MCSA Jobs in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for MCSA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 648 755 896
Rank change year-on-year +107 +141 -254
Permanent jobs citing MCSA 192 170 269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.78% 0.58% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 146 147 235
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,150 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,114 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £56,875 £53,750 £55,175
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £43,227 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.71% -5.56% +12.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,484 29,082 36,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.31% 32.87% 26.52%
Number of salaries quoted 15,742 13,274 16,890
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,712 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -

MCSA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing MCSA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for MCSA in England

MCSA
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MCSA in England.

Salary trend for MCSA in England

MCSA
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing MCSA in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for MCSA in England

MCSA
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSA within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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 +43 63 £39,000 +6.85% 10
London +108 59 £47,000 -10.48% 6
North of England +47 36 £40,000 -21.95% 7
Yorkshire +98 21 £38,750 -19.27% 5
Midlands -32 15 £43,227 +13.76% 5
North West -10 11 £45,000 -14.29% 2
East of England +5 10 £42,500 - 10
West Midlands +4 9 £43,227 +64.67% 2
South West -24 8 £33,000 -19.51% 4
East Midlands -34 6 £34,000 -24.44% 3
North East - 4 £29,500 -
MCSA
UK

MCSA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 61 (31.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (17.71%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.04%) Confluence
3 2 (1.04%) IIS
4 1 (0.52%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) Drupal
4 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Applications
1 35 (18.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.52%) PTC Creo
2 1 (0.52%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 110 (57.29%) Azure
2 75 (39.06%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (21.35%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (20.83%) IBM Cloud
5 26 (13.54%) AWS
6 18 (9.38%) Entra ID
7 15 (7.81%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (4.17%) Mimecast
9 6 (3.13%) Twilio
10 5 (2.60%) Azure Stack
10 5 (2.60%) GCP
10 5 (2.60%) OneDrive
11 4 (2.08%) IaaS
11 4 (2.08%) PaaS
11 4 (2.08%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.04%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (1.04%) Google Workspace
12 2 (1.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 58 (30.21%) Firewall
2 38 (19.79%) DHCP
3 37 (19.27%) TCP/IP
4 36 (18.75%) DNS
5 34 (17.71%) VPN
6 25 (13.02%) VLAN
7 24 (12.50%) SAN
8 21 (10.94%) LAN
9 17 (8.85%) WAN
10 14 (7.29%) Internet
10 14 (7.29%) Wireless
11 11 (5.73%) Network Security
11 11 (5.73%) VoIP
12 10 (5.21%) SSL
13 7 (3.65%) NAS
13 7 (3.65%) WLAN
14 5 (2.60%) Intranet
14 5 (2.60%) Intrusion Detection
14 5 (2.60%) IPsec
15 4 (2.08%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.08%) Power BI
2 4 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (1.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.04%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.52%) MySQL
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.52%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (2.60%) JIRA
2 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.52%) Chocolatey
3 1 (0.52%) Git
3 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
General
1 62 (32.29%) Social Skills
2 41 (21.35%) Public Sector
3 19 (9.90%) Finance
4 14 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.73%) Billing
6 9 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (3.65%) Law
8 6 (3.13%) Automotive
8 6 (3.13%) Legal
9 4 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.08%) Police
10 3 (1.56%) Banking
10 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.56%) Retail
10 3 (1.56%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.04%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.04%) Marketing
12 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (14.06%) IT Support
2 21 (10.94%) Analyst
3 12 (6.25%) Architect
3 12 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (6.25%) IT Engineer
3 12 (6.25%) Support Engineer
4 11 (5.73%) 3rd Line Support
4 11 (5.73%) Infrastructure Architect
5 8 (4.17%) IT Manager
5 8 (4.17%) IT Support Engineer
5 8 (4.17%) Network Manager
5 8 (4.17%) Server Engineer
5 8 (4.17%) Support Analyst
6 7 (3.65%) Administrator
6 7 (3.65%) Consultant
7 6 (3.13%) IT Administrator
7 6 (3.13%) Network Engineer
7 6 (3.13%) Network Security Engineer
7 6 (3.13%) Security Engineer
7 6 (3.13%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.56%) .NET
2 1 (0.52%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.52%) AngularJS
2 1 (0.52%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.52%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.52%) XML
2 1 (0.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (20.83%) Blockchain
1 40 (20.83%) Distributed Systems
1 40 (20.83%) Hybrid Cloud
2 30 (15.63%) Data Centre
2 30 (15.63%) Replication
3 18 (9.38%) Management Information System
4 12 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 11 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.13%) Clustering
6 6 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.13%) PKI
7 5 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.08%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.56%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.56%) Raspberry Pi
10 2 (1.04%) CCTV
10 2 (1.04%) Fat Client
10 2 (1.04%) Mobile Computing
10 2 (1.04%) Smartphone
10 2 (1.04%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 117 (60.94%) Windows
2 86 (44.79%) Windows Server
3 70 (36.46%) Linux
4 41 (21.35%) CentOS
5 40 (20.83%) Alpine Linux
5 40 (20.83%) Debian
6 25 (13.02%) Windows 10
7 17 (8.85%) Windows Server 2012
7 17 (8.85%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (6.77%) Windows Server 2008
9 11 (5.73%) SUSE
9 11 (5.73%) Ubuntu
9 11 (5.73%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (3.65%) Apple iOS
10 7 (3.65%) Windows Vista
11 3 (1.56%) Android
11 3 (1.56%) Unix
12 2 (1.04%) VMS
12 2 (1.04%) Windows 2000
12 2 (1.04%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (30.73%) ITIL
2 47 (24.48%) Artificial Intelligence
3 45 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (21.88%) CI/CD
4 42 (21.88%) Task Automation
5 41 (21.35%) DevOps
6 40 (20.83%) Co-Creation
6 40 (20.83%) Data Science
6 40 (20.83%) Functional Testing
6 40 (20.83%) Separation of Concerns
6 40 (20.83%) Technology Transformation
7 36 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
8 31 (16.15%) Customer Service
9 27 (14.06%) Kalman Filter
10 24 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
11 22 (11.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 20 (10.42%) Project Delivery
13 17 (8.85%) Proactive Monitoring
14 16 (8.33%) Computer Science
14 16 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 41 (21.35%) PowerShell
2 30 (15.63%) SQL
3 4 (2.08%) C#
4 2 (1.04%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.04%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.52%) Bash
5 1 (0.52%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 192 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 125 (65.10%) MCSE
3 57 (29.69%) Degree
4 46 (23.96%) Azure Certification
5 33 (17.19%) CCNA
5 33 (17.19%) Cisco Certification
6 29 (15.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 25 (13.02%) MCP
8 15 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (6.77%) A+ Certification
9 13 (6.77%) CREST Certified
10 11 (5.73%) Network+ Certification
11 9 (4.69%) Security Cleared
12 8 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
12 8 (4.17%) SC Cleared
13 7 (3.65%) CCNP
14 6 (3.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 5 (2.60%) CompTIA CySA+
15 5 (2.60%) GIAC
15 5 (2.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.69%) GDPR
1 9 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.60%) NCSC
4 2 (1.04%) SLA
5 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.52%) NIST
5 1 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 96 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 59 (30.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (20.83%) Docker
4 26 (13.54%) vSphere
5 20 (10.42%) Hyper-V
6 11 (5.73%) vCloud
7 6 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.56%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.52%) Firmware
9 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.52%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 42 (21.88%) Terraform
2 40 (20.83%) Kubernetes
3 17 (8.85%) SCCM
4 14 (7.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (4.17%) SCOM
6 4 (2.08%) FortiGate
6 4 (2.08%) WSUS
7 2 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.04%) Ansible
7 2 (1.04%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.04%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.52%) Nessus
8 1 (0.52%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.52%) Puppet
8 1 (0.52%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 117 (60.94%) Microsoft
2 66 (34.38%) VMware
3 45 (23.44%) Red Hat
4 41 (21.35%) IBM
5 38 (19.79%) Cisco
6 23 (11.98%) HP
7 16 (8.33%) Veeam
8 13 (6.77%) Bloomberg
8 13 (6.77%) FactSet
8 13 (6.77%) MobileIron
8 13 (6.77%) Refinitiv
9 11 (5.73%) Fujitsu
10 10 (5.21%) Apple
10 10 (5.21%) Dell
10 10 (5.21%) Draytek
11 8 (4.17%) Citrix
11 8 (4.17%) Google
12 7 (3.65%) Palo Alto
13 6 (3.13%) Aruba
13 6 (3.13%) Meraki