Microsoft Certified Professional Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 132 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.051% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £450 £200 £275
% change year-on-year +125.00% -27.27% -31.25%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 448 230 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.78% 24.06% 19.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 156 226
10th Percentile £313 £220 £313
25th Percentile £425 £300 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -11.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £569 £600
90th Percentile £700 £690 £694
England median daily rate £522 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.57% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 16
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.35 £12.53
25th Percentile £15.94 £15.75 £12.70
Median hourly rate £24.36 £18.64 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.74% +24.23% -63.08%
75th Percentile £57.44 £38.75 £23.76
90th Percentile £67.68 £41.00 £56.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £46.39
% change year-on-year -45.54% -0.45% +3.09%

Microsoft Certified Professional
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Microsoft Certified Professional job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Microsoft Certified Professional
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Microsoft Certified Professional.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified Professional
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Microsoft Certified Professional.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified Professional
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional within the Yorkshire 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
South Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Microsoft Certified Professional
England

Microsoft Certified Professional
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) A2A Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree