MCSE Contracts in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for MCSE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 478 526 581
Rank change year-on-year +48 +55 -72
Contract jobs citing MCSE 72 110 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.23% 0.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.63% 0.86% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 86 151
10th Percentile £264 £109 £150
25th Percentile £301 £223 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £494 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% +16.18% -5.56%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £538
90th Percentile £568 £663 £619
UK median daily rate £400 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 8
10th Percentile £12.65 - £14.88
25th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £16.09
Median hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £19.43
Median % change year-on-year - -9.91% -
75th Percentile £35.33 £20.68 £26.30
90th Percentile £45.27 £24.16 £33.63
UK median hourly rate £16.25 £17.50 £19.43
% change year-on-year -7.14% -9.91% -73.57%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,463 12,852 15,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.56% 27.32% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,093 8,593 10,289
10th Percentile £313 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £638
90th Percentile £738 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,006 655 691
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.35 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.66 £55.00 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -26.07% +32.99% +14.88%
75th Percentile £64.25 £70.00 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.25 £68.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

MCSE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for MCSE in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for MCSE in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MCSE in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MCSE in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for MCSE in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MCSE in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for MCSE in England

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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 MCSE within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East +21 19 £450 -5.26% 9
South West +5 15 £538 -2.27% 7
North of England +2 14 £425 -34.62% 14
London +66 13 £350 -9.68% 10
North West 0 9 £303 -53.46% 5
East of England +7 5 £425 +286.36%
Midlands +5 5 £117 -47.77% 6
North East +12 4 £488 +343.18% 1
East Midlands +1 3 £130 -41.70% 1
West Midlands +12 2 £117 -57.45% 5
Yorkshire +10 1 - - 8
MCSE
UK

MCSE
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 30 (41.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (25.00%) Confluence
3 12 (16.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.39%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.39%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.39%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.61%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (18.06%) Azure
3 8 (11.11%) AWS
4 3 (4.17%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.78%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.78%) IaaS
5 2 (2.78%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.39%) GCP
6 1 (1.39%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 28 (38.89%) DNS
2 25 (34.72%) DHCP
3 14 (19.44%) SAN
4 11 (15.28%) VPN
5 9 (12.50%) TCP/IP
6 7 (9.72%) Fibre Channel
6 7 (9.72%) NAS
7 6 (8.33%) Firewall
8 5 (6.94%) iSCSI
8 5 (6.94%) VLAN
9 4 (5.56%) SSL
9 4 (5.56%) VoIP
10 3 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (2.78%) NetScaler
11 2 (2.78%) Network Security
11 2 (2.78%) Skype
11 2 (2.78%) Wireless
12 1 (1.39%) Cisco Wireless
12 1 (1.39%) MPLS
12 1 (1.39%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.28%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.78%) MySQL
2 2 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.39%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 44 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 33 (45.83%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (25.00%) Military
4 7 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.33%) Finance
5 6 (8.33%) Manufacturing
6 5 (6.94%) Banking
6 5 (6.94%) Marketing
7 4 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (5.56%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.78%) Legal
9 1 (1.39%) Advertising
9 1 (1.39%) Automotive
9 1 (1.39%) Electronics
9 1 (1.39%) French Language
9 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.39%) Local Government
9 1 (1.39%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.39%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 18 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 16 (22.22%) Integration Engineer
2 16 (22.22%) Test and Integration Engineer
3 13 (18.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (6.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 5 (6.94%) Desktop Engineer
4 5 (6.94%) Senior
4 5 (6.94%) Server Engineer
4 5 (6.94%) Support Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
5 4 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) IT Support
5 4 (5.56%) Service Delivery Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) VMware Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) Administrator
6 3 (4.17%) Analyst
6 3 (4.17%) DBA
6 3 (4.17%) IT Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.78%) LDAP
2 1 (1.39%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 22 (30.56%) PKI
2 10 (13.89%) Clustering
3 4 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (4.17%) Replication
5 2 (2.78%) Blackberry
5 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.78%) iPad
5 2 (2.78%) iPhone
6 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.39%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.39%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.39%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.39%) NHS
6 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 61 (84.72%) Windows
2 40 (55.56%) Windows Server
3 22 (30.56%) Windows Server 2012
4 16 (22.22%) Windows 10
5 11 (15.28%) Linux
6 5 (6.94%) Unix
7 4 (5.56%) Mac OS
8 3 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (2.78%) CentOS
10 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (38.89%) ITIL
2 20 (27.78%) Critical Thinking
3 19 (26.39%) Agile
4 18 (25.00%) Regression Testing
4 18 (25.00%) Test Scripting
5 16 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (11.11%) Service Management
7 8 (11.11%) Task Automation
8 7 (9.72%) High Availability
8 7 (9.72%) Project Management
9 6 (8.33%) Change Management
9 6 (8.33%) Customer Service
9 6 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
9 6 (8.33%) PRINCE2
10 5 (6.94%) Problem Management
11 4 (5.56%) Mobile Device Management
11 4 (5.56%) Security Management
11 4 (5.56%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 28 (38.89%) SQL
2 18 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.39%) Python
3 1 (1.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 72 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 30 (41.67%) MCSA
2 30 (41.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 24 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 22 (30.56%) Degree
5 20 (27.78%) SC Cleared
6 17 (23.61%) CCNA
6 17 (23.61%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (5.56%) AWS Certification
7 4 (5.56%) DV Cleared
7 4 (5.56%) MCP
7 4 (5.56%) MCTS
8 2 (2.78%) A+ Certification
8 2 (2.78%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.78%) CCNP
8 2 (2.78%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (2.78%) Citrix Certification
8 2 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (2.78%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.39%) GDPR
2 1 (1.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 33 (45.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (9.72%) vSphere
4 4 (5.56%) Firmware
4 4 (5.56%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.78%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (2.78%) XenApp
6 2 (2.78%) XenDesktop
7 1 (1.39%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.39%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 9 (12.50%) SCCM
2 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (4.17%) Backup Exec
3 3 (4.17%) vCenter Server
3 3 (4.17%) WSUS
4 1 (1.39%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.39%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 61 (84.72%) Microsoft
2 38 (52.78%) VMware
3 9 (12.50%) Cisco
4 8 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.56%) Citrix
6 3 (4.17%) Apple
6 3 (4.17%) Dell
6 3 (4.17%) HP
6 3 (4.17%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.78%) Bloomberg
7 2 (2.78%) CA
7 2 (2.78%) Reuters
8 1 (1.39%) Adobe
8 1 (1.39%) BEA
8 1 (1.39%) EMC
8 1 (1.39%) Juniper
8 1 (1.39%) McAfee
8 1 (1.39%) Oracle
8 1 (1.39%) Sophos
8 1 (1.39%) Veritas