Microsoft Contract Job Trends 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 17 August 2026, 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
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 1 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Swansea 1.82% 14.29% 7.69%
As % of the Vendors category 7.14% 33.33% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £185 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £190 £131
Median % change year-on-year +176.32% +45.04% -27.22%
75th Percentile £538 £195 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Wales median daily rate £525 £190 £121
% change year-on-year +176.32% +57.68% -33.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £18.50 -
West Wales median hourly rate - £18.50 -

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 14 12 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swansea 25.45% 42.86% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 3
10th Percentile £384 £185 £190
25th Percentile - £196 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £213 £450
Median % change year-on-year +118.82% -52.78% +150.00%
75th Percentile £534 £219 £491
90th Percentile £564 £488 £500
West Wales median daily rate £465 £213 £291
% change year-on-year +118.82% -26.85% +61.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £18.50 -
West Wales median hourly rate - £18.50 -

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Swansea.

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Swansea

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Swansea

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Swansea

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Business Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Workshops
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared