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 22 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 108 90
Rank change year-on-year +27 -18 +76
Permanent jobs citing MCSE 15 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.33% 0.39% 0.31%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.11% 1.07% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30,750 £52,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £54,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -41.67% +13.68% +53.23%
75th Percentile £32,250 £56,000 £53,125
90th Percentile £40,500 - £55,750
South East median annual salary £46,000 £48,750 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.64% +21.88% +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 365 561 411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 32.27% 36.29% 42.28%
Number of salaries quoted 277 272 216
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.48% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,813
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £78,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.42% +0.10%

MCSE
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

MCSE job vacancy trend 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 22 October 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 22 October 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 +19 10 £47,500 -12.04%
Reigate - 5 £31,500 -
MCSE
South East

MCSE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

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