MCPD Contracts in England

Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for MCPD qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MCPD 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.021% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.066% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £551 - -
90th Percentile £553 - -
UK median daily rate £525 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

MCPD 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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,629 11,624 13,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 31.25% 27.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,849 7,135 9,365
10th Percentile £290 £306 £330
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £629 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 985 748
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £15.15
25th Percentile £22.39 £18.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%
75th Percentile £67.75 £62.50 £68.25
90th Percentile £81.74 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

MCPD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing MCPD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for MCPD in England

MCPD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MCPD in England.

Daily rate trend for MCPD in England

MCPD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MCPD in England.

Hourly rate trend for MCPD in England

MCPD
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCPD within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London - 5 £525 - 3
MCPD
UK

MCPD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 5 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Senior
1 5 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Database Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 5 (100.00%) Autofac
1 5 (100.00%) Dapper ORM
1 5 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 5 (100.00%) REST
1 5 (100.00%) StructureMap
1 5 (100.00%) WCF
1 5 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) BDD
1 5 (100.00%) CRM
1 5 (100.00%) Data Design
1 5 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 5 (100.00%) Inversion of Control
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) OOP
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
1 5 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Web Development
2 4 (80.00%) Batch Processing
2 4 (80.00%) Change Data Capture
3 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
1 5 (100.00%) MCSD
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft