MCP Contracts 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 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 372 449
Rank change year-on-year +8 +77 +117
Contract jobs citing MCP 7 5 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.051% 0.031% 0.063%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.20% 0.13% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 11
10th Percentile £265 £166 £175
25th Percentile £344 £172 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £200 £250
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -20.00% -52.38%
75th Percentile £525 £225 £469
90th Percentile - - £550
England median daily rate £363 £400 £240
% change year-on-year -9.38% +66.67% -43.53%
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 £21.46 £14.50
% change year-on-year -18.73% +48.00% +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 3,572 3,917 5,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.28% 24.13% 22.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,419 2,693 3,650
10th Percentile £338 £346 £363
25th Percentile £431 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.39% -2.28% -
75th Percentile £663 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £790
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 69 80
10th Percentile £17.71 £17.88 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.04 £22.00 £34.81
Median hourly rate £25.15 £27.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% -50.91% +37.86%
75th Percentile £40.31 £43.75 £72.50
90th Percentile £64.13 £68.15 £87.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% -13.64% +22.22%

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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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MCP in London.

Daily rate trend for MCP in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MCP in London over the 6 months to 12 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MCP in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MCP in London.

Hourly rate trend for MCP in London

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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 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
1 1 (14.29%) Google Workspace
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
1 1 (14.29%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) InterSystems Cache
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Python Software Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Software Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) LangChain
1 2 (28.57%) ODBC
2 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
2 1 (14.29%) LangGraph
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
2 1 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (14.29%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 1 (14.29%) Ray
2 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) AI Agents
1 2 (28.57%) PACS
2 1 (14.29%) Autonomous Agent
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Life Science
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) LLM
2 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
2 2 (28.57%) Multi-Agent System
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Async-Await
3 1 (14.29%) Asynchronous Programming
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Programming
3 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
3 1 (14.29%) Log Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Prototyping
3 1 (14.29%) Reinforcement Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) VB
2 2 (28.57%) VB6
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) A+ Certification
2 1 (14.29%) MCSA
2 1 (14.29%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) InterSystems
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) OpenAI
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) VMware