MCP Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for MCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 - 188
Rank change year-on-year - - +58
Contract jobs citing MCP 5 0 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.16% - 0.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.39% - 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 26
10th Percentile - - £200
25th Percentile - - £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - £266
Median % change year-on-year - - +71.77%
75th Percentile - - £479
90th Percentile - - £549
England median daily rate £250 £400 £256
% change year-on-year -37.50% +56.10% -35.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £17.44 £14.16 £13.66
% change year-on-year +23.16% +3.66% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

MCP 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 the South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,268 2,534 2,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 39.91% 44.53% 36.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 808 1,473 1,323
10th Percentile £262 £351 £305
25th Percentile £407 £450 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £615
90th Percentile £663 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 223 127
10th Percentile £18.87 £17.80 £19.10
25th Percentile £24.91 £28.37 £42.50
Median hourly rate £47.81 £57.35 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.64% -4.42% +33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.04 £71.80
90th Percentile £80.00 £87.46 £75.67
England median hourly rate £28.58 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -32.76% -22.73% +32.53%

MCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing MCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for MCP in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MCP in the South East.

Daily rate trend for MCP in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MCP in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for MCP in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCP within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 July 2025. 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
Kent - 2 £250 - 1
East Sussex - 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Surrey - 1 £250 - 3
Thames Valley - 1 - - 9
MCP
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Internet
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) FTP
2 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (20.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) MPLS
2 1 (20.00%) NAS
2 1 (20.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Skype
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 8
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) ITSM
3 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Management
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) Email Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Inventory Management
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Service Management
4 1 (20.00%) Threat Management
4 1 (20.00%) Ticket Management
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) A+ Certification
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) XenApp
3 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) vSphere
3 1 (20.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix
3 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 1 (20.00%) F5