Microsoft Certified Professional 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 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 152 176 170
Rank change year-on-year +24 -6 +65
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional 5 7 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.11% 0.20% 0.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.36% 0.51% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 12
10th Percentile - £29,500 -
25th Percentile £25,000 £36,250 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,750 £47,500 £29,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.47% +61.02% +13.46%
75th Percentile £33,750 £57,500 £35,668
90th Percentile - - £48,575
England median annual salary £32,500 £35,000 £34,245
% change year-on-year -7.14% +2.20% +0.72%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,376 1,379 1,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 31.15% 39.88% 30.57%
Number of salaries quoted 545 474 820
10th Percentile £28,850 £32,575 £26,132
25th Percentile £34,000 £45,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,254 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,500 £74,625 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%

Microsoft Certified Professional
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Microsoft Certified Professional job vacancy trend in the East of England

Microsoft Certified Professional
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Microsoft Certified Professional.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified Professional
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 Microsoft Certified Professional within the East of England 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
Bedfordshire +28 2 £32,500 -1.52% 1
Essex -6 2 £25,000 - 1
Cambridgeshire +7 1 - - 1
Microsoft Certified Professional
England

Microsoft Certified Professional
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 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) WLAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) 1st Line Support
1 2 (40.00%) 1st Line Technical Support
1 2 (40.00%) Support Technician
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) A2A Protocol
1 1 (20.00%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) Semantic Kernel
1 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Driving Licence
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Customer Service
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Client Onboarding
3 2 (40.00%) Logistics
3 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) AI
4 1 (20.00%) API Design
4 1 (20.00%) API Management
4 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
4 1 (20.00%) Deep Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Prompt Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (20.00%) Rapid Prototyping
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (40.00%) A+ Certification
2 2 (40.00%) CCNA
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (40.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (40.00%) DBS Check
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (40.00%) MCDST
2 2 (40.00%) MCITP
2 2 (40.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) EU AI Act
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Aruba
2 2 (40.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) Meraki
2 2 (40.00%) Sophos
3 1 (20.00%) Foundry