MCP Jobs in England

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for MCP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 623 797 918
Rank change year-on-year +174 +121 -186
Permanent jobs citing MCP 218 128 246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.14% 0.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.89% 0.44% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 201 108 177
10th Percentile £22,900 £23,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £25,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,797 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -6.29% -
75th Percentile £40,000 £48,750 £43,750
90th Percentile £52,500 £57,875 £48,750
UK median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -6.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,484 29,082 36,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.31% 32.87% 26.52%
Number of salaries quoted 15,742 13,274 16,890
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,712 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
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% -

MCP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for MCP in England

MCP
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for MCP in England

MCP
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing MCP in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for MCP in England

MCP
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCP within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
South East +24 55 £38,000 +33.33% 5
North of England +70 53 £30,000 -7.69% 15
Midlands +14 43 £25,000 -5.66% 3
South West +5 35 £32,500 -4.41% 16
North West +13 26 £30,000 -14.29% 10
Yorkshire +99 23 £32,500 +40.02% 3
West Midlands +19 22 £34,250 +31.73% 2
East Midlands -3 21 £25,000 -52.38% 1
London +105 19 £55,000 +51.72% 10
East of England +6 13 £29,500 -50.83% 1
North East +2 4 £28,500 -66.47% 2
MCP
UK

MCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 54 (24.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (12.39%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.92%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.46%) CMS
4 1 (0.46%) IIS
Applications
1 81 (37.16%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 130 (59.63%) Microsoft 365
2 64 (29.36%) Azure
3 27 (12.39%) Entra ID
4 14 (6.42%) AWS
5 12 (5.50%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.75%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (2.75%) IaaS
6 6 (2.75%) Twilio
7 4 (1.83%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.38%) Azure Stack
8 3 (1.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.38%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.46%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 1 (0.46%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.46%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.46%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 48 (22.02%) Firewall
2 43 (19.72%) Network Security
3 26 (11.93%) DHCP
3 26 (11.93%) DNS
4 19 (8.72%) LAN
5 16 (7.34%) SAN
5 16 (7.34%) VPN
6 15 (6.88%) WAN
7 13 (5.96%) Wireless
8 12 (5.50%) Internet
9 11 (5.05%) Remote Desktop
9 11 (5.05%) TCP/IP
9 11 (5.05%) VLAN
10 7 (3.21%) VoIP
11 6 (2.75%) iSCSI
11 6 (2.75%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (1.83%) NAS
12 4 (1.83%) SSL
12 4 (1.83%) WLAN
13 3 (1.38%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.26%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.21%) Power BI
3 3 (1.38%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.46%) QlikView
5 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.46%) JIRA
General
1 92 (42.20%) Social Skills
2 21 (9.63%) Finance
3 19 (8.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (6.88%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (5.50%) Legal
6 11 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.59%) Banking
7 10 (4.59%) Games
8 6 (2.75%) Local Government
8 6 (2.75%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.29%) Retail
10 4 (1.83%) Electronics
10 4 (1.83%) Law
10 4 (1.83%) Marketing
11 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.38%) Multimedia
12 2 (0.92%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.46%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 48 (22.02%) Support Engineer
2 42 (19.27%) IT Support
3 29 (13.30%) Desktop Engineer
4 27 (12.39%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 27 (12.39%) 2nd Line Support
5 24 (11.01%) Analyst
5 24 (11.01%) Field Engineer
6 23 (10.55%) Desktop Support
6 23 (10.55%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 21 (9.63%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
7 21 (9.63%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
7 21 (9.63%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 21 (9.63%) Field Support Engineer
7 21 (9.63%) IT Engineer
8 18 (8.26%) Hardware Engineer
9 16 (7.34%) 1st Line Support
9 16 (7.34%) IT Support Engineer
10 13 (5.96%) Senior
10 13 (5.96%) Technical Engineer
11 12 (5.50%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.46%) CSS
1 1 (0.46%) EDI
1 1 (0.46%) HTML
1 1 (0.46%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 41 (18.81%) Data Centre
2 29 (13.30%) Onboarding
3 26 (11.93%) Private Cloud
4 22 (10.09%) Driving Licence
5 8 (3.67%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.67%) Replication
5 8 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.21%) CCTV
7 4 (1.83%) iPhone
8 3 (1.38%) Clustering
8 3 (1.38%) EPoS
8 3 (1.38%) iPad
8 3 (1.38%) Media Streaming
9 2 (0.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.46%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.46%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.46%) IoT
10 1 (0.46%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.46%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 150 (68.81%) Windows
2 49 (22.48%) Windows 10
3 37 (16.97%) Windows Server
4 29 (13.30%) Mac OS
5 9 (4.13%) Apple iOS
6 8 (3.67%) Linux
7 7 (3.21%) Android
8 6 (2.75%) Windows 8
9 4 (1.83%) Mac OS X
9 4 (1.83%) Windows Vista
9 4 (1.83%) Windows XP
10 3 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.46%) AIX
12 1 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (52.29%) Customer Service
2 74 (33.94%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (31.19%) ITIL
4 45 (20.64%) Cybersecurity
5 38 (17.43%) Computer Science
6 27 (12.39%) Software Licensing
7 26 (11.93%) Presales
8 19 (8.72%) Asset Management
8 19 (8.72%) ITSM
9 17 (7.80%) Break/Fix
9 17 (7.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (7.34%) Service Delivery
11 15 (6.88%) Service Management
12 14 (6.42%) IT Asset Management
12 14 (6.42%) Line Management
12 14 (6.42%) Mentoring
13 13 (5.96%) Active Listening
13 13 (5.96%) Collaborative Working
13 13 (5.96%) Impact Assessments
14 10 (4.59%) Email Filtering
Programming Languages
1 23 (10.55%) PowerShell
2 14 (6.42%) SQL
3 6 (2.75%) T-SQL
4 2 (0.92%) Python
5 1 (0.46%) Bash
5 1 (0.46%) C
5 1 (0.46%) Go
5 1 (0.46%) Java
5 1 (0.46%) PHP
5 1 (0.46%) R
5 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 153 (70.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 116 (53.21%) Degree
3 67 (30.73%) A+ Certification
4 45 (20.64%) DBS Check
5 36 (16.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (14.22%) MCSE
7 25 (11.47%) MCSA
8 19 (8.72%) CCNA
8 19 (8.72%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (8.26%) Security Cleared
10 15 (6.88%) Network+ Certification
11 14 (6.42%) SC Cleared
12 13 (5.96%) DV Cleared
13 8 (3.67%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (2.75%) MCTS
15 4 (1.83%) Citrix Certification
15 4 (1.83%) HND
15 4 (1.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 3 (1.38%) AWS Certification
16 3 (1.38%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.22%) SLA
2 6 (2.75%) GDPR
3 3 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.38%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 152 (69.72%) Active Directory
2 38 (17.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (16.06%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.21%) vSphere
5 6 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.29%) XenApp
6 5 (2.29%) XenDesktop
7 4 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.38%) Firmware
9 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 38 (17.43%) SCCM
2 13 (5.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.75%) FortiGate
3 6 (2.75%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 6 (2.75%) SCDPM
4 4 (1.83%) WSUS
5 3 (1.38%) Autotask
5 3 (1.38%) Backup Exec
5 3 (1.38%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 207 (94.95%) Microsoft
2 40 (18.35%) VMware
3 34 (15.60%) Apple
4 27 (12.39%) Adobe
5 15 (6.88%) Citrix
6 13 (5.96%) Cisco
6 13 (5.96%) Dell
6 13 (5.96%) ServiceNow
7 11 (5.05%) Datto
8 10 (4.59%) HP
9 9 (4.13%) Sophos
10 7 (3.21%) Veeam
10 7 (3.21%) WatchGuard
11 6 (2.75%) Dell Compellent
11 6 (2.75%) Draytek
12 4 (1.83%) iManage
12 4 (1.83%) Symantec
12 4 (1.83%) Veritas
13 3 (1.38%) Sage
13 3 (1.38%) Ubiquiti