MCITP Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for MCITP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 565 543 622
Rank change year-on-year -22 +79 +187
Contract jobs citing MCITP 5 15 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.041% 0.024%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.044% 0.14% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 7
10th Percentile £398 £245 £192
25th Percentile £431 £370 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year +18.19% +14.29% +33.33%
75th Percentile £496 - £598
90th Percentile - £408 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate - £400 £248
% change year-on-year - +61.62% -38.13%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

MCITP 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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,329 10,702 13,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.77% 29.30% 28.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,202 6,507 8,520
10th Percentile £300 £311 £302
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £636 £650
90th Percentile £715 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £519 £534
% change year-on-year -3.66% -2.81% +1.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 974 486 749
10th Percentile £17.30 £18.67 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.00 £24.18 £26.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% -12.04% +16.67%
75th Percentile £43.00 £66.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £48.18 £51.89
% change year-on-year -47.80% -7.15% +15.31%

MCITP
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MCITP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

MCITP job vacancy trend in the UK

MCITP
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MCITP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MCITP

MCITP
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MCITP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MCITP

MCITP
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCITP within the UK over the 6 months to 5 November 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
England -14 5 £473 +18.19% 9
London +11 3 £496 - 2
UK excluding London -45 1 - - 8
South West - 1 - - 1

MCITP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (40.00%) IaaS
2 2 (40.00%) PaaS
2 2 (40.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) MSI
General
1 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Android
1 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Application Packaging
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (40.00%) MCP
3 2 (40.00%) MCSA
3 2 (40.00%) MCSE
3 2 (40.00%) MCTS
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certified Master
4 1 (20.00%) CCIE
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (40.00%) SCOM
2 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco