Microsoft Certified Professional Contract Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 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 30 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 4.76% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 20.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 - -
Staffordshire median daily rate £200 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5 6 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 23.81% 22.22% 61.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 26
10th Percentile £230 £186 £375
25th Percentile £275 £255 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £319 £370 £513
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% -27.80% +85.52%
75th Percentile £375 £485 £575
90th Percentile £431 £554 £613
Staffordshire median daily rate £319 £155 £450
% change year-on-year +105.65% -65.56% +24.48%

Microsoft Certified Professional
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Certified Professional relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

Microsoft Certified Professional job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Microsoft Certified Professional
Daily Rate Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Microsoft Certified Professional.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified Professional
Hourly Rate Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Microsoft Certified Professional.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified Professional
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) A+ Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow