MCSA Jobs in the Midlands

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for MCSA 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 305 279 325
Rank change year-on-year -26 +46 -107
Permanent jobs citing MCSA 18 40 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.15% 0.43% 0.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.61% 1.08% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 17 40 34
10th Percentile £23,450 £25,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £25,938 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,227 £38,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.76% -10.59% +10.39%
75th Percentile £50,000 £49,890 £51,250
90th Percentile £56,000 £59,000 £76,400
England median annual salary £43,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +1.18% - +6.25%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,941 3,711 3,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.74% 39.96% 31.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,868 1,271 1,705
10th Percentile £25,500 £27,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,750 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% +2.22%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

MCSA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for MCSA in the Midlands

MCSA
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MCSA in the Midlands.

Salary trend for MCSA in the Midlands

MCSA
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing MCSA in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for MCSA in the Midlands

MCSA
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSA within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +17 11 £43,227 +64.67% 2
East Midlands -25 7 £33,750 -25.00% 2
MCSA
England

MCSA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 9 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
4 3 (16.67%) AWS
5 2 (11.11%) Google Workspace
5 2 (11.11%) Mimecast
5 2 (11.11%) OneDrive
5 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.11%) WhatsApp
6 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) DHCP
1 5 (27.78%) DNS
2 4 (22.22%) VSAN
3 3 (16.67%) Firewall
3 3 (16.67%) SAN
4 2 (11.11%) Internet
4 2 (11.11%) IP Telephony
4 2 (11.11%) LAN
4 2 (11.11%) NAS
4 2 (11.11%) SSH
4 2 (11.11%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (11.11%) VLAN
4 2 (11.11%) VPN
4 2 (11.11%) WAN
4 2 (11.11%) WLAN
5 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Power BI
General
1 4 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (22.22%) Police
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Retail
3 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Analyst
1 5 (27.78%) IT Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Server Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Service Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) IT Manager
4 2 (11.11%) IT Support
4 2 (11.11%) Support Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Systems Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) IT Support Technician
5 1 (5.56%) Junior
5 1 (5.56%) Junior Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 5 (27.78%) Data Centre
3 4 (22.22%) PKI
4 3 (16.67%) Clustering
4 3 (16.67%) Mobile Computing
5 2 (11.11%) iPhone
5 2 (11.11%) Smartphone
6 1 (5.56%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (72.22%) Windows Server
3 4 (22.22%) Android
4 3 (16.67%) Unix
5 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS
5 2 (11.11%) Mac OS
5 2 (11.11%) VMS
5 2 (11.11%) Windows 10
5 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) ITIL
2 6 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (22.22%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) Change Management
3 4 (22.22%) Converged Infrastructure
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 4 (22.22%) Kalman Filter
3 4 (22.22%) Line Management
3 4 (22.22%) Proactive Monitoring
3 4 (22.22%) Security Hardening
3 4 (22.22%) Tech Ops
4 3 (16.67%) B2B
4 3 (16.67%) Email Filtering
4 3 (16.67%) ERP
4 3 (16.67%) Server Management
5 2 (11.11%) Budget Management
5 2 (11.11%) E-Commerce
5 2 (11.11%) Project Management
5 2 (11.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (44.44%) Degree
2 8 (44.44%) MCSE
3 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
4 4 (22.22%) DV Cleared
4 4 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (16.67%) A+ Certification
5 3 (16.67%) CCNA
5 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 8 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (22.22%) vSphere
4 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) SCCM
2 3 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (16.67%) SCOM
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (44.44%) VMware
3 5 (27.78%) Dell
3 5 (27.78%) HP
4 2 (11.11%) Apple
4 2 (11.11%) Freshdesk
4 2 (11.11%) Google
4 2 (11.11%) Meraki
4 2 (11.11%) Sophos
5 1 (5.56%) Aruba