MCSA Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) formerly Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) 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 560 592 728
Rank change year-on-year +32 +136 -222
Permanent jobs citing MCSA 15 68 133
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.044% 0.17% 0.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.16% 0.65% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11 59 120
10th Percentile £38,125 £29,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £43,114 £32,000 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,227 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.27% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £48,500 £53,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £77,400
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9,552 10,403 16,413
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.25% 25.64% 23.03%
Number of salaries quoted 5,899 6,318 8,788
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,715 £77,500
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
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing MCSA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MCSA trend for jobs with a WFH option

MCSA
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing MCSA.

MCSA salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

MCSA
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing MCSA over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

MCSA salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

MCSA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.67%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) IaaS
3 1 (6.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) VSAN
2 3 (20.00%) SAN
3 1 (6.67%) DHCP
3 1 (6.67%) DNS
3 1 (6.67%) Firewall
3 1 (6.67%) LAN
3 1 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (6.67%) WAN
3 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (33.33%) Law
2 4 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (26.67%) Police
3 3 (20.00%) Retail
4 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Legal
4 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Back Office
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Server Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Service Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) VMware Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) PKI
2 4 (26.67%) Management Information System
3 3 (20.00%) Clustering
3 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.67%) Educational Technology
4 1 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 14 (93.33%) Windows
2 13 (86.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (20.00%) Unix
4 2 (13.33%) Windows 10
5 1 (6.67%) Linux
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (53.33%) ITIL
3 5 (33.33%) Customer Service
4 4 (26.67%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Change Management
4 4 (26.67%) Converged Infrastructure
4 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 4 (26.67%) Line Management
4 4 (26.67%) Proactive Monitoring
4 4 (26.67%) Security Hardening
4 4 (26.67%) Server Management
4 4 (26.67%) Tech Ops
5 3 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (20.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 2 (13.33%) Email Filtering
6 2 (13.33%) Migration
7 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
7 1 (6.67%) High Availability
7 1 (6.67%) Release Management
7 1 (6.67%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (66.67%) MCSE
3 4 (26.67%) DV Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (20.00%) Degree
5 2 (13.33%) CCNA
5 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (13.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (6.67%) A+ Certification
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (6.67%) CCA
6 1 (6.67%) CCENT
6 1 (6.67%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
6 1 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certified Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (86.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (33.33%) vSphere
4 1 (6.67%) Firmware
4 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) SCCM
2 5 (33.33%) SCOM
3 2 (13.33%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (6.67%) SCOrch
4 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (66.67%) VMware
3 6 (40.00%) Dell
4 5 (33.33%) HP
5 2 (13.33%) Cisco
5 2 (13.33%) Citrix
6 1 (6.67%) Adobe
6 1 (6.67%) Aruba
6 1 (6.67%) Draytek
6 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
6 1 (6.67%) Freshdesk
6 1 (6.67%) Google
6 1 (6.67%) Juniper
6 1 (6.67%) Oracle
6 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 1 (6.67%) SonicWALL
6 1 (6.67%) Spiceworks
6 1 (6.67%) Veeam
6 1 (6.67%) WatchGuard