MCSE Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) formerly Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
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 MCSE qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 510 537 616
Rank change year-on-year +27 +79 -230
Permanent jobs citing MCSE 67 127 229
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.31% 0.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.70% 1.21% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 47 113 190
10th Percentile £31,000 £23,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £31,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £65,188
90th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £81,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -7.78% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

MCSE 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 9,531 10,516 15,766
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.19% 25.41% 22.92%
Number of salaries quoted 5,914 6,452 8,607
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 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.28% +8.23% -

MCSE
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

MCSE
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 12 May 2024.

MCSE salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

MCSE
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 23 (34.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (25.37%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.99%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (8.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (8.96%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (59.70%) Azure
2 39 (58.21%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (31.34%) AWS
4 10 (14.93%) Entra ID
5 8 (11.94%) OneDrive
6 7 (10.45%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (10.45%) Power Platform
7 6 (8.96%) PowerApps
8 4 (5.97%) WhatsApp
9 3 (4.48%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (4.48%) IaaS
10 2 (2.99%) GCP
10 2 (2.99%) PaaS
11 1 (1.49%) Azure App Service
11 1 (1.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (40.30%) Firewall
2 23 (34.33%) DNS
3 22 (32.84%) SAN
4 19 (28.36%) DHCP
5 18 (26.87%) TCP/IP
5 18 (26.87%) VLAN
6 15 (22.39%) NAS
7 12 (17.91%) VoIP
8 10 (14.93%) VPN
9 9 (13.43%) WAN
10 6 (8.96%) SD-WAN
11 5 (7.46%) MPLS
12 4 (5.97%) LAN
12 4 (5.97%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (4.48%) NetScaler
13 3 (4.48%) Remote Desktop
14 2 (2.99%) Fibre Channel
14 2 (2.99%) iSCSI
14 2 (2.99%) WLAN
15 1 (1.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.96%) Power BI
2 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.49%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.49%) MySQL
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (8.96%) Git
2 1 (1.49%) JIRA
2 1 (1.49%) MSBuild
General
1 23 (34.33%) Social Skills
2 15 (22.39%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (11.94%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (7.46%) Finance
4 5 (7.46%) Law
5 4 (5.97%) Retail
6 3 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.48%) Legal
7 2 (2.99%) Banking
8 1 (1.49%) Back Office
8 1 (1.49%) Local Government
8 1 (1.49%) Marketing
8 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (16.42%) IT Engineer
1 11 (16.42%) IT Support
2 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (13.43%) Support Engineer
3 8 (11.94%) Analyst
4 7 (10.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) 3rd Line Support
4 7 (10.45%) IT Support Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) IT Technician
5 6 (8.96%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 6 (8.96%) Consultant
5 6 (8.96%) Functional Consultant
6 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Manager
6 5 (7.46%) Lead
6 5 (7.46%) Team Leader
7 4 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Head of IT Services
8 3 (4.48%) Head of Support
8 3 (4.48%) Service Desk Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.49%) .NET
1 1 (1.49%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.94%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.45%) Driving Licence
3 6 (8.96%) Virtual Team
4 4 (5.97%) Clustering
5 3 (4.48%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.99%) NHS
6 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.99%) Replication
7 1 (1.49%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.49%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.49%) IoT
7 1 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.49%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 43 (64.18%) Windows
2 25 (37.31%) Windows Server
3 18 (26.87%) Linux
4 7 (10.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (7.46%) Unix
6 4 (5.97%) Windows 10
7 2 (2.99%) Windows 7
7 2 (2.99%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.49%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (56.72%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (40.30%) ITIL
3 14 (20.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (19.40%) Customer Service
5 11 (16.42%) Mentoring
6 9 (13.43%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (11.94%) Agile
7 8 (11.94%) Server Management
8 7 (10.45%) CRM
8 7 (10.45%) Project Management
8 7 (10.45%) Software Engineering
9 6 (8.96%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (8.96%) Collaborative Culture
9 6 (8.96%) DevSecOps
9 6 (8.96%) Presales
9 6 (8.96%) Requirements Gathering
9 6 (8.96%) Scrum
10 5 (7.46%) Change Advisory Board
10 5 (7.46%) Proactive Monitoring
10 5 (7.46%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.45%) C#
1 7 (10.45%) SQL
2 6 (8.96%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.49%) Bash
3 1 (1.49%) PHP
3 1 (1.49%) Python
Qualifications
1 67 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 30 (44.78%) CCNA
2 30 (44.78%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (16.42%) Degree
3 11 (16.42%) MCSA
4 9 (13.43%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (11.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 6 (8.96%) Azure Certification
7 3 (4.48%) CISSP
7 3 (4.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.99%) CCA
8 2 (2.99%) Citrix Certification
8 2 (2.99%) MCITP
8 2 (2.99%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.49%) CCNP
9 1 (1.49%) IBM Certification
9 1 (1.49%) LPIC
9 1 (1.49%) MCP
9 1 (1.49%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) SLA
2 2 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.49%) GDPR
3 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.49%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (47.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (35.82%) Active Directory
3 23 (34.33%) Hyper-V
4 4 (5.97%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (4.48%) XenDesktop
6 2 (2.99%) Terminal Server
6 2 (2.99%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.49%) Firmware
7 1 (1.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (13.43%) Microsoft Intune
1 9 (13.43%) SCCM
2 6 (8.96%) SCOM
3 4 (5.97%) vCenter Server
4 3 (4.48%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (4.48%) WSUS
5 2 (2.99%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.49%) SCOrch
6 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (67.16%) Microsoft
2 34 (50.75%) VMware
3 6 (8.96%) Cisco
3 6 (8.96%) Citrix
3 6 (8.96%) Meraki
3 6 (8.96%) Veeam
4 3 (4.48%) Draytek
4 3 (4.48%) IBM
5 2 (2.99%) Acronis
5 2 (2.99%) Commvault
5 2 (2.99%) Datto
5 2 (2.99%) Dell
5 2 (2.99%) Nimble Storage
5 2 (2.99%) Oracle
6 1 (1.49%) Aruba
6 1 (1.49%) Freshdesk
6 1 (1.49%) Meru Networks
6 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.49%) Spiceworks
6 1 (1.49%) WatchGuard