MCSA Contracts in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for MCSA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 467 568 628
Rank change year-on-year +101 +60 -37
Contract jobs citing MCSA 84 74 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.75% 0.56% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 53 92
10th Percentile £134 £223 £167
25th Percentile £313 £363 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £401
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% +29.60% +23.46%
75th Percentile £556 £650 £538
90th Percentile £636 £675 £575
UK median daily rate £425 £520 £427
% change year-on-year -18.27% +21.78% +22.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 10 28
10th Percentile £14.16 - -
25th Percentile £14.48 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% - +3.33%
75th Percentile £21.37 £15.75 £15.75
90th Percentile - £16.82 -
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,235 13,150 15,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.59% 27.55% 21.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,952 8,833 10,370
10th Percentile £313 £349 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £743 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,001 654 684
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.79 £21.24 £19.05
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +39.24% +9.40%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.18 £67.85
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -27.27% +25.14% +28.23%

MCSA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for MCSA in England

MCSA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for MCSA in England

MCSA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MCSA in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MCSA in England

MCSA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for MCSA in England

MCSA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSA within the England region over the 6 months to 3 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England +44 48 £100 -40.30% 9
London +98 15 £350 -32.69% 1
South East +13 10 £538 +8.59% 10
South West +10 9 £538 -2.27% 4
North of England +10 2 £363 -44.23% 7
Yorkshire +14 1 £325 -52.55% 4
North West -7 1 £400 -38.46% 3
MCSA
UK

MCSA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 26 (30.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (21.43%) Confluence
3 7 (8.33%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.19%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.19%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.19%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (15.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (15.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 53 (63.10%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (11.90%) Azure
3 6 (7.14%) AWS
4 3 (3.57%) OneDrive
5 2 (2.38%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.19%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.19%) GCP
6 1 (1.19%) IaaS
6 1 (1.19%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (48.81%) Wi-Fi
2 24 (28.57%) DNS
3 23 (27.38%) DHCP
4 6 (7.14%) VPN
5 3 (3.57%) LAN
5 3 (3.57%) SAN
5 3 (3.57%) WAN
6 2 (2.38%) Firewall
6 2 (2.38%) NAS
6 2 (2.38%) NetScaler
6 2 (2.38%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.19%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.19%) iSCSI
7 1 (1.19%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.19%) MPLS
7 1 (1.19%) Network Security
7 1 (1.19%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (21.43%) JIRA
General
1 28 (33.33%) Retail
2 27 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 23 (27.38%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (21.43%) Military
5 6 (7.14%) Finance
6 5 (5.95%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.76%) Banking
7 4 (4.76%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.76%) Marketing
7 4 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.38%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.19%) Local Government
9 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.19%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 43 (51.19%) Analyst
2 41 (48.81%) Service Analyst
2 41 (48.81%) Service Desk Analyst
3 18 (21.43%) Test Engineer
4 16 (19.05%) Integration Engineer
4 16 (19.05%) Test and Integration Engineer
5 13 (15.48%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
6 8 (9.52%) Support Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) 2nd Line Support
8 4 (4.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Service Delivery Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Desktop Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) IT Engineer
10 2 (2.38%) Business Analyst
10 2 (2.38%) IT Support Engineer
10 2 (2.38%) Technical Analyst
10 2 (2.38%) Technical Business Analyst
10 2 (2.38%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.19%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.62%) PKI
2 5 (5.95%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.76%) iPhone
4 2 (2.38%) Blackberry
4 2 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.38%) iPad
4 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.19%) Clustering
5 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (51.19%) Windows
2 28 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 18 (21.43%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (8.33%) Windows 10
5 4 (4.76%) Mac OS
5 4 (4.76%) Windows 7
5 4 (4.76%) Windows 8
6 1 (1.19%) Linux
6 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (59.52%) ITIL
2 46 (54.76%) Customer Service
3 43 (51.19%) Incident Management
4 20 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (22.62%) Agile
6 18 (21.43%) Critical Thinking
6 18 (21.43%) Regression Testing
6 18 (21.43%) Test Scripting
7 17 (20.24%) Service Delivery
8 13 (15.48%) Mathematics
9 7 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (7.14%) Computer Science
11 5 (5.95%) PRINCE2
12 4 (4.76%) Employee Productivity
12 4 (4.76%) Project Management
12 4 (4.76%) User Experience
13 2 (2.38%) High Availability
13 2 (2.38%) Mentoring
13 2 (2.38%) Strategic Thinking
13 2 (2.38%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (22.62%) SQL
2 5 (5.95%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.19%) Python
Qualifications
1 84 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 46 (54.76%) A+ Certification
3 35 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 35 (41.67%) Security Cleared
4 30 (35.71%) MCSE
5 18 (21.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 13 (15.48%) Degree
7 12 (14.29%) CCNA
7 12 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (8.33%) CCNP
9 6 (7.14%) MCP
10 4 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (3.57%) AWS Certification
12 2 (2.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (2.38%) CESG Certified Professional
12 2 (2.38%) Citrix Certification
12 2 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (2.38%) MCSD
13 1 (1.19%) CISA
13 1 (1.19%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (54.76%) Active Directory
2 23 (27.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.38%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.38%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (2.38%) XenApp
3 2 (2.38%) XenDesktop
4 1 (1.19%) Terminal Services
4 1 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (2.38%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (2.38%) SCCM
2 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.19%) Nessus
2 1 (1.19%) Terraform
2 1 (1.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 52 (61.90%) Microsoft
2 45 (53.57%) Citrix
3 41 (48.81%) ServiceNow
4 24 (28.57%) VMware
5 3 (3.57%) Okta
6 2 (2.38%) Apple
6 2 (2.38%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.38%) Cisco
6 2 (2.38%) HP
6 2 (2.38%) Reuters
6 2 (2.38%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.38%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.19%) Dell
7 1 (1.19%) IronPort
7 1 (1.19%) TOWER Software