Microsoft Certified Professional Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 29 - 7
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional 11 0 57
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 3.00% - 12.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 12.50% - 33.53%
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 - -
East of England median daily rate £400 £188 -
% change year-on-year +113.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 55
10th Percentile - - £13.41
25th Percentile - - £14.00
Median hourly rate - - £14.16
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £20.56
East of England median hourly rate £6.00 £50.00 £14.16
% change year-on-year -88.00% +253.11% -2.34%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 88 66 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 23.98% 21.64% 37.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 24 59
10th Percentile £229 £251 £275
25th Percentile £397 £411 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £467 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.84% -6.70% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £650
90th Percentile £625 £639 £731
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 79
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.28 £13.41
25th Percentile £20.50 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £21.46 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.02% +51.55% -16.71%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.50 £21.46
90th Percentile £35.91 £28.49 £35.00
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £30.48
% change year-on-year -65.38% +113.29% +45.12%

Microsoft Certified Professional
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Microsoft Certified Professional job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft Certified Professional
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Microsoft Certified Professional
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certified Professional in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft Certified Professional
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Microsoft Certified Professional
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 30 January 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge - 11 £550 - 1
Microsoft Certified Professional
East of England

Microsoft Certified Professional
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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