Microsoft Certified Professional Contract Job Trends in North Wales

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Wales > North Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in North Wales 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 18 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in North Wales 2.13% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 6.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £158 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £165 - -
75th Percentile £173 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £165 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North Wales

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 North Wales.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 15 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Wales 31.91% 16.67% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 4
10th Percentile - - £433
25th Percentile £155 - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £165 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - +156.58%
75th Percentile £205 - £541
90th Percentile £252 - £546
Wales median daily rate £425 £450 £494
% change year-on-year -5.56% -8.86% -5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.25 - -
Median hourly rate £30.50 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% - -
75th Percentile £30.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate £32.50 £21.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year +51.16% -35.82% +71.88%

Microsoft Certified Professional
Job Vacancy Trend in North Wales

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

Microsoft Certified Professional job vacancy trend in North Wales

Microsoft Certified Professional
Daily Rate Trend in North Wales

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

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

Microsoft Certified Professional
Contract Job Locations in North Wales

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 North Wales region over the 6 months to 18 February 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
Wrexham - 1 £165 -
Microsoft Certified Professional
Wales

Microsoft Certified Professional
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Wales 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware