Microsoft Contracts in Swansea

Microsoft
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Swansea 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 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 7 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Swansea 10.53% 5.88% 22.86%
As % of the Vendors category 25.00% 100.00% 80.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile - - £156
25th Percentile £185 - £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £450 £278
Median % change year-on-year -57.78% +62.16% -30.63%
75th Percentile £195 - £485
90th Percentile - - £522
West Wales median daily rate £190 £450 £278
% change year-on-year -57.78% +62.16% -30.63%

All Vendors
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8 1 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swansea 42.11% 5.88% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 8
10th Percentile £185 - £157
25th Percentile £393 - £174
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £450 £419
Median % change year-on-year +6.11% +7.46% +10.20%
75th Percentile £531 - £520
90th Percentile £550 - £529
West Wales median daily rate £478 £450 £419
% change year-on-year +6.11% +7.46% +11.67%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Swansea

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Swansea

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Swansea

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Swansea

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Swansea

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swansea 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 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) IT Support
1 2 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Autotask
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) ConnectWise
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds