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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 260 327
Rank change year-on-year -60 +67 -79
Permanent jobs citing MCSA 14 43 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.10% 0.51% 0.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.41% 1.25% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 11 41 28
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,500 £26,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,227 £32,500 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +33.01% -29.73% +15.63%
75th Percentile £49,114 £48,750 £51,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £43,000 £41,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +4.88% -3.53% +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 3,380 3,428 3,677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.47% 40.35% 31.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,893 1,241 1,832
10th Percentile £25,500 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £37,000 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +10.87% +2.22%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% +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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -23 7 £43,227 +64.67% 1
East Midlands -49 7 £34,000 -24.44% 1
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 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Shopify
2 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
4 2 (14.29%) Google Workspace
4 2 (14.29%) Mimecast
5 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
5 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
5 1 (7.14%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
1 4 (28.57%) VSAN
2 3 (21.43%) DHCP
2 3 (21.43%) DNS
2 3 (21.43%) VPN
3 2 (14.29%) Internet
3 2 (14.29%) IP Telephony
3 2 (14.29%) LAN
3 2 (14.29%) NAS
3 2 (14.29%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (14.29%) WAN
3 2 (14.29%) WLAN
4 1 (7.14%) SAN
4 1 (7.14%) SSH
4 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.14%) VLAN
4 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (28.57%) Police
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Back Office
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
2 1 (7.14%) Marketing
2 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
1 4 (28.57%) Server Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) IT Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Service Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Support Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Systems Manager
3 1 (7.14%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Support
3 1 (7.14%) IT Support Technician
3 1 (7.14%) IT Technician
3 1 (7.14%) Power Apps Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Management Information System
2 4 (28.57%) PKI
3 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 2 (14.29%) Smartphone
4 1 (7.14%) Educational Technology
4 1 (7.14%) iPhone
4 1 (7.14%) Mobile Computing
4 1 (7.14%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (92.86%) Windows
2 9 (64.29%) Windows Server
3 3 (21.43%) Android
4 2 (14.29%) Apple iOS
4 2 (14.29%) Mac OS
4 2 (14.29%) VMS
4 2 (14.29%) Windows 10
5 1 (7.14%) Linux
5 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) ITIL
2 7 (50.00%) Customer Service
3 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) Agile
4 5 (35.71%) Line Management
5 4 (28.57%) Change Management
5 4 (28.57%) Converged Infrastructure
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 4 (28.57%) Proactive Monitoring
5 4 (28.57%) Security Hardening
5 4 (28.57%) Tech Ops
6 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
6 3 (21.43%) Service Management
7 2 (14.29%) Budget Management
7 2 (14.29%) Data Security
7 2 (14.29%) E-Commerce
7 2 (14.29%) Project Management
8 1 (7.14%) B2B
8 1 (7.14%) CRM
8 1 (7.14%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) C#
1 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) Degree
3 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) MCSE
4 2 (14.29%) CCNA
4 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (7.14%) A+ Certification
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 1 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
5 1 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (28.57%) vSphere
4 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) SCCM
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (42.86%) HP
2 6 (42.86%) VMware
3 5 (35.71%) Dell
4 2 (14.29%) Apple
4 2 (14.29%) Google
4 2 (14.29%) Meraki
4 2 (14.29%) Sophos
5 1 (7.14%) Aruba
5 1 (7.14%) Freshdesk