Microsoft Certified Professional Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for Microsoft Certified Professional qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 - 144
Rank change year-on-year - - +100
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional 1 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.041% - 0.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.17% - 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £26,975
25th Percentile £75,000 - £27,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £29,750
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.80%
75th Percentile £85,000 - £32,188
90th Percentile - - £33,125
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 - £27,000
% change year-on-year - - +16.32%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Yorkshire

Microsoft Certified Professional 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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 599 366 555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 24.47% 32.25% 20.57%
Number of salaries quoted 234 155 345
10th Percentile - £25,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,020 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.07% -14.29% -9.19%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £69,914
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £34,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -24.44% -5.26% -9.52%

Microsoft Certified Professional
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft Certified Professional relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Microsoft Certified Professional job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Certified Professional
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Microsoft Certified Professional.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified Professional
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 March 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
Leeds - 1 £80,000 -
Microsoft Certified Professional
Yorkshire

Microsoft Certified Professional
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) A2A Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) Model Context Protocol
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering