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 24 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 - 143
Rank change year-on-year - - +93
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certified Professional 1 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.039% - 0.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.17% - 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £27,925
25th Percentile £75,000 - £30,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 - £35,000
90th Percentile - - £37,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 - £32,500
% change year-on-year - - +40.02%

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 580 355 558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 22.90% 32.60% 20.28%
Number of salaries quoted 234 165 342
10th Percentile - £25,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,410 £42,500 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% -17.52% -10.87%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,776 £73,886 £80,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £35,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -22.22% -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 24 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