Microsoft Certified Professional Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 59 69 -
Rank change year-on-year +10 - -
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional 1 5 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.14% 0.86% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.34% 1.34% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - -
75th Percentile £50,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £34,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -28.42% +5.56% +30.43%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 295 374 705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 41.96% 64.04% 56.63%
Number of salaries quoted 175 150 462
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £29,440
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,063 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,560 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% +15.12% -9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £65,938
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £81,125
South West median annual salary £55,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.56% +5.20% -2.91%

Microsoft Certified Professional
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Microsoft Certified Professional job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Certified Professional
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified Professional
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire 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
Stroud - 1 £45,000 -
Microsoft Certified Professional
South West

Microsoft Certified Professional
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Support
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft