Hybrid/Remote Model Context Protocol Contract Job Trends

Model Context Protocol (MCP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work 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 297 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Model Context Protocol 24 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.23% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £313 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £681 - -
90th Percentile £688 - -
UK median daily rate £525 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,820 2,719 3,964
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.69% 25.08% 23.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,847 1,820 2,832
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £646 £638
90th Percentile £750 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 28 48
10th Percentile £39.53 £21.78 £32.03
25th Percentile £44.31 £26.50 £41.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile - £66.88 £70.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £89.38 £90.25
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

Model Context Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Model Context Protocol and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Model Context Protocol job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Model Context Protocol
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Model Context Protocol.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Model Context Protocol

Model Context Protocol
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Model Context Protocol over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Model Context Protocol daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Model Context Protocol
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (4.17%) Apache
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) Anthropic Claude
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (12.50%) Google Gemini
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub Copilot
4 2 (8.33%) LangSmith
4 2 (8.33%) Serverless
4 2 (8.33%) Vertex AI
5 1 (4.17%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) 3GPP
1 2 (8.33%) HTTP
1 2 (8.33%) Intelligent Network
1 2 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) BigQuery
1 2 (8.33%) CockroachDB
1 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (8.33%) Pinecone
1 2 (8.33%) Redis
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) Claude Code
3 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) Selenium
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Banking
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Implementation Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Gen AI Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Lead
6 1 (4.17%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) FastAPI
2 5 (20.83%) LangChain
3 4 (16.67%) React
4 3 (12.50%) A2A Protocol
4 3 (12.50%) pydantic
5 2 (8.33%) boto
5 2 (8.33%) LangGraph
6 1 (4.17%) Hugging Face
6 1 (4.17%) PySpark
6 1 (4.17%) PyTorch
6 1 (4.17%) Ray
6 1 (4.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) AI Agents
2 3 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Unix
2 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) AI
2 19 (79.17%) LLM
3 17 (70.83%) CI/CD
4 15 (62.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 14 (58.33%) Machine Learning
6 8 (33.33%) MLOps
7 7 (29.17%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (25.00%) Intelligent Automation
8 6 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
9 5 (20.83%) Generative AI
9 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
10 4 (16.67%) Microservices
11 3 (12.50%) Agile
11 3 (12.50%) Containerisation
11 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
11 3 (12.50%) IT Strategy
11 3 (12.50%) Open Source
11 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
11 3 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
12 2 (8.33%) Semantic Search
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) Python
2 6 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (8.33%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) SQL
4 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
1 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
1 2 (8.33%) PhD
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Istio
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Dynatrace