Microsoft Certified Professional 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 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 341 406 436
Rank change year-on-year +65 +30 +204
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional 47 25 24
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.32% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.14% 0.49% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 30 16 17
10th Percentile £31,125 £31,250 £32,320
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,250 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,250 £42,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% -16.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 - £57,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £43,500 £73,100
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
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,108 5,055 5,600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 27.68% 32.75% 27.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,160 1,996 4,087
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,000 £37,300
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.94%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £110,000
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 London

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

Microsoft Certified Professional job vacancy trend in London

Microsoft Certified Professional
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified Professional
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional in London over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certified Professional in London

Microsoft Certified Professional
Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +28 7 £67,500 +81.21% 8
South London +36 4 £32,500 +18.18% 1
West London - 4 £38,000 -
North London - 1 £32,500 -
Microsoft Certified Professional
England

Microsoft Certified Professional
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 10 (21.28%) SharePoint
2 8 (17.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (8.51%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.13%) IIS
4 1 (2.13%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (2.13%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 21 (44.68%) Azure
2 17 (36.17%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (21.28%) Entra ID
4 8 (17.02%) AWS
5 6 (12.77%) Serverless
6 5 (10.64%) Mimecast
6 5 (10.64%) Power Platform
7 4 (8.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (8.51%) Amazon S3
7 4 (8.51%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (8.51%) AWS Fargate
7 4 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (8.51%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (8.51%) Azure AI
7 4 (8.51%) dbt
8 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (6.38%) IBM Cloud
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (4.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.02%) Firewall
2 7 (14.89%) LAN
2 7 (14.89%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (10.64%) TCP/IP
4 4 (8.51%) Remote Desktop
4 4 (8.51%) Wireless
5 3 (6.38%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (6.38%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (6.38%) VLAN
5 3 (6.38%) VPN
5 3 (6.38%) WAN
6 1 (2.13%) 3G
6 1 (2.13%) 4G
6 1 (2.13%) ADSL
6 1 (2.13%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (2.13%) DHCP
6 1 (2.13%) DNS
6 1 (2.13%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (2.13%) VDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) MLflow
2 3 (6.38%) JIRA
3 2 (4.26%) Balsamiq
4 1 (2.13%) Git
4 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (53.19%) Social Skills
2 14 (29.79%) Finance
3 5 (10.64%) Legal
4 4 (8.51%) Law
4 4 (8.51%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Local Government
6 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Advertising
7 1 (2.13%) Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (38.30%) IT Support
2 14 (29.79%) Analyst
3 12 (25.53%) Support Analyst
4 10 (21.28%) IT Analyst
5 8 (17.02%) IT Support Analyst
6 6 (12.77%) IT Support Technician
6 6 (12.77%) IT Technician
6 6 (12.77%) Lead
6 6 (12.77%) Senior
6 6 (12.77%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (12.77%) Support Technician
7 5 (10.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (8.51%) Coordinator
8 4 (8.51%) Senior IT Support
8 4 (8.51%) Senior IT Support Analyst
8 4 (8.51%) Senior Support Analyst
9 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Manager
9 3 (6.38%) IT Administrator
9 3 (6.38%) Network Manager
9 3 (6.38%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.40%) Model Context Protocol
2 5 (10.64%) LangChain
3 4 (8.51%) AWS CDK
3 4 (8.51%) LangGraph
4 3 (6.38%) React
5 2 (4.26%) RESTful
6 1 (2.13%) .NET
6 1 (2.13%) CSS
6 1 (2.13%) CSS3
6 1 (2.13%) Django
6 1 (2.13%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (2.13%) Flask
6 1 (2.13%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.13%) HTML
6 1 (2.13%) HTML5
6 1 (2.13%) Material-UI
6 1 (2.13%) Node.js
6 1 (2.13%) Redux
6 1 (2.13%) REST
6 1 (2.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (25.53%) Management Information System
2 11 (23.40%) Driving Licence
3 7 (14.89%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (8.51%) e-Learning
5 3 (6.38%) AI Agents
5 3 (6.38%) PKI
6 2 (4.26%) Low-Code
6 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
7 1 (2.13%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.13%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 30 (63.83%) Windows
2 8 (17.02%) Mac OS
3 4 (8.51%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.38%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.13%) Linux
5 1 (2.13%) Solaris
5 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.13%) Unix
5 1 (2.13%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.53%) Computer Science
1 12 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (23.40%) AI
3 10 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (21.28%) ITIL
4 9 (19.15%) LLM
5 8 (17.02%) Case Management
5 8 (17.02%) Cost Optimisation
5 8 (17.02%) Machine Learning
6 7 (14.89%) Business Continuity
6 7 (14.89%) Customer Service
6 7 (14.89%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (14.89%) Generative AI
7 6 (12.77%) Document Management
7 6 (12.77%) Incident Management
7 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (12.77%) Service Delivery
8 5 (10.64%) CI/CD
8 5 (10.64%) Inventory Management
8 5 (10.64%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.02%) SQL
2 6 (12.77%) Python
3 3 (6.38%) C#
3 3 (6.38%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.38%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (59.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (44.68%) Degree
3 12 (25.53%) A+ Certification
4 8 (17.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (17.02%) MCSA
5 7 (14.89%) AWS Certification
5 7 (14.89%) MCSE
5 7 (14.89%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (8.51%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (8.51%) Master's Degree
6 4 (8.51%) MCDST
7 3 (6.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.38%) MCTS
7 3 (6.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (4.26%) MOS
9 1 (2.13%) CCNA
9 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (2.13%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) GDPR
2 3 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 17 (36.17%) Active Directory
2 7 (14.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (10.64%) Docker
4 3 (6.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (14.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (10.64%) Grafana
2 5 (10.64%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.64%) Prometheus
2 5 (10.64%) SCCM
2 5 (10.64%) Terraform
3 3 (6.38%) Nessus
3 3 (6.38%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 32 (68.09%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.89%) VMware
3 5 (10.64%) Databricks
4 4 (8.51%) Bloomberg
4 4 (8.51%) Cisco
4 4 (8.51%) OpenAI
4 4 (8.51%) Reuters
5 3 (6.38%) IBM
5 3 (6.38%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (6.38%) Okta
5 3 (6.38%) Sophos
5 3 (6.38%) Zscaler
6 2 (4.26%) Citrix
6 2 (4.26%) Foundry
6 2 (4.26%) Google
6 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.13%) ION Trading
7 1 (2.13%) Patsystems
7 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.13%) Trayport