MCP Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for MCP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 621 645
Rank change year-on-year +64 +24 -79
Permanent jobs citing MCP 203 125 209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.21% 0.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.04% 0.58% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 187 103 159
10th Percentile £22,740 £23,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,544 £24,250 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £31,500 £35,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -11.27% -1.39%
75th Percentile £38,750 £46,875 £43,750
90th Percentile £47,250 £58,100 £47,500
UK median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -6.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

MCP is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,490 21,727 22,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.30% 36.66% 31.78%
Number of salaries quoted 12,219 8,048 10,291
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,451 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,563 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.34% +8.30% -

MCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing MCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for MCP in the UK excluding London

MCP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MCP in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for MCP in the UK excluding London

MCP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing MCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for MCP in the UK excluding London

MCP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
South East +13 55 £38,000 +33.33% 6
North of England +76 53 £30,000 -7.69% 13
Midlands +17 42 £25,000 -5.66% 3
South West 0 35 £32,500 -4.41% 15
North West +15 26 £30,000 -14.29% 10
Yorkshire +95 23 £32,500 +40.02% 2
West Midlands +17 21 £33,500 +28.85% 2
East Midlands +8 21 £25,000 -52.38% 1
East of England +6 13 £29,500 -50.83% 1
Wales +8 4 £27,000 -46.00%
North East -4 4 £28,500 -66.47% 1
Scotland -78 1 £23,000 -24.59% 10
MCP
UK

MCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 54 (26.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (10.34%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.99%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.49%) CMS
4 1 (0.49%) IIS
Applications
1 77 (37.93%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 121 (59.61%) Microsoft 365
2 52 (25.62%) Azure
3 23 (11.33%) Entra ID
4 13 (6.40%) AWS
5 6 (2.96%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (2.96%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (2.96%) IaaS
5 6 (2.96%) Twilio
6 5 (2.46%) OneDrive
7 2 (0.99%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.49%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.49%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 46 (22.66%) Firewall
2 40 (19.70%) Network Security
3 24 (11.82%) DHCP
3 24 (11.82%) DNS
4 16 (7.88%) LAN
4 16 (7.88%) VPN
5 15 (7.39%) SAN
6 13 (6.40%) Wireless
7 12 (5.91%) Internet
7 12 (5.91%) WAN
8 11 (5.42%) Remote Desktop
8 11 (5.42%) VLAN
9 10 (4.93%) TCP/IP
10 8 (3.94%) VoIP
11 6 (2.96%) iSCSI
12 5 (2.46%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (1.97%) NAS
13 4 (1.97%) SSL
13 4 (1.97%) WLAN
14 3 (1.48%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.40%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 92 (45.32%) Social Skills
2 19 (9.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (8.87%) Finance
4 15 (7.39%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (5.91%) Legal
6 11 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.93%) Games
8 7 (3.45%) Banking
9 6 (2.96%) Local Government
10 5 (2.46%) Retail
11 4 (1.97%) Law
11 4 (1.97%) Marketing
11 4 (1.97%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.48%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.48%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.49%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (22.17%) Support Engineer
2 38 (18.72%) IT Support
3 27 (13.30%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 27 (13.30%) Desktop Engineer
4 26 (12.81%) 2nd Line Support
4 26 (12.81%) Analyst
5 24 (11.82%) Field Engineer
6 21 (10.34%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
6 21 (10.34%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
6 21 (10.34%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 21 (10.34%) Desktop Support
6 21 (10.34%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 21 (10.34%) Field Support Engineer
7 19 (9.36%) IT Engineer
8 18 (8.87%) Hardware Engineer
9 16 (7.88%) IT Support Engineer
10 15 (7.39%) 1st Line Support
11 13 (6.40%) Technical Engineer
12 12 (5.91%) IT Analyst
13 10 (4.93%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.49%) CSS
1 1 (0.49%) EDI
1 1 (0.49%) HTML
1 1 (0.49%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 41 (20.20%) Data Centre
2 27 (13.30%) Onboarding
3 26 (12.81%) Private Cloud
4 22 (10.84%) Driving Licence
5 8 (3.94%) CCTV
6 7 (3.45%) Replication
7 6 (2.96%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.97%) Clustering
8 4 (1.97%) iPhone
9 3 (1.48%) EPoS
9 3 (1.48%) iPad
9 3 (1.48%) Media Streaming
10 1 (0.49%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.49%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.49%) IoT
10 1 (0.49%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.49%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 144 (70.94%) Windows
2 52 (25.62%) Windows 10
3 37 (18.23%) Windows Server
4 27 (13.30%) Mac OS
5 10 (4.93%) Apple iOS
6 8 (3.94%) Linux
7 7 (3.45%) Android
8 6 (2.96%) Windows 8
9 4 (1.97%) Mac OS X
9 4 (1.97%) Windows Vista
9 4 (1.97%) Windows XP
10 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.49%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (56.16%) Customer Service
2 71 (34.98%) Problem-Solving
3 70 (34.48%) ITIL
4 43 (21.18%) Cybersecurity
5 35 (17.24%) Computer Science
6 27 (13.30%) Software Licensing
7 26 (12.81%) Presales
8 20 (9.85%) ITSM
9 19 (9.36%) Asset Management
10 17 (8.37%) Break/Fix
11 15 (7.39%) Service Management
12 14 (6.90%) IT Asset Management
12 14 (6.90%) Mentoring
13 13 (6.40%) Active Listening
13 13 (6.40%) Collaborative Working
13 13 (6.40%) Impact Assessments
13 13 (6.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 13 (6.40%) Service Delivery
14 12 (5.91%) Line Management
15 10 (4.93%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 24 (11.82%) PowerShell
2 7 (3.45%) SQL
3 2 (0.99%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.49%) C
4 1 (0.49%) Go
4 1 (0.49%) Java
4 1 (0.49%) PHP
4 1 (0.49%) Python
4 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 138 (67.98%) Microsoft Certification
2 103 (50.74%) Degree
3 63 (31.03%) A+ Certification
4 43 (21.18%) DBS Check
5 32 (15.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (12.32%) MCSA
6 25 (12.32%) MCSE
7 17 (8.37%) CCNA
7 17 (8.37%) Cisco Certification
7 17 (8.37%) Security Cleared
8 14 (6.90%) Network+ Certification
9 13 (6.40%) DV Cleared
9 13 (6.40%) SC Cleared
10 11 (5.42%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (2.46%) MCTS
12 4 (1.97%) Citrix Certification
12 4 (1.97%) HND
12 4 (1.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (1.48%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.48%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.29%) SLA
2 6 (2.96%) GDPR
3 3 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.48%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 145 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 36 (17.73%) Hyper-V
3 34 (16.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.45%) vSphere
5 6 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.46%) XenApp
6 5 (2.46%) XenDesktop
7 4 (1.97%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.99%) Firmware
9 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 36 (17.73%) SCCM
2 12 (5.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.96%) FortiGate
3 6 (2.96%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 6 (2.96%) SCDPM
4 4 (1.97%) WSUS
5 3 (1.48%) Autotask
5 3 (1.48%) Backup Exec
5 3 (1.48%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
6 1 (0.49%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 193 (95.07%) Microsoft
2 36 (17.73%) VMware
3 34 (16.75%) Apple
4 27 (13.30%) Adobe
5 15 (7.39%) Citrix
6 14 (6.90%) Cisco
6 14 (6.90%) Dell
7 13 (6.40%) ServiceNow
8 11 (5.42%) Datto
9 10 (4.93%) HP
10 8 (3.94%) Sophos
10 8 (3.94%) Veeam
11 7 (3.45%) WatchGuard
12 6 (2.96%) Dell Compellent
12 6 (2.96%) Draytek
13 4 (1.97%) iManage
13 4 (1.97%) Meraki
13 4 (1.97%) Symantec
13 4 (1.97%) Veritas
14 3 (1.48%) Sage