MCP Jobs in the West Midlands

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for MCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 226 263
Rank change year-on-year +111 +37 -6
Permanent jobs citing MCP 84 21 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.88% 0.29% 0.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.33% 1.10% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 12 19 15
10th Percentile - £21,500 £24,250
25th Percentile £27,750 £24,196 £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,750 £33,500 £26,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +28.85% -26.24%
75th Percentile £37,500 £38,000 £28,000
90th Percentile - - £48,750
England median annual salary £35,000 £32,500 £32,797
% change year-on-year +7.69% -0.91% -6.29%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

MCP 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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,525 1,901 2,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 56.55% 26.26% 41.19%
Number of salaries quoted 572 1,277 969
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,344 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,475 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,193
% change year-on-year - -5.49% +5.81%

MCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing MCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for MCP in the West Midlands

MCP
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for MCP in the West Midlands

MCP
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing MCP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for MCP in the West Midlands

MCP
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Warwickshire - 23 - -
Birmingham +33 11 £28,500 -25.00%
Worcestershire +27 9 - -
Staffordshire +26 9 £35,000 +52.17% 1
Coventry -1 2 - -
Kingswinford - 2 - -
Rowley Regis - 2 - -
Smethwick - 2 - -
Bilston - 2 - -
Willenhall - 2 - -
Wolverhampton - 2 - -
Sutton Coldfield - 2 - -
Tipton - 2 - -
Walsall - 2 - -
Wednesbury - 1 - -
West Bromwich - 1 - -
Solihull - 1 - -
Stourbridge - 1 - -
Dudley - 1 - -
Halesowen - 1 - -
Brierley Hill - 1 - -
MCP
England

MCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (5.95%) Azure
3 1 (1.19%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.19%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 72 (85.71%) Internet
1 72 (85.71%) Network Security
1 72 (85.71%) WLAN
2 11 (13.10%) LAN
2 11 (13.10%) WAN
3 6 (7.14%) DHCP
3 6 (7.14%) DNS
3 6 (7.14%) Firewall
3 6 (7.14%) VPN
General
1 5 (5.95%) Public Sector
2 1 (1.19%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 83 (98.81%) Support Engineer
2 72 (85.71%) IT Engineer
2 72 (85.71%) IT Support
2 72 (85.71%) IT Support Engineer
3 12 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (13.10%) Infrastructure Support
4 11 (13.10%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 72 (85.71%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 84 (100.00%) Windows
2 72 (85.71%) Linux
3 11 (13.10%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.14%) Windows 10
4 6 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (92.86%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (86.90%) ITIL
3 72 (85.71%) Asset Management
3 72 (85.71%) Computer Science
3 72 (85.71%) IT Asset Management
3 72 (85.71%) Mentoring
3 72 (85.71%) Network Management
4 12 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (7.14%) Customer Service
5 6 (7.14%) Logistics
6 1 (1.19%) Application Packaging
6 1 (1.19%) Change Management
6 1 (1.19%) DevOps
6 1 (1.19%) Information Security
6 1 (1.19%) Security Patching
6 1 (1.19%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (1.19%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.95%) SQL
2 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 84 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 77 (91.67%) MCSE
3 72 (85.71%) CCNA
3 72 (85.71%) CCNP
3 72 (85.71%) Cisco Certification
3 72 (85.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 72 (85.71%) Degree
3 72 (85.71%) LPIC
4 11 (13.10%) A+ Certification
4 11 (13.10%) MCSA
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 12 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.19%) Nessus
1 1 (1.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 84 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 72 (85.71%) Cisco
3 1 (1.19%) Netskope
3 1 (1.19%) VMware