Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Newport

Microsoft
South Wales > Newport

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newport requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - 9
Rank change year-on-year - - -6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 7 0 16
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 10.00% - 17.39%
As % of the Vendors category 24.14% - 69.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile - - £543
25th Percentile £525 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £575 - £625
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £319 £425 £515
% change year-on-year -25.00% -17.48% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £11.00
25th Percentile - - £12.68
Median hourly rate £25.26 - £85.00
75th Percentile - - £87.80
90th Percentile - - £87.88
South Wales median hourly rate £21.25 £16.00 £49.68
% change year-on-year +32.81% -67.79% +191.72%

All Vendors
Newport

Microsoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Newport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 29 24 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 41.43% 42.86% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 14
10th Percentile £463 £185 £119
25th Percentile £513 £285 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £600
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -31.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £560 £625
90th Percentile £600 £715 -
South Wales median daily rate £475 £409 £515
% change year-on-year +16.21% -20.63% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 8
10th Percentile £38.26 £29.25 £11.00
25th Percentile £52.19 £33.75 £13.52
Median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £84.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -55.62% +73.33%
75th Percentile £79.38 £41.25 £87.80
90th Percentile £88.75 £43.50 £87.86
South Wales median hourly rate £21.25 £22.50 £72.00
% change year-on-year -5.56% -68.75% +119.65%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport.

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Newport

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Newport

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Newport

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) IBM Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (14.29%) DB2
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Military
3 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
3 1 (14.29%) Automotive
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Build Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Electrical Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Driving Licence
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (28.57%) Statistics
2 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) Application Packaging
2 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
2 1 (14.29%) Database Migration
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) High Availability
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Microservices
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (14.29%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
2 1 (14.29%) Trend Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 1 (14.29%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Apple
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Veeam