MCP Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for MCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 382 405
Rank change year-on-year +33 +23 +163
Contract jobs citing MCP 36 4 15
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.26% 0.025% 0.074%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.94% 0.10% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 1 8
10th Percentile £298 - £137
25th Percentile £463 £225 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £250 £233
Median % change year-on-year +106.00% +7.53% -55.71%
75th Percentile £606 £275 £325
90th Percentile £675 - £550
England median daily rate £488 £200 £269
% change year-on-year +143.75% -25.58% -43.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate £25.47 - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £27.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £13.00 £50.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year -74.00% +244.83% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,821 3,975 4,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.47% 25.31% 23.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,624 2,534 3,182
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.07% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 55 100
10th Percentile £19.40 £20.20 £18.99
25th Percentile - £31.44 £21.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.91 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year -39.99% -21.30% +18.33%
75th Percentile £41.25 £64.13 £69.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.54 £86.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -51.95% -0.30% +16.67%

MCP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

MCP job vacancy trend in London

MCP
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing MCP

MCP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MCP in London over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MCP in London

MCP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing MCP

MCP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCP within the London region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
Central London - 8 £525 - 33
West London - 1 £275 - 2
MCP
England

MCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (2.78%) Apache
1 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (8.33%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (38.89%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) AWS
3 5 (13.89%) Entra ID
3 5 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (11.11%) Azure AI
4 4 (11.11%) GitHub
4 4 (11.11%) Vertex AI
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon Bedrock
5 3 (8.33%) Azure AKS
5 3 (8.33%) GCP
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Functions
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (5.56%) Dialogflow
6 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (5.56%) Google Gemini
6 2 (5.56%) PaaS
6 2 (5.56%) Serverless
7 1 (2.78%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) Firewall
1 4 (11.11%) VPN
2 3 (8.33%) Softphone
3 2 (5.56%) DNS
3 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.78%) DHCP
4 1 (2.78%) LAN
4 1 (2.78%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (2.78%) VLAN
4 1 (2.78%) WAN
4 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.56%) Pinecone
3 1 (2.78%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (2.78%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Git
1 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.56%) Selenium
2 1 (2.78%) Charles Proxy
2 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (19.44%) Finance
1 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Developer
3 4 (11.11%) Python Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Senior
3 4 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Data Scientist
4 3 (8.33%) Help Desk Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Lead
5 2 (5.56%) Python Software Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Support Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Gen AI Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Senior Service Designer
6 1 (2.78%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) LangChain
2 6 (16.67%) PyTorch
2 6 (16.67%) React
2 6 (16.67%) TensorFlow
3 4 (11.11%) LangGraph
4 3 (8.33%) CrewAI
4 3 (8.33%) FastAPI
4 3 (8.33%) Keras
4 3 (8.33%) Pandas
4 3 (8.33%) RESTful
4 3 (8.33%) scikit-learn
5 2 (5.56%) .NET
5 2 (5.56%) Hugging Face
5 2 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (5.56%) Semantic Kernel
6 1 (2.78%) Faiss
6 1 (2.78%) NestJS
6 1 (2.78%) Next.js
6 1 (2.78%) PySpark
6 1 (2.78%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 14 (38.89%) AI Agents
2 4 (11.11%) Autonomous Agent
3 3 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.56%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.78%) CCTV
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (2.78%) Life Science
5 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.78%) PACS
5 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.78%) Taxonomies
5 1 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Apple iOS
2 2 (5.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (77.78%) AI
2 21 (58.33%) LLM
3 19 (52.78%) Machine Learning
3 19 (52.78%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 10 (27.78%) Agile
5 9 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (19.44%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (19.44%) Multi-Agent System
7 7 (19.44%) Scrum
7 7 (19.44%) Use Case
8 6 (16.67%) Data Privacy
8 6 (16.67%) Data Science
9 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
9 5 (13.89%) Containerisation
9 5 (13.89%) Deep Learning
9 5 (13.89%) Front End Development
10 4 (11.11%) Conversational AI
10 4 (11.11%) Generative AI
10 4 (11.11%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (63.89%) Python
2 6 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.56%) SQL
3 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.78%) Bash
4 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.78%) Scala
4 1 (2.78%) VB
4 1 (2.78%) VB6
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (19.44%) Degree
3 4 (11.11%) MCSE
4 3 (8.33%) MCSA
4 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
5 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.56%) CCNA
5 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.78%) A+ Certification
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) EU AI Act
1 5 (13.89%) NIST
2 3 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.33%) SOC 2
3 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.78%) GDPR
4 1 (2.78%) HL7
4 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.33%) Docker
3 1 (2.78%) Firmware
3 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.78%) vSphere
3 1 (2.78%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.56%) Terraform
4 1 (2.78%) Grafana
4 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 7 (19.44%) Google
3 4 (11.11%) Foundry
4 2 (5.56%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.78%) Apple
5 1 (2.78%) Cisco
5 1 (2.78%) Citrix
5 1 (2.78%) Databricks
5 1 (2.78%) InterSystems
5 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.78%) VMware