Microsoft Contracts in South Wales

Microsoft
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 28 May 2025, 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 44 62 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 18.97% 19.56% 21.70%
As % of the Vendors category 41.51% 51.24% 45.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 49 83
10th Percentile £177 £218 £187
25th Percentile £190 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -36.59% -2.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £475 £625 £585
90th Percentile £544 £650 £600
Wales median daily rate £285 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -44.39% -2.38% +18.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 1
10th Percentile £12.21 £11.00 -
25th Percentile £15.05 £11.11 £18.03
Median hourly rate £16.00 £49.68 £18.06
Median % change year-on-year -67.79% +175.08% +9.45%
75th Percentile £19.82 £87.80 £18.09
90th Percentile £23.75 £87.86 -
Wales median hourly rate £16.00 £19.00 £18.06
% change year-on-year -15.79% +5.20% +9.45%

All Vendors
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 106 121 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 45.69% 38.17% 47.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 89 175
10th Percentile £180 £210 £195
25th Percentile £235 £413 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -25.85% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £465 £563 £579
90th Percentile £541 £625 £625
Wales median daily rate £375 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -26.83% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 4
10th Percentile £12.97 £11.00 £18.01
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.95 £18.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £72.00 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -68.75% +113.33% +69.13%
75th Percentile £41.25 £87.35 £49.06
90th Percentile - £87.82 £49.63
Wales median hourly rate £21.76 £39.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -44.92% +97.50% -

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in South Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in South Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in South Wales over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in South Wales

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in South Wales

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Cardiff -1 33 £425 -17.07% 233
Glamorgan - 3 £200 - 45
Gwent - 3 - - 9
Rhondda Cynon Taff 0 2 £175 +29.63%
Bridgend - 2 £325 - 6
Caerphilly - 1 £180 - 4
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Wales

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (2.27%) Confluence
1 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (56.82%) Azure
2 14 (31.82%) AWS
3 13 (29.55%) GCP
4 7 (15.91%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (11.36%) Entra ID
6 4 (9.09%) Power Platform
7 3 (6.82%) Google Docs
7 3 (6.82%) Google Sheets
7 3 (6.82%) Google Workspace
8 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (4.55%) PaaS
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (2.27%) GitHub
9 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (2.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) Firewall
2 3 (6.82%) DNS
2 3 (6.82%) LAN
2 3 (6.82%) TCP/IP
2 3 (6.82%) WAN
3 2 (4.55%) DHCP
4 1 (2.27%) HTTP
4 1 (2.27%) Network Security
4 1 (2.27%) PBX
4 1 (2.27%) VoIP
4 1 (2.27%) VPN
4 1 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) Metadata
2 3 (6.82%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (4.55%) Power BI
3 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.27%) Big Data
4 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (4.55%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (2.27%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) Postman
2 1 (2.27%) SoapUI
2 1 (2.27%) tSQLt
General
1 15 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 11 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Finance
5 3 (6.82%) Banking
6 2 (4.55%) Digital Health
7 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (20.45%) Architect
1 9 (20.45%) Support Engineer
2 5 (11.36%) Cloud Architect
3 4 (9.09%) Developer
3 4 (9.09%) Lead
3 4 (9.09%) Senior
4 3 (6.82%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 3 (6.82%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) 2nd/3rd Line Technical Support
4 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Technical Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) 3rd Line Technical Support
4 3 (6.82%) Administrator
4 3 (6.82%) GCP Architect
4 3 (6.82%) Technical Architect
4 3 (6.82%) Technical Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Technical Support
4 3 (6.82%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) .NET
1 2 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (4.55%) FHIR
1 2 (4.55%) Web Services
1 2 (4.55%) XML
2 1 (2.27%) .NET Core
2 1 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.27%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (2.27%) NumPy
2 1 (2.27%) Pandas
2 1 (2.27%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.27%) RESTful
2 1 (2.27%) scikit-learn
2 1 (2.27%) SciPy
2 1 (2.27%) SOAP
2 1 (2.27%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) NHS
2 5 (11.36%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.55%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.55%) Clustering
3 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.55%) Replication
4 1 (2.27%) ASTM
4 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.27%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.27%) PKI
4 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.91%) Windows
2 3 (6.82%) Windows 10
3 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.27%) Linux
4 1 (2.27%) Unix
4 1 (2.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (22.73%) Agile
1 10 (22.73%) Computer Science
2 8 (18.18%) Customer Service
2 8 (18.18%) Roadmaps
3 7 (15.91%) Analytics
3 7 (15.91%) DevOps
3 7 (15.91%) ITIL
4 6 (13.64%) Cloud Security
4 6 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (13.64%) Data Analytics
4 6 (13.64%) Data Science
4 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (11.36%) Data Privacy
5 5 (11.36%) DevSecOps
5 5 (11.36%) High Availability
5 5 (11.36%) Migration
5 5 (11.36%) Scrum
5 5 (11.36%) Strategic Roadmap
6 4 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (9.09%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.36%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.55%) Python
2 2 (4.55%) SQL
2 2 (4.55%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.27%) C#
3 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (31.82%) Degree
2 12 (27.27%) Azure Certification
3 11 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 9 (20.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (20.45%) Master's Degree
5 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (9.09%) CITP
7 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
8 1 (2.27%) CSSLP
8 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) HL7
2 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.27%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (11.36%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.27%) BitLocker
2 1 (2.27%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) Firmware
2 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (6.82%) SCCM
2 1 (2.27%) Argo
2 1 (2.27%) Grafana
2 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.27%) Nagios
2 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (36.36%) Google
2 4 (9.09%) Cisco
2 4 (9.09%) Databricks
2 4 (9.09%) Sophos
3 3 (6.82%) Cloudera
3 3 (6.82%) Xero
4 2 (4.55%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.55%) Ivanti
4 2 (4.55%) RedGate
5 1 (2.27%) Apple
5 1 (2.27%) HP
5 1 (2.27%) McAfee
5 1 (2.27%) MobileIron
5 1 (2.27%) Remedy
5 1 (2.27%) VMware