Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for MCP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 676 827 915
Rank change year-on-year +151 +88 -196
Permanent jobs citing MCP 220 163 283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.81% 0.47% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 203 141 186
10th Percentile £22,900 £22,514 £23,625
25th Percentile £28,250 £25,000 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,797 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -6.29% -5.41%
75th Percentile £41,000 £47,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £47,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £31,934 £35,000
% change year-on-year +1.77% -8.76% -1.41%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,325 34,428 41,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.83% 32.74% 27.01%
Number of salaries quoted 17,299 15,366 18,926
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £30,875
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,825 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% +5.14% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,863
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000

MCP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MCP in the UK

MCP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MCP.

Salary trend for MCP in the UK

MCP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MCP over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for MCP in the UK

MCP
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCP within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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
England +189 215 £33,100 -0.89% 36
UK excluding London +74 198 £32,500 +1.77% 30
South East +30 56 £38,000 +26.67% 5
Work from Home +90 53 £38,000 +16.92% 10
North of England +70 49 £32,500 - 8
Midlands +28 42 £25,000 -5.66% 1
South West +1 31 £32,500 -4.41% 8
Yorkshire +104 23 £32,500 +40.02% 3
London +123 22 £55,000 +37.50% 12
North West +21 22 £28,500 -12.31% 4
West Midlands +24 21 £33,500 +28.85%
East Midlands 0 21 £25,000 -52.38% 1
East of England +33 15 £29,500 -50.83% 2
Wales +5 4 £27,000 -43.16%
North East +3 4 £28,500 -66.47% 1
Scotland -70 1 £23,000 -29.23% 6

MCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 51 (23.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (12.73%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.45%) CMS
4 1 (0.45%) IIS
Applications
1 83 (37.73%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 131 (59.55%) Microsoft 365
2 67 (30.45%) Azure
3 26 (11.82%) Entra ID
4 14 (6.36%) AWS
5 12 (5.45%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.73%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (2.73%) IaaS
6 6 (2.73%) Twilio
7 5 (2.27%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.36%) Azure Stack
8 3 (1.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.36%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.91%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 49 (22.27%) Firewall
2 44 (20.00%) Network Security
3 28 (12.73%) DHCP
3 28 (12.73%) DNS
4 21 (9.55%) LAN
5 17 (7.73%) WAN
6 16 (7.27%) SAN
6 16 (7.27%) VPN
7 13 (5.91%) Wireless
8 12 (5.45%) Internet
8 12 (5.45%) TCP/IP
8 12 (5.45%) VLAN
9 9 (4.09%) Remote Desktop
10 8 (3.64%) VoIP
11 6 (2.73%) iSCSI
11 6 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (1.82%) NAS
12 4 (1.82%) SSL
12 4 (1.82%) WLAN
13 3 (1.36%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.64%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.18%) Power BI
3 3 (1.36%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.45%) QlikView
5 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.45%) JIRA
General
1 98 (44.55%) Social Skills
2 23 (10.45%) Finance
3 19 (8.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (6.82%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (5.91%) Legal
6 11 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.55%) Banking
7 10 (4.55%) Games
8 6 (2.73%) Local Government
8 6 (2.73%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.27%) Retail
10 4 (1.82%) Electronics
10 4 (1.82%) Law
10 4 (1.82%) Marketing
11 3 (1.36%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.36%) Multimedia
12 2 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.91%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (22.27%) Support Engineer
2 42 (19.09%) IT Support
3 29 (13.18%) Desktop Engineer
4 28 (12.73%) Analyst
5 27 (12.27%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 27 (12.27%) 2nd Line Support
6 24 (10.91%) Desktop Support
6 24 (10.91%) Field Engineer
7 23 (10.45%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 21 (9.55%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
8 21 (9.55%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
8 21 (9.55%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 21 (9.55%) Field Support Engineer
9 20 (9.09%) IT Engineer
10 16 (7.27%) 1st Line Support
10 16 (7.27%) IT Support Engineer
11 15 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (5.91%) Hardware Engineer
12 13 (5.91%) Technical Engineer
13 12 (5.45%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.45%) CSS
1 1 (0.45%) EDI
1 1 (0.45%) HTML
1 1 (0.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 41 (18.64%) Data Centre
2 29 (13.18%) Onboarding
3 26 (11.82%) Private Cloud
4 19 (8.64%) Driving Licence
5 8 (3.64%) CCTV
5 8 (3.64%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.27%) Replication
7 4 (1.82%) Clustering
7 4 (1.82%) iPhone
8 3 (1.36%) EPoS
8 3 (1.36%) iPad
8 3 (1.36%) Media Streaming
9 2 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.45%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.45%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.45%) IoT
10 1 (0.45%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.45%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 151 (68.64%) Windows
2 53 (24.09%) Windows 10
3 39 (17.73%) Windows Server
4 29 (13.18%) Mac OS
5 9 (4.09%) Linux
6 7 (3.18%) Apple iOS
7 6 (2.73%) Windows 8
8 4 (1.82%) Android
8 4 (1.82%) Mac OS X
8 4 (1.82%) Windows XP
9 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.45%) AIX
10 1 (0.45%) Unix
10 1 (0.45%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (50.91%) Customer Service
2 76 (34.55%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (30.45%) ITIL
4 46 (20.91%) Cybersecurity
5 38 (17.27%) Computer Science
6 28 (12.73%) Software Licensing
7 26 (11.82%) Presales
8 20 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 20 (9.09%) ITSM
9 19 (8.64%) Asset Management
10 16 (7.27%) Service Delivery
10 16 (7.27%) Service Management
11 14 (6.36%) Mentoring
12 13 (5.91%) Active Listening
12 13 (5.91%) Break/Fix
12 13 (5.91%) Collaborative Working
12 13 (5.91%) Impact Assessments
12 13 (5.91%) IT Asset Management
13 11 (5.00%) Time Management
14 10 (4.55%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 22 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 15 (6.82%) SQL
3 6 (2.73%) T-SQL
4 2 (0.91%) Python
5 1 (0.45%) Bash
5 1 (0.45%) C
5 1 (0.45%) Go
5 1 (0.45%) Java
5 1 (0.45%) PHP
5 1 (0.45%) R
5 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 156 (70.91%) Microsoft Certification
2 111 (50.45%) Degree
3 65 (29.55%) A+ Certification
4 45 (20.45%) DBS Check
5 36 (16.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (13.18%) MCSE
7 22 (10.00%) MCSA
8 18 (8.18%) Security Cleared
9 16 (7.27%) CCNA
9 16 (7.27%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (7.27%) Network+ Certification
10 14 (6.36%) SC Cleared
11 13 (5.91%) DV Cleared
12 11 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (3.18%) MCTS
14 4 (1.82%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (1.82%) HND
14 4 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 3 (1.36%) AWS Certification
15 3 (1.36%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (14.55%) SLA
2 7 (3.18%) GDPR
3 4 (1.82%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 149 (67.73%) Active Directory
2 36 (16.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (15.45%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.18%) vSphere
5 6 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.91%) Firmware
7 2 (0.91%) XenApp
7 2 (0.91%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 38 (17.27%) SCCM
2 13 (5.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.73%) FortiGate
3 6 (2.73%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 6 (2.73%) SCDPM
4 4 (1.82%) WSUS
5 3 (1.36%) Autotask
6 1 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 210 (95.45%) Microsoft
2 41 (18.64%) VMware
3 35 (15.91%) Apple
4 28 (12.73%) Adobe
5 15 (6.82%) Citrix
6 14 (6.36%) Cisco
7 13 (5.91%) HP
7 13 (5.91%) ServiceNow
8 11 (5.00%) Datto
8 11 (5.00%) Dell
9 9 (4.09%) Sophos
10 7 (3.18%) WatchGuard
11 6 (2.73%) Dell Compellent
11 6 (2.73%) Draytek
12 5 (2.27%) Veeam
13 4 (1.82%) IBM
13 4 (1.82%) iManage
13 4 (1.82%) Meraki
14 3 (1.36%) Oracle
14 3 (1.36%) Sage