MCSE Job Trends in Surrey

Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) formerly Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Surrey with a requirement for MCSE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 120 98
Rank change year-on-year +40 -22 +84
Permanent jobs citing MCSE 15 5 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 1.29% 0.27% 0.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.99% 0.73% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile - - £46,875
25th Percentile £30,750 £52,000 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £54,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -41.67% +5.37% +65.32%
75th Percentile £32,250 £56,000 £55,313
90th Percentile £40,500 - £56,625
South East median annual salary £45,000 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% -12.50% +6.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 376 688 484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 32.27% 37.09% 42.31%
Number of salaries quoted 265 323 236
10th Percentile £27,040 £29,800 £29,875
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £37,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,125 £69,500
90th Percentile £86,500 £90,000 £86,250
South East median annual salary £51,300 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.73% +4.76% -

MCSE
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for MCSE in Surrey

MCSE
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing MCSE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing MCSE

MCSE
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing MCSE in Surrey over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for MCSE in Surrey

MCSE
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSE within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Guildford +23 10 £47,500 -12.04%
Reigate - 5 £31,500 -
MCSE
South East

MCSE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 9 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) Intranet
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) iSCSI
2 1 (6.67%) NAS
2 1 (6.67%) SAN
2 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Administrator
1 9 (60.00%) IT Administrator
1 9 (60.00%) IT Support
2 5 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Manager
2 5 (33.33%) IT Systems Administrator
2 5 (33.33%) Network Manager
2 5 (33.33%) Network Support
2 5 (33.33%) Support Assistant
2 5 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 5 (33.33%) Systems Support
3 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Driving Licence
2 5 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Linux
2 9 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (60.00%) Windows
2 9 (60.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (60.00%) Inventory Management
1 9 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 5 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 5 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (6.67%) Change Management
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (6.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Bash
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (66.67%) CCNA
2 10 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 6 (40.00%) Degree
4 5 (33.33%) Master's Degree
4 5 (33.33%) MCSA
5 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) vSphere
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Firmware
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Podman
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (93.33%) Cisco
3 10 (66.67%) VMware
4 5 (33.33%) Aruba
4 5 (33.33%) HP
4 5 (33.33%) Sage
5 1 (6.67%) NetApp
5 1 (6.67%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
5 1 (6.67%) Splunk