MCSE Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for MCSE 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 308 351 389
Rank change year-on-year +43 +38 -78
Contract jobs citing MCSE 90 96 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.42% 0.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.20% 1.28% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 79 84
10th Percentile £300 £107 £123
25th Percentile £313 £221 £191
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £520 £375
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +38.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £450
90th Percentile £614 £675 £632
UK median daily rate £413 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -17.50% +17.65% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 7
10th Percentile £11.98 - £14.63
25th Percentile £12.31 £16.25 £15.94
Median hourly rate £16.25 £17.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -76.19%
75th Percentile £18.75 £20.68 £25.71
90th Percentile £22.07 £24.16 £35.25
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
UK excluding London

MCSE 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,489 7,477 8,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.92% 32.63% 26.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,361 4,959 5,284
10th Percentile £275 £300 £260
25th Percentile £425 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £719 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 959 573 526
10th Percentile £13.65 £13.51 £13.33
25th Percentile £17.66 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £41.27 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% +50.00% +14.01%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £67.13
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.84%

MCSE
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing MCSE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for MCSE in the UK excluding London

MCSE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MCSE in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for MCSE in the UK excluding London

MCSE
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for MCSE in the UK excluding London

MCSE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MCSE in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for MCSE in the UK excluding London

MCSE
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MCSE in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for MCSE in the UK excluding London

MCSE
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSE within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Scotland +68 30 £340 +4.62% 9
South East +19 22 £538 +13.16% 11
South West +11 15 £538 -2.27% 8
North of England +12 13 £425 -29.17% 19
North West +1 9 £303 -53.46% 7
Midlands +12 5 £117 -47.53% 5
East of England +10 5 £425 +286.36% 2
North East +14 4 £488 +343.18% 2
East Midlands +3 3 £130 -41.70% 1
West Midlands +9 2 £117 -57.45% 4
MCSE
UK

MCSE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 28 (31.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (20.00%) Confluence
3 11 (12.22%) SharePoint
4 6 (6.67%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.00%) Azure
2 17 (18.89%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 6 (6.67%) AWS
5 2 (2.22%) IaaS
5 2 (2.22%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.11%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.11%) GCP
6 1 (1.11%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 24 (26.67%) DNS
2 22 (24.44%) DHCP
3 20 (22.22%) SAN
4 9 (10.00%) Firewall
4 9 (10.00%) SSL
5 8 (8.89%) VPN
6 7 (7.78%) Fibre Channel
6 7 (7.78%) TCP/IP
7 5 (5.56%) iSCSI
7 5 (5.56%) NAS
7 5 (5.56%) VLAN
8 4 (4.44%) VoIP
9 3 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (2.22%) Network Security
10 2 (2.22%) Skype
10 2 (2.22%) Wireless
11 1 (1.11%) Cisco Wireless
11 1 (1.11%) LAN
11 1 (1.11%) PBX
11 1 (1.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 44 (48.89%) Social Skills
2 42 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (20.00%) Military
3 18 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.44%) Marketing
5 4 (4.44%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (3.33%) Finance
6 3 (3.33%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.22%) Banking
8 1 (1.11%) Automotive
8 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 16 (17.78%) Integration Engineer
2 16 (17.78%) Test and Integration Engineer
3 13 (14.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (11.11%) Field Engineer
4 10 (11.11%) IT Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) Field Service Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) Senior
6 8 (8.89%) Support Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support
9 5 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Specialist
9 5 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support
9 5 (5.56%) Security Specialist
10 4 (4.44%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) 2nd Line Support
10 4 (4.44%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) IT Support
10 4 (4.44%) Service Delivery Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 24 (26.67%) PKI
2 18 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 9 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (7.78%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (6.67%) Clustering
6 4 (4.44%) Public Cloud
6 4 (4.44%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.11%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.11%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.11%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (1.11%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.11%) Replication
7 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 67 (74.44%) Windows
2 52 (57.78%) Windows Server
3 27 (30.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 14 (15.56%) Linux
4 14 (15.56%) Windows 10
5 8 (8.89%) CentOS
6 7 (7.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (6.67%) Debian
7 6 (6.67%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (4.44%) Unix
9 2 (2.22%) Mac OS
9 2 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (41.11%) ITIL
2 28 (31.11%) Agile
3 20 (22.22%) Critical Thinking
4 19 (21.11%) Customer Service
4 19 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (20.00%) Regression Testing
5 18 (20.00%) Test Scripting
6 17 (18.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (8.89%) Break/Fix
9 8 (8.89%) Penetration Testing
9 8 (8.89%) Security Operations
10 7 (7.78%) Risk Assessment
10 7 (7.78%) Service Management
10 7 (7.78%) Threat Modelling
11 6 (6.67%) Change Management
11 6 (6.67%) Network Management
11 6 (6.67%) PRINCE2
12 5 (5.56%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 25 (27.78%) SQL
2 12 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 90 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 33 (36.67%) Security Cleared
3 30 (33.33%) MCSA
4 29 (32.22%) SC Cleared
5 28 (31.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 26 (28.89%) Degree
7 23 (25.56%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (22.22%) CCNA
9 10 (11.11%) A+ Certification
9 10 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
10 8 (8.89%) MCP
11 6 (6.67%) DV Cleared
11 6 (6.67%) RHCT
12 4 (4.44%) CCNP
12 4 (4.44%) MCTS
13 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (1.11%) CCIE
14 1 (1.11%) MOS
14 1 (1.11%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.89%) SLA
2 3 (3.33%) NCSC
2 3 (3.33%) NIST
3 2 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.22%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.11%) GDPR
4 1 (1.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (56.67%) Active Directory
2 35 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (13.33%) Hyper-V
4 7 (7.78%) vSphere
5 6 (6.67%) KVM
6 4 (4.44%) Firmware
7 2 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.11%) Terminal Services
8 1 (1.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 18 (20.00%) SCCM
2 8 (8.89%) WSUS
3 3 (3.33%) vCenter Server
4 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.11%) Backup Exec
5 1 (1.11%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 61 (67.78%) Microsoft
2 39 (43.33%) VMware
3 13 (14.44%) Citrix
4 11 (12.22%) Dell
5 9 (10.00%) Red Hat
6 6 (6.67%) ServiceNow
7 4 (4.44%) Cisco
8 3 (3.33%) HP
9 2 (2.22%) Apple
10 1 (1.11%) Adobe
10 1 (1.11%) BEA
10 1 (1.11%) EMC
10 1 (1.11%) McAfee
10 1 (1.11%) Oracle
10 1 (1.11%) Sophos
10 1 (1.11%) Veritas