Model Context Protocol Job Trends in England

Model Context Protocol (MCP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Model Context Protocol skills. It covers permanent 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 598 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Model Context Protocol 24 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.043% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.37% - -
Number of salaries quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £63,875 - -
25th Percentile £76,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,250 - -
75th Percentile £116,250 - -
90th Percentile £122,250 - -
UK median annual salary £92,500 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,462 10,273 14,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.57% 21.84% 23.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4,931 6,029 12,349
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

Model Context Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Model Context Protocol relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Model Context Protocol job vacancy trend in England

Model Context Protocol
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Model Context Protocol.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Model Context Protocol

Model Context Protocol
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Model Context Protocol in England over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Model Context Protocol in England

Model Context Protocol
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Model Context Protocol within the 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
London - 19 £100,000 - 1
North West - 3 £72,500 -
North of England - 3 £72,500 -
South West - 1 - -
East of England - 1 - -
Model Context Protocol
UK

Model Context Protocol
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.17%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) Azure
2 7 (29.17%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) Power Platform
2 7 (29.17%) Serverless
3 6 (25.00%) Anthropic Claude
3 6 (25.00%) Azure AI
4 4 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 4 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
4 4 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (16.67%) dbt
4 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
4 4 (16.67%) Power Automate
5 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (12.50%) GCP
5 3 (12.50%) GitHub
5 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (8.33%) Power BI
1 2 (8.33%) Semantic Layer
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) MLflow
2 2 (8.33%) Balsamiq
3 1 (4.17%) Claude Code
3 1 (4.17%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Advertising
4 1 (4.17%) Legal
4 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Lead
3 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) IT Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) LangChain
2 5 (20.83%) React
3 4 (16.67%) AWS CDK
3 4 (16.67%) LangGraph
3 4 (16.67%) PyTorch
3 4 (16.67%) TensorFlow
4 3 (12.50%) REST
4 3 (12.50%) RESTful
5 2 (8.33%) .NET
5 2 (8.33%) A2A Protocol
5 2 (8.33%) mypy
5 2 (8.33%) OAuth
5 2 (8.33%) pydantic
5 2 (8.33%) pytest
5 2 (8.33%) Vue
6 1 (4.17%) FastAPI
6 1 (4.17%) Hugging Face
6 1 (4.17%) Material-UI
6 1 (4.17%) ONNX
6 1 (4.17%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) AI Agents
2 4 (16.67%) Low-Code
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.17%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) AI
2 18 (75.00%) LLM
3 13 (54.17%) Machine Learning
4 11 (45.83%) Software Engineering
5 10 (41.67%) Generative AI
6 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
7 7 (29.17%) Multi-Agent System
8 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (25.00%) MLOps
8 6 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 6 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 6 (25.00%) User Experience
9 4 (16.67%) AIOps
9 4 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
9 4 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (16.67%) DevOps
9 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 4 (16.67%) Observability
9 4 (16.67%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) SQL
2 5 (20.83%) TypeScript
3 4 (16.67%) C#
4 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.17%) Java
5 1 (4.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) EU AI Act
1 1 (4.17%) NIST
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (25.00%) Terraform
2 5 (20.83%) Grafana
2 5 (20.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 9 (37.50%) OpenAI
2 5 (20.83%) Databricks
3 3 (12.50%) Foundry
4 2 (8.33%) Google
5 1 (4.17%) Adobe
5 1 (4.17%) Palantir
5 1 (4.17%) Salesforce