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 8 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 373 392
Rank change year-on-year +38 +19 +157
Contract jobs citing MCP 46 4 17
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.32% 0.026% 0.087%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.15% 0.10% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 1 9
10th Percentile £405 - £139
25th Percentile £463 £225 £204
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £250 £250
Median % change year-on-year +110.00% - -52.38%
75th Percentile £638 £275 £278
90th Percentile £698 - £550
England median daily rate £505 £188 £270
% change year-on-year +169.33% -30.56% -34.94%
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 £14.16
% change year-on-year -74.00% +253.11% -2.34%

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 4,003 3,988 4,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.00% 25.56% 23.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,799 2,531 3,069
10th Percentile £353 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £665
90th Percentile £745 £763 £775
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 53 95
10th Percentile £19.33 £20.25 £19.35
25th Percentile - £27.00 £23.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.51% -25.71% +11.70%
75th Percentile £43.31 £60.75 £65.43
90th Percentile £72.91 £83.20 £85.05
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -49.70% -4.76% +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 8 December 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 8 December 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 - 9 £525 - 3
West London - 1 £275 -
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 2 (4.35%) Apache
1 2 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (6.52%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (45.65%) Azure
2 10 (21.74%) AWS
3 9 (19.57%) Azure AI
4 6 (13.04%) Entra ID
4 6 (13.04%) GitHub
5 5 (10.87%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (8.70%) Azure Functions
6 4 (8.70%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (8.70%) GCP
6 4 (8.70%) GitHub Copilot
6 4 (8.70%) Power Platform
6 4 (8.70%) Serverless
6 4 (8.70%) Vertex AI
7 3 (6.52%) Amazon Bedrock
7 3 (6.52%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.35%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 2 (4.35%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (4.35%) Google Gemini
8 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) Firewall
1 4 (8.70%) VPN
2 3 (6.52%) Softphone
3 1 (2.17%) DHCP
3 1 (2.17%) DNS
3 1 (2.17%) LAN
3 1 (2.17%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.17%) VLAN
3 1 (2.17%) WAN
3 1 (2.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.35%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.35%) Pinecone
3 1 (2.17%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (2.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Git
1 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.35%) Selenium
2 1 (2.17%) Charles Proxy
2 1 (2.17%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (21.74%) Finance
1 10 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (6.52%) Banking
2 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (32.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (13.04%) Data Scientist
3 5 (10.87%) Developer
3 5 (10.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Software Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Architect
4 4 (8.70%) Python Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Senior
5 3 (6.52%) Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Help Desk Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Lead
6 2 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Implementation Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Python Software Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 1 (2.17%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (30.43%) LangChain
2 10 (21.74%) PyTorch
2 10 (21.74%) TensorFlow
3 9 (19.57%) LangGraph
4 6 (13.04%) Pandas
4 6 (13.04%) React
4 6 (13.04%) scikit-learn
5 5 (10.87%) Hugging Face
6 4 (8.70%) NumPy
7 3 (6.52%) CrewAI
7 3 (6.52%) FastAPI
7 3 (6.52%) Keras
7 3 (6.52%) RESTful
8 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (4.35%) OAuth
8 2 (4.35%) OAuth2
8 2 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (4.35%) PySpark
8 2 (4.35%) Ray
8 2 (4.35%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 18 (39.13%) AI Agents
2 5 (10.87%) Autonomous Agent
3 3 (6.52%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.35%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.17%) CCTV
5 1 (2.17%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.17%) PACS
5 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.17%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.52%) Windows
2 2 (4.35%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (82.61%) AI
2 28 (60.87%) LLM
3 25 (54.35%) Machine Learning
3 25 (54.35%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 11 (23.91%) Agile
4 11 (23.91%) Use Case
5 10 (21.74%) Software Engineering
6 9 (19.57%) Data Science
6 9 (19.57%) Generative AI
6 9 (19.57%) Multi-Agent System
7 8 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (17.39%) Prompt Engineering
8 7 (15.22%) CI/CD
8 7 (15.22%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (15.22%) MLOps
8 7 (15.22%) Scrum
9 6 (13.04%) Data Engineering
9 6 (13.04%) Data Privacy
9 6 (13.04%) Mentoring
10 5 (10.87%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 31 (67.39%) Python
2 6 (13.04%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.52%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.35%) Go
4 2 (4.35%) Java
4 2 (4.35%) Scala
4 2 (4.35%) SQL
5 1 (2.17%) VB
5 1 (2.17%) VB6
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Degree
2 9 (19.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (8.70%) MCSE
4 3 (6.52%) Master's Degree
4 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.35%) CCNA
5 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.35%) MCSA
5 2 (4.35%) PhD
6 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.17%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) EU AI Act
1 5 (10.87%) NIST
2 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.52%) SOC 2
3 2 (4.35%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.17%) GDPR
4 1 (2.17%) HL7
4 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.87%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.52%) Docker
3 1 (2.17%) Firmware
3 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.17%) vSphere
3 1 (2.17%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.35%) Terraform
4 1 (2.17%) Grafana
4 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) Microsoft
2 9 (19.57%) Google
3 5 (10.87%) Foundry
3 5 (10.87%) OpenAI
4 4 (8.70%) Databricks
5 1 (2.17%) Apple
5 1 (2.17%) Cisco
5 1 (2.17%) Citrix
5 1 (2.17%) InterSystems
5 1 (2.17%) VMware