Microsoft Jobs in Cardiff

Microsoft
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 7 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +7
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 29 115 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 16.11% 14.92% 16.27%
As % of the Vendors category 32.58% 39.79% 49.44%
Number of salaries quoted 27 100 77
10th Percentile £24,600 £24,750 £24,601
25th Percentile £26,250 £32,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,094 £50,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +23.46% +1.25%
75th Percentile £43,375 £63,750 £51,250
90th Percentile £54,147 £80,000 £64,500
South Wales median annual salary £39,547 £40,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -2.35% -4.71% -

All Vendors
Cardiff

Microsoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 89 289 180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 49.44% 37.48% 32.91%
Number of salaries quoted 66 247 146
10th Percentile £15,052 £30,000 £27,175
25th Percentile £24,722 £35,625 £33,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £50,000 £44,666
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +11.94% -10.67%
75th Percentile £57,500 £64,375 £60,288
90th Percentile £65,338 £76,000 £67,500
South Wales median annual salary £25,087 £44,886 £45,000
% change year-on-year -44.11% -0.25% -3.98%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Cardiff

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Cardiff.

Salary trend for Microsoft in Cardiff

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Cardiff over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.45%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) Azure
2 5 (17.24%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (13.79%) IaaS
3 4 (13.79%) PaaS
3 4 (13.79%) Power Platform
3 4 (13.79%) PowerApps
3 4 (13.79%) SaaS
4 3 (10.34%) AWS
4 3 (10.34%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) IP Telephony
2 4 (13.79%) DNS
3 2 (6.90%) NAS
3 2 (6.90%) SAN
4 1 (3.45%) Firewall
4 1 (3.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Big Data
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Artifactory
1 1 (3.45%) Git
1 1 (3.45%) GitLab
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
1 1 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
1 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (62.07%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Telecoms
3 5 (17.24%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Welsh Language
4 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Games
6 1 (3.45%) iGaming
6 1 (3.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Telesales Executive
2 6 (20.69%) Help Desk Adviser
3 5 (17.24%) Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Power Platform Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Server Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) IT Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Backend Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Data Centre Manager
6 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Lead
6 1 (3.45%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Private Cloud
2 4 (13.79%) IoT
3 2 (6.90%) Clustering
4 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.45%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Windows
1 4 (13.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (24.14%) Customer Service
2 7 (24.14%) Decision-Making
2 7 (24.14%) Telesales
3 5 (17.24%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (13.79%) Data Collection
4 4 (13.79%) Incident Management
4 4 (13.79%) ITIL
4 4 (13.79%) Performance Monitoring
4 4 (13.79%) Proactive Maintenance
4 4 (13.79%) Proactive Monitoring
4 4 (13.79%) Problem Management
4 4 (13.79%) Server Migrations
4 4 (13.79%) Service Management
5 3 (10.34%) Agile
5 3 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (6.90%) Analytics
6 2 (6.90%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (6.90%) Machine Learning
6 2 (6.90%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.45%) C#
1 1 (3.45%) C++
1 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Azure Certification
1 4 (13.79%) DBS Check
1 4 (13.79%) MCSA
1 4 (13.79%) MCSE
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.90%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.45%) MRICS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) SLA
2 1 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
1 4 (13.79%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (6.90%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.45%) Docker
3 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Ansible
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.45%) Instagram
1 1 (3.45%) Pega
1 1 (3.45%) Twitter
1 1 (3.45%) VMware