Model Context Protocol Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Model Context Protocol (MCP)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Model Context Protocol skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Model Context Protocol 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 3.00% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.00% - -
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 £550 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cambridgeshire

Model Context Protocol falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 55 70 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 14.99% 22.95% 14.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 44 41
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £507
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.15% -7.91%
75th Percentile £580 £523 £613
90th Percentile £647 £590 £719
East of England median daily rate £525 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £32.11 - £37.14
25th Percentile £35.54 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £42.50 - £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.05%
75th Percentile £49.80 - £66.63
90th Percentile £53.43 - £80.88
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.53
% change year-on-year - +17.05% -15.22%

Model Context Protocol
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Model Context Protocol in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Model Context Protocol in Cambridgeshire

Model Context Protocol
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 Model Context Protocol 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 -
Model Context Protocol
East of England

Model Context Protocol
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%) 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 11 (100.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 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