Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends in Devon

Microsoft Certification
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Devon with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 3.82% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 6.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 - -
75th Percentile £459 - -
90th Percentile £520 - -
South West median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.60%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Devon

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Devon.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 91 109 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 57.96% 49.55% 44.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 74 69
10th Percentile - £161 £455
25th Percentile £145 £463 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £160 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -73.33% - -3.61%
75th Percentile £547 £655 £675
90th Percentile £588 £685 £725
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 3
10th Percentile - £23.63 £45.00
25th Percentile - £43.13 £52.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.08% -7.69% +91.18%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £50.52 - £81.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £70.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -64.07% +12.00% +4.17%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

Job postings citing Microsoft Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Devon.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in Devon

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Devon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Devon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Devon over the 6 months to 6 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in Devon

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the Devon region over the 6 months to 6 September 2025. 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
Exeter - 3 £520 - 6
Dartmouth - 2 £275 - 1
Plymouth - 1 £275 - 9
Microsoft Certification
South West

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Field Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Database Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Driving Licence
2 2 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Customer Service
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Data Management
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 2 (33.33%) Database Security
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
1 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) A+ Certification
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (33.33%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft