Microsoft Certified Professional Job Trends in Leeds

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for Microsoft Certified Professional qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 - 123
Rank change year-on-year - - +42
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional 2 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.084% - 0.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.50% - 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75,000 - £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.05%
75th Percentile £85,000 - £38,750
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £80,000 - £35,000
% change year-on-year - - +25.65%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 399 219 395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 16.67% 28.44% 18.93%
Number of salaries quoted 224 120 262
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £26,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,750 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -4.41% -13.56%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,625 £68,438
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £80,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £42,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -17.65% -11.78%

Microsoft Certified Professional
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Microsoft Certified Professional job vacancy trend in Leeds

Microsoft Certified Professional
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified Professional
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) A2A Protocol
1 2 (100.00%) Model Context Protocol
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering