Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCP)
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Qamar H.
Last position:
Freelance Consultant Data Analytics & AI Portfolio at TIC Company
- Support for a data, analytics and AI initiative in a regulated enterprise environment by structuring, evaluating and prioritizing several data-driven use cases based on business impact, feasibility, scalability, data maturity and governance requirements.
- Translation of complex business and analytics requirements into clear product, data and implementation logic, as well as preparation of decision-ready documents, target visions and roadmap inputs for stakeholder and management discussions.
Jörg P.
Last position:
Process Manager (70%) / Business Analyst (30%) at T-Mobile Austria GmbH (Magenta)
- BSS system implementation for B2B / transformation of the central B2B system landscape
- End-to-end business responsibility for defining, structuring and prioritizing key B2B business processes as part of a complex BSS transformation.
- Work in an agile, SAFe-like setup with multiple teams involved, along with regular coordination with business, IT, solution design and architecture.
- Translation of business requirements into implementable epics, features, user stories, process models and acceptance criteria as the basis for technical implementation.
- Close collaboration with solution design and architecture to assess technical dependencies, interfaces, data flows and system impacts.
- Management of target process design as the basis for implementation in Infonova BSS.
- Interface management between business departments, IT, architecture, development and operational units, including facilitation of cross-functional workshops.
- Ensuring process consistency, governance, decision-making capability and business acceptance as part of the system implementation.
Falk S.
Last position:
Freelancer at SOL4ERP SAP Consulting SchlĂĽsener
Self-employed Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant
- Support services for SAP transformations
- Support services for SAP FI projects (based on ECC and S/4)
Ebru A.
Last position:
Product Analytics & App Tracking Consultant at EnBW mobility+ AG & Co. KG
- Product Analytics, Mobile App Tracking & Tracking Governance (B2C Mobility App) – agile project management (Scrum/Kanban)
- Product Ownership for Product Analytics and Mobile App Tracking of the EnBW mobility+ app; gathering, prioritizing, and translating business requirements into actionable concepts and Azure DevOps user stories with acceptance criteria.
- Derivation of tracking requirements when introducing new app features (including Resilient Map), definition of tracking parameters (screens, events, custom definitions), and ensuring privacy-compliant tracking (Firebase, GA4, Adjust) based on the tracking concept.
- Design and adaptation of dashboards and funnel reporting for campaigns (GA4 validation, onboarding and order flow analyses, conversion funnels, charging start flow) to identify drop-off points and optimization potential.
- Management of the technical raw data export (Adjust to BigQuery) and connection to the data warehouse/data lakehouse, including data mapping; collaboration with international development teams, Data Engineering, Marketing/Sales, and Product Management.
- Establishment of standardized tracking architecture, naming conventions, and governance; analysis and expansion of tracking (new features and “blind spots”), test design, handover to testers, and quality assurance and approval before releases; documentation in Conceptboard.
Michael L.
Last position:
Software Developer at ProjektPro GmbH
- Optimized the performance of a large FileMaker solution
- Optimized performance in cloud and on-premise solutions
- Optimized the REST API
- Bug fixing and documentation
- Part of a large Scrum team
Bahman T.
Last position:
Business Development Director DACH at Future Processing S.A.
Established Future Processing as a DACH partner by building relationships, leading to significant expansion.
Built strong ties with executives and leveraged those connections to win lucrative new contracts and renewals, resulting in substantial revenue growth.
Won a multi-million euro software project for an international company based in the DACH region, leading to a significant increase in order volume.
Christian F.
Last position:
Architecture Management at Agency
Expert in the company's architecture management area
Support for standardizing the company's IT landscape
Further development of architecture management
Shaping the company's business architecture
Restructuring, administration and maintenance of all IT assets
Support in creating a unified software asset management and CMDB
Creation of unified document management (e-file)
Transition of documents into a central DMS structure
Link between architecture management and the department's internal business process management
Support in developing strategic and tactical development plans
Organizing communication with key stakeholders
Support in the conception, organization and coordination of the architecture office to be built up
Accompanying and advising the entire architecture management process
Advising the company's business units on architectural topics and their framework conditions
MS Office, Windows 10, VBA
ITIL, TOGAF, PowerBi, Kanban, Scrum
Internal agency tools
Open Touch Conversation, Webex, wire, bdbos
MS Sharepoint, JIRA, Confluence
ARIS, Archimate, BPMN
Michael S.
Last position:
Director, IT at Austria Juice GmbH
- Directed IT operations across 13 sites in China, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Germany, Ukraine, and Austria.
- Built and led a new IT team with personnel based in Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Germany.
- Upgraded outdated IT infrastructure at sites in Austria, Germany, Romania, and Poland, enhancing clients, printers, networks, servers, storage, firewalls, and backups.
- Retired the legacy phone system and transitioned to Teams.
- Established and deployed AI tools, including Copilot and Zapier.
- Implemented NIS II readiness and achieved ISO 27001 certification.
- Eliminated inefficient business applications to enhance operational efficiency.
- Developed and executed new processes for operations technology, business process outsourcing, purchasing, human resources, and IT.
- Launched a new SAP Warehouse System.
- Established IT standards across all sites.
- Engaged effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
- Defined and monitored security KPIs, ensuring targets were met.
- Managed budgeting processes, achieving a 15% reduction in operational expenditure.
Reinhold S.
Last position:
Senior Software Developer at Hitachi Energy
- Support and further development of the Leegoo Builder
- Handling ad hoc requests
- Definition of rules/attributes and their rules
- Optimizing and managing SQL queries
Karen M.
Last position:
Personal AI Engineering Project — Croky AI at Crocky AI
Product:
- Built a production-ready AI platform for generating brand-aware marketing images and videos from product data, user requirements, and uploaded media.
- Own the platform architecture, technical roadmap, API design, security, deployment workflow, operational reliability, and model-provider strategy.
- Developed the core platform in .NET and built supporting AI and workflow prototypes in Python, applying language-independent API contracts and structured interfaces between services and model providers.
- Implemented reliable background processing with RabbitMQ, persisted workflow state, idempotent handling, retries, failure recovery, logging, secure storage, authorization, and credit accounting.
- Made pragmatic build-versus-buy and model-routing decisions based on reliability, latency, cost, and maintainability rather than novelty.
Agent Orchestration & RAG Systems
- Built and compared agent workflows using Microsoft Agent Framework, LangGraph, and LangChain, including tool use, conditional routing, clarification steps, state management, and hand-offs between agents.
- Implemented reusable .NET components for agents, prompts, tools, model providers, structured responses, and retrieval with pyvector, making it easier to change AI providers without rewriting the core workflow.
Oliver W.
Last position:
Specialist Planner / Cleanroom Planning Lead at Major Aircraft Manufacturer
- Start-up and commissioning of the cleanroom
- Certification of the cleanroom
Timo B.
Last position:
Freelancer (self-employed) at enorin GmbH
- Mendix low-code development / project management
- Managing external resources
- Customer and user management, roles
- Master data entry
- Quote preparation
- Material costing
- Workflows
- Basic CRM functions
- API interfaces (email, SMS, AI chatbot)
- PDF API (.NET development using Aspose.PDF)
- Stakeholder management (dev teams, enorin team, test client)
- Risk management (backend access & sizing, role concepts)
- Testing and staff training
- Creating epics and stories in Confluence
- Jira Scrum planning and management
Milivoje R.
Last position:
ICT Project Engineer at Mund Consulting AG (at VBS Cyber Command)
- Client engineering
- Getting familiar with the new digitized platform
- GPO adjustments
- Handling work packages
Karlheinz G.
Last position:
Consultant / Test Analyst / Supporter at Insurance office, Spaichingen
Project: Process optimization & IT support in an insurance broker office.
Project activities:
- Analysis of processes and definition of requirements
- Consulting for the implementation of a cloud solution (soho)
- Installation and verification of new infrastructure HW
- Cloud installation & configuration
- Definition and creation of use cases
- Performing user acceptance tests (UAT)
- User training / training
- IT support (cloud, PC, server, printer, network)
Label: Insurance, infrastructure, configuration, training, support
Csaba K.
Last position:
ServiceNow Consultant at DXC
- Worked in mixed teams with several clients
- Performed requirement engineering, proposal and time estimation
- Developed ACLs, business rules, flows, workflows, catalog items, various scripts, UI actions, policies, scoped applications
- Customized mobile apps: Now Agent and Now Mobile
- Implemented integrations using the Integration Hub
- Coordinated continuously with clients during development
- Performed testing and helped clients with testing
- Deployed to production and applied main version upgrades and patches
- Managed CMDB, domain separation and asset management
- Integrated between instances at different clients
- Developed GlideScript: business rules, scripted REST endpoints, extension points, fix scripts, background scripts
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Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCP) statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
26 years
Position duration
3.4 years
Positions per freelancer
18
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Manufacturing
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
79%
Master's degree or higher
47%
Doctorate
8%
Certifications per freelancer
8
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
97%
Based on our profile pool as of 10 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates for Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCP)
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The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 10 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCP) experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (95%)
- Banking and Finance (59%)
- Manufacturing (57%)
- Professional Services (49%)
- Healthcare (48%)
- Telecommunication (41%)
- Government and Administration (40%)
- Automotive (37%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the certification
What is the Microsoft Certified Professional credential?
The Microsoft Certified Professional designation serves as a foundational validation of an IT professional's ability to implement, build, and troubleshoot Microsoft technologies. It covers a diverse range of technical environments, from legacy on-premises servers to modern cloud infrastructure. Freelancers holding this status have demonstrated rigorous knowledge of enterprise software ecosystems through standardized assessments.
Core Competences and Skills
Engineers and administrators who have achieved this status possess a structured understanding of enterprise IT architectures. They bring reliable execution to deployment, security, and integration projects.
- Enterprise cloud deployment and hybrid infrastructure management
- Database design, administration, and query optimization
- Windows Server deployment, virtualization, and active directory configuration
- Enterprise security compliance and access management protocols
- Software development and application lifecycle management
Typical Project Scenarios
Organizations engage these specialists when undergoing critical transitions, such as migrating legacy databases to cloud environments, upgrading operating systems across the entire enterprise, or implementing complex cloud security frameworks. They act as system administrators, database engineers, or solutions architects who ensure minimal downtime during technical rollouts.
The Evolution to Role-Based Certifications
While the traditional generalist credential has transitioned into highly targeted role-based pathways, the fundamental principles of quality and technical accuracy remain. Modern specialists validate their skills in specific domains such as Azure cloud architecture, Microsoft 365 administration, and enterprise data analytics, providing companies with highly specialized expertise.
Frequently asked questions
Everything clients usually want to know about Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCP), in one place.
A Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) manages, deploys, and maintains Microsoft technologies within corporate environments. These experts handle critical infrastructure tasks, ranging from system administration to database management. They ensure that enterprise software ecosystems run smoothly and securely.
Hiring an MCP ensures your team has verified expertise in executing complex migrations without risking data loss. They possess deep familiarity with Microsoft best practices, allowing them to optimize legacy configurations. This technical knowledge minimizes project risks and reduces implementation timelines.
Yes, because Microsoft has evolved the legacy MCP framework into modern, role-based certifications. Today, professionals validate specific capabilities in Azure cloud architecture, modern workplace solutions, and enterprise security. This ensures their skills align directly with current business technologies.
An administrator focuses on the daily operations, monitoring, and maintenance of existing systems. In contrast, an architect holding a Microsoft certification designs the structural layout and integration of cloud or on-premises networks. Companies should hire based on whether they need strategic design or ongoing operational support.
Virtually any sector utilizing corporate IT infrastructure relies on these professionals. However, industries like finance, healthcare, and logistics benefit immensely from hiring a Microsoft Certified Professional due to strict compliance standards. Their training ensures systems conform to industry-standard data protection policies.
Freelancers with an MCP designation usually have extensive hands-on experience in system engineering, database administration, or cloud architecture. They supplement their practical background with official exam preparation and continuous learning. This combination of real-world practice and structured study makes them highly reliable.
Candidates prepare through official self-study paths, hands-on lab environments, and instructor-led training. They must pass rigorous technical exams that test situational judgment and troubleshooting skills. This ensures that anyone holding a Microsoft certification can solve real-world technical problems under pressure.
Engaging a freelance MCP gives your company immediate access to specialized skills without long-term overhead. These specialists join your project with immediate readiness, requiring minimal onboarding. They bring external perspective and standardized troubleshooting methods to your internal IT team.
The average hourly rate for freelancers with Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCP) is 102 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 814 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers with Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCP), 79% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 47% hold at least a Master's degree, and 8% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers with Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCP) have 26 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.4 years.
The most common languages among freelancers with Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCP) are German (99%), English (97%), and French (13%).
The most common industries among freelancers with Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCP) are Information Technology (95%), Banking and Finance (59%), and Manufacturing (57%).
The most common business areas among freelancers with Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCP) are Information Technology (95%), Project Management (75%), and Operations (71%).
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Our freelancers and interim experts are at home all over Germany — available on-site in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and every major business hub, or fully remote. Choose a city to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
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