Microsoft Certified Professional Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 39 47 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional 10 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Northamptonshire 2.20% 0.48% -
As % of the Qualifications category 12.50% 1.24% -
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 - -
75th Percentile £33,750 - -
90th Percentile £34,125 - -
East Midlands median annual salary £32,500 - £25,000
% change year-on-year - - -10.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 80 161 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 17.58% 38.33% 18.22%
Number of salaries quoted 40 46 78
10th Percentile - £28,500 £25,827
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,188 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £61,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +16.67% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £63,688
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,875 £68,750
East Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% -2.56%

Microsoft Certified Professional
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Microsoft Certified Professional job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Microsoft Certified Professional
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified Professional
Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire 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
Northampton - 10 £32,500 - 1
Microsoft Certified Professional
East Midlands

Microsoft Certified Professional
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
General
1 10 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (10.00%) Applications Support Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Applications Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Change Control
1 9 (90.00%) Mentoring
1 9 (90.00%) Project Delivery
1 9 (90.00%) Server Management
2 1 (10.00%) Agile
2 1 (10.00%) Client Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (10.00%) CRM
2 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL
2 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (10.00%) Scrum
2 1 (10.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (90.00%) CCA
2 9 (90.00%) CCNA
2 9 (90.00%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (90.00%) Citrix Certification
2 9 (90.00%) MCSA
2 9 (90.00%) MCSE
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (90.00%) SLA
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (90.00%) Cisco
2 9 (90.00%) Citrix
2 9 (90.00%) VMware