MCP Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for MCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 174 134
Rank change year-on-year +34 -40 +114
Permanent jobs citing MCP 8 7 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.25% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.84% 0.58% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £25,000 £43,500 -
25th Percentile £28,125 £48,750 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £60,000 £34,500
Median % change year-on-year -45.83% +73.91% -2.13%
75th Percentile £33,750 £62,500 £35,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £32,500 £38,750 £37,500
% change year-on-year -16.13% +3.33% +7.14%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

MCP 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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 950 1,205 770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 29.73% 28.58% 36.36%
Number of salaries quoted 516 362 457
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,750 £31,124
25th Percentile £30,219 £43,750 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £54,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,125 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +4.55%

MCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MCP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

MCP job vacancy trend in the East of England

MCP
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing MCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing MCP

MCP
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCP within the East of England region over the 6 months to 7 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bedfordshire +28 5 £32,500 -35.00%
Essex -5 2 £25,000 -
Cambridgeshire - 1 - - 6
MCP
England

MCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Entra ID
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (12.50%) PaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) WAN
2 5 (62.50%) LAN
2 5 (62.50%) WLAN
3 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Support Technician
2 2 (25.00%) 1st Line Support
2 2 (25.00%) 1st Line Technical Support
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Support
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) Semantic Kernel
1 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (25.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Customer Service
1 7 (87.50%) ITIL
2 6 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (62.50%) Client Onboarding
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Logistics
5 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
6 1 (12.50%) Agile
6 1 (12.50%) AI
6 1 (12.50%) API Design
6 1 (12.50%) API Management
6 1 (12.50%) Data Privacy
6 1 (12.50%) Deep Learning
6 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
6 1 (12.50%) Prompt Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
6 1 (12.50%) Rapid Prototyping
6 1 (12.50%) Scrum
6 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (62.50%) A+ Certification
2 5 (62.50%) CompTIA Security+
2 5 (62.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 5 (62.50%) MCITP
2 5 (62.50%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (25.00%) CCNA
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (25.00%) DBS Check
3 2 (25.00%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) EU AI Act
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) Aruba
2 5 (62.50%) HP
3 2 (25.00%) Meraki
3 2 (25.00%) Sophos
4 1 (12.50%) Foundry