MCITP Job Trends

Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for MCITP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 629 698 674
Rank change year-on-year +69 -24 +279
Permanent jobs citing MCITP 21 21 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.035% 0.038% 0.085%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.11% 0.11% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 21 7 40
10th Percentile - £32,900 -
25th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £21,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £38,500 £22,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +71.11% -30.77%
75th Percentile £39,000 £59,375 £25,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £32,675
UK excluding London median annual salary £31,500 £40,500 £22,500
% change year-on-year -22.22% +80.00% -30.77%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

MCITP 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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,408 19,496 15,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.72% 35.21% 30.11%
Number of salaries quoted 7,815 7,847 10,632
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,430 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% +3.36% -
75th Percentile £75,900 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.73% +4.76% +5.00%

MCITP
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MCITP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

MCITP job vacancy trend in the UK

MCITP
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MCITP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MCITP

MCITP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MCITP over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for MCITP in the UK

MCITP
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCITP within the UK over the 6 months to 29 December 2025. 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
England +64 20 £32,000 -15.23% 6
UK excluding London +64 16 £31,500 -22.22% 5
Work from Home +81 8 £31,500 - 2
South West +23 8 £31,500 -12.50%
East of England +35 6 £32,500 - 1
London +40 4 £57,500 +55.41% 1
North of England +2 1 £50,000 -28.57% 1
Yorkshire -3 1 £50,000 -28.57%
Midlands - 1 £31,000 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £31,000 -

MCITP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (19.05%) IIS
3 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) Azure
2 11 (52.38%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 3 (14.29%) AWS
4 3 (14.29%) Google Workspace
5 1 (4.76%) Asana
5 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) Firewall
1 7 (33.33%) LAN
1 7 (33.33%) WAN
2 5 (23.81%) DHCP
2 5 (23.81%) TCP/IP
2 5 (23.81%) WLAN
3 4 (19.05%) DNS
4 3 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (14.29%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (4.76%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (4.76%) Internet
5 1 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (4.76%) iSCSI
5 1 (4.76%) Network Security
5 1 (4.76%) SAN
5 1 (4.76%) VPN
5 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (90.48%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (28.57%) Support Technician
3 3 (14.29%) Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Support Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) IT Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) IT Support
5 1 (4.76%) Application Support Team Leader
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Support
5 1 (4.76%) Desktop Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) IT Manager
5 1 (4.76%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) IT Support Technician
5 1 (4.76%) IT Technician
5 1 (4.76%) Lead
5 1 (4.76%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Senior IT Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Support Team Leader
5 1 (4.76%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) .NET
1 3 (14.29%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (4.76%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 3 (14.29%) Eurex
3 1 (4.76%) CCTV
3 1 (4.76%) Clustering
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.76%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 11 (52.38%) Windows
2 6 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 4 (19.05%) Linux
4 3 (14.29%) Solaris
4 3 (14.29%) Ubuntu
4 3 (14.29%) Unix
4 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.76%) Windows 2000
5 1 (4.76%) Windows 8
5 1 (4.76%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) ITIL
2 11 (52.38%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (38.10%) Client Onboarding
3 8 (38.10%) Mentoring
3 8 (38.10%) Service Delivery
4 7 (33.33%) Customer Service
5 6 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (4.76%) API Integration
7 1 (4.76%) Application Security
7 1 (4.76%) Data Encryption
7 1 (4.76%) Data Loss Prevention
7 1 (4.76%) DevOps
7 1 (4.76%) Internal Audit
7 1 (4.76%) Mobile Device Management
7 1 (4.76%) Preventative Maintenance
7 1 (4.76%) Process Improvement
7 1 (4.76%) Regulatory Compliance
7 1 (4.76%) User Experience
7 1 (4.76%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 4 (19.05%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) C#
3 3 (14.29%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) VB.NET
4 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.76%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (61.90%) Network+ Certification
3 8 (38.10%) MCP
4 6 (28.57%) A+ Certification
4 6 (28.57%) MCSA
4 6 (28.57%) MCSE
5 5 (23.81%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (23.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (19.05%) MCDST
7 2 (9.52%) Degree
8 1 (4.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (4.76%) CCNA
8 1 (4.76%) CCNP
8 1 (4.76%) CCSP
8 1 (4.76%) CISA
8 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (4.76%) CISM
8 1 (4.76%) CISSP
8 1 (4.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (38.10%) SLA
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) Active Directory
2 5 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.76%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 6 (28.57%) VMware
3 5 (23.81%) Aruba
3 5 (23.81%) HP
4 4 (19.05%) Cisco
5 3 (14.29%) Bloomberg
5 3 (14.29%) CQG
5 3 (14.29%) Google
5 3 (14.29%) ION Trading
5 3 (14.29%) Patsystems
5 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
5 3 (14.29%) Reuters
5 3 (14.29%) Trayport
6 1 (4.76%) Datto
6 1 (4.76%) EMC
6 1 (4.76%) Salesforce