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 2 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 352 379
Rank change year-on-year +37 +27 +163
Contract jobs citing MCP 61 5 18
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.42% 0.035% 0.098%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.46% 0.13% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 2 11
10th Percentile £355 £214 £143
25th Percentile £460 £216 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £238 £250
Median % change year-on-year +121.05% -5.00% -49.49%
75th Percentile £650 £266 £344
90th Percentile £688 £271 £550
England median daily rate £511 £194 £273
% change year-on-year +163.87% -28.90% -31.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.47 - -
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 4,164 3,756 4,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.88% 25.92% 24.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,898 2,363 2,944
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £432 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £658
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 60 93
10th Percentile £20.74 £21.13 £19.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.37 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £38.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.10% -15.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £63.69 £60.19 £65.11
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.45
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £51.90
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.02% +15.33%

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 2 January 2026.

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 2 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
Central London - 12 £519 - 5
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 3 (4.92%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.64%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Chatbot
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (4.92%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (42.62%) Azure
2 21 (34.43%) AWS
3 14 (22.95%) Azure AI
4 11 (18.03%) GitHub
4 11 (18.03%) Serverless
5 9 (14.75%) GitHub Copilot
6 8 (13.11%) Amazon Bedrock
6 8 (13.11%) Azure Functions
6 8 (13.11%) Power Platform
7 7 (11.48%) Vertex AI
8 6 (9.84%) Azure App Service
8 6 (9.84%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 6 (9.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (9.84%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (9.84%) Entra ID
8 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (9.84%) OCI
9 5 (8.20%) Anthropic Claude
9 5 (8.20%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) Firewall
1 4 (6.56%) VPN
2 3 (4.92%) Softphone
3 2 (3.28%) Wireless
4 1 (1.64%) 3GPP
4 1 (1.64%) DHCP
4 1 (1.64%) DNS
4 1 (1.64%) HTTP
4 1 (1.64%) Intelligent Network
4 1 (1.64%) LAN
4 1 (1.64%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.64%) VLAN
4 1 (1.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.11%) Data Lake
2 5 (8.20%) Pinecone
2 5 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.92%) BigQuery
3 3 (4.92%) CockroachDB
3 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.92%) Redis
4 2 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.28%) Big Data
4 2 (3.28%) Data Mining
4 2 (3.28%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.64%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Git
2 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.28%) Selenium
3 1 (1.64%) Charles Proxy
3 1 (1.64%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (24.59%) Finance
2 14 (22.95%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.92%) Banking
3 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (45.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 8 (13.11%) Gen AI Engineer
3 7 (11.48%) Data Scientist
4 5 (8.20%) Developer
4 5 (8.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) Senior
4 5 (8.20%) Software Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Architect
5 4 (6.56%) Implementation Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Python Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Analyst
6 3 (4.92%) Help Desk Analyst
6 3 (4.92%) Lead
7 2 (3.28%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 2 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (3.28%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Python Software Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (32.79%) LangChain
2 19 (31.15%) LangGraph
3 12 (19.67%) PyTorch
3 12 (19.67%) TensorFlow
4 9 (14.75%) Pandas
4 9 (14.75%) React
4 9 (14.75%) scikit-learn
5 7 (11.48%) NumPy
6 6 (9.84%) Hugging Face
6 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (8.20%) CrewAI
7 5 (8.20%) HTML
7 5 (8.20%) Keras
7 5 (8.20%) OAuth
8 4 (6.56%) Vue
9 3 (4.92%) boto
9 3 (4.92%) CSS
9 3 (4.92%) Node.js
9 3 (4.92%) PySpark
9 3 (4.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (36.07%) AI Agents
2 4 (6.56%) Autonomous Agent
3 3 (4.92%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.28%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.28%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.64%) CCTV
5 1 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.64%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.64%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.92%) Windows
2 2 (3.28%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.64%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (88.52%) AI
2 41 (67.21%) LLM
3 38 (62.30%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 32 (52.46%) Machine Learning
5 22 (36.07%) Generative AI
6 20 (32.79%) CI/CD
6 20 (32.79%) Prompt Engineering
7 17 (27.87%) MLOps
8 12 (19.67%) Use Case
9 11 (18.03%) Agile
9 11 (18.03%) Software Engineering
10 10 (16.39%) Data Science
10 10 (16.39%) Mentoring
11 9 (14.75%) Data Pipeline
12 8 (13.11%) Containerisation
12 8 (13.11%) Integration Patterns
12 8 (13.11%) Multi-Agent System
12 8 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (11.48%) Conversational UI
13 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 44 (72.13%) Python
2 9 (14.75%) JavaScript
3 6 (9.84%) TypeScript
4 5 (8.20%) Java
5 3 (4.92%) SQL
6 2 (3.28%) Ada
6 2 (3.28%) C#
6 2 (3.28%) C++
6 2 (3.28%) Go
6 2 (3.28%) R
7 1 (1.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (19.67%) Degree
2 9 (14.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (8.20%) Master's Degree
4 4 (6.56%) MCSE
4 4 (6.56%) PhD
5 3 (4.92%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.92%) Security Cleared
6 2 (3.28%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.28%) CCNA
6 2 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.28%) MCSA
7 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.64%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.20%) EU AI Act
1 5 (8.20%) NIST
2 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.92%) SOC 2
3 2 (3.28%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.64%) GDPR
4 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.20%) Active Directory
1 5 (8.20%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) HDFS
3 1 (1.64%) Firmware
3 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.64%) vSphere
3 1 (1.64%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (11.48%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.56%) Terraform
3 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (4.92%) Prometheus
3 3 (4.92%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (3.28%) Istio
5 1 (1.64%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (27.87%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.03%) Google
2 11 (18.03%) OpenAI
3 7 (11.48%) Databricks
4 5 (8.20%) Foundry
5 3 (4.92%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.64%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.64%) Apple
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco
6 1 (1.64%) Citrix
6 1 (1.64%) VMware