MCP Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for MCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 504 619 668
Rank change year-on-year +115 +49 -98
Permanent jobs citing MCP 288 109 208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.20% 0.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.40% 0.52% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 194 90 166
10th Percentile £22,900 £23,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,875 £25,238 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,500 £37,000
Median % change year-on-year - -12.16% +4.23%
75th Percentile £38,750 £48,750 £45,000
90th Percentile £47,250 £60,000 £48,750
UK median annual salary £32,500 £32,797 £35,000
% change year-on-year -0.91% -6.29% -10.26%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

MCP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 20,605 20,946 25,343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.72% 37.91% 33.19%
Number of salaries quoted 12,346 7,921 10,596
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% +0.20%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £76,250
UK median annual salary £53,555 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +9.09% -

MCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing MCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for MCP in the UK excluding London

MCP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing MCP in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for MCP in the UK excluding London

MCP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing MCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for MCP in the UK excluding London

MCP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +50 110 £27,500 - 4
West Midlands +48 73 £35,225 +35.48% 3
North of England +52 58 £31,250 -3.85% 7
South East -3 57 £38,000 +38.18% 5
South West -1 45 £32,500 -4.41% 15
East Midlands +1 37 £25,000 -52.38% 1
North West -5 29 £30,000 -7.69% 5
Yorkshire +86 25 £32,500 +25.00% 2
East of England -11 12 £29,500 -50.83% 4
Wales +15 4 £27,000 -28.00% 1
North East -14 4 £28,500 -66.47%
Scotland -74 2 £23,000 -24.59% 10
MCP
UK

MCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 60 (20.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (6.94%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.35%) CMS
Applications
1 79 (27.43%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 125 (43.40%) Microsoft 365
2 52 (18.06%) Azure
3 24 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 12 (4.17%) AWS
5 6 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (2.08%) IaaS
5 6 (2.08%) Twilio
6 5 (1.74%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.35%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.35%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 109 (37.85%) Network Security
2 79 (27.43%) Internet
3 71 (24.65%) WLAN
4 47 (16.32%) Firewall
5 26 (9.03%) DHCP
5 26 (9.03%) DNS
6 17 (5.90%) SAN
6 17 (5.90%) VPN
7 16 (5.56%) LAN
8 15 (5.21%) Wireless
9 13 (4.51%) Remote Desktop
10 12 (4.17%) WAN
11 11 (3.82%) TCP/IP
12 10 (3.47%) VLAN
13 9 (3.13%) VoIP
14 6 (2.08%) iSCSI
15 5 (1.74%) NAS
15 5 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
16 4 (1.39%) SSL
17 3 (1.04%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 103 (35.76%) Social Skills
2 19 (6.60%) Finance
2 19 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (5.21%) Organisational Skills
4 13 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.17%) Legal
6 10 (3.47%) Games
7 7 (2.43%) Banking
8 5 (1.74%) Local Government
8 5 (1.74%) Retail
9 4 (1.39%) Law
9 4 (1.39%) Marketing
9 4 (1.39%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.04%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 110 (38.19%) Support Engineer
2 105 (36.46%) IT Support
3 88 (30.56%) IT Engineer
4 82 (28.47%) IT Support Engineer
5 28 (9.72%) Analyst
6 27 (9.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 27 (9.38%) Desktop Engineer
7 26 (9.03%) 2nd Line Support
8 25 (8.68%) Field Engineer
9 21 (7.29%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
9 21 (7.29%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
9 21 (7.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 21 (7.29%) Desktop Support
9 21 (7.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 21 (7.29%) Field Support Engineer
10 19 (6.60%) Hardware Engineer
11 18 (6.25%) 1st Line Support
12 14 (4.86%) Support Technician
13 13 (4.51%) IT Technician
13 13 (4.51%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.35%) EDI
1 1 (0.35%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 96 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 91 (31.60%) Driving Licence
3 39 (13.54%) Data Centre
4 26 (9.03%) Private Cloud
5 9 (3.13%) Replication
6 8 (2.78%) CCTV
7 6 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.74%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.39%) Clustering
9 4 (1.39%) iPhone
10 3 (1.04%) EPoS
10 3 (1.04%) iPad
10 3 (1.04%) Media Streaming
11 1 (0.35%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.35%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.35%) IoT
11 1 (0.35%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 220 (76.39%) Windows
2 76 (26.39%) Linux
3 52 (18.06%) Windows 10
4 37 (12.85%) Windows Server
5 30 (10.42%) Mac OS
6 12 (4.17%) Apple iOS
7 10 (3.47%) Android
8 6 (2.08%) Windows 8
9 4 (1.39%) Mac OS X
9 4 (1.39%) Windows Vista
9 4 (1.39%) Windows XP
10 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.35%) VMS
12 1 (0.35%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (51.04%) ITIL
2 140 (48.61%) Problem-Solving
3 115 (39.93%) Customer Service
4 102 (35.42%) Computer Science
5 91 (31.60%) Asset Management
6 82 (28.47%) IT Asset Management
7 81 (28.13%) Mentoring
8 67 (23.26%) Network Management
9 45 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
10 26 (9.03%) Presales
10 26 (9.03%) Software Licensing
11 21 (7.29%) ITSM
12 17 (5.90%) Break/Fix
12 17 (5.90%) Service Management
13 16 (5.56%) Service Delivery
14 14 (4.86%) Line Management
15 13 (4.51%) Email Filtering
15 13 (4.51%) Impact Assessments
15 13 (4.51%) Kalman Filter
15 13 (4.51%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 26 (9.03%) PowerShell
2 5 (1.74%) SQL
3 1 (0.35%) C
3 1 (0.35%) Go
3 1 (0.35%) Java
3 1 (0.35%) Python
3 1 (0.35%) Swift
3 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 213 (73.96%) Microsoft Certification
2 172 (59.72%) Degree
3 99 (34.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 93 (32.29%) MCSE
5 86 (29.86%) CCNA
5 86 (29.86%) Cisco Certification
6 70 (24.31%) A+ Certification
6 70 (24.31%) CCNP
7 67 (23.26%) LPIC
8 45 (15.63%) DBS Check
9 25 (8.68%) MCSA
10 17 (5.90%) Security Cleared
11 14 (4.86%) ITIL Certification
12 13 (4.51%) DV Cleared
12 13 (4.51%) Network+ Certification
12 13 (4.51%) SC Cleared
13 5 (1.74%) CCA
13 5 (1.74%) Citrix Certification
14 4 (1.39%) HND
14 4 (1.39%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (11.11%) SLA
2 6 (2.08%) GDPR
3 4 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.35%) QA
System Software
1 153 (53.13%) Active Directory
2 40 (13.89%) Hyper-V
3 37 (12.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.43%) vSphere
4 7 (2.43%) XenApp
4 7 (2.43%) XenDesktop
5 6 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.69%) Firmware
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 38 (13.19%) SCCM
2 13 (4.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.08%) FortiGate
3 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 6 (2.08%) SCDPM
4 5 (1.74%) Backup Exec
4 5 (1.74%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 4 (1.39%) WSUS
6 3 (1.04%) Autotask
7 1 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 273 (94.79%) Microsoft
2 82 (28.47%) Cisco
3 38 (13.19%) VMware
4 34 (11.81%) Apple
5 27 (9.38%) Adobe
6 16 (5.56%) Dell
7 15 (5.21%) Citrix
8 14 (4.86%) ServiceNow
9 11 (3.82%) Datto
10 10 (3.47%) Veeam
11 9 (3.13%) HP
12 8 (2.78%) Sophos
13 7 (2.43%) WatchGuard
14 6 (2.08%) Dell Compellent
14 6 (2.08%) Draytek
15 5 (1.74%) Fortinet
15 5 (1.74%) N-able
15 5 (1.74%) Symantec
15 5 (1.74%) Veritas
16 4 (1.39%) Meraki