Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for MCP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 669 821 972
Rank change year-on-year +152 +151 -238
Permanent jobs citing MCP 223 156 273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.16% 0.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.81% 0.48% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 206 130 197
10th Percentile £22,900 £22,512 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £24,063 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% -7.15%
75th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £47,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £31,250 £35,250
% change year-on-year +4.00% -11.35% -2.08%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,486 32,730 43,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.51% 33.01% 27.01%
Number of salaries quoted 17,243 14,736 18,996
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,483 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.49% +4.70% +1.01%

MCP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MCP in the UK

MCP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MCP.

Salary trend for MCP in the UK

MCP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MCP over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for MCP in the UK

MCP
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCP within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +176 218 £32,500 -0.91% 48
UK excluding London +48 204 £32,500 +4.00% 51
Work from Home +68 55 £38,000 +16.92% 11
South East +15 55 £38,000 +33.33% 5
North of England +86 53 £30,000 -7.69% 15
Midlands +12 43 £25,000 -5.66% 3
South West +1 35 £32,500 -4.41% 16
North West +19 26 £30,000 -14.29% 10
Yorkshire +100 23 £32,500 +40.02% 3
West Midlands +18 22 £34,250 +31.73% 2
East Midlands +7 21 £25,000 -52.38% 1
London +106 19 £55,000 +51.72% 8
East of England +4 13 £29,500 -50.83% 1
Wales +9 4 £27,000 -28.00%
North East -3 4 £28,500 -66.47% 2
Scotland -73 1 £23,000 -24.59% 11

MCP
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 55 (24.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (12.56%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.90%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.45%) CMS
4 1 (0.45%) IIS
Applications
1 85 (38.12%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 135 (60.54%) Microsoft 365
2 64 (28.70%) Azure
3 27 (12.11%) Entra ID
4 14 (6.28%) AWS
5 12 (5.38%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.69%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (2.69%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (2.69%) IaaS
6 6 (2.69%) Twilio
7 5 (2.24%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.35%) Azure Stack
8 3 (1.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.35%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.45%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 49 (21.97%) Firewall
2 43 (19.28%) Network Security
3 27 (12.11%) DHCP
3 27 (12.11%) DNS
4 19 (8.52%) LAN
5 17 (7.62%) SAN
6 16 (7.17%) VPN
7 15 (6.73%) WAN
8 14 (6.28%) Wireless
9 12 (5.38%) Internet
10 11 (4.93%) Remote Desktop
10 11 (4.93%) TCP/IP
10 11 (4.93%) VLAN
11 8 (3.59%) VoIP
12 6 (2.69%) iSCSI
12 6 (2.69%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (1.79%) NAS
13 4 (1.79%) SSL
13 4 (1.79%) WLAN
14 3 (1.35%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.07%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.14%) Power BI
3 3 (1.35%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.45%) QlikView
5 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.45%) JIRA
General
1 96 (43.05%) Social Skills
2 22 (9.87%) Finance
3 19 (8.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (6.73%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (5.38%) Legal
6 11 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.48%) Banking
7 10 (4.48%) Games
8 6 (2.69%) Local Government
8 6 (2.69%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.24%) Retail
10 4 (1.79%) Electronics
10 4 (1.79%) Law
10 4 (1.79%) Marketing
11 3 (1.35%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.35%) Multimedia
12 2 (0.90%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (21.52%) Support Engineer
2 42 (18.83%) IT Support
3 29 (13.00%) Desktop Engineer
4 27 (12.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 27 (12.11%) 2nd Line Support
4 27 (12.11%) Analyst
5 24 (10.76%) Field Engineer
6 23 (10.31%) Desktop Support
6 23 (10.31%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 21 (9.42%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
7 21 (9.42%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
7 21 (9.42%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 21 (9.42%) Field Support Engineer
7 21 (9.42%) IT Engineer
8 18 (8.07%) Hardware Engineer
9 16 (7.17%) 1st Line Support
9 16 (7.17%) IT Support Engineer
10 13 (5.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (5.83%) Senior
10 13 (5.83%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.45%) CSS
1 1 (0.45%) EDI
1 1 (0.45%) HTML
1 1 (0.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 41 (18.39%) Data Centre
2 29 (13.00%) Onboarding
3 26 (11.66%) Private Cloud
4 22 (9.87%) Driving Licence
5 8 (3.59%) CCTV
5 8 (3.59%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.59%) Replication
5 8 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.79%) Clustering
6 4 (1.79%) iPhone
7 3 (1.35%) EPoS
7 3 (1.35%) iPad
7 3 (1.35%) Media Streaming
8 2 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.45%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.45%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.45%) IoT
9 1 (0.45%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.45%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 155 (69.51%) Windows
2 53 (23.77%) Windows 10
3 38 (17.04%) Windows Server
4 29 (13.00%) Mac OS
5 10 (4.48%) Apple iOS
6 9 (4.04%) Linux
7 7 (3.14%) Android
8 6 (2.69%) Windows 8
9 4 (1.79%) Mac OS X
9 4 (1.79%) Windows Vista
9 4 (1.79%) Windows XP
10 3 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.45%) AIX
11 1 (0.45%) Unix
11 1 (0.45%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (52.91%) Customer Service
2 75 (33.63%) Problem-Solving
3 73 (32.74%) ITIL
4 45 (20.18%) Cybersecurity
5 38 (17.04%) Computer Science
6 27 (12.11%) Software Licensing
7 26 (11.66%) Presales
8 20 (8.97%) ITSM
9 19 (8.52%) Asset Management
10 18 (8.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 17 (7.62%) Break/Fix
12 16 (7.17%) Service Delivery
13 15 (6.73%) Service Management
14 14 (6.28%) IT Asset Management
14 14 (6.28%) Line Management
14 14 (6.28%) Mentoring
15 13 (5.83%) Active Listening
15 13 (5.83%) Collaborative Working
15 13 (5.83%) Impact Assessments
16 10 (4.48%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 24 (10.76%) PowerShell
2 15 (6.73%) SQL
3 6 (2.69%) T-SQL
4 2 (0.90%) Python
5 1 (0.45%) Bash
5 1 (0.45%) C
5 1 (0.45%) Go
5 1 (0.45%) Java
5 1 (0.45%) PHP
5 1 (0.45%) R
5 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 157 (70.40%) Microsoft Certification
2 116 (52.02%) Degree
3 67 (30.04%) A+ Certification
4 45 (20.18%) DBS Check
5 36 (16.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (14.35%) MCSE
7 26 (11.66%) MCSA
8 19 (8.52%) CCNA
8 19 (8.52%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (8.07%) Security Cleared
10 15 (6.73%) Network+ Certification
11 14 (6.28%) SC Cleared
12 13 (5.83%) DV Cleared
13 11 (4.93%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (2.69%) MCTS
15 4 (1.79%) Citrix Certification
15 4 (1.79%) HND
15 4 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 3 (1.35%) CCA
16 3 (1.35%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (13.90%) SLA
2 6 (2.69%) GDPR
3 3 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.35%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 153 (68.61%) Active Directory
2 38 (17.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (16.14%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.14%) vSphere
5 6 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.24%) XenApp
6 5 (2.24%) XenDesktop
7 4 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.35%) Firmware
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 38 (17.04%) SCCM
2 13 (5.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.69%) FortiGate
3 6 (2.69%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 6 (2.69%) SCDPM
4 4 (1.79%) WSUS
5 3 (1.35%) Autotask
5 3 (1.35%) Backup Exec
5 3 (1.35%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
6 1 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 212 (95.07%) Microsoft
2 40 (17.94%) VMware
3 34 (15.25%) Apple
4 27 (12.11%) Adobe
5 15 (6.73%) Citrix
6 14 (6.28%) Cisco
6 14 (6.28%) Dell
7 13 (5.83%) ServiceNow
8 11 (4.93%) Datto
8 11 (4.93%) HP
9 9 (4.04%) Sophos
10 8 (3.59%) Veeam
11 7 (3.14%) WatchGuard
12 6 (2.69%) Dell Compellent
12 6 (2.69%) Draytek
13 4 (1.79%) iManage
13 4 (1.79%) Meraki
13 4 (1.79%) Symantec
13 4 (1.79%) Veritas
14 3 (1.35%) Sage