MCP Contracts 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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 123 158
Rank change year-on-year 0 +35 +18
DemandTrendContract jobs citing MCP 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% 0.048% 0.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.45% 0.20% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £254 - £440
25th Percentile £358 - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £743 - -
90th Percentile £852 - -
Central London median daily rate £545 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 448 507 641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.71% 24.49% 20.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 318 381
10th Percentile £321 £393 £348
25th Percentile £456 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -2.65%
75th Percentile £675 £662 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £22.28 £20.31 £16.89
25th Percentile £26.00 £20.43 £17.31
Median hourly rate £28.15 £24.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.29% +33.33% -64.36%
75th Percentile £64.66 £27.00 £47.75
90th Percentile £79.34 - £65.60
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £27.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +27.70% +50.00% -64.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing MCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for MCP 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 25 August 2025.

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 and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Run
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Google Gemini
2 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (50.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Faiss
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (50.00%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (50.00%) LLM
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) MLOps
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Semantic Search
1 1 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) MCSA
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) EU AI Act
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI