Microsoft Certified Professional Job Trends in Reading

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 76 - 102
Rank change year-on-year - - -9
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional 1 0 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.082% - 0.86%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.33% - 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 15
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,250 - £29,175
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £31,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +31.25%
75th Percentile £68,750 - £33,000
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median annual salary £67,500 £50,000 £31,500
% change year-on-year +35.00% +58.73% +31.25%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 306 256 713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 25.21% 49.42% 40.77%
Number of salaries quoted 145 118 459
10th Percentile £37,350 £30,875 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.10% +5.10%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,688 £63,748
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,125 £78,750
Berkshire median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +7.11%

Microsoft Certified Professional
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Microsoft Certified Professional job vacancy trend in Reading

Microsoft Certified Professional
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified Professional
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI