Microsoft Certification Contracts in Wales

Microsoft Certification
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - 46
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 10 0 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 3.44% - 2.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.81% - 7.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 13
10th Percentile £166 - -
25th Percentile £200 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £236 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.41%
75th Percentile £250 - £613
90th Percentile £260 - £645
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £29.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £18.22 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year +11.78% +5.16% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wales

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Wales.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 128 100 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 43.99% 25.45% 35.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 74 164
10th Percentile £193 £253 £186
25th Percentile £285 £471 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £494 £638 £613
90th Percentile £600 £724 £659
UK median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 15 17
10th Percentile - £11.01 -
25th Percentile £20.12 £15.51 £16.98
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.68 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +25.03% -60.78%
75th Percentile £41.25 £85.50 £20.47
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.80 £49.25
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +0.63% -25.93% +29.16%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in Wales

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in Wales

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in Wales

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the Wales region over the 6 months to 2 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
South Wales - 7 £236 - 7
Microsoft Certification
UK

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (20.00%) PaaS
3 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (20.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Metadata
2 4 (40.00%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (10.00%) Big Data
3 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Technical Architect
3 3 (30.00%) GCP Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Lead
4 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Lead Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Leader
5 1 (10.00%) Applications Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Designer
5 1 (10.00%) GCP Data Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Junior Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Junior Technical Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Power Apps Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (20.00%) HTML5 Canvas
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) NHS
2 2 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Analytics
1 7 (70.00%) Data Analytics
2 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 5 (50.00%) Data Science
3 5 (50.00%) Metadata Management
4 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (20.00%) Agile
5 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (20.00%) CRM
5 2 (20.00%) Data Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
5 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (20.00%) Data Security
5 2 (20.00%) MVC
5 2 (20.00%) Scrum
6 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C#
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) AWS Certification
1 7 (70.00%) Azure Certification
1 7 (70.00%) Degree
2 6 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (60.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (70.00%) Google
3 5 (50.00%) Databricks
4 4 (40.00%) Cloudera
5 1 (10.00%) Remedy