MCSE Jobs 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 438 526
Rank change year-on-year +65 +88 +221
Permanent jobs citing MCSE 17 63 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.27% 0.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.38% 0.93% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 12 60 84
10th Percentile - £33,175 £28,625
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,875 £36,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +23.81% -
75th Percentile £59,063 £76,438 £70,000
90th Percentile £66,750 £80,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £35,000 £44,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year -20.45% +6.02% -7.78%

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 4,464 6,751 8,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.52% 28.54% 26.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,942 4,233 5,534
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,850 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £104,750 £112,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,700 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.55% -8.83% +9.09%

MCSE
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing MCSE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for MCSE in London

MCSE
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MCSE in London.

Salary trend for MCSE in London

MCSE
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing MCSE in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

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 17 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
Central London +26 3 £42,500 -5.56%
South London +1 2 £61,250 +11.36%
MCSE
England

MCSE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) AWS
2 11 (64.71%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.88%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 10 (58.82%) TCP/IP
2 9 (52.94%) DHCP
2 9 (52.94%) DNS
2 9 (52.94%) LAN
2 9 (52.94%) WAN
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (5.88%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Power BI
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 10 (58.82%) Finance
2 9 (52.94%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Advertising
4 1 (5.88%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Wintel Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Head of IT
2 2 (11.76%) Platform Specialist
2 2 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Virtualisation Specialist
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) IT Director
3 1 (5.88%) Senior
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Service Desk Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) Services Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.88%) Driving Licence
1 1 (5.88%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 16 (94.12%) Windows
2 10 (58.82%) Windows Server
2 10 (58.82%) Windows Server 2016
3 9 (52.94%) Windows Server 2012
3 9 (52.94%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Artificial Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) Batch Scripting
1 9 (52.94%) Collaborative Working
1 9 (52.94%) Cost Optimisation
1 9 (52.94%) Incident Management
1 9 (52.94%) ITIL
1 9 (52.94%) Patch Management
1 9 (52.94%) Process Improvement
1 9 (52.94%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (11.76%) Change Control
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
2 2 (11.76%) ERP
2 2 (11.76%) Investment Management
2 2 (11.76%) PRINCE2
3 1 (5.88%) Data Security
3 1 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (5.88%) OOP
3 1 (5.88%) Service Delivery
3 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) T-SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (64.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 9 (52.94%) Azure Certification
4 3 (17.65%) Degree
4 3 (17.65%) MCP
5 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (11.76%) VCAP
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (5.88%) CCIE
6 1 (5.88%) CCNA
6 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (5.88%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (58.82%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (82.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (70.59%) Active Directory
3 11 (64.71%) Hyper-V
4 2 (11.76%) vSphere
5 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (52.94%) NetBackup
2 9 (52.94%) SCCM
2 9 (52.94%) SCOM
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.88%) Puppet
3 1 (5.88%) vRealize
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) Microsoft
1 14 (82.35%) VMware
2 10 (58.82%) ServiceNow
3 9 (52.94%) SolarWinds
3 9 (52.94%) Veeam
4 2 (11.76%) Dell
5 1 (5.88%) Bloomberg
5 1 (5.88%) Cisco
5 1 (5.88%) Citrix
5 1 (5.88%) Isilon
5 1 (5.88%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (5.88%) Okta
5 1 (5.88%) Reuters
5 1 (5.88%) Sophos
5 1 (5.88%) Zscaler