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 14 July 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
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 2 3
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 46 83 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 16.79% 22.07% 20.18%
As % of the Vendors category 41.07% 51.55% 39.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 66 66
10th Percentile £180 £162 £158
25th Percentile £190 £213 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year -40.30% -4.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £480 £551 £586
90th Percentile £532 £625 £631
Wales median daily rate £300 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -40.15% +0.25% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 2
10th Percentile £12.21 £11.12 £18.83
25th Percentile £15.05 £14.36 £20.02
Median hourly rate £16.00 £25.60 £22.03
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +16.21% +33.52%
75th Percentile £19.82 £87.80 £24.02
90th Percentile £23.75 £87.84 £25.21
Wales median hourly rate £16.00 £24.33 £22.03
% change year-on-year -34.24% +10.44% +37.69%

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 112 161 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 40.88% 42.82% 51.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 117 173
10th Percentile £184 £162 £192
25th Percentile £237 £256 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.75% - -
75th Percentile £479 £553 £588
90th Percentile £515 £625 £638
Wales median daily rate £375 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -25.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 7
10th Percentile £12.97 £12.43 £16.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £24.05 £17.00
Median hourly rate £20.50 £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.95% +162.50% +15.94%
75th Percentile £20.75 £85.50 £37.38
90th Percentile £23.75 £87.80 £49.25
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £50.00 £19.03
% change year-on-year -59.00% +162.74% +15.33%

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 14 July 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 14 July 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 -4 31 £375 -25.00% 74
Glamorgan - 10 £200 - 79
Gwent - 3 - - 48
Newport -4 1 - - 42
Caerphilly - 1 £180 - 2
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 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (32.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (45.65%) Azure
2 12 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (19.57%) AWS
3 9 (19.57%) GCP
4 5 (10.87%) Entra ID
5 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.70%) Power Platform
6 3 (6.52%) Google Docs
6 3 (6.52%) Google Sheets
6 3 (6.52%) Google Workspace
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (4.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) Firewall
2 5 (10.87%) LAN
2 5 (10.87%) WAN
3 3 (6.52%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.17%) DNS
4 1 (2.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) Metadata
2 2 (4.35%) Power BI
2 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.17%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (2.17%) Spotfire
3 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) JIRA
1 1 (2.17%) Postman
1 1 (2.17%) SoapUI
1 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 17 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.57%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Banking
4 3 (6.52%) Finance
4 3 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Digital Health
5 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (17.39%) Support Engineer
2 7 (15.22%) Analyst
2 7 (15.22%) Architect
3 5 (10.87%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 5 (10.87%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) 2nd/3rd Line Technical Support
3 5 (10.87%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) 3rd Line Support
3 5 (10.87%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) 3rd Line Technical Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) 3rd Line Technical Support
3 5 (10.87%) Cloud Architect
3 5 (10.87%) Technical Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Technical Support
3 5 (10.87%) Technical Support Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Developer
5 3 (6.52%) Administrator
5 3 (6.52%) Support Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) .NET
1 2 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (4.35%) HTML5 Canvas
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (2.17%) FHIR
2 1 (2.17%) NumPy
2 1 (2.17%) Pandas
2 1 (2.17%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.17%) RESTful
2 1 (2.17%) scikit-learn
2 1 (2.17%) SciPy
2 1 (2.17%) SOAP
2 1 (2.17%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.17%) Web Services
2 1 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.70%) NHS
3 3 (6.52%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.35%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (4.35%) Operational Technology
4 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.17%) ASTM
5 1 (2.17%) Clustering
5 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.17%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.17%) Replication
5 1 (2.17%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.87%) Windows
2 1 (2.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (21.74%) Agile
2 8 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (15.22%) ITIL
3 7 (15.22%) Roadmaps
4 6 (13.04%) Data Privacy
4 6 (13.04%) DevOps
4 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (10.87%) Cloud Security
5 5 (10.87%) Computer Science
5 5 (10.87%) Customer Service
5 5 (10.87%) Data Science
5 5 (10.87%) DevSecOps
5 5 (10.87%) Risk Management
5 5 (10.87%) Scrum
5 5 (10.87%) Strategic Roadmap
6 4 (8.70%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (8.70%) IT Strategy
6 4 (8.70%) Migration
6 4 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (8.70%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.52%) Python
1 3 (6.52%) SQL
2 2 (4.35%) C#
2 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.17%) R
3 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (19.57%) Degree
2 6 (13.04%) AWS Certification
2 6 (13.04%) Azure Certification
2 6 (13.04%) Master's Degree
3 5 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (8.70%) CITP
5 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (4.35%) CISMP
6 2 (4.35%) GSEC
6 2 (4.35%) Security Cleared
7 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) GDPR
2 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) HL7
2 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.17%) NIST
2 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (10.87%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.52%) BitLocker
2 3 (6.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (6.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (26.09%) Google
2 5 (10.87%) Cisco
2 5 (10.87%) Sophos
3 3 (6.52%) Apple
3 3 (6.52%) HP
3 3 (6.52%) McAfee
3 3 (6.52%) MobileIron
3 3 (6.52%) Xero
4 2 (4.35%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.35%) Databricks
5 1 (2.17%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.17%) Freshdesk
5 1 (2.17%) RedGate
5 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.17%) TIBCO
5 1 (2.17%) VMware