MCSA Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) formerly Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for MCSA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 588 720
Rank change year-on-year +21 +132 -235
Permanent jobs citing MCSA 17 75 125
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.18% 0.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.18% 0.70% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 15 66 112
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,313 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,227 £38,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.76% -15.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £48,500 £53,750 £64,063
90th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £77,025
UK median annual salary £43,227 £44,375 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.59% -1.39% +12.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9,479 10,772 15,486
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.06% 25.40% 22.78%
Number of salaries quoted 5,911 6,586 8,638
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £59,866
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +0.22% +8.85%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,715 £76,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.47% +7.27% -

MCSA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

MCSA 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 MCSA.

MCSA salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

MCSA
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing MCSA over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

MCSA salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

MCSA
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 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (41.18%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.76%) AWS
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) SAN
2 4 (23.53%) VSAN
3 3 (17.65%) DHCP
3 3 (17.65%) DNS
4 2 (11.76%) LAN
4 2 (11.76%) WAN
5 1 (5.88%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (5.88%) Internet
5 1 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (5.88%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.88%) VPN
5 1 (5.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 4 (23.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (23.53%) Law
1 4 (23.53%) Police
1 4 (23.53%) Retail
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Legal
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Server Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) IT Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) IT Support
4 2 (11.76%) Service Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Service Desk Support
5 1 (5.88%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) VMware Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Data Centre
1 4 (23.53%) Management Information System
1 4 (23.53%) PKI
2 3 (17.65%) Clustering
3 1 (5.88%) Mobile Computing
3 1 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (94.12%) Windows
2 13 (76.47%) Windows Server
3 3 (17.65%) Unix
4 2 (11.76%) Windows 10
5 1 (5.88%) Android
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) ITIL
2 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (35.29%) Customer Service
4 4 (23.53%) Agile
4 4 (23.53%) Change Management
4 4 (23.53%) Converged Infrastructure
4 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 4 (23.53%) Line Management
4 4 (23.53%) Proactive Monitoring
4 4 (23.53%) Security Hardening
4 4 (23.53%) Server Management
4 4 (23.53%) Tech Ops
5 3 (17.65%) Email Filtering
5 3 (17.65%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (17.65%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 2 (11.76%) B2B
6 2 (11.76%) ERP
6 2 (11.76%) High Availability
7 1 (5.88%) CRM
7 1 (5.88%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (52.94%) MCSE
3 5 (29.41%) Degree
4 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
4 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
4 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
4 4 (23.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (17.65%) A+ Certification
5 3 (17.65%) CCNA
5 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (17.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (11.76%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (5.88%) CCA
7 1 (5.88%) CCENT
7 1 (5.88%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (94.12%) Active Directory
2 10 (58.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (23.53%) vSphere
4 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) SCCM
2 5 (29.41%) SCOM
3 3 (17.65%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) Microsoft
2 11 (64.71%) VMware
3 6 (35.29%) HP
4 5 (29.41%) Dell
5 4 (23.53%) Cisco
6 2 (11.76%) Citrix
6 2 (11.76%) Veeam
7 1 (5.88%) Adobe
7 1 (5.88%) Draytek
7 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
7 1 (5.88%) Freshdesk
7 1 (5.88%) Google
7 1 (5.88%) Juniper
7 1 (5.88%) Mitel
7 1 (5.88%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (5.88%) SonicWALL
7 1 (5.88%) Spiceworks
7 1 (5.88%) WatchGuard
7 1 (5.88%) Zerto