MCSA Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for MCSA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 632 616 633
Rank change year-on-year -16 +17 -99
Permanent jobs citing MCSA 136 120 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.21% 0.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.68% 0.56% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 91 107 181
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,650 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £50,125 £53,750 £54,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £60,250 £65,000
UK median annual salary £43,114 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.44% -5.56% +9.76%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding 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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,915 21,308 23,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.21% 37.69% 32.42%
Number of salaries quoted 12,282 7,936 10,537
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £53,772 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.38% +9.09% -

MCSA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for MCSA in the UK excluding London

MCSA
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MCSA in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for MCSA in the UK excluding London

MCSA
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing MCSA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for MCSA in the UK excluding London

MCSA
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East +23 61 £39,000 +6.85% 11
North of England +44 32 £37,500 -22.68% 7
Yorkshire +77 19 £37,500 -21.88% 4
Midlands -40 15 £43,227 +20.91% 2
East of England -2 11 £42,500 +9.68% 9
North West -10 10 £45,000 -7.22% 3
West Midlands -23 9 £43,227 +64.67% 1
South West -26 9 £33,000 -19.51% 4
East Midlands -36 6 £34,000 -24.44% 1
Scotland -63 6 £48,500 +14.12% 4
North East - 3 £29,500 -
Isle of Man - 2 £50,000 -
MCSA
UK

MCSA
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 45 (33.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (14.71%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.94%) IIS
4 2 (1.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 22 (16.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Shopify
2 1 (0.74%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 81 (59.56%) Azure
2 60 (44.12%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (29.41%) IBM Cloud
4 12 (8.82%) Entra ID
5 10 (7.35%) AWS
6 8 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (4.41%) Twilio
8 5 (3.68%) Azure Stack
8 5 (3.68%) OneDrive
9 4 (2.94%) GCP
10 3 (2.21%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.47%) Google Workspace
11 2 (1.47%) Mimecast
12 1 (0.74%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 39 (28.68%) Firewall
2 23 (16.91%) DHCP
3 21 (15.44%) DNS
4 20 (14.71%) VPN
5 19 (13.97%) TCP/IP
6 16 (11.76%) LAN
6 16 (11.76%) VLAN
7 12 (8.82%) VoIP
8 11 (8.09%) Internet
8 11 (8.09%) WAN
9 10 (7.35%) SAN
10 9 (6.62%) Wireless
11 7 (5.15%) WLAN
12 6 (4.41%) NAS
12 6 (4.41%) Network Security
13 4 (2.94%) SSL
13 4 (2.94%) VSAN
13 4 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
14 3 (2.21%) Bluetooth
14 3 (2.21%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.15%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.21%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.47%) JIRA
1 2 (1.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 40 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 37 (27.21%) Social Skills
3 8 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.68%) Telecoms
5 4 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (2.94%) Police
6 3 (2.21%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.47%) Finance
8 1 (0.74%) Back Office
8 1 (0.74%) Law
8 1 (0.74%) Marketing
8 1 (0.74%) Military
8 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (13.24%) IT Support
1 18 (13.24%) Support Engineer
2 15 (11.03%) 3rd Line Support
3 11 (8.09%) IT Engineer
4 9 (6.62%) Analyst
5 8 (5.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (5.88%) IT Manager
6 7 (5.15%) IT Support Engineer
7 6 (4.41%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 6 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (4.41%) IT Technician
8 5 (3.68%) IT Support Technician
8 5 (3.68%) Senior
8 5 (3.68%) Server Engineer
8 5 (3.68%) Support Technician
8 5 (3.68%) Systems Manager
9 4 (2.94%) Consultant
9 4 (2.94%) Network Manager
9 4 (2.94%) Support Consultant
9 4 (2.94%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.74%) .NET
1 1 (0.74%) AngularJS
1 1 (0.74%) ASP.NET
1 1 (0.74%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 40 (29.41%) Blockchain
1 40 (29.41%) Distributed Systems
1 40 (29.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 16 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 11 (8.09%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.41%) Replication
5 5 (3.68%) PKI
6 4 (2.94%) Clustering
6 4 (2.94%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.21%) CCTV
7 3 (2.21%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.21%) Raspberry Pi
8 2 (1.47%) Fat Client
8 2 (1.47%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.47%) Mobile Computing
8 2 (1.47%) Smartphone
8 2 (1.47%) Thin Client
9 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.74%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 80 (58.82%) Windows
2 64 (47.06%) Linux
3 53 (38.97%) Windows Server
4 46 (33.82%) CentOS
5 44 (32.35%) Debian
6 40 (29.41%) Alpine Linux
7 11 (8.09%) Windows 10
8 10 (7.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (5.15%) Apple iOS
9 7 (5.15%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (5.15%) Windows Vista
10 5 (3.68%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (2.94%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (2.21%) Android
13 2 (1.47%) Mac OS
13 2 (1.47%) Ubuntu
13 2 (1.47%) VMS
13 2 (1.47%) Windows 2000
13 2 (1.47%) Windows 8
13 2 (1.47%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (29.41%) Artificial Intelligence
1 40 (29.41%) CI/CD
1 40 (29.41%) Co-Creation
1 40 (29.41%) Data Science
1 40 (29.41%) DevOps
1 40 (29.41%) Functional Testing
1 40 (29.41%) Separation of Concerns
1 40 (29.41%) Task Automation
1 40 (29.41%) Technology Transformation
2 34 (25.00%) ITIL
3 32 (23.53%) Customer Service
4 29 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (9.56%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (8.82%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (8.82%) Kalman Filter
6 12 (8.82%) Proactive Monitoring
7 11 (8.09%) Email Filtering
7 11 (8.09%) Web Filtering
8 9 (6.62%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.56%) SQL
2 8 (5.88%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.74%) C#
3 1 (0.74%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.74%) Swift
Qualifications
1 136 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 95 (69.85%) MCSE
3 42 (30.88%) Azure Certification
4 32 (23.53%) CCNA
4 32 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (19.12%) Degree
6 25 (18.38%) MCP
7 14 (10.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 11 (8.09%) A+ Certification
9 10 (7.35%) Network+ Certification
10 9 (6.62%) Security Cleared
11 8 (5.88%) SC Cleared
12 6 (4.41%) CCNP
12 6 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (3.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (2.94%) DV Cleared
14 4 (2.94%) RHCT
15 2 (1.47%) DBS Check
15 2 (1.47%) MCDST
15 2 (1.47%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.88%) GDPR
2 5 (3.68%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.47%) SLA
4 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 63 (46.32%) Active Directory
2 40 (29.41%) Docker
3 34 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (17.65%) Hyper-V
5 11 (8.09%) vSphere
6 4 (2.94%) KVM
6 4 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.74%) Firmware
7 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.74%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 40 (29.41%) Kubernetes
1 40 (29.41%) Terraform
2 9 (6.62%) SCCM
3 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.94%) WSUS
5 3 (2.21%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.74%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.74%) SCOM
6 1 (0.74%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 77 (56.62%) Microsoft
2 47 (34.56%) Red Hat
3 40 (29.41%) IBM
4 39 (28.68%) VMware
5 18 (13.24%) Cisco
6 10 (7.35%) Draytek
7 9 (6.62%) Apple
7 9 (6.62%) Veeam
8 8 (5.88%) Citrix
8 8 (5.88%) Dell
8 8 (5.88%) Google
8 8 (5.88%) HP
9 5 (3.68%) Meraki
9 5 (3.68%) Sophos
10 4 (2.94%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (2.94%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.94%) SolarWinds
10 4 (2.94%) SonicWALL
11 3 (2.21%) Datto
11 3 (2.21%) Ubiquiti