MCP Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for MCP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 589 767
Rank change year-on-year +56 +178 -256
Permanent jobs citing MCP 56 62 103
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.59% 0.60% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 52 60 58
10th Percentile £30,000 £16,000 £26,100
25th Percentile - £23,500 £31,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% -18.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £40,250 £52,438 £44,688
90th Percentile £45,825 £60,000 £45,000
UK median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -6.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9,557 10,342 16,600
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.15% 25.79% 23.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5,892 6,235 8,773
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing MCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MCP trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing MCP.

MCP salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing MCP over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

MCP salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 17 (30.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (23.21%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 45 (80.36%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (35.71%) Azure
3 7 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 5 (8.93%) Power Platform
5 4 (7.14%) AWS
6 3 (5.36%) Azure Stack
6 3 (5.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.50%) LAN
1 7 (12.50%) WAN
2 6 (10.71%) Firewall
2 6 (10.71%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (10.71%) SAN
2 6 (10.71%) Wireless
3 5 (8.93%) DHCP
3 5 (8.93%) DNS
4 1 (1.79%) VLAN
4 1 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.36%) Data Lake
1 3 (5.36%) Power BI
2 2 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.79%) QlikView
3 1 (1.79%) Tableau
General
1 10 (17.86%) Finance
2 9 (16.07%) Legal
3 8 (14.29%) Banking
4 7 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 4 (7.14%) Law
5 4 (7.14%) Marketing
6 3 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.79%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.79%) Local Government
7 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (17.86%) Analyst
2 7 (12.50%) IT Analyst
2 7 (12.50%) IT Support
3 6 (10.71%) IT Engineer
3 6 (10.71%) Support Engineer
4 5 (8.93%) IT Support Engineer
4 5 (8.93%) Senior
5 4 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
5 4 (7.14%) Service Desk Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Support Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) Banking Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) Consultant
6 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) IT Security Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) Security Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) Service Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) Service Desk Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.79%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 26 (46.43%) Data Centre
1 26 (46.43%) Private Cloud
2 5 (8.93%) Replication
3 4 (7.14%) Driving Licence
3 4 (7.14%) iPhone
4 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.79%) IoT
5 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.79%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 48 (85.71%) Windows
2 36 (64.29%) Windows 10
3 10 (17.86%) Apple iOS
4 8 (14.29%) Android
4 8 (14.29%) Windows Server
5 4 (7.14%) Mac OS X
5 4 (7.14%) Windows 8
5 4 (7.14%) Windows XP
6 2 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.79%) AIX
7 1 (1.79%) Linux
7 1 (1.79%) Unix
7 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (51.79%) Cybersecurity
2 26 (46.43%) Presales
2 26 (46.43%) Software Licensing
3 10 (17.86%) Customer Service
3 10 (17.86%) ITIL
4 7 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (8.93%) Migration
6 4 (7.14%) Email Migration
6 4 (7.14%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 4 (7.14%) Ticket Management
6 4 (7.14%) Visualisation
7 3 (5.36%) Analytics
7 3 (5.36%) Asset Management
7 3 (5.36%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (5.36%) ETL
7 3 (5.36%) Information Security
7 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (5.36%) ITSM
7 3 (5.36%) Network Design
8 2 (3.57%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (19.64%) PowerShell
2 6 (10.71%) SQL
3 2 (3.57%) Python
3 2 (3.57%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.79%) Bash
4 1 (1.79%) C
4 1 (1.79%) Go
4 1 (1.79%) Java
4 1 (1.79%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (82.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 36 (64.29%) Degree
3 5 (8.93%) Citrix Certification
4 4 (7.14%) CCA
5 3 (5.36%) AWS Certification
5 3 (5.36%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.57%) CCNA
6 2 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.57%) DBS Check
6 2 (3.57%) ECDL
6 2 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (3.57%) MCITP
6 2 (3.57%) MCSE
7 1 (1.79%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.79%) CCAA
7 1 (1.79%) CCNP
7 1 (1.79%) IBM Certification
7 1 (1.79%) LPIC
7 1 (1.79%) MCTS
7 1 (1.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (80.36%) Active Directory
2 9 (16.07%) Hyper-V
2 9 (16.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (10.71%) XenApp
3 6 (10.71%) XenDesktop
4 1 (1.79%) Firmware
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (25.00%) SCCM
2 4 (7.14%) Backup Exec
2 4 (7.14%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 55 (98.21%) Microsoft
2 26 (46.43%) Adobe
2 26 (46.43%) Apple
3 15 (26.79%) Citrix
4 10 (17.86%) VMware
5 9 (16.07%) HP
6 8 (14.29%) Dell
7 4 (7.14%) Fortinet
7 4 (7.14%) iManage
7 4 (7.14%) N-able
7 4 (7.14%) Symantec
7 4 (7.14%) Veeam
7 4 (7.14%) Veritas
8 1 (1.79%) Cisco
8 1 (1.79%) Databricks
8 1 (1.79%) Ivanti
8 1 (1.79%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.79%) Oracle
8 1 (1.79%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.79%) TikTok