MCSA Contracts in London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for MCSA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates 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 385 480 550
Rank change year-on-year +95 +70 -104
Contract jobs citing MCSA 9 15 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.051% 0.055% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.21% 0.26% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 47
10th Percentile £193 £182 £185
25th Percentile £293 £219 £196
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +5.26% +25.00%
75th Percentile £688 £588 £538
90th Percentile £800 £634 £553
England median daily rate £538 £480 £375
% change year-on-year +11.98% +28.00% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £24.69
Median hourly rate - - £25.09
75th Percentile - - £25.48
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,288 5,827 6,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.21% 21.52% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,898 3,938 4,559
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 81 150
10th Percentile £14.49 £20.00 £22.85
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £26.00 £47.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.26% +6.74% +21.92%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £69.75 £82.50 £65.84
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%

MCSA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing MCSA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for MCSA in London

MCSA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MCSA in London.

Daily rate trend for MCSA in London

MCSA
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MCSA in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MCSA in London

MCSA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MCSA in London.

Hourly rate trend for MCSA in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSA within the London 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +36 1 - -
MCSA
England

MCSA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (11.11%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) OneDrive
3 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) IaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Mimecast
3 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) Kerberos
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Desktop Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (11.11%) Deskside Support
2 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support
2 1 (11.11%) Exchange Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Junior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Server Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Blackberry
1 2 (22.22%) iPad
1 2 (22.22%) iPhone
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) PKI
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Windows 10
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
3 2 (22.22%) Linux
4 1 (11.11%) Android
4 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
4 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
4 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
4 1 (11.11%) Windows 8
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Customer Service
1 2 (22.22%) Fintech
1 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (22.22%) User Experience
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (11.11%) Change Control
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
2 1 (11.11%) Employee Productivity
2 1 (11.11%) High Availability
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL
2 1 (11.11%) Organisational Awareness
2 1 (11.11%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) Release Management
2 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Server Management
2 1 (11.11%) Server Virtualisation
2 1 (11.11%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (55.56%) MCSE
3 4 (44.44%) Degree
4 3 (33.33%) CCNA
4 3 (33.33%) CCNP
4 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (33.33%) MCP
5 1 (11.11%) A+ Certification
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
5 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Nessus
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Bloomberg
2 2 (22.22%) Reuters
2 2 (22.22%) SolarWinds
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix
3 1 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (11.11%) Dell
3 1 (11.11%) HP
3 1 (11.11%) IronPort
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) TOWER Software