MCP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for MCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 - 135
Rank change year-on-year - - +43
Contract jobs citing MCP 9 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.49% - 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.80% - 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £274 - -
25th Percentile £398 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.53%
75th Percentile £772 - -
90th Percentile £888 - -
Central London median daily rate £519 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +32.53%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 499 506 487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.28% 25.75% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 297 309
10th Percentile £356 £345 £332
25th Percentile £425 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -5.81%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £681
90th Percentile £738 £746 £788
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £26.30 £24.78 £29.39
25th Percentile £26.38 £28.94 £45.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £72.25 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.25% -0.34% +68.60%
75th Percentile £47.25 £112.00 £75.63
90th Percentile £57.90 - £76.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.49 £72.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -63.34% +20.42% +39.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

MCP job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MCP

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MCP in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for MCP in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MCP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Chatbot
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Google Gemini
2 3 (33.33%) Vertex AI
3 2 (22.22%) Anthropic Claude
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) Figma
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (11.11%) ChatGPT
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Run
4 1 (11.11%) CloudFront
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) Google Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (11.11%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) BigQuery
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
1 2 (22.22%) Pinecone
1 2 (22.22%) Redis
2 1 (11.11%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Gen AI Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Gen AI Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Service Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Service Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) LangChain
2 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 1 (11.11%) boto
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) Faiss
2 1 (11.11%) FastAPI
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) LangGraph
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) PySpark
2 1 (11.11%) PyTorch
2 1 (11.11%) Ray
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) Redux
2 1 (11.11%) TensorFlow
2 1 (11.11%) Vue
2 1 (11.11%) WebSockets
2 1 (11.11%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) AI Agents
2 1 (11.11%) Autonomous Agent
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) AI
2 6 (66.67%) LLM
3 5 (55.56%) Generative AI
3 5 (55.56%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 4 (44.44%) Data Governance
4 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning
4 4 (44.44%) Prompt Engineering
5 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (33.33%) MLOps
5 3 (33.33%) Open Source
6 2 (22.22%) Auto-Scaling
6 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (22.22%) Data Privacy
6 2 (22.22%) Journey Map
6 2 (22.22%) Microservices
6 2 (22.22%) Semantic Search
6 2 (22.22%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Scala
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CCNA
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) MCSA
1 1 (11.11%) MCSE
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) EU AI Act
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
1 2 (22.22%) SOC 2
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 2 (22.22%) Istio
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Dynatrace
2 1 (11.11%) Amplitude
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) OpenAI