MCP Job Trends in London

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for MCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 401 409
Rank change year-on-year +56 +8 +235
Permanent jobs citing MCP 50 24 27
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.36% 0.15% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.24% 0.48% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 36 17 20
10th Percentile - £31,250 £29,728
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £42,000 £36,500
Median % change year-on-year +57.74% +15.07% -8.75%
75th Percentile £79,375 - £57,750
90th Percentile £108,750 £50,000 £72,650
England median annual salary £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +7.14%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,021 4,999 4,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.32% 31.65% 26.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,109 2,063 3,457
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £39,085
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.19%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £117,500 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -

MCP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

MCP job vacancy trend in London

MCP
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing MCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing MCP

MCP
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing MCP in London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for MCP in London

MCP
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCP within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +50 6 £66,250 +77.85% 13
South London +32 4 £32,500 +18.18%
North London - 1 £32,500 -
MCP
England

MCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 9 (18.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (16.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.00%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Fidessa
2 1 (2.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (44.00%) Azure
2 18 (36.00%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (20.00%) AWS
3 10 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 5 (10.00%) Azure AI
4 5 (10.00%) GitHub
4 5 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 4 (8.00%) Serverless
6 3 (6.00%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.00%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (6.00%) Google Workspace
6 3 (6.00%) IBM Cloud
6 3 (6.00%) Mimecast
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.00%) dbt
7 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (4.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.00%) Firewall
1 9 (18.00%) LAN
1 9 (18.00%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (12.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (10.00%) WAN
4 4 (8.00%) Remote Desktop
4 4 (8.00%) Wireless
5 3 (6.00%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (6.00%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (6.00%) VLAN
5 3 (6.00%) VPN
6 2 (4.00%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (4.00%) DHCP
6 2 (4.00%) DNS
6 2 (4.00%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (2.00%) 3G
7 1 (2.00%) 4G
7 1 (2.00%) ADSL
7 1 (2.00%) VDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) JIRA
2 2 (4.00%) Balsamiq
2 2 (4.00%) Git
2 2 (4.00%) MLflow
3 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.00%) Vite
3 1 (2.00%) webpack
General
1 20 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.00%) Finance
3 5 (10.00%) Legal
4 4 (8.00%) Law
4 4 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Local Government
6 2 (4.00%) Banking
6 2 (4.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (30.00%) Analyst
1 15 (30.00%) Support Analyst
2 14 (28.00%) IT Support
3 8 (16.00%) IT Analyst
3 8 (16.00%) IT Support Analyst
4 6 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) IT Support Technician
4 6 (12.00%) IT Technician
4 6 (12.00%) Lead
4 6 (12.00%) Senior
4 6 (12.00%) Support Technician
5 5 (10.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 5 (10.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Analyst
5 5 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
5 5 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
5 5 (10.00%) Architect
6 4 (8.00%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Senior IT Support
6 4 (8.00%) Senior Support Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) LangChain
1 5 (10.00%) React
2 3 (6.00%) PyTorch
2 3 (6.00%) REST
2 3 (6.00%) TensorFlow
3 2 (4.00%) .NET
3 2 (4.00%) AWS CDK
3 2 (4.00%) CSS
3 2 (4.00%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (4.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (4.00%) HTML
3 2 (4.00%) LangGraph
3 2 (4.00%) mypy
3 2 (4.00%) OAuth
3 2 (4.00%) pydantic
3 2 (4.00%) pytest
3 2 (4.00%) RESTful
3 2 (4.00%) Vue
4 1 (2.00%) Django
4 1 (2.00%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.00%) Driving Licence
2 8 (16.00%) Management Information System
3 7 (14.00%) AI Agents
3 7 (14.00%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (8.00%) e-Learning
4 4 (8.00%) Low-Code
5 3 (6.00%) PKI
6 2 (4.00%) Eurex
6 2 (4.00%) Life Science
6 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
6 2 (4.00%) Reinsurance
7 1 (2.00%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 31 (62.00%) Windows
2 8 (16.00%) Mac OS
3 5 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.00%) Linux
4 2 (4.00%) Solaris
4 2 (4.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (4.00%) Unix
4 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.00%) AI
2 10 (20.00%) LLM
3 9 (18.00%) Machine Learning
4 8 (16.00%) Case Management
4 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (16.00%) Computer Science
4 8 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (16.00%) Generative AI
4 8 (16.00%) ITIL
4 8 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (14.00%) DevOps
5 7 (14.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (10.00%) Agile
7 5 (10.00%) Customer Service
7 5 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (10.00%) Incident Management
7 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 5 (10.00%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.00%) SQL
2 12 (24.00%) Python
3 6 (12.00%) C#
4 4 (8.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.00%) Perl
5 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 31 (62.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (34.00%) Degree
3 9 (18.00%) MCSA
4 8 (16.00%) A+ Certification
4 8 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (12.00%) MCSE
6 5 (10.00%) AWS Certification
6 5 (10.00%) MCDST
6 5 (10.00%) MCTS
7 4 (8.00%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (8.00%) Master's Degree
8 3 (6.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.00%) Network+ Certification
8 3 (6.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (4.00%) MCITP
10 1 (2.00%) CCNA
10 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) GDPR
1 3 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.00%) QA
3 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (36.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.00%) Docker
3 3 (6.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (14.00%) Kubernetes
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (10.00%) SCCM
2 5 (10.00%) Terraform
3 3 (6.00%) Grafana
3 3 (6.00%) Nessus
3 3 (6.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (6.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 36 (72.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.00%) VMware
3 6 (12.00%) OpenAI
4 5 (10.00%) Bloomberg
4 5 (10.00%) Cisco
4 5 (10.00%) Databricks
4 5 (10.00%) Reuters
5 4 (8.00%) Google
6 3 (6.00%) IBM
6 3 (6.00%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (6.00%) Okta
6 3 (6.00%) Sophos
6 3 (6.00%) Zscaler
7 2 (4.00%) CQG
7 2 (4.00%) ION Trading
7 2 (4.00%) Patsystems
7 2 (4.00%) Red Hat
7 2 (4.00%) Trayport
8 1 (2.00%) Adobe
8 1 (2.00%) Salesforce