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 14 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 383 422
Rank change year-on-year +46 +39 +140
Contract jobs citing MCP 24 5 14
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.18% 0.031% 0.067%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.67% 0.12% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 2 8
10th Percentile £248 £169 £137
25th Percentile £416 £178 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £213 £233
Median % change year-on-year +144.71% -8.60% -55.71%
75th Percentile £639 £253 £325
90th Percentile £728 £266 £550
England median daily rate £440 £250 £270
% change year-on-year +76.00% -7.41% -43.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate - - £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% +6.15%

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 3,582 4,014 4,770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.74% 25.10% 22.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,416 2,558 3,285
10th Percentile £358 £350 £355
25th Percentile £438 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £765 £788
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 64 94
10th Percentile £18.87 £18.13 £19.33
25th Percentile - £25.93 £20.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.65 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.38% -32.13% +18.03%
75th Percentile £35.00 £56.38 £65.08
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.88 £83.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £53.67
% change year-on-year -52.10% -2.17% +19.26%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 - 4 £663 - 4
West London - 1 £275 - 1
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 (4.17%) Apache
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Azure AKS
2 3 (12.50%) GitHub
3 2 (8.33%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Functions
3 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (8.33%) GCP
3 2 (8.33%) GitHub Copilot
3 2 (8.33%) Google Gemini
3 2 (8.33%) PaaS
3 2 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (4.17%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Run
4 1 (4.17%) Figma
4 1 (4.17%) Google Workspace
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.17%) Pulumi
4 1 (4.17%) SaaS
4 1 (4.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) DNS
2 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.17%) DHCP
3 1 (4.17%) LAN
3 1 (4.17%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (4.17%) VLAN
3 1 (4.17%) VPN
3 1 (4.17%) WAN
3 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (4.17%) Metadata
2 1 (4.17%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.33%) Selenium
2 1 (4.17%) Charles Proxy
2 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.33%) Banking
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Python Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Python Software Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Data Scientist
6 1 (4.17%) Designer
6 1 (4.17%) IT Support
6 1 (4.17%) Network Support Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Python Software Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Designer
6 1 (4.17%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) React
2 4 (16.67%) LangChain
3 3 (12.50%) PyTorch
3 3 (12.50%) TensorFlow
4 2 (8.33%) .NET
4 2 (8.33%) FastAPI
4 2 (8.33%) RESTful
4 2 (8.33%) Semantic Kernel
5 1 (4.17%) Faiss
5 1 (4.17%) LangGraph
5 1 (4.17%) OAuth
5 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
5 1 (4.17%) ODBC
5 1 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (4.17%) PySpark
5 1 (4.17%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) AI Agents
2 4 (16.67%) Autonomous Agent
3 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 2 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.17%) CCTV
5 1 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.17%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (4.17%) Life Science
5 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.17%) PACS
5 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.17%) Taxonomies
5 1 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Apple iOS
2 2 (8.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) AI
2 14 (58.33%) LLM
3 12 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 11 (45.83%) Machine Learning
5 9 (37.50%) Software Engineering
6 7 (29.17%) Multi-Agent System
6 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (29.17%) Scrum
7 6 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (20.83%) Agile
8 5 (20.83%) Data Privacy
8 5 (20.83%) Use Case
9 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
9 4 (16.67%) Data Governance
9 4 (16.67%) Front End Development
9 4 (16.67%) Prompt Engineering
9 4 (16.67%) Sprint Review
9 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
9 4 (16.67%) Test Strategy
10 3 (12.50%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.33%) SQL
4 1 (4.17%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.17%) Scala
4 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.17%) VB
4 1 (4.17%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (12.50%) MCSA
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) CCNA
3 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.33%) Degree
3 2 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (4.17%) A+ Certification
4 1 (4.17%) MCSE
4 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) EU AI Act
1 5 (20.83%) NIST
2 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (12.50%) SOC 2
3 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.17%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) HL7
3 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Firmware
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.17%) vSphere
2 1 (4.17%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Grafana
2 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Google
3 2 (8.33%) Foundry
3 2 (8.33%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.17%) Apple
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco
4 1 (4.17%) Citrix
4 1 (4.17%) InterSystems
4 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.17%) VMware