Model Context Protocol Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Model Context Protocol (MCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 386 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Model Context Protocol 22 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £365 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £580 - -
90th Percentile £615 - -
UK median daily rate £525 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,486 2,532 3,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.09% 18.50% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,323 1,582 2,301
10th Percentile £350 £348 £325
25th Percentile £406 £406 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £598
90th Percentile £675 £684 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 58 155
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.90 £21.85
25th Percentile £52.50 £58.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.25 £67.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.56 £77.11
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

Model Context Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Model Context Protocol relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Model Context Protocol job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Model Context Protocol
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Model Context Protocol.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Model Context Protocol

Model Context Protocol
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Model Context Protocol in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Model Context Protocol in the UK excluding London

Model Context Protocol
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 of England - 11 £550 -
Scotland - 7 £413 -
North of England - 3 - -
Yorkshire - 3 - -
East Midlands - 1 £575 -
Midlands - 1 £575 -
Model Context Protocol
UK

Model Context Protocol
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (50.00%) Azure
2 10 (45.45%) Azure AKS
2 10 (45.45%) GitHub
2 10 (45.45%) GitHub Copilot
3 9 (40.91%) PaaS
4 7 (31.82%) Azure Functions
4 7 (31.82%) Serverless
5 5 (22.73%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon Neptune
6 1 (4.55%) AWS
6 1 (4.55%) Azure API Management
6 1 (4.55%) GCP
6 1 (4.55%) Google Gemini
6 1 (4.55%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Data Lake
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
General
1 4 (18.18%) Banking
1 4 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Senior
2 5 (22.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Data Scientist
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Data Science Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (68.18%) A2A Protocol
2 11 (50.00%) PyTorch
2 11 (50.00%) Semantic Kernel
2 11 (50.00%) TensorFlow
3 10 (45.45%) RESTful
4 9 (40.91%) .NET
5 3 (13.64%) CrewAI
5 3 (13.64%) FastAPI
5 3 (13.64%) LangChain
5 3 (13.64%) LangGraph
6 2 (9.09%) Pandas
6 2 (9.09%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 12 (54.55%) Cloud Native
2 11 (50.00%) Algorithms
3 3 (13.64%) AI Agents
3 3 (13.64%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.55%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) AI
2 17 (77.27%) Machine Learning
3 16 (72.73%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 15 (68.18%) LLM
5 13 (59.09%) Agile
6 12 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (54.55%) Prompt Engineering
7 11 (50.00%) API Design
7 11 (50.00%) Data Privacy
7 11 (50.00%) Software Engineering
8 10 (45.45%) API Management
8 10 (45.45%) Deep Learning
8 10 (45.45%) Test Automation
9 9 (40.91%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (40.91%) Data Science
10 6 (27.27%) Scrum
11 5 (22.73%) Decision-Making
11 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
12 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) Python
2 3 (13.64%) Java
2 3 (13.64%) TypeScript
3 2 (9.09%) C#
3 2 (9.09%) C++
Qualifications
1 12 (54.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (45.45%) EU AI Act
2 9 (40.91%) NIST
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (45.45%) Foundry
3 3 (13.64%) Databricks
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle
4 2 (9.09%) NVIDIA
4 2 (9.09%) OpenAI
5 1 (4.55%) TOWER Software