Model Context Protocol Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Model Context Protocol (MCP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands 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 168 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Model Context Protocol 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.029% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 656 402 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 19.15% 18.64% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 253 264
10th Percentile £360 £351 £288
25th Percentile £413 £409 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +11.11% -6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £678 £713 £688
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 10
10th Percentile £20.25 - -
25th Percentile £25.09 £26.25 £10.90
Median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £17.38
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +58.27% -11.65%
75th Percentile £50.00 £28.75 £30.87
90th Percentile £77.25 - £56.90
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

Model Context Protocol
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
East Midlands - 1 £575 -
Model Context Protocol
England

Model Context Protocol
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Neptune
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Gemini
1 1 (100.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) A2A Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) CrewAI
1 1 (100.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Twin
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Storytelling
1 1 (100.00%) Value Proposition
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes