Model Context Protocol Job Trends

Model Context Protocol (MCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Model Context Protocol skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 634 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Model Context Protocol 26 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.041% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.35% - -
Number of salaries quoted 14 0 0
10th Percentile £64,125 - -
25th Percentile £68,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 - -
75th Percentile £112,188 - -
90th Percentile £121,750 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Model Context Protocol falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,361 11,379 16,742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.60% 21.80% 24.09%
Number of salaries quoted 5,408 6,673 13,729
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,067
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

Model Context Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Model Context Protocol job vacancy trend in the UK

Model Context Protocol
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Model Context Protocol.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Model Context Protocol

Model Context Protocol
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Model Context Protocol over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Model Context Protocol in the UK

Model Context Protocol
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Model Context Protocol within the UK 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
England - 24 £96,250 - 3
London - 19 £100,000 - 2
Work from Home - 5 £86,250 - 1
UK excluding London - 5 £72,500 - 1
North of England - 3 £72,500 -
North West - 3 £72,500 -
South West - 1 - -
East of England - 1 - -

Model Context Protocol
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 4 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.85%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) AWS
3 7 (26.92%) Azure AI
3 7 (26.92%) Power Platform
3 7 (26.92%) Serverless
4 6 (23.08%) Anthropic Claude
5 5 (19.23%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (19.23%) AWS Fargate
6 4 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (15.38%) Amazon S3
6 4 (15.38%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (15.38%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (15.38%) dbt
6 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (15.38%) Power Automate
7 3 (11.54%) Google Gemini
7 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (11.54%) PaaS
7 3 (11.54%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 2 (7.69%) Power BI
1 2 (7.69%) Semantic Layer
1 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) MLflow
2 2 (7.69%) Balsamiq
2 2 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (3.85%) Claude Code
3 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Advertising
4 1 (3.85%) Legal
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) IT Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Digital Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Python Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) LangChain
2 6 (23.08%) LangGraph
3 5 (19.23%) PyTorch
3 5 (19.23%) React
3 5 (19.23%) TensorFlow
4 4 (15.38%) AWS CDK
4 4 (15.38%) REST
4 4 (15.38%) RESTful
5 3 (11.54%) A2A Protocol
6 2 (7.69%) .NET
6 2 (7.69%) Django
6 2 (7.69%) FastAPI
6 2 (7.69%) Hugging Face
6 2 (7.69%) LlamaIndex
6 2 (7.69%) mypy
6 2 (7.69%) Node.js
6 2 (7.69%) OAuth
6 2 (7.69%) pydantic
6 2 (7.69%) pytest
6 2 (7.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (38.46%) AI Agents
2 4 (15.38%) Low-Code
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.85%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) AI
2 20 (76.92%) LLM
3 14 (53.85%) Machine Learning
4 12 (46.15%) Generative AI
4 12 (46.15%) Software Engineering
5 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
6 8 (30.77%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (26.92%) Multi-Agent System
8 6 (23.08%) MLOps
8 6 (23.08%) Observability
8 6 (23.08%) Test Automation
8 6 (23.08%) User Experience
9 4 (15.38%) AIOps
9 4 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
9 4 (15.38%) Deep Learning
9 4 (15.38%) DevOps
9 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
9 4 (15.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) TypeScript
3 5 (19.23%) SQL
4 4 (15.38%) C#
5 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.85%) Java
6 1 (3.85%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 4 (15.38%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) EU AI Act
1 1 (3.85%) NIST
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
1 6 (23.08%) Terraform
2 5 (19.23%) Grafana
2 5 (19.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 9 (34.62%) OpenAI
3 5 (19.23%) Databricks
4 3 (11.54%) Foundry
4 3 (11.54%) Google
5 1 (3.85%) Adobe
5 1 (3.85%) Palantir
5 1 (3.85%) Salesforce