Model Context Protocol Job Trends in London

Model Context Protocol (MCP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Model Context Protocol skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 373 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Permanent jobs citing Model Context Protocol 77 7 0
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.30% 0.060% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.97% 0.22% -
Number of salaries quoted 29 7 0
10th Percentile £61,500 £63,250 -
25th Percentile £76,750 £78,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £97,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% - -
75th Percentile £110,000 £111,875 -
90th Percentile £145,000 £119,000 -
England median annual salary £85,000 £97,500 -
% change year-on-year -12.82% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,903 3,197 5,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.04% 27.28% 29.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,457 2,146 3,579
10th Percentile £52,300 £52,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £64,632 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £112,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.74%

Model Context Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Model Context Protocol job vacancy trend in London

Model Context Protocol
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Model Context Protocol

Model Context Protocol
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Model Context Protocol in London over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Model Context Protocol in London

Model Context Protocol
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 6 October 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 +10 5 £78,500 +18.49% 39
Model Context Protocol
England

Model Context Protocol
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 3 (3.90%) SAS
2 1 (1.30%) CMS
2 1 (1.30%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 29 (37.66%) LangSmith
2 28 (36.36%) AWS
3 16 (20.78%) GitHub
4 13 (16.88%) Amazon Bedrock
4 13 (16.88%) Anthropic Claude
5 12 (15.58%) Azure
5 12 (15.58%) GitHub Copilot
6 8 (10.39%) GCP
7 7 (9.09%) Serverless
8 6 (7.79%) Amazon S3
9 5 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (6.49%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (6.49%) Vertex AI
10 4 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (3.90%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (3.90%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (3.90%) SaaS
12 2 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.79%) Pinecone
2 3 (3.90%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.90%) MySQL
2 3 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (2.60%) Weaviate
4 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (15.58%) Claude Code
2 6 (7.79%) MLflow
3 4 (5.19%) Cucumber
4 3 (3.90%) GitLab
4 3 (3.90%) Gradle
4 3 (3.90%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.60%) Git
5 2 (2.60%) HP UFT
5 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.60%) JUnit
5 2 (2.60%) Maven
5 2 (2.60%) Mockito
5 2 (2.60%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.30%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.30%) Xcode
General
1 45 (58.44%) Finance
2 25 (32.47%) Financial Institution
3 10 (12.99%) Marketing
4 9 (11.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (9.09%) Law
6 5 (6.49%) Social Skills
7 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.90%) Billing
9 2 (2.60%) Banking
9 2 (2.60%) Legal
9 2 (2.60%) Military
9 2 (2.60%) Public Speaking
9 2 (2.60%) Retail
9 2 (2.60%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.30%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 37 (48.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 23 (29.87%) Senior
3 12 (15.58%) Lead
4 11 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 10 (12.99%) Architect
5 10 (12.99%) Senior Architect
6 8 (10.39%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 8 (10.39%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (7.79%) Developer
8 5 (6.49%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 5 (6.49%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 3 (3.90%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 3 (3.90%) Consultant
9 3 (3.90%) Lead Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Lead PHP Developer
9 3 (3.90%) PHP Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Python Engineer
10 2 (2.60%) Backend Developer
10 2 (2.60%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (49.35%) LangChain
2 28 (36.36%) Langfuse
2 28 (36.36%) LlamaIndex
3 15 (19.48%) A2A Protocol
4 11 (14.29%) LangGraph
5 8 (10.39%) CrewAI
5 8 (10.39%) Terraform
6 5 (6.49%) Node.js
6 5 (6.49%) OpenAPI
6 5 (6.49%) React
6 5 (6.49%) REST
6 5 (6.49%) Swagger
7 4 (5.19%) CSS
7 4 (5.19%) Kafka
8 3 (3.90%) CodeIgniter
8 3 (3.90%) HTML
8 3 (3.90%) Laravel
8 3 (3.90%) PyTorch
8 3 (3.90%) Symfony
8 3 (3.90%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 57 (74.03%) AI Agents
2 41 (53.25%) Cloud Native
3 25 (32.47%) e-Learning
4 8 (10.39%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (10.39%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (10.39%) Onboarding
5 5 (6.49%) Autonomous Agent
6 3 (3.90%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.90%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (3.90%) Hackathon
6 3 (3.90%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.60%) Blog
7 2 (2.60%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (2.60%) IVR
7 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.30%) Animation
8 1 (1.30%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (100.00%) AI
2 59 (76.62%) LLM
3 48 (62.34%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 45 (58.44%) Generative AI
5 43 (55.84%) Machine Learning
5 43 (55.84%) Prompt Engineering
6 39 (50.65%) Agile
6 39 (50.65%) MLOps
6 39 (50.65%) Observability
7 38 (49.35%) Computer Science
8 34 (44.16%) Full-Stack Development
9 33 (42.86%) CI/CD
10 31 (40.26%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (40.26%) Software Engineering
11 30 (38.96%) Deep Learning
12 29 (37.66%) API Development
12 29 (37.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
13 28 (36.36%) Project Management
14 26 (33.77%) Front End Development
15 25 (32.47%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 51 (66.23%) Python
2 12 (15.58%) Java
3 8 (10.39%) TypeScript
4 7 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.19%) SQL
6 3 (3.90%) Go
6 3 (3.90%) PHP
7 2 (2.60%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.60%) Scala
8 1 (1.30%) Bash
8 1 (1.30%) C#
Qualifications
1 42 (54.55%) Degree
2 25 (32.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 10 (12.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (7.79%) Master's Degree
5 5 (6.49%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.60%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.39%) QA
2 4 (5.19%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (16.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (15.58%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.60%) Grafana
2 2 (2.60%) Kubeflow
2 2 (2.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (10.39%) Google
2 7 (9.09%) OpenAI
3 5 (6.49%) Avaya
3 5 (6.49%) Cisco
3 5 (6.49%) Genesys
4 3 (3.90%) Databricks
4 3 (3.90%) Oracle
5 2 (2.60%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.60%) SAP
6 1 (1.30%) Foundry