Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) formerly Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for MCSE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 559 627 767
Rank change year-on-year +68 +140 -209
Permanent jobs citing MCSE 375 303 557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.33% 0.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.31% 0.97% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 225 259 452
10th Percentile £30,000 £23,750 £28,650
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £42,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -6.11% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,125 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,400 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

MCSE falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 28,735 31,345 47,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.15% 33.90% 27.61%
Number of salaries quoted 17,299 14,299 19,297
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £30,762
25th Percentile £38,734 £42,500 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,555 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% +0.20%

MCSE
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MCSE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MCSE in the UK

MCSE
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MCSE.

Salary trend for MCSE in the UK

MCSE
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MCSE over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for MCSE in the UK

MCSE
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSE within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +94 352 £40,000 -3.61% 47
UK excluding London +41 303 £40,000 - 48
Midlands +9 107 £44,225 +6.57% 6
South East -1 85 £34,000 -6.85% 8
West Midlands +27 78 £42,500 +32.81% 5
London +72 64 £55,000 +4.76% 11
Work from Home -17 62 £40,000 - 13
North of England +21 40 £40,000 +3.23% 14
East of England -2 29 £40,000 -5.88%
East Midlands -19 29 £44,225 -1.72% 1
South West -39 27 £37,000 -12.43% 8
Yorkshire +80 19 £40,000 +53.85% 8
North West -35 13 £45,000 +5.88% 5
Scotland -60 13 £55,500 +73.44% 11
North East - 8 £37,500 - 1
Isle of Man - 2 £50,000 -

MCSE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 86 (22.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 61 (16.27%) SharePoint
3 16 (4.27%) SharePoint 2010
3 16 (4.27%) SharePoint 2013
4 8 (2.13%) IIS
5 5 (1.33%) CMS
6 2 (0.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 45 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 198 (52.80%) Azure
2 143 (38.13%) Microsoft 365
3 64 (17.07%) AWS
4 40 (10.67%) Azure AI
4 40 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (10.67%) IBM Cloud
5 33 (8.80%) Entra ID
6 20 (5.33%) GCP
7 18 (4.80%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (4.00%) Power Platform
9 14 (3.73%) OneDrive
10 11 (2.93%) Nutanix
11 9 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (2.13%) Mimecast
12 8 (2.13%) WhatsApp
13 6 (1.60%) PowerApps
14 5 (1.33%) SaaS
15 3 (0.80%) Google Workspace
16 2 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
16 2 (0.53%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 107 (28.53%) Firewall
2 84 (22.40%) Internet
3 81 (21.60%) Network Security
4 76 (20.27%) WLAN
5 70 (18.67%) SAN
6 56 (14.93%) DNS
7 53 (14.13%) DHCP
8 51 (13.60%) WAN
9 43 (11.47%) VPN
10 41 (10.93%) LAN
10 41 (10.93%) VLAN
11 33 (8.80%) NAS
12 29 (7.73%) VoIP
13 28 (7.47%) TCP/IP
14 20 (5.33%) Wi-Fi
15 13 (3.47%) SD-WAN
16 10 (2.67%) MPLS
16 10 (2.67%) Wireless
17 7 (1.87%) NetScaler
18 6 (1.60%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.13%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.20%) Power BI
3 4 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.80%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.53%) MySQL
5 2 (0.53%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.27%) Metadata
6 1 (0.27%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (1.60%) Git
2 4 (1.07%) JIRA
3 2 (0.53%) GitLab
3 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
General
1 97 (25.87%) Social Skills
2 68 (18.13%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 22 (5.87%) Finance
5 15 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (3.20%) Manufacturing
7 9 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.13%) Billing
9 7 (1.87%) Automotive
10 6 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.60%) Legal
11 5 (1.33%) Electronics
11 5 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.07%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.07%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.80%) Banking
13 3 (0.80%) Multimedia
13 3 (0.80%) Retail
14 2 (0.53%) Games
14 2 (0.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 114 (30.40%) IT Support
2 110 (29.33%) Support Engineer
3 102 (27.20%) IT Engineer
4 87 (23.20%) IT Support Engineer
5 38 (10.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 31 (8.27%) 3rd Line Support
7 23 (6.13%) 2nd Line Support
8 22 (5.87%) Lead
9 21 (5.60%) IT Manager
10 18 (4.80%) Cloud Engineer
11 17 (4.53%) IT Technician
12 16 (4.27%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 16 (4.27%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 16 (4.27%) Senior
13 15 (4.00%) Analyst
14 14 (3.73%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
15 13 (3.47%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 13 (3.47%) Consultant
16 12 (3.20%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
17 11 (2.93%) Storage Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.93%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.07%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 79 (21.07%) Driving Licence
2 73 (19.47%) Onboarding
3 41 (10.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 40 (10.67%) Blockchain
4 40 (10.67%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (9.60%) Data Centre
6 23 (6.13%) Management Information System
7 22 (5.87%) Replication
8 17 (4.53%) Public Cloud
9 15 (4.00%) Security Posture
10 10 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (2.40%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.87%) NHS
12 7 (1.87%) PKI
13 6 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (1.33%) Clustering
14 5 (1.33%) EPoS
14 5 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (1.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 270 (72.00%) Windows
2 175 (46.67%) Linux
3 111 (29.60%) Windows Server
4 48 (12.80%) Debian
5 47 (12.53%) CentOS
6 40 (10.67%) Alpine Linux
7 26 (6.93%) Windows 10
8 25 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
9 24 (6.40%) Windows Server 2016
10 17 (4.53%) Windows Server 2019
11 11 (2.93%) Ubuntu
12 10 (2.67%) Mac OS
13 8 (2.13%) Apple iOS
13 8 (2.13%) SUSE
14 6 (1.60%) Android
15 5 (1.33%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (1.07%) Unix
16 4 (1.07%) Windows Vista
17 3 (0.80%) Windows 7
18 2 (0.53%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (42.67%) Problem-Solving
2 156 (41.60%) ITIL
3 101 (26.93%) Mentoring
4 92 (24.53%) Computer Science
5 75 (20.00%) Asset Management
6 69 (18.40%) Network Management
7 67 (17.87%) IT Asset Management
8 63 (16.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 60 (16.00%) Customer Service
10 46 (12.27%) Artificial Intelligence
11 44 (11.73%) Project Management
11 44 (11.73%) Task Automation
12 42 (11.20%) CI/CD
12 42 (11.20%) DevOps
13 40 (10.67%) Co-Creation
13 40 (10.67%) Data Science
13 40 (10.67%) Functional Testing
13 40 (10.67%) Separation of Concerns
13 40 (10.67%) Technology Transformation
14 37 (9.87%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 39 (10.40%) SQL
2 33 (8.80%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.40%) C#
4 6 (1.60%) T-SQL
5 5 (1.33%) Python
6 4 (1.07%) Bash
7 2 (0.53%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 375 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 170 (45.33%) Cisco Certification
3 153 (40.80%) CCNA
4 138 (36.80%) Degree
5 123 (32.80%) MCSA
6 101 (26.93%) MCP
7 94 (25.07%) CCNP
8 85 (22.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 68 (18.13%) LPIC
10 54 (14.40%) Azure Certification
11 48 (12.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 27 (7.20%) MCITP
13 19 (5.07%) Security Cleared
14 15 (4.00%) SC Cleared
15 11 (2.93%) A+ Certification
15 11 (2.93%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (2.93%) Network+ Certification
16 8 (2.13%) Master's Degree
17 7 (1.87%) CISSP
18 6 (1.60%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.80%) SLA
2 11 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.33%) GDPR
5 3 (0.80%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.27%) NIST
6 1 (0.27%) QA
System Software
1 153 (40.80%) Active Directory
2 124 (33.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 83 (22.13%) Hyper-V
4 42 (11.20%) Docker
5 22 (5.87%) XenDesktop
6 20 (5.33%) vSphere
7 19 (5.07%) Virtual Servers
8 15 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
9 13 (3.47%) XenApp
10 8 (2.13%) vCloud
11 5 (1.33%) Firmware
12 4 (1.07%) KVM
13 2 (0.53%) Terminal Server
13 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (12.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (12.00%) Terraform
3 42 (11.20%) Kubernetes
4 31 (8.27%) SCCM
5 10 (2.67%) WSUS
6 8 (2.13%) FortiGate
6 8 (2.13%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.80%) Autotask
8 2 (0.53%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.53%) SCOM
8 2 (0.53%) SCOrch
8 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.27%) Ansible
9 1 (0.27%) HP SIM
9 1 (0.27%) Nessus
9 1 (0.27%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.27%) Puppet
9 1 (0.27%) vRealize
9 1 (0.27%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 266 (70.93%) Microsoft
2 139 (37.07%) VMware
3 131 (34.93%) Cisco
4 50 (13.33%) HP
5 48 (12.80%) Red Hat
6 45 (12.00%) IBM
7 41 (10.93%) Citrix
8 39 (10.40%) Veeam
9 25 (6.67%) Dell
9 25 (6.67%) Google
10 19 (5.07%) Meraki
11 16 (4.27%) Nimble Storage
11 16 (4.27%) Symantec
12 15 (4.00%) Commvault
13 13 (3.47%) Apple
14 10 (2.67%) Sophos
15 8 (2.13%) Fujitsu
15 8 (2.13%) Sage
15 8 (2.13%) ServiceNow
15 8 (2.13%) SonicWALL