAN
3 1 (5.00%) WAN
3 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 14 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) French Language
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Swedish Language
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) Service Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) IT Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Cloud Consultant
4 4 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
4 4 (20.00%) Consultant
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 4 (20.00%) Solutions Consultant
5 3 (15.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Data Centre Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Server Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Windows Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Windows
2 8 (40.00%) Linux
3 7 (35.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) ITIL
2 7 (35.00%) ITSM
3 6 (30.00%) Customer Service
3 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (30.00%) Performance Metrics
4 4 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (20.00%) Line Management
4 4 (20.00%) Presales
4 4 (20.00%) SIEM
4 4 (20.00%) SOA
4 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (15.00%) CRM
5 3 (15.00%) Information Security
5 3 (15.00%) Project Management
5 3 (15.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (75.00%) Degree
3 13 (65.00%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (60.00%) CCNA
5 7 (35.00%) Azure Certification
5 7 (35.00%) CCNP
5 7 (35.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 6 (30.00%) AWS Certification
7 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (20.00%) LPIC
7 4 (20.00%) RHCSA
7 4 (20.00%) VCAP
8 1 (5.00%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) QA
2 3 (15.00%) COBIT
2 3 (15.00%) SLA
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (20.00%) vSphere
3 3 (15.00%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) SCCM
2 1 (5.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (85.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (55.00%) VMware
3 6 (30.00%) ServiceNow
4 5 (25.00%) Cisco
5 3 (15.00%) HP
5 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
5 3 (15.00%) Veeam
6 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
6 1 (5.00%) Sophos