Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for MCITP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 17 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 681 815
Rank change year-on-year +105 +134 -156
Contract jobs citing MCITP 15 35 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.057% 0.055%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.11% 0.21% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 34 38
10th Percentile £174 £144 £128
25th Percentile £206 £179 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -28.69% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £355 £563 £499
90th Percentile £445 £675 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £310 £400 £370
% change year-on-year -22.50% +8.11% +13.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.25
Median hourly rate - - £21.50
75th Percentile - - £22.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £21.50
% change year-on-year - - -28.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

MCITP is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,403 16,529 19,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.65% 27.12% 21.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,285 11,024 12,694
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £525 £495
% change year-on-year +0.95% +6.06% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,042 875 782
10th Percentile £13.69 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.72 £20.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £39.96 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.89% +32.91% -1.25%
75th Percentile £61.30 £67.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.53 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £49.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -18.37% +64.87% -19.68%

MCITP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MCITP in the UK

MCITP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MCITP.

Daily rate trend for MCITP in the UK

MCITP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MCITP over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MCITP in the UK

MCITP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MCITP.

Hourly rate trend for MCITP in the UK

MCITP
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCITP within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +128 15 £285 -28.69% 10
London +125 9 £285 -30.21%
UK excluding London +33 6 £310 -22.50% 10
South East +24 4 £145 -62.58% 4
Work from Home +107 2 £450 - 1
North of England +26 2 £450 +20.00% 1
North West +24 2 £450 -25.00%

MCITP
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 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (86.67%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (40.00%) WhatsApp
4 5 (33.33%) AWS
5 3 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
6 2 (13.33%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (13.33%) MySQL
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Legal
3 4 (26.67%) Marketing
4 2 (13.33%) Advertising
4 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (13.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) 1st Line Support
2 3 (20.00%) Administrator
2 3 (20.00%) DBA
2 3 (20.00%) SQL DBA
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server DBA
3 2 (13.33%) 1st Line Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) 1st Line Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (13.33%) Associate Director
3 2 (13.33%) Build Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) IT Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) IT Support
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (20.00%) Clustering
3 2 (13.33%) NHS
3 2 (13.33%) Smartphone
4 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (46.67%) Computer Science
3 6 (40.00%) Escalation Management
4 4 (26.67%) ITIL
4 4 (26.67%) ITSM
4 4 (26.67%) Service Management
5 3 (20.00%) Capacity Management
5 3 (20.00%) Database Migration
5 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (20.00%) High Availability
5 3 (20.00%) Migration
5 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (20.00%) Storage Management
6 2 (13.33%) Asset Management
6 2 (13.33%) Customer Service
6 2 (13.33%) Digital Strategy
6 2 (13.33%) Information Management
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (13.33%) Remote Monitoring and Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (73.33%) Degree
3 8 (53.33%) A+ Certification
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (20.00%) MCTS
5 2 (13.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Apple
2 2 (13.33%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) VMware