Microsoft Contracts in Cardiff

Microsoft
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 4 11
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 -7
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 50 62 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 23.47% 18.45% 12.03%
As % of the Vendors category 49.02% 42.18% 39.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 54 49
10th Percentile £220 £221 £150
25th Percentile £475 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £551 £586 £450
90th Percentile £657 £600 £535
South Wales median daily rate £515 £525 £427
% change year-on-year -1.90% +23.09% +21.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £18.03 £15.25
Median hourly rate - £18.06 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year - +16.52% -8.82%
75th Percentile - £18.09 £15.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £49.68 £17.03 £16.50
% change year-on-year +191.72% +3.21% -0.08%

All Vendors
Cardiff

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 102 147 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 47.89% 43.75% 30.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 113 114
10th Percentile £350 £237 £178
25th Percentile £475 £406 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +11.76% +2.72%
75th Percentile £553 £583 £488
90th Percentile £621 £625 £575
South Wales median daily rate £513 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +2.50% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £13.14
25th Percentile £55.00 £18.03 £14.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £18.06 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +232.23% -4.95% +5.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £18.09 £24.25
90th Percentile - - £25.15
South Wales median hourly rate £72.00 £32.78 £20.75
% change year-on-year +119.65% +57.98% +7.79%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Cardiff

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Cardiff.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Cardiff over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Cardiff

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Cardiff.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (44.00%) Azure
2 17 (34.00%) GitHub
3 13 (26.00%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (14.00%) AWS
5 7 (14.00%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (8.00%) Entra ID
8 3 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
9 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
10 1 (2.00%) GCP
10 1 (2.00%) OneDrive
10 1 (2.00%) Power Automate
10 1 (2.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.00%) Firewall
2 4 (8.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (8.00%) VPN
3 2 (4.00%) LAN
3 2 (4.00%) WLAN
4 1 (2.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (34.00%) MySQL
2 8 (16.00%) Relational Database
3 5 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (6.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.00%) Power BI
5 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (16.00%) Cypress.io
2 6 (12.00%) JIRA
2 6 (12.00%) Postman
3 4 (8.00%) GitLab
4 3 (6.00%) Storybook
5 2 (4.00%) Burp Suite
5 2 (4.00%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.00%) AppScan
6 1 (2.00%) Git
6 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (2.00%) Subversion
6 1 (2.00%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (2.00%) tSQLt
6 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (4.00%) Digital Economy
4 1 (2.00%) Finance
4 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 16 (32.00%) Developer
2 13 (26.00%) Project Manager
3 8 (16.00%) Migration Manager
3 8 (16.00%) Migration Project Manager
4 7 (14.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 4 (8.00%) Administrator
5 4 (8.00%) DBA
5 4 (8.00%) PHP Developer
5 4 (8.00%) Software Project Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Agile Project Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Azure Administrator
6 3 (6.00%) Development Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Development Project Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Full Stack Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Full Stack PHP Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Software Development Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Software Development Project Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Support Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) Vue
2 6 (12.00%) Laravel
3 5 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (8.00%) Keycloak
4 4 (8.00%) OAuth
4 4 (8.00%) OAuth2
4 4 (8.00%) Playwright
4 4 (8.00%) React
4 4 (8.00%) SAML
5 2 (4.00%) XML
6 1 (2.00%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) Product Ownership
2 10 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 6 (12.00%) NHS
4 1 (2.00%) Clustering
4 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (26.00%) Windows
2 10 (20.00%) Linux
3 7 (14.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (4.00%) Mac OS
5 2 (4.00%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.00%) AIX
6 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.00%) Agile
2 18 (36.00%) Project Management
3 15 (30.00%) Scrum
4 13 (26.00%) SDLC
5 11 (22.00%) Analytics
5 11 (22.00%) Migration
6 10 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 10 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 9 (18.00%) Data Analytics
7 9 (18.00%) DevOps
7 9 (18.00%) Test Automation
8 7 (14.00%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (12.00%) Kanban
9 6 (12.00%) Project Governance
10 5 (10.00%) Change Control
11 4 (8.00%) Full Stack Development
11 4 (8.00%) Kalman Filter
11 4 (8.00%) Mobile Device Management
11 4 (8.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.00%) PHP
2 4 (8.00%) SQL
2 4 (8.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.00%) Bash
4 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.00%) Python
4 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (26.00%) Degree
2 2 (4.00%) DBS Check
2 2 (4.00%) SANS
3 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (26.00%) QA
2 2 (4.00%) SLA
3 1 (2.00%) HL7
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Docker
2 4 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (16.00%) Argo
2 6 (12.00%) Ansible
2 6 (12.00%) Grafana
2 6 (12.00%) Nagios
2 6 (12.00%) Terraform
3 5 (10.00%) Graylog
3 5 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes
6 2 (4.00%) SCCM
7 1 (2.00%) HP Fortify
7 1 (2.00%) Nessus
7 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.00%) Puppet
7 1 (2.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 12 (24.00%) Atlassian
2 5 (10.00%) Splunk
3 4 (8.00%) Cisco
4 2 (4.00%) Checkmarx
4 2 (4.00%) Dell
4 2 (4.00%) Progress
4 2 (4.00%) SonicWALL
4 2 (4.00%) VMware
4 2 (4.00%) WatchGuard
5 1 (2.00%) Citrix
5 1 (2.00%) EMC
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.00%) RedGate
5 1 (2.00%) Veracode
5 1 (2.00%) Zscaler