MCSE Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) formerly Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for MCSE qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 336 377
Rank change year-on-year +32 +41 -76
Contract jobs citing MCSE 86 108 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.46% 0.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.14% 1.41% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 90 91
10th Percentile £300 £105 £123
25th Percentile £313 £171 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £450
90th Percentile £607 £675 £619
UK median daily rate £375 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -18.92% +8.82% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 7
10th Percentile £11.98 - £15.00
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £21.35
Median % change year-on-year - -18.03% -
75th Percentile £18.75 £20.00 £48.90
90th Percentile £22.52 £23.89 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year - -24.63% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,549 7,681 7,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.86% 32.88% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,354 5,133 5,181
10th Percentile £270 £288 £256
25th Percentile £425 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £600
90th Percentile £725 £708 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 930 632 526
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.03 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.94 £49.94 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.02% +42.68% -
75th Percentile £63.29 £65.75 £56.02
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £68.15
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -25.93% +24.38% +14.25%

MCSE
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing MCSE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for MCSE in the UK excluding London

MCSE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MCSE in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for MCSE in the UK excluding London

MCSE
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MCSE in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MCSE in the UK excluding London

MCSE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MCSE in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for MCSE in the UK excluding London

MCSE
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MCSE in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for MCSE in the UK excluding London

MCSE
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSE within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Scotland +61 24 £340 +209.09% 7
South East +24 21 £538 -0.92% 10
South West +11 15 £538 +16.22% 15
North of England +16 14 £425 -22.73% 7
North West 0 10 £303 -53.46% 2
Midlands +15 5 £117 -47.53% 8
East of England +13 5 £425 +286.36% 1
North East +18 4 £488 +343.18% 2
East Midlands +10 3 £130 -41.70% 2
West Midlands +12 2 £117 -43.27% 6
Northern Ireland +7 2 - - 4
MCSE
UK

MCSE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 29 (33.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (19.77%) Confluence
3 15 (17.44%) SharePoint
4 6 (6.98%) IIS
5 3 (3.49%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 19 (22.09%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (19.77%) Azure
3 7 (8.14%) Power Platform
4 6 (6.98%) AWS
5 2 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.33%) IaaS
5 2 (2.33%) Mimecast
5 2 (2.33%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.16%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 25 (29.07%) DNS
2 21 (24.42%) DHCP
3 18 (20.93%) SAN
4 9 (10.47%) TCP/IP
5 8 (9.30%) Firewall
5 8 (9.30%) VPN
6 7 (8.14%) SSL
7 6 (6.98%) Fibre Channel
8 5 (5.81%) iSCSI
8 5 (5.81%) NAS
8 5 (5.81%) Skype
8 5 (5.81%) VLAN
9 4 (4.65%) VoIP
10 3 (3.49%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (2.33%) HTTP
11 2 (2.33%) Network Security
11 2 (2.33%) Wireless
12 1 (1.16%) LAN
12 1 (1.16%) PBX
12 1 (1.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.30%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (19.77%) JIRA
General
1 41 (47.67%) Social Skills
2 40 (46.51%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (22.09%) Public Sector
4 16 (18.60%) Military
5 7 (8.14%) Manufacturing
6 6 (6.98%) Marketing
7 5 (5.81%) Finance
7 5 (5.81%) Telecoms
8 4 (4.65%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.33%) Banking
9 2 (2.33%) Electronics
10 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (18.60%) Integration Engineer
1 16 (18.60%) Test and Integration Engineer
1 16 (18.60%) Test Engineer
2 11 (12.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (12.79%) Support Engineer
3 9 (10.47%) Field Engineer
3 9 (10.47%) Senior
4 8 (9.30%) Field Service Engineer
4 8 (9.30%) IT Engineer
5 7 (8.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 6 (6.98%) 3rd Line Support
7 5 (5.81%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (5.81%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Cybersecurity Specialist
8 4 (4.65%) IT Support
8 4 (4.65%) Security Specialist
8 4 (4.65%) Service Delivery Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) VMware Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.33%) CSS
1 2 (2.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (25.58%) PKI
2 17 (19.77%) Data Centre
3 8 (9.30%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (6.98%) Clustering
5 5 (5.81%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (4.65%) Public Cloud
6 4 (4.65%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.16%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.16%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.16%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 61 (70.93%) Windows
2 46 (53.49%) Windows Server
3 26 (30.23%) Windows Server 2012
4 16 (18.60%) Windows 10
5 13 (15.12%) Linux
6 8 (9.30%) CentOS
7 6 (6.98%) Debian
7 6 (6.98%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (6.98%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (4.65%) Unix
9 2 (2.33%) Mac OS
9 2 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (1.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (39.53%) ITIL
2 25 (29.07%) Agile
3 19 (22.09%) Critical Thinking
4 18 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (19.77%) Customer Service
6 16 (18.60%) Regression Testing
6 16 (18.60%) Test Scripting
7 13 (15.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (9.30%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (9.30%) Service Management
9 7 (8.14%) Break/Fix
10 6 (6.98%) Change Management
10 6 (6.98%) Penetration Testing
10 6 (6.98%) PRINCE2
10 6 (6.98%) Security Operations
11 5 (5.81%) Infrastructure Management
11 5 (5.81%) Problem Management
11 5 (5.81%) Project Management
11 5 (5.81%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 24 (27.91%) SQL
2 14 (16.28%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.16%) Bash
4 1 (1.16%) Bicep
4 1 (1.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 86 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 29 (33.72%) MCSA
2 29 (33.72%) Security Cleared
3 27 (31.40%) Degree
4 25 (29.07%) SC Cleared
4 25 (29.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 24 (27.91%) Cisco Certification
6 21 (24.42%) CCNA
7 9 (10.47%) A+ Certification
7 9 (10.47%) Network+ Certification
8 8 (9.30%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (8.14%) MCP
10 6 (6.98%) DV Cleared
10 6 (6.98%) RHCT
11 5 (5.81%) CCNP
12 4 (4.65%) MCTS
13 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (2.33%) MCSD
13 2 (2.33%) MOS
14 1 (1.16%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.30%) SLA
2 3 (3.49%) NCSC
2 3 (3.49%) NIST
3 2 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.33%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 48 (55.81%) Active Directory
2 34 (39.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (12.79%) Hyper-V
4 7 (8.14%) vSphere
5 6 (6.98%) KVM
6 4 (4.65%) Firmware
7 2 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (1.16%) Terminal Services
8 1 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 16 (18.60%) SCCM
2 6 (6.98%) WSUS
3 2 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.33%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.16%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.16%) SCOM
Vendors
1 57 (66.28%) Microsoft
2 38 (44.19%) VMware
3 11 (12.79%) Citrix
4 10 (11.63%) Dell
5 9 (10.47%) Red Hat
6 7 (8.14%) ServiceNow
7 4 (4.65%) Cisco
8 3 (3.49%) HP
9 2 (2.33%) Apple
9 2 (2.33%) SAP
9 2 (2.33%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.33%) Sophos
9 2 (2.33%) Veeam
10 1 (1.16%) Adobe
10 1 (1.16%) Atlassian
10 1 (1.16%) BEA
10 1 (1.16%) Oracle