MCSA Contracts in London

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

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 478 538
Rank change year-on-year +100 +60 -66
Contract jobs citing MCSA 15 15 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.086% 0.059% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.36% 0.27% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 48
10th Percentile £200 £219 £185
25th Percentile £213 £291 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% -0.95% +34.62%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £538
90th Percentile £768 £645 £575
England median daily rate £538 £520 £400
% change year-on-year +3.37% +30.00% +23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £24.69
Median hourly rate - - £25.09
75th Percentile - - £25.48
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,133 5,624 6,824
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.58% 21.98% 17.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,826 3,865 4,717
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.81% +3.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 85 146
10th Percentile £14.49 £18.89 £23.84
25th Percentile £20.22 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £25.50 £50.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.00% +12.36% +18.67%
75th Percentile £42.75 £70.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.60 £87.50 £65.71
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +39.24% +8.22%

MCSA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for MCSA in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for MCSA in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MCSA in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MCSA in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for MCSA in London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (6.67%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (6.67%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (6.67%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (40.00%) AWS
3 5 (33.33%) Azure
4 3 (20.00%) OneDrive
5 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
6 1 (6.67%) GCP
6 1 (6.67%) IaaS
6 1 (6.67%) Mimecast
6 1 (6.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) VPN
2 4 (26.67%) DNS
3 3 (20.00%) DHCP
4 2 (13.33%) NAS
4 2 (13.33%) NetScaler
5 1 (6.67%) Firewall
5 1 (6.67%) Kerberos
5 1 (6.67%) LAN
5 1 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
5 1 (6.67%) WAN
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Banking
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Financial Institution
3 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Local Government
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) IT Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) IT Support
2 2 (13.33%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Business Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Citrix Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Exchange Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Remote Desktop Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Remote Desktop Support
3 1 (6.67%) Remote Support Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) iPhone
2 2 (13.33%) Blackberry
2 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (13.33%) iPad
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Clustering
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) PKI
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (46.67%) Windows 10
2 7 (46.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (26.67%) Mac OS
4 1 (6.67%) Linux
4 1 (6.67%) Windows 7
4 1 (6.67%) Windows 8
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) ITIL
2 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (26.67%) User Experience
3 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (20.00%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Application Packaging
4 2 (13.33%) Asset Management
4 2 (13.33%) Business Analysis
4 2 (13.33%) Customer Service
4 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
4 2 (13.33%) Fintech
4 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
4 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (13.33%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
5 1 (6.67%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security
5 1 (6.67%) Customer Experience
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 6 (40.00%) MCSE
3 4 (26.67%) CCNA
3 4 (26.67%) CCNP
3 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (13.33%) CESG Certified Professional
5 2 (13.33%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (13.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (13.33%) MCP
5 2 (13.33%) MCSD
5 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
5 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
6 1 (6.67%) A+ Certification
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (6.67%) CISA
6 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (13.33%) XenApp
3 2 (13.33%) XenDesktop
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (13.33%) SCCM
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.67%) Nessus
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) VMware
3 3 (20.00%) Citrix
3 3 (20.00%) Okta
4 2 (13.33%) Apple
4 2 (13.33%) Bloomberg
4 2 (13.33%) Reuters
4 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
4 2 (13.33%) Zscaler
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco
5 1 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (6.67%) HP
5 1 (6.67%) IronPort
5 1 (6.67%) TOWER Software