MCSA Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for MCSA 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 327 375 414
Rank change year-on-year +48 +39 -26
Contract jobs citing MCSA 74 55 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.24% 0.30%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.97% 0.74% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 39 45
10th Percentile £209 £223 £165
25th Percentile £313 £363 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £355
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +54.93% +9.23%
75th Percentile £556 £675 £450
90th Percentile - £694 £488
UK median daily rate £450 £520 £427
% change year-on-year -13.46% +21.78% +22.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 9 26
10th Percentile £14.16 - -
25th Percentile £14.48 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% - +3.33%
75th Percentile £21.37 £15.75 £15.75
90th Percentile - £17.90 -
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - +3.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

MCSA 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,648 7,386 8,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.86% 32.55% 26.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,425 4,873 5,318
10th Percentile £275 £305 £263
25th Percentile £425 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +10.50%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £713 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 967 571 539
10th Percentile £13.69 £13.88 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.90 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £41.27 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% +50.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.25 £56.14
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.19 £67.60
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for MCSA in the UK excluding London

MCSA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MCSA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MCSA in the UK excluding London

MCSA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for MCSA in the UK excluding London

MCSA
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 MCSA within the UK excluding London 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
East of England +42 48 £100 -40.30% 6
South East +16 10 £538 -0.92% 8
South West +2 9 £538 - 3
Scotland +54 6 £325 +47.73% 2
North of England -1 1 £400 -38.46% 5
North West -2 1 £400 -38.46% 3
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 22 (29.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (24.32%) Confluence
3 6 (8.11%) IIS
4 4 (5.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (17.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (17.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 45 (60.81%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (6.76%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 41 (55.41%) Wi-Fi
2 20 (27.03%) DHCP
2 20 (27.03%) DNS
3 2 (2.70%) SAN
4 1 (1.35%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.35%) Firewall
4 1 (1.35%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.35%) LAN
4 1 (1.35%) MPLS
4 1 (1.35%) Network Security
4 1 (1.35%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.35%) VPN
4 1 (1.35%) WAN
4 1 (1.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (24.32%) JIRA
General
1 28 (37.84%) Retail
2 23 (31.08%) Social Skills
3 22 (29.73%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (24.32%) Military
5 4 (5.41%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.41%) Marketing
5 4 (5.41%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (4.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (55.41%) Analyst
1 41 (55.41%) Service Analyst
1 41 (55.41%) Service Desk Analyst
2 18 (24.32%) Test Engineer
3 16 (21.62%) Integration Engineer
3 16 (21.62%) Test and Integration Engineer
4 13 (17.57%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
5 6 (8.11%) 3rd Line Support
5 6 (8.11%) Support Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (5.41%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) Service Delivery Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 1 (1.35%) Deskside Engineer
8 1 (1.35%) IT Engineer
8 1 (1.35%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (24.32%) PKI
2 10 (13.51%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (44.59%) Windows
2 26 (35.14%) Windows Server
3 24 (32.43%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (8.11%) CentOS
4 6 (8.11%) Debian
4 6 (8.11%) Linux
4 6 (8.11%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (8.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (4.05%) Windows 7
5 3 (4.05%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (60.81%) ITIL
2 44 (59.46%) Customer Service
3 41 (55.41%) Incident Management
4 18 (24.32%) Agile
4 18 (24.32%) Critical Thinking
4 18 (24.32%) Regression Testing
4 18 (24.32%) Test Scripting
5 17 (22.97%) Service Delivery
6 16 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (17.57%) Mathematics
8 5 (6.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (5.41%) PRINCE2
10 3 (4.05%) Computer Science
10 3 (4.05%) Employee Productivity
11 1 (1.35%) Conflict Resolution
11 1 (1.35%) Cybersecurity
11 1 (1.35%) Database Security
11 1 (1.35%) Infrastructure Monitoring
11 1 (1.35%) Infrastructure Transformation
11 1 (1.35%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (24.32%) SQL
2 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 74 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 44 (59.46%) A+ Certification
3 33 (44.59%) SC Cleared
3 33 (44.59%) Security Cleared
4 30 (40.54%) MCSE
5 18 (24.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (9.46%) CCNA
6 7 (9.46%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (9.46%) Degree
7 6 (8.11%) RHCT
8 4 (5.41%) MCP
9 3 (4.05%) CCNP
9 3 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.41%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (58.11%) Active Directory
2 25 (33.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.11%) Hyper-V
3 6 (8.11%) KVM
4 1 (1.35%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 48 (64.86%) Citrix
2 41 (55.41%) ServiceNow
3 40 (54.05%) Microsoft
4 25 (33.78%) VMware
5 6 (8.11%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.35%) Dell
6 1 (1.35%) HP