Microsoft Office Contracts in Wales

Microsoft Office
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 32 20 31
Rank change year-on-year -12 +11 +6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 9 25 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 3.09% 6.36% 5.03%
As % of the Applications category 45.00% 58.14% 84.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 22 21
10th Percentile £178 £211 £158
25th Percentile £182 £469 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £514 £230
Median % change year-on-year -33.09% +123.37% +22.67%
75th Percentile £521 £523 £500
90th Percentile £530 £530 £525
UK median daily rate £325 £255 £375
% change year-on-year +27.45% -32.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
Median hourly rate £16.00 £11.64 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.46% -62.45% +148.10%
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £16.00 £22.90
% change year-on-year +6.25% -30.13% +35.68%

All Software Application Skills
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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 20 43 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 6.87% 10.94% 5.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 32 24
10th Percentile £147 £220 £158
25th Percentile £163 £482 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £515 £290
Median % change year-on-year -57.28% +77.59% +10.48%
75th Percentile £475 £622 £491
90th Percentile £516 £625 £518
UK median daily rate £413 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -0.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 2
10th Percentile - £11.00 £17.05
25th Percentile - £11.02 £19.38
Median hourly rate £16.00 £49.68 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -67.79% +111.40% +104.48%
75th Percentile - £87.80 £27.38
90th Percentile - £87.86 £29.55
UK median hourly rate £23.59 £17.72 £35.75
% change year-on-year +33.13% -50.43% +66.28%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in Wales

Microsoft Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Office in Wales

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office in Wales over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in Wales

Microsoft Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Office in Wales

Microsoft Office
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 Office 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 -6 9 £344 -33.25% 30
Microsoft Office
UK

Microsoft Office
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:

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