Microsoft Contracts in South Wales

Microsoft
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 13 May 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 64 107 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 20.65% 21.19% 14.35%
As % of the Vendors category 52.89% 45.92% 40.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 82 95
10th Percentile £208 £211 £149
25th Percentile £475 £417 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £443
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +18.51% +22.21%
75th Percentile £616 £586 £575
90th Percentile £648 £600 £613
Wales median daily rate £513 £525 £427
% change year-on-year -2.38% +22.95% +17.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 4
10th Percentile £11.00 £15.75 £15.40
25th Percentile £11.11 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £49.68 £17.03 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +191.72% +3.21% -
75th Percentile £87.80 £17.69 £17.92
90th Percentile £87.86 £17.93 £19.11
Wales median hourly rate £19.00 £18.06 £16.50
% change year-on-year +5.20% +9.45% -

All Vendors
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 121 233 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 39.03% 46.14% 35.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 173 221
10th Percentile £203 £203 £190
25th Percentile £413 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £503 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% +11.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £563 £583 £575
90th Percentile £625 £630 £625
Wales median daily rate £509 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +1.70% +11.11% +4.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 13
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.26 £12.84
25th Percentile £11.95 £17.40 £15.75
Median hourly rate £72.00 £32.78 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +119.65% +57.98% +6.41%
75th Percentile £87.35 £49.06 £25.75
90th Percentile £87.82 £49.63 £46.88
Wales median hourly rate £39.50 £24.53 £21.63
% change year-on-year +61.03% +13.43% +10.90%

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 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in South Wales

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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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Hourly Rate Histogram in South Wales

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in South Wales over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 13 May 2024. 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 46 £513 -6.82% 42
Newport -6 15 £600 +14.29% 14
Rhondda Cynon Taff +7 1 £135 -4.42%
Gwent +1 1 £166 -74.46% 10
Torfaen +1 1 - - 4
Microsoft
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 13 (20.31%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (20.31%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (17.19%) Acrobat
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (32.81%) Azure
2 14 (21.88%) GitHub
3 10 (15.63%) Dynamics 365
3 10 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (10.94%) AWS
6 6 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (6.25%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (4.69%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.56%) GCP
10 1 (1.56%) IaaS
10 1 (1.56%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.50%) Firewall
2 5 (7.81%) VPN
3 4 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.69%) LAN
5 2 (3.13%) WLAN
6 1 (1.56%) DHCP
6 1 (1.56%) DNS
6 1 (1.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.88%) MySQL
2 8 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 5 (7.81%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (4.69%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.56%) Power BI
5 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (12.50%) Cypress.io
2 6 (9.38%) Postman
3 4 (6.25%) GitLab
3 4 (6.25%) JIRA
4 3 (4.69%) Storybook
5 2 (3.13%) Burp Suite
5 2 (3.13%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.56%) AppScan
6 1 (1.56%) Git
6 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.56%) Subversion
6 1 (1.56%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.56%) tSQLt
6 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (17.19%) Local Government
2 11 (17.19%) Marketing
3 5 (7.81%) Finance
4 4 (6.25%) Legal
5 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.13%) Digital Economy
6 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 18 (28.13%) Developer
2 11 (17.19%) Bid Manager
2 11 (17.19%) Senior
3 9 (14.06%) Senior Bid Manager
3 9 (14.06%) Senior Manager
4 8 (12.50%) Project Manager
5 7 (10.94%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 5 (7.81%) Migration Manager
6 5 (7.81%) Migration Project Manager
7 4 (6.25%) Administrator
7 4 (6.25%) DBA
7 4 (6.25%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (6.25%) PHP Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) Azure Administrator
8 3 (4.69%) Full Stack PHP Developer
8 3 (4.69%) IT Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Support Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) Support Engineer
9 2 (3.13%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.94%) Vue
2 6 (9.38%) Laravel
3 5 (7.81%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (6.25%) Keycloak
4 4 (6.25%) OAuth
4 4 (6.25%) OAuth2
4 4 (6.25%) Playwright
4 4 (6.25%) React
4 4 (6.25%) SAML
5 3 (4.69%) .NET
6 2 (3.13%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.13%) .NET Framework
6 2 (3.13%) XML
7 1 (1.56%) FHIR
7 1 (1.56%) Xamarin.iOS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) Product Ownership
1 10 (15.63%) Public Cloud
2 6 (9.38%) NHS
3 3 (4.69%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.56%) Clustering
4 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.56%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.44%) Windows
2 10 (15.63%) Linux
3 7 (10.94%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.13%) Android
4 2 (3.13%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.13%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.13%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.56%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (40.63%) Project Management
2 18 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (26.56%) Agile
4 12 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (18.75%) PRINCE2
4 12 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (17.19%) Analytics
5 11 (17.19%) Value Proposition
6 10 (15.63%) CI/CD
6 10 (15.63%) Psychology
6 10 (15.63%) Risk Management
6 10 (15.63%) Scrum
7 9 (14.06%) Data Analytics
7 9 (14.06%) Test Automation
8 8 (12.50%) Critical Thinking
8 8 (12.50%) DevOps
8 8 (12.50%) Migration
8 8 (12.50%) SDLC
9 7 (10.94%) Containerisation
9 7 (10.94%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.63%) PHP
2 6 (9.38%) SQL
3 4 (6.25%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.13%) C#
4 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.56%) Bash
5 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.56%) Python
5 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (29.69%) Degree
2 13 (20.31%) Security Cleared
3 12 (18.75%) SC Cleared
4 11 (17.19%) PMI Certification
4 11 (17.19%) PMP
5 2 (3.13%) DBS Check
5 2 (3.13%) SANS
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.31%) QA
2 2 (3.13%) SLA
3 1 (1.56%) GDPR
3 1 (1.56%) HL7
System Software
1 7 (10.94%) Active Directory
1 7 (10.94%) Docker
2 3 (4.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.13%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.56%) Terminal Services
4 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (9.38%) Ansible
1 6 (9.38%) Grafana
1 6 (9.38%) Nagios
1 6 (9.38%) Terraform
2 5 (7.81%) Argo
2 5 (7.81%) Graylog
2 5 (7.81%) Prometheus
3 4 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.13%) SCCM
5 1 (1.56%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.56%) Nessus
5 1 (1.56%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.56%) Puppet
5 1 (1.56%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) Adobe
2 7 (10.94%) Atlassian
3 5 (7.81%) Splunk
4 3 (4.69%) Cisco
4 3 (4.69%) Dell
4 3 (4.69%) VMware
5 2 (3.13%) Checkmarx
5 2 (3.13%) Progress
5 2 (3.13%) SonicWALL
5 2 (3.13%) WatchGuard
5 2 (3.13%) Xamarin
6 1 (1.56%) Citrix
6 1 (1.56%) HP
6 1 (1.56%) RedGate
6 1 (1.56%) Veracode