Microsoft Certified Professional 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 Microsoft Certified Professional qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 352 384
Rank change year-on-year -11 +32 +140
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional 21 5 12
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.036% 0.065%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.48% 0.14% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 8
10th Percentile £315 £214 £137
25th Percentile £450 £216 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £238 £245
Median % change year-on-year +152.63% -3.06% -34.23%
75th Percentile £688 £266 £341
90th Percentile - £271 £459
England median daily rate £450 £200 £275
% change year-on-year +125.00% -27.27% -31.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.47 - -
England median hourly rate £14.75 £50.00 £14.16
% change year-on-year -70.50% +253.11% -2.34%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

Microsoft Certified Professional 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 4,334 3,555 4,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.27% 25.60% 24.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,038 2,213 3,023
10th Percentile £363 £352 £325
25th Percentile £430 £450 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £657 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
England median daily rate £522 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.57% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 63 125
10th Percentile £20.14 £21.50 £14.73
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £28.00 £37.50 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.33% +5.25% -1.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £55.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.40 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £46.39
% change year-on-year -45.54% -0.45% +3.09%

Microsoft Certified Professional
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Certified Professional relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Microsoft Certified Professional job vacancy trend in London

Microsoft Certified Professional
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft Certified Professional.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified Professional
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional in London over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certified Professional in London

Microsoft Certified Professional
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft Certified Professional.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified Professional
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 Microsoft Certified Professional within the London region over the 6 months to 30 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 - 4 £190 - 8
West London - 1 £275 -
Microsoft Certified Professional
England

Microsoft Certified Professional
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:

Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (14.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (85.71%) Azure
2 11 (52.38%) Azure AI
3 8 (38.10%) Azure Functions
3 8 (38.10%) GitHub
3 8 (38.10%) GitHub Copilot
3 8 (38.10%) Power Platform
3 8 (38.10%) Serverless
4 7 (33.33%) AWS
5 6 (28.57%) Azure App Service
5 6 (28.57%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 6 (28.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 6 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (28.57%) OCI
6 5 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (19.05%) Entra ID
8 3 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (9.52%) Azure AKS
9 2 (9.52%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) VPN
2 3 (14.29%) Softphone
3 2 (9.52%) Firewall
4 1 (4.76%) DHCP
4 1 (4.76%) DNS
4 1 (4.76%) LAN
4 1 (4.76%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.76%) VLAN
4 1 (4.76%) WAN
4 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.76%) Selenium
General
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Data Scientist
2 4 (19.05%) Gen AI Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Help Desk Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Lead
4 2 (9.52%) Network Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Network Support
5 1 (4.76%) Network Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (66.67%) Model Context Protocol
2 10 (47.62%) A2A Protocol
3 9 (42.86%) LangChain
3 9 (42.86%) LangGraph
4 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Graph
5 5 (23.81%) PyTorch
5 5 (23.81%) TensorFlow
6 3 (14.29%) Hugging Face
6 3 (14.29%) NumPy
6 3 (14.29%) Pandas
6 3 (14.29%) pydantic
6 3 (14.29%) scikit-learn
7 2 (9.52%) .NET
7 2 (9.52%) RESTful
7 2 (9.52%) Semantic Kernel
8 1 (4.76%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) AI Agents
1 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
1 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
1 2 (9.52%) Virtual Team
2 1 (4.76%) CCTV
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) AI
2 12 (57.14%) LLM
2 12 (57.14%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 11 (52.38%) Prompt Engineering
4 9 (42.86%) Generative AI
5 8 (38.10%) Integration Patterns
5 8 (38.10%) Machine Learning
5 8 (38.10%) Mentoring
5 8 (38.10%) MLOps
6 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 6 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (23.81%) Data Science
7 5 (23.81%) Integration Testing
7 5 (23.81%) Performance Monitoring
7 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (19.05%) Agile
8 4 (19.05%) Analytics
8 4 (19.05%) Translating Business Requirements
8 4 (19.05%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) Degree
2 8 (38.10%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (19.05%) MCSE
4 3 (14.29%) Master's Degree
4 3 (14.29%) PhD
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Certification
5 2 (9.52%) CCNA
5 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (9.52%) MCSA
6 1 (4.76%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) EU AI Act
1 2 (9.52%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Firmware
2 1 (4.76%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (76.19%) Microsoft
2 6 (28.57%) OpenAI
3 4 (19.05%) Foundry
4 3 (14.29%) Databricks
4 3 (14.29%) Google
5 1 (4.76%) Ciena
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco
5 1 (4.76%) Citrix
5 1 (4.76%) Salesforce