Model Context Protocol Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London 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 114 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Model Context Protocol 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.53% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £293 - -
25th Percentile £338 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £694 - -
90th Percentile £880 - -
Central London median daily rate £513 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 429 495 553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.88% 26.32% 22.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 304 395
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £436 £482 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +0.87% -7.63%
75th Percentile £675 £677 £688
90th Percentile £773 £799 £800
Central London median daily rate £539 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -6.30% +0.88% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £47.50 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £38.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +16.88% -18.95% -20.17%

Model Context Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Model Context Protocol job vacancy trend in the City of London

Model Context Protocol
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Model Context Protocol.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Model Context Protocol

Model Context Protocol
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Model Context Protocol in the City of London

Model Context Protocol
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 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 4 (40.00%) Google Gemini
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (30.00%) Serverless
2 3 (30.00%) Vertex AI
3 2 (20.00%) Figma
3 2 (20.00%) LangSmith
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (10.00%) ChatGPT
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Run
4 1 (10.00%) CloudFront
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (10.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Pinecone
2 2 (20.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (20.00%) CockroachDB
2 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Gen AI Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Gen AI Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Service Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) boto
1 3 (30.00%) LangGraph
2 2 (20.00%) LangChain
3 1 (10.00%) A2A Protocol
3 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (10.00%) CSS
3 1 (10.00%) Faiss
3 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (10.00%) HTML
3 1 (10.00%) OAuth
3 1 (10.00%) PySpark
3 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (10.00%) Ray
3 1 (10.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) Redux
3 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (10.00%) Vue
3 1 (10.00%) WebSockets
3 1 (10.00%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (10.00%) Autonomous Agent
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) AI
2 8 (80.00%) LLM
3 7 (70.00%) Generative AI
3 7 (70.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (60.00%) Prompt Engineering
5 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (40.00%) Data Governance
6 4 (40.00%) Machine Learning
6 4 (40.00%) Semantic Search
7 3 (30.00%) A/B Testing
7 3 (30.00%) MLOps
7 3 (30.00%) Open Source
8 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
8 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (20.00%) Journey Map
8 2 (20.00%) Prototyping
8 2 (20.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) Scala
2 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) EU AI Act
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
1 2 (20.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (20.00%) Istio
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (10.00%) Amplitude
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) OpenAI