Microsoft Certified Professional 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 Microsoft Certified Professional qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 5.88% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 18.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £313 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £573 - -
90th Percentile £601 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £550 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cambridge

Microsoft Certified Professional 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 60 40 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 32.09% 26.32% 36.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 18 40
10th Percentile £245 £227 £343
25th Percentile £400 £402 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £487 £459
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% +6.05% -5.90%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £603
90th Percentile £624 £665 £665
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £494 £467 £500
% change year-on-year +5.84% -6.70% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile - - £15.50
25th Percentile £23.16 - £18.23
Median hourly rate £23.83 - £45.09
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.30%
75th Percentile £43.75 - £66.25
90th Percentile £44.35 - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £23.83 £21.46 £14.16
% change year-on-year +11.02% +51.55% -16.71%

Microsoft Certified Professional
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Certified Professional relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Microsoft Certified Professional job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Microsoft Certified Professional
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Microsoft Certified Professional.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified Professional
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional in Cambridge over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certified Professional in Cambridge

Microsoft Certified Professional
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Microsoft Certified Professional.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified Professional
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (90.91%) Azure AKS
2 10 (90.91%) GitHub
2 10 (90.91%) GitHub Copilot
3 9 (81.82%) PaaS
4 7 (63.64%) Azure Functions
4 7 (63.64%) Serverless
5 1 (9.09%) Azure API Management
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Data Scientist
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Data Science Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) A2A Protocol
1 11 (100.00%) Model Context Protocol
1 11 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 11 (100.00%) TensorFlow
2 10 (90.91%) RESTful
2 10 (90.91%) Semantic Kernel
3 9 (81.82%) .NET
4 2 (18.18%) Pandas
4 2 (18.18%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 11 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) AI
1 11 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 11 (100.00%) LLM
1 11 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 11 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 11 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 10 (90.91%) API Management
2 10 (90.91%) Deep Learning
2 10 (90.91%) Test Automation
3 9 (81.82%) API Design
3 9 (81.82%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (81.82%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (72.73%) Software Engineering
5 6 (54.55%) Scrum
6 4 (36.36%) Data Science
7 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (27.27%) Prototyping
7 3 (27.27%) Rapid Prototyping
7 3 (27.27%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (90.91%) EU AI Act
2 9 (81.82%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (90.91%) Foundry