MCP Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge with a requirement for MCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MCP 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 1.10% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 4.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cambridge

MCP 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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 43 44 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 23.63% 24.18% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 17
10th Percentile £379 £225 £225
25th Percentile £443 £356 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £550
90th Percentile £625 £593 £565
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £488 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +14.71% -10.53% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £28.28 -
25th Percentile £15.50 £36.90 £57.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -72.17% -4.17% +36.36%
75th Percentile £16.50 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.30 £21.37 £19.81
% change year-on-year -23.72% +7.87% +27.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Job postings citing MCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Job vacancy trend for MCP in Cambridge

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Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing MCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing MCP

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing MCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing MCP

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic Kernel
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) EU AI Act
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft