Microsoft Certified Professional Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire with a requirement for Microsoft Certified Professional qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 68 75 86
Rank change year-on-year +7 +11 -
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional 1 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.11% 0.23% 0.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.33% 0.68% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 2
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £55,000 £35,640
Median % change year-on-year - +54.32% -
East of England median annual salary £28,750 £47,500 £29,500
% change year-on-year -39.47% +61.02% +13.46%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cambridgeshire

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 permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 305 293 358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 33.15% 33.79% 33.30%
Number of salaries quoted 145 114 206
10th Percentile £27,800 £34,160 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,370 £47,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £64,450 £74,375 £69,813
90th Percentile £92,500 £78,750 £81,518
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -

Microsoft Certified Professional
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Microsoft Certified Professional job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft Certified Professional
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Microsoft Certified Professional.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified Professional
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional within the Cambridgeshire 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge - 1 - - 1
Microsoft Certified Professional
East of England

Microsoft Certified Professional
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) A2A Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Kernel
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) EU AI Act
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft