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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Model Context Protocol 19 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.13% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.69% - -
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £63,625 - -
25th Percentile £85,625 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 - -
75th Percentile £118,750 - -
90th Percentile £122,500 - -
England median annual salary £96,250 - -

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 2,743 4,084 5,583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.49% 26.46% 27.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,950 2,538 4,828
10th Percentile £50,474 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,375 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,725 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.20% +0.91% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £131,250 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%

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 30 January 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 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 - 5 £67,500 -
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 4 (21.05%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.26%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 7 (36.84%) AWS
3 6 (31.58%) Serverless
4 5 (26.32%) Anthropic Claude
4 5 (26.32%) Power Platform
5 4 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (21.05%) Amazon S3
5 4 (21.05%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (21.05%) AWS Fargate
5 4 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (21.05%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (21.05%) Azure AI
5 4 (21.05%) dbt
6 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (15.79%) GCP
6 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Functions
7 2 (10.53%) Figma
7 2 (10.53%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
1 2 (10.53%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) MLflow
2 2 (10.53%) Balsamiq
3 1 (5.26%) Claude Code
3 1 (5.26%) Git
3 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Advertising
4 1 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Architect
2 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
2 3 (15.79%) Software Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) IT Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Digital Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) LangChain
2 5 (26.32%) React
3 4 (21.05%) AWS CDK
3 4 (21.05%) LangGraph
4 3 (15.79%) PyTorch
4 3 (15.79%) REST
4 3 (15.79%) TensorFlow
5 2 (10.53%) mypy
5 2 (10.53%) OAuth
5 2 (10.53%) pydantic
5 2 (10.53%) pytest
5 2 (10.53%) RESTful
5 2 (10.53%) Vue
6 1 (5.26%) A2A Protocol
6 1 (5.26%) FastAPI
6 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
6 1 (5.26%) Hugging Face
6 1 (5.26%) Material-UI
6 1 (5.26%) ONNX
6 1 (5.26%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) AI Agents
2 4 (21.05%) Low-Code
3 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) AI
2 16 (84.21%) LLM
3 11 (57.89%) Machine Learning
4 9 (47.37%) CI/CD
4 9 (47.37%) Generative AI
5 8 (42.11%) Software Engineering
6 7 (36.84%) Multi-Agent System
7 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (31.58%) MLOps
8 5 (26.32%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
9 4 (21.05%) AIOps
9 4 (21.05%) Cost Optimisation
9 4 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (21.05%) DevOps
9 4 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (21.05%) Observability
9 4 (21.05%) Presales
9 4 (21.05%) User Experience
10 3 (15.79%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Python
2 5 (26.32%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) TypeScript
3 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) C#
5 1 (5.26%) Java
5 1 (5.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 4 (21.05%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
1 6 (31.58%) Terraform
2 5 (26.32%) Grafana
2 5 (26.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) OpenAI
2 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
3 5 (26.32%) Databricks
4 2 (10.53%) Foundry
4 2 (10.53%) Google
5 1 (5.26%) Adobe
5 1 (5.26%) Palantir
5 1 (5.26%) Salesforce