Microsoft Certified Professional Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 82 82 58
Rank change year-on-year 0 -24 +13
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional 22 4 57
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.29% 0.37% 3.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.26% 1.15% 8.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 0
10th Percentile - £73 -
25th Percentile £161 £114 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £188 -
Median % change year-on-year +113.33% - -
75th Percentile £550 £297 -
90th Percentile £589 £359 -
England median daily rate £450 £200 £275
% change year-on-year +125.00% -27.27% -31.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 55
10th Percentile - - £13.41
25th Percentile - - £14.00
Median hourly rate £6.00 £50.00 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year -88.00% +253.11% -2.34%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £16.95 - £20.56
England median hourly rate £14.75 £50.00 £14.16
% change year-on-year -70.50% +253.11% -2.34%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 517 348 645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 30.30% 31.78% 35.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 135 312
10th Percentile £193 £183 £263
25th Percentile £322 £309 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £675
90th Percentile £686 £675 £750
England median daily rate £522 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.57% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 87 167
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.46 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £35.00 £14.16
Median hourly rate £22.50 £65.00 £30.48
Median % change year-on-year -65.38% +113.29% +45.12%
75th Percentile £61.18 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £46.39
% change year-on-year -45.54% -0.45% +3.09%

Microsoft Certified Professional
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Microsoft Certified Professional job vacancy trend in the East of England

Microsoft Certified Professional
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Microsoft Certified Professional.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified Professional
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certified Professional in the East of England

Microsoft Certified Professional
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Microsoft Certified Professional.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified Professional
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional in the East of England over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Certified Professional in the East of England

Microsoft Certified Professional
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England 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
Cambridgeshire - 11 £550 - 1
Norfolk - 10 £173 - 3
Hertfordshire -14 1 - - 1
Microsoft Certified Professional
England

Microsoft Certified Professional
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (50.00%) Azure
2 10 (45.45%) Azure AKS
2 10 (45.45%) GitHub
2 10 (45.45%) GitHub Copilot
3 9 (40.91%) PaaS
4 7 (31.82%) Azure Functions
4 7 (31.82%) Serverless
5 4 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.55%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) LAN
1 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
2 2 (9.09%) RS-232
2 2 (9.09%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Analyst
2 9 (40.91%) Support Analyst
3 8 (36.36%) Technical Analyst
4 7 (31.82%) Senior
4 7 (31.82%) Technical Support
4 7 (31.82%) Technical Support Analyst
5 4 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Data Scientist
7 2 (9.09%) IT Analyst
7 2 (9.09%) IT Support
7 2 (9.09%) IT Support Analyst
7 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Software Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Service Analyst
8 1 (4.55%) Service Desk Analyst
8 1 (4.55%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) A2A Protocol
1 11 (50.00%) Model Context Protocol
1 11 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 11 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 10 (45.45%) RESTful
2 10 (45.45%) Semantic Kernel
3 9 (40.91%) .NET
4 2 (9.09%) Pandas
4 2 (9.09%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 11 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 11 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (27.27%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Windows
2 9 (40.91%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (27.27%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (18.18%) Windows 10
4 4 (18.18%) Windows 7
5 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
5 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (4.55%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (50.00%) AI
2 11 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 11 (50.00%) LLM
2 11 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 11 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 11 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 10 (45.45%) Agile
3 10 (45.45%) API Management
3 10 (45.45%) Deep Learning
3 10 (45.45%) Test Automation
4 9 (40.91%) API Design
4 9 (40.91%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (36.36%) Software Engineering
6 6 (27.27%) Scrum
7 5 (22.73%) ITIL
7 5 (22.73%) ITSM
8 4 (18.18%) Customer Service
8 4 (18.18%) Proactive Monitoring
8 4 (18.18%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) MCSE
1 10 (45.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (40.91%) Degree
3 7 (31.82%) HNC
3 7 (31.82%) HND
4 4 (18.18%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (45.45%) EU AI Act
2 9 (40.91%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 10 (45.45%) Foundry
3 2 (9.09%) Citrix
3 2 (9.09%) Oracle