MCSE Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) formerly Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid work with a requirement for MCSE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 470 431 608
Rank change year-on-year -39 +177 -66
Permanent jobs citing MCSE 24 89 205
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.36% 0.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.38% 1.20% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 13 79 185
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,050 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £48,750 £59,375 £61,591
90th Percentile - £72,500 £73,250
UK median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -10.53%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

MCSE falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 6,283 7,386 14,619
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.55% 30.20% 23.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,635 4,606 7,942
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,000 £32,626
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,140
% change year-on-year - +4.28% +0.25%

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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

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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 31 October 2024.

MCSE salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.17%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (75.00%) Azure
2 16 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (41.67%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (8.33%) AWS
4 2 (8.33%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.17%) IaaS
5 1 (4.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (25.00%) DNS
2 6 (25.00%) SAN
3 4 (16.67%) WAN
4 3 (12.50%) Firewall
4 3 (12.50%) LAN
4 3 (12.50%) SD-WAN
5 2 (8.33%) DHCP
6 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) MySQL
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Axure RP
General
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Legal
4 2 (8.33%) Advertising
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.33%) Retail
5 1 (4.17%) Back Office
5 1 (4.17%) Law
5 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) IT Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Junior
4 3 (12.50%) Trainee
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Desktop Support
5 2 (8.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) IT Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) IT Support
5 2 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Junior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Security Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Technology Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Clustering
1 3 (12.50%) NHS
2 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Educational Technology
3 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.17%) PKI
3 1 (4.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (62.50%) Windows
2 11 (45.83%) Windows Server
3 4 (16.67%) Linux
3 4 (16.67%) Unix
3 4 (16.67%) Windows 10
4 3 (12.50%) Android
5 1 (4.17%) AIX
5 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (4.17%) Mac OS X
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) ITIL
2 9 (37.50%) Customer Service
2 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (12.50%) Change Management
3 3 (12.50%) Cloud Security
3 3 (12.50%) Coaching
3 3 (12.50%) Customer Experience
3 3 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (12.50%) Line Management
3 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 3 (12.50%) Server Management
3 3 (12.50%) Service Management
3 3 (12.50%) Trend Analysis
4 2 (8.33%) Agile
4 2 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (8.33%) Extreme Programming
4 2 (8.33%) ITSM
4 2 (8.33%) Kanban
4 2 (8.33%) Migration
4 2 (8.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) SQL
2 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.17%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) Korn
Qualifications
1 24 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (41.67%) MCSA
3 8 (33.33%) Degree
4 7 (29.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (25.00%) MCP
6 4 (16.67%) DBS Check
6 4 (16.67%) MCITP
6 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
6 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
7 3 (12.50%) A+ Certification
7 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
8 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (8.33%) CCNA
8 2 (8.33%) CCNP
8 2 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
9 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certified Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 10 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 3 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (8.33%) Docker
5 2 (8.33%) Firmware
6 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) SCCM
1 3 (12.50%) SCOM
2 2 (8.33%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) SCOrch
3 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (50.00%) VMware
3 7 (29.17%) Cisco
4 6 (25.00%) ServiceNow
5 4 (16.67%) Apple
5 4 (16.67%) IBM
5 4 (16.67%) Oracle
5 4 (16.67%) SolarWinds
6 3 (12.50%) Commvault
6 3 (12.50%) Fortinet
6 3 (12.50%) Veeam
7 2 (8.33%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (4.17%) Aruba
8 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
8 1 (4.17%) Dell
8 1 (4.17%) Google
8 1 (4.17%) HP