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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 595 584 751
Rank change year-on-year -11 +167 -220
Permanent jobs citing MCSA 12 63 140
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.035% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.12% 0.62% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 8 54 128
10th Percentile £39,500 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £43,045 £32,000 £35,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,227 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.27% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £48,125 £53,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £55,625 £61,250 £77,250
UK median annual salary £43,114 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.44% -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 9,700 10,084 17,310
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.92% 26.18% 23.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5,889 6,112 8,934
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +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 3 June 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) VSAN
2 3 (25.00%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) SAN
3 2 (16.67%) DHCP
3 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 2 (16.67%) VLAN
3 2 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (8.33%) LAN
4 1 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (8.33%) VRRP
4 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (33.33%) Police
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Back Office
3 1 (8.33%) Law
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Server Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) IT Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) PKI
2 4 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (16.67%) Clustering
5 1 (8.33%) Educational Technology
5 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
1 11 (91.67%) Windows Server
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (16.67%) Unix
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (8.33%) Linux
4 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (50.00%) ITIL
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Change Management
3 4 (33.33%) Converged Infrastructure
3 4 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 4 (33.33%) Line Management
3 4 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 4 (33.33%) Security Hardening
3 4 (33.33%) Tech Ops
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) Server Management
5 2 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
6 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (8.33%) Email Filtering
6 1 (8.33%) IT Strategy
6 1 (8.33%) Server Building
6 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (41.67%) MCSE
3 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 3 (25.00%) CCNA
4 3 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (16.67%) Degree
6 1 (8.33%) A+ Certification
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (8.33%) CCA
6 1 (8.33%) CCENT
6 1 (8.33%) CCNP
6 1 (8.33%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
6 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certified Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (41.67%) vSphere
4 2 (16.67%) Firmware
4 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 2 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) SCCM
2 2 (16.67%) SCOM
2 2 (16.67%) vCenter Server
3 1 (8.33%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (8.33%) SCOrch
3 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (75.00%) VMware
3 6 (50.00%) Dell
4 5 (41.67%) HP
5 3 (25.00%) Veeam
6 2 (16.67%) Cisco
6 2 (16.67%) Citrix
7 1 (8.33%) Adobe
7 1 (8.33%) Aruba
7 1 (8.33%) Draytek
7 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
7 1 (8.33%) Google
7 1 (8.33%) Juniper
7 1 (8.33%) Oracle
7 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
7 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
7 1 (8.33%) SonicWALL
7 1 (8.33%) WatchGuard