MCITP Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 558 660 803
Rank change year-on-year +102 +143 -111
Contract jobs citing MCITP 17 22 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.039% 0.040%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.13% 0.14% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 25
10th Percentile £209 £140 £176
25th Percentile £272 £173 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £400 £600 £475
90th Percentile £434 £675 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £188 £388
% change year-on-year +113.33% -51.61% +19.23%
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 12,872 15,254 19,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.89% 27.21% 21.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,011 10,183 12,699
10th Percentile £310 £338 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 745 759
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.67 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.24 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.32 £79.19 £67.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.25 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +50.00% +16.67%

MCITP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MCITP in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MCITP in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MCITP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MCITP in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for MCITP in the UK

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Top 8 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 1 June 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 +88 17 £383 +70.22% 13
London +101 10 £285 -38.82% 3
UK excluding London +32 7 £400 +113.33% 11
Work from Home +110 5 £400 -23.81% 2
Midlands +26 5 £400 +93.94% 2
East Midlands - 5 £400 - 1
North West +22 2 £450 -25.00%
North of England +22 2 £450 -25.00% 2

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 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.76%) Google Workspace
4 2 (11.76%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (5.88%) DHCP
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) Internet
2 1 (5.88%) LAN
2 1 (5.88%) MPLS
2 1 (5.88%) Unified Communications
2 1 (5.88%) WAN
2 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) SQL Server
2 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (11.76%) MySQL
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Marketing
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.76%) Advertising
4 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Retail
5 1 (5.88%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) DBA
2 7 (41.18%) SQL DBA
3 6 (35.29%) SQL Server DBA
4 4 (23.53%) Administrator
4 4 (23.53%) Designer
5 2 (11.76%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (11.76%) Associate Director
5 2 (11.76%) Build Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) IT Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) IT Support
5 2 (11.76%) Senior
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) IT Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Network Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Management Information System
2 3 (17.65%) Clustering
3 2 (11.76%) NHS
3 2 (11.76%) Smartphone
4 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Disaster Recovery
1 8 (47.06%) High Availability
1 8 (47.06%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
2 5 (29.41%) ITIL
2 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
2 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) ITSM
3 4 (23.53%) Service Management
4 3 (17.65%) Capacity Management
4 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
4 3 (17.65%) Database Migration
4 3 (17.65%) Migration
4 3 (17.65%) Storage Management
5 2 (11.76%) Digital Strategy
5 2 (11.76%) Escalation Management
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) Proactive Monitoring
5 2 (11.76%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 2 (11.76%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (70.59%) Degree
3 8 (47.06%) MCTS
4 4 (23.53%) A+ Certification
5 3 (17.65%) Azure Certification
6 2 (11.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (5.88%) CCNA
7 1 (5.88%) CCNP
7 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (70.59%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 15 (88.24%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Apple
2 2 (11.76%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) VMware