Microsoft Job Trends in the Vale of Glamorgan

Microsoft
South Wales > Vale of Glamorgan

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Vale of Glamorgan 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 28 May 2026, 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
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - 2
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the Vale of Glamorgan 5.00% - 7.14%
As % of the Vendors category 100.00% - 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 - £24,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £24,500
75th Percentile £67,500 - £24,750
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median annual salary £43,000 £38,094 £38,500
% change year-on-year +12.88% -1.05% -9.94%

All Vendors
Vale of Glamorgan

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 the Vale of Glamorgan.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1 3 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Vale of Glamorgan 5.00% 30.00% 7.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £15,201 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £16,849 £24,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £20,378 £24,500
Median % change year-on-year +218.97% -16.82% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £23,124 £24,750
90th Percentile - £24,302 -
South Wales median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £43,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% +9.20% -3.33%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the Vale of Glamorgan

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Vale of Glamorgan.

Microsoft job vacancy trend in the Vale of Glamorgan

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Salary Trend in the Vale of Glamorgan

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Vale of Glamorgan citing Microsoft.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Vale of Glamorgan citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Job Locations in the Vale of Glamorgan

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Vale of Glamorgan region over the 6 months to 28 May 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Barry - 1 £65,000 -
Microsoft
South Wales

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Vale of Glamorgan 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform