Microsoft Certified Professional Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Microsoft Certified Professional qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 - 216
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional 2 0 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.033% - 0.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.26% - 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 11
10th Percentile - - £30,000
25th Percentile £77,500 - £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £38,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £30,000 - £30,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 766 797 1,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 12.62% 35.13% 20.38%
Number of salaries quoted 523 392 840
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,480 £27,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £33,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,500 £81,125 £82,500
North West median annual salary £52,500 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -13.04%

Microsoft Certified Professional
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Microsoft Certified Professional job vacancy trend in Manchester

Microsoft Certified Professional
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified Professional
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Pinecone
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Claude Code
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) CrewAI
2 1 (50.00%) Faiss
2 1 (50.00%) LangChain
2 1 (50.00%) LangGraph
2 1 (50.00%) LlamaIndex
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Memory Management
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes