MCSA Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) formerly Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for MCSA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 235 256 250
Rank change year-on-year +21 -6 -63
Permanent jobs citing MCSA 13 18 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.18% 0.27% 0.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.69% 0.65% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 13 18 31
10th Percentile £22,150 £25,350 £27,750
25th Percentile £27,500 £25,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,227 £26,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +64.67% -38.24% +13.33%
75th Percentile £50,000 £32,000 £48,750
90th Percentile - £37,025 £83,750
England median annual salary £43,114 £43,750 £42,500
% change year-on-year -1.45% +2.94% +8.97%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,896 2,768 2,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 26.23% 41.15% 30.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,272 975 1,153
10th Percentile £25,500 £28,000 £28,602
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,000 £35,575
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -

MCSA
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing MCSA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for MCSA in the West Midlands

MCSA
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MCSA in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for MCSA in the West Midlands

MCSA
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing MCSA in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for MCSA in the West Midlands

MCSA
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSA within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Wednesbury - 5 £26,500 -
Birmingham 0 4 £43,227 +80.11%
Staffordshire -17 4 £50,000 +56.25% 2
MCSA
England

MCSA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (69.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) DHCP
1 5 (38.46%) DNS
1 5 (38.46%) SAN
2 4 (30.77%) VSAN
3 2 (15.38%) Internet
3 2 (15.38%) LAN
3 2 (15.38%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (15.38%) VPN
3 2 (15.38%) WAN
3 2 (15.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
General
1 4 (30.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (30.77%) Police
2 3 (23.08%) Retail
3 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Server Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) IT Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Service Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Service Desk Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) IT Support
3 2 (15.38%) Service Desk Support
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Junior
4 1 (7.69%) Junior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Management Information System
1 4 (30.77%) PKI
2 3 (23.08%) Clustering
2 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 3 (23.08%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (76.92%) Windows Server
3 3 (23.08%) Unix
4 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) ITIL
2 6 (46.15%) Customer Service
3 5 (38.46%) B2B
3 5 (38.46%) ERP
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) Change Management
4 4 (30.77%) Converged Infrastructure
4 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 4 (30.77%) Line Management
4 4 (30.77%) Proactive Monitoring
4 4 (30.77%) Security Hardening
4 4 (30.77%) Tech Ops
5 3 (23.08%) Email Filtering
5 3 (23.08%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (23.08%) Server Management
6 2 (15.38%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (46.15%) Degree
3 5 (38.46%) A+ Certification
3 5 (38.46%) CompTIA Security+
3 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
4 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
4 4 (30.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (23.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (23.08%) MCSE
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
6 1 (7.69%) CCNA
6 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (76.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (30.77%) vSphere
4 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
4 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) SCCM
2 3 (23.08%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (23.08%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (76.92%) VMware
3 6 (46.15%) HP
4 4 (30.77%) Dell
5 2 (15.38%) Cisco
5 2 (15.38%) Mitel
5 2 (15.38%) Nimble Storage
5 2 (15.38%) Veeam
5 2 (15.38%) Zerto