MCSE Contracts in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 171 173 227
Rank change year-on-year +2 +54 -49
Contract jobs citing MCSE 14 29 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.29% 0.53% 0.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.19% 2.19% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 17
10th Percentile - £105 £123
25th Percentile £300 £381 £133
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £650 £170
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +282.35% -62.22%
75th Percentile £534 £675 £255
90th Percentile £638 £700 £335
England median daily rate £438 £494 £425
% change year-on-year -11.39% +16.18% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £19.43
Median % change year-on-year - -9.91% -
75th Percentile £18.75 £18.75 £24.19
90th Percentile - - £26.92
England median hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £19.43
% change year-on-year - -9.91% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,172 1,324 1,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 24.19% 24.33% 21.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 908 1,037
10th Percentile £302 £325 £206
25th Percentile £413 £431 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £591
90th Percentile £694 £700 £671
England median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 75 70
10th Percentile £10.95 £18.95 £14.25
25th Percentile £13.50 £25.38 £17.50
Median hourly rate £16.06 £40.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.85% +29.03% +40.91%
75th Percentile £43.10 £49.52 £57.53
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.95 £75.60
England median hourly rate £40.66 £55.00 £41.36
% change year-on-year -26.07% +32.99% +14.88%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for MCSE in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for MCSE in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for MCSE in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for MCSE in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West 0 9 £303 -53.46% 5
North East +12 4 £488 +343.18% 1
Yorkshire +10 1 - - 8
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England

MCSE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 5 (35.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) IaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DHCP
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
4 2 (14.29%) Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Automotive
5 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) IT Support
1 4 (28.57%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Support Officer
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) DBA
3 2 (14.29%) Senior IT Support
3 2 (14.29%) Server Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) SQL DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Database Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Server Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Service Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (21.43%) Clustering
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (7.14%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (78.57%) Windows Server
3 4 (28.57%) Windows 10
4 2 (14.29%) Linux
4 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (7.14%) Unix
5 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) ITIL
2 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (28.57%) Line Management
2 4 (28.57%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (21.43%) Data Encryption
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Server Patching
3 3 (21.43%) Service Management
3 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
4 2 (14.29%) High Availability
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
4 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
5 1 (7.14%) BCP
5 1 (7.14%) Incident Management
5 1 (7.14%) Migration
5 1 (7.14%) Project Management
5 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.14%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (35.71%) Degree
3 3 (21.43%) CCNA
3 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (21.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) MCP
4 1 (7.14%) MCSA
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certified Master
4 1 (7.14%) MOS
4 1 (7.14%) RHCE
4 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (7.14%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) SCCM
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) VMware
3 4 (28.57%) ServiceNow
4 2 (14.29%) Dell
5 1 (7.14%) Adobe
5 1 (7.14%) Citrix
5 1 (7.14%) HP
5 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
5 1 (7.14%) Sophos