Microsoft Certified Professional Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 53 59 82
Rank change year-on-year +6 +23 +47
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional 7 22 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 0.89% 2.76% 0.63%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.83% 7.91% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 7 16 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27,250 £25,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,500 £27,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -31.25% +48.15%
75th Percentile £29,750 £29,250 £41,000
90th Percentile - - £44,100
South East median annual salary £29,000 £27,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year +5.45% -26.67% +7.14%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 120 278 302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 15.25% 34.88% 27.04%
Number of salaries quoted 60 92 248
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,750 £29,913
25th Percentile £35,641 £39,009 £37,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,128 £49,996 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +5.25% +7.11%
75th Percentile £69,063 £63,125 £62,625
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £73,750
South East median annual salary £52,500 £58,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.64% +11.90% +0.96%

Microsoft Certified Professional
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Microsoft Certified Professional job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Microsoft Certified Professional
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified Professional
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire 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
Banbury -8 7 £28,500 +3.64%
Microsoft Certified Professional
South East

Microsoft Certified Professional
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) GCP
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) DHCP
1 7 (100.00%) DNS
1 7 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) IT Support
1 7 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) A+ Certification
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Google
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft