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 13 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 391 428
Rank change year-on-year +44 +37 +137
Contract jobs citing MCP 13 5 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.097% 0.031% 0.071%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.37% 0.12% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 10
10th Percentile £207 £166 £170
25th Percentile £463 £172 £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £200 £230
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -13.04% -56.19%
75th Percentile £675 £225 £391
90th Percentile £865 - £550
England median daily rate £400 £400 £243
% change year-on-year - +64.95% -50.51%
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 £17.44 £32.59 £14.50
% change year-on-year -46.48% +124.72% +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 3,547 4,003 5,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.37% 24.60% 22.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,384 2,637 3,529
10th Percentile £350 £350 £355
25th Percentile £431 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 57 86
10th Percentile £18.87 £18.03 £19.33
25th Percentile - £22.00 £24.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.29 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.11% -41.29% +22.22%
75th Percentile £35.00 £53.75 £66.90
90th Percentile £65.00 £66.20 £81.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -54.27% - +22.22%

MCP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing MCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for MCP 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 +11 3 £800 -
MCP
England

MCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
2 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Run
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.69%) Google Gemini
3 1 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (7.69%) Google Workspace
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) Pulumi
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Slack
3 1 (7.69%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (7.69%) Pinecone
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) Selenium
1 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) IT Support
3 1 (7.69%) IT Support Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Python Software Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Software Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) LangChain
2 2 (15.38%) FastAPI
2 2 (15.38%) ODBC
3 1 (7.69%) Faiss
3 1 (7.69%) LangGraph
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
3 1 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (7.69%) PySpark
3 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
3 1 (7.69%) Ray
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) AI Agents
2 2 (15.38%) Autonomous Agent
2 2 (15.38%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 2 (15.38%) PACS
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Life Science
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
2 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (53.85%) LLM
3 5 (38.46%) Machine Learning
3 5 (38.46%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
4 4 (30.77%) Multi-Agent System
5 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
5 3 (23.08%) Data Privacy
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (23.08%) RBAC
5 3 (23.08%) Use Case
6 2 (15.38%) Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) Prototyping
6 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
6 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) VB
3 2 (15.38%) VB6
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (15.38%) MCSA
3 1 (7.69%) A+ Certification
3 1 (7.69%) CCNA
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) MCSE
3 1 (7.69%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) EU AI Act
1 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (23.08%) NIST
1 3 (23.08%) SOC 2
2 2 (15.38%) HL7
3 1 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) vSphere
2 1 (7.69%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Google
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) InterSystems
3 2 (15.38%) OpenAI
4 1 (7.69%) Citrix
4 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.69%) VMware