MCSE Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) formerly Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid work with a requirement for MCSE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 488 475 676
Rank change year-on-year -13 +201 -186
Permanent jobs citing MCSE 45 104 240
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.32% 0.31%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.58% 1.17% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 28 92 217
10th Percentile £31,175 £24,050 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -17.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £50,000 £55,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £81,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -5.26%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,707 8,918 18,247
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.59% 27.17% 23.24%
Number of salaries quoted 4,422 5,570 9,177
10th Percentile £33,755 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,999 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £58,454
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +2.64% +6.28%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing MCSE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MCSE trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing MCSE.

MCSE salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing MCSE over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

MCSE salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 14 (31.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 14 (31.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.22%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (77.78%) Microsoft 365
2 30 (66.67%) Azure
3 13 (28.89%) Entra ID
4 8 (17.78%) OneDrive
5 7 (15.56%) AWS
6 6 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (13.33%) Power Platform
6 6 (13.33%) PowerApps
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.44%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.44%) WhatsApp
8 1 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.22%) IaaS
8 1 (2.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (28.89%) Firewall
2 11 (24.44%) DNS
3 10 (22.22%) SAN
3 10 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (20.00%) VPN
5 6 (13.33%) DHCP
5 6 (13.33%) LAN
5 6 (13.33%) VLAN
5 6 (13.33%) WAN
6 5 (11.11%) TCP/IP
6 5 (11.11%) VoIP
7 3 (6.67%) NAS
7 3 (6.67%) NetScaler
7 3 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (6.67%) SD-WAN
8 2 (4.44%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (4.44%) iSCSI
8 2 (4.44%) Wireless
8 2 (4.44%) WLAN
9 1 (2.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) Power BI
2 3 (6.67%) MySQL
3 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Git
2 3 (6.67%) Axure RP
General
1 16 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.00%) Finance
3 8 (17.78%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (8.89%) Legal
6 3 (6.67%) Banking
7 2 (4.44%) Advertising
7 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.22%) Back Office
8 1 (2.22%) Law
8 1 (2.22%) Local Government
8 1 (2.22%) Marketing
8 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (28.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (17.78%) Consultant
3 7 (15.56%) IT Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Functional Consultant
5 5 (11.11%) IT Support
6 4 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Manager
6 4 (8.89%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Lead
6 4 (8.89%) Team Leader
7 3 (6.67%) Head of IT
7 3 (6.67%) Head of IT Services
7 3 (6.67%) Head of Support
7 3 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (6.67%) IT Manager
7 3 (6.67%) Service Desk Team Leader
7 3 (6.67%) Support Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) IT Support Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Junior Cloud Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Driving Licence
1 6 (13.33%) Virtual Team
2 5 (11.11%) NHS
3 4 (8.89%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.44%) Replication
5 1 (2.22%) Clustering
5 1 (2.22%) Cyberattack
5 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.22%) Educational Technology
5 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 23 (51.11%) Windows
2 16 (35.56%) Windows Server
3 5 (11.11%) Linux
3 5 (11.11%) Windows 10
4 3 (6.67%) Android
5 2 (4.44%) Unix
5 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.22%) AIX
6 1 (2.22%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) ITIL
2 16 (35.56%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 15 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (22.22%) Agile
4 10 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 8 (17.78%) Presales
5 8 (17.78%) Scrum
6 7 (15.56%) Coaching
7 6 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
7 6 (13.33%) CRM
7 6 (13.33%) DevSecOps
7 6 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
7 6 (13.33%) Service Management
7 6 (13.33%) Software Engineering
8 5 (11.11%) Change Management
8 5 (11.11%) Customer Experience
8 5 (11.11%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.33%) C#
1 6 (13.33%) SQL
2 4 (8.89%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.22%) Bash
Qualifications
1 45 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (20.00%) CCNA
4 8 (17.78%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (17.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 7 (15.56%) Degree
6 6 (13.33%) MCITP
7 5 (11.11%) MCSA
8 4 (8.89%) Azure Certification
8 4 (8.89%) CISSP
8 4 (8.89%) DBS Check
8 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared
8 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
9 3 (6.67%) CCNP
10 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
10 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (4.44%) MCP
11 1 (2.22%) CCA
11 1 (2.22%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) SLA
2 3 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (2.22%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 18 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 5 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (8.89%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (6.67%) XenDesktop
6 2 (4.44%) Docker
6 2 (4.44%) Firmware
6 2 (4.44%) Terminal Server
7 1 (2.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (8.89%) SCCM
2 4 (8.89%) vCenter Server
3 3 (6.67%) WSUS
4 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.44%) Terraform
5 1 (2.22%) SCOM
5 1 (2.22%) SCOrch
5 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (84.44%) Microsoft
2 21 (46.67%) VMware
3 12 (26.67%) Cisco
4 9 (20.00%) Veeam
5 6 (13.33%) IBM
5 6 (13.33%) ServiceNow
6 5 (11.11%) Citrix
6 5 (11.11%) Commvault
7 4 (8.89%) Fortinet
7 4 (8.89%) Oracle
7 4 (8.89%) SolarWinds
8 3 (6.67%) Apple
9 2 (4.44%) Dell
9 2 (4.44%) Extreme Networks
9 2 (4.44%) Nimble Storage
10 1 (2.22%) Aruba
10 1 (2.22%) CheckPoint
10 1 (2.22%) Meraki
10 1 (2.22%) Meru Networks
10 1 (2.22%) Sophos