Model Context Protocol Contract Job Trends in London

Model Context Protocol (MCP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Model Context Protocol skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Model Context Protocol 62 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.42% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 48 0 0
10th Percentile £359 - -
25th Percentile £462 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £678 - -
90th Percentile £706 - -
England median daily rate £525 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £43.84 - -
Median hourly rate £44.90 - -
75th Percentile £45.95 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £44.90 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

Model Context Protocol falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,895 3,632 4,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.30% 26.15% 24.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,630 2,359 3,476
10th Percentile £363 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £667 £700 £688
90th Percentile £769 £825 £800
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 21 30
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.00 £29.60
25th Percentile £41.56 £38.50 £35.79
Median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +7.69% -25.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £69.19
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.00 £76.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

Model Context Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Model Context Protocol relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Model Context Protocol job vacancy trend in London

Model Context Protocol
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Model Context Protocol.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Model Context Protocol

Model Context Protocol
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Model Context Protocol in London over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Model Context Protocol in London

Model Context Protocol
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 Model Context Protocol 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 - 10 £513 -
East London - 1 £725 -
Model Context Protocol
England

Model Context Protocol
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 (4.84%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.61%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 23 (37.10%) AWS
2 20 (32.26%) Azure
3 14 (22.58%) Azure AI
3 14 (22.58%) GitHub
4 13 (20.97%) Serverless
5 11 (17.74%) GitHub Copilot
6 10 (16.13%) Amazon Bedrock
7 9 (14.52%) Anthropic Claude
8 8 (12.90%) Azure Functions
8 8 (12.90%) Power Platform
9 7 (11.29%) Vertex AI
10 6 (9.68%) Azure App Service
10 6 (9.68%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 6 (9.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (9.68%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (9.68%) OCI
11 5 (8.06%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (8.06%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (8.06%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) 3GPP
1 2 (3.23%) Firewall
1 2 (3.23%) HTTP
1 2 (3.23%) Intelligent Network
1 2 (3.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.52%) Data Lake
2 6 (9.68%) Pinecone
3 5 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.45%) CockroachDB
5 3 (4.84%) BigQuery
5 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.84%) Redis
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.23%) Big Data
6 2 (3.23%) Data Mining
6 2 (3.23%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.61%) Metadata
7 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (14.52%) Git
2 3 (4.84%) Claude Code
3 2 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.23%) Selenium
4 1 (1.61%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.58%) Finance
3 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Banking
5 2 (3.23%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.61%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (54.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 8 (12.90%) Gen AI Engineer
3 7 (11.29%) Data Scientist
4 6 (9.68%) Developer
5 5 (8.06%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Lead
5 5 (8.06%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Implementation Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Python Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Senior
7 3 (4.84%) Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Python Software Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) UX Engineer
9 1 (1.61%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 1 (1.61%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (32.26%) LangChain
1 20 (32.26%) LangGraph
2 14 (22.58%) A2A Protocol
3 12 (19.35%) PyTorch
3 12 (19.35%) TensorFlow
4 9 (14.52%) Pandas
4 9 (14.52%) React
4 9 (14.52%) scikit-learn
5 8 (12.90%) Hugging Face
6 7 (11.29%) NumPy
7 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Graph
8 5 (8.06%) boto
8 5 (8.06%) CrewAI
8 5 (8.06%) HTML
8 5 (8.06%) Keras
9 4 (6.45%) OAuth
9 4 (6.45%) Vue
10 3 (4.84%) Node.js
10 3 (4.84%) pydantic
10 3 (4.84%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 26 (41.94%) AI Agents
2 4 (6.45%) Autonomous Agent
3 3 (4.84%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.84%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.23%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.23%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.61%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (100.00%) AI
2 49 (79.03%) LLM
3 41 (66.13%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 36 (58.06%) Machine Learning
5 27 (43.55%) Generative AI
6 24 (38.71%) CI/CD
6 24 (38.71%) Prompt Engineering
7 17 (27.42%) MLOps
8 13 (20.97%) Software Engineering
9 12 (19.35%) Use Case
10 11 (17.74%) Data Science
10 11 (17.74%) Deep Learning
11 10 (16.13%) Agile
12 9 (14.52%) Containerisation
12 9 (14.52%) Data Pipeline
12 9 (14.52%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (14.52%) Mentoring
13 8 (12.90%) Integration Patterns
13 8 (12.90%) Multi-Agent System
14 7 (11.29%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 49 (79.03%) Python
2 9 (14.52%) JavaScript
3 8 (12.90%) Java
4 5 (8.06%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.84%) SQL
6 2 (3.23%) Ada
6 2 (3.23%) C#
6 2 (3.23%) C++
6 2 (3.23%) Go
6 2 (3.23%) R
7 1 (1.61%) PHP
7 1 (1.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (22.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 8 (12.90%) Degree
3 6 (9.68%) Master's Degree
3 6 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.68%) Security Cleared
4 5 (8.06%) PhD
5 3 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) EU AI Act
1 5 (8.06%) NIST
2 3 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.84%) SOC 2
3 2 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (9.68%) Docker
2 2 (3.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (11.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.68%) Terraform
3 3 (4.84%) Prometheus
3 3 (4.84%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (3.23%) Istio
5 1 (1.61%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (16.13%) Google
1 10 (16.13%) Microsoft
1 10 (16.13%) OpenAI
2 8 (12.90%) Databricks
3 5 (8.06%) Foundry
4 3 (4.84%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.61%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.61%) Apple
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle