Microsoft Office Contracts in South Wales

Microsoft Office
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring Microsoft Office skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Office over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 20 34
Rank change year-on-year -6 +14 +1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 9 22 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 3.77% 6.61% 4.45%
As % of the Applications category 50.00% 55.00% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 15
10th Percentile £178 £218 £180
25th Percentile £182 £489 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £515 £475
Median % change year-on-year -33.25% +8.42% +137.50%
75th Percentile £521 £526 £500
90th Percentile £530 £548 £530
Wales median daily rate £344 £514 £230
% change year-on-year -33.09% +123.37% +22.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
Median hourly rate £16.00 £11.64 -
Median % change year-on-year +37.46% - -
Wales median hourly rate £16.00 £11.64 £31.00
% change year-on-year +37.46% -62.45% +148.10%

All Software Application Skills
South Wales

Microsoft Office falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 18 40 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 7.53% 12.01% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 29 17
10th Percentile £147 £220 £174
25th Percentile £163 £489 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £515 £388
Median % change year-on-year -57.28% +32.90% +3.33%
75th Percentile £475 £625 £500
90th Percentile £516 - £520
Wales median daily rate £220 £515 £290
% change year-on-year -57.28% +77.59% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 1
10th Percentile - £11.00 -
25th Percentile - £11.02 £15.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 £49.68 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.79% +210.50% +39.22%
75th Percentile - £87.80 £16.50
90th Percentile - £87.86 -
Wales median hourly rate £16.00 £49.68 £23.50
% change year-on-year -67.79% +111.40% +104.48%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in South Wales

Microsoft Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Office in South Wales

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in South Wales

Microsoft Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Office in South Wales

Microsoft Office
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 Office within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 6 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 -10 4 £509 -1.21% 14
Gwent +2 3 - - 8
Torfaen - 1 £200 - 5
Rhondda Cynon Taff - 1 £175 -
Microsoft Office
Wales

Microsoft Office
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 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Google Docs
1 3 (33.33%) Google Sheets
1 3 (33.33%) Google Workspace
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) PBX
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Banking
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Administrator
1 3 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Agile Delivery Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Development Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Data Centre Technician
3 1 (11.11%) Development Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) ASTM
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows 10
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Vista
2 1 (11.11%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Accounts Payable
1 3 (33.33%) Accounts Receivable
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) Document Management
1 3 (33.33%) Project Governance
1 3 (33.33%) Project Management
1 3 (33.33%) Scrum
1 3 (33.33%) SDLC
2 2 (22.22%) Kanban
2 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
3 1 (11.11%) Network Design
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Terminal Services
1 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (11.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 3 (33.33%) Google
2 3 (33.33%) Xero
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix
3 1 (11.11%) VMware