Microsoft Certified Professional Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes 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 11 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 41 48
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 +17
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional 1 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.24% 0.95% 0.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.51% 1.83% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £200 £500
Median % change year-on-year +162.50% -60.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £200 £500
% change year-on-year +162.50% -60.00% +4.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 198 109 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 47.60% 51.66% 41.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 84 176
10th Percentile £351 £224 £307
25th Percentile £463 £381 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.98% -7.00% +9.41%
75th Percentile £603 £563 £611
90th Percentile £640 £630 £725
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £458 £505
% change year-on-year +14.75% -9.41% +10.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 10
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.67 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £13.68 £15.89
Median hourly rate £18.32 £15.35 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.35% -14.72% +24.14%
75th Percentile £29.61 £17.03 £19.50
90th Percentile - £18.03 £22.50
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £19.34 £15.35 £18.00
% change year-on-year +25.99% -14.72% +24.14%

Microsoft Certified Professional
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Microsoft Certified Professional job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Microsoft Certified Professional
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

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

Microsoft Certified Professional
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

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

Microsoft Certified Professional
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) IPv6
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Behavioural Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Network Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) CCDA
1 1 (100.00%) CCDP
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCIP
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) CASB
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler