Microsoft Jobs in Wales

Microsoft
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 21 April 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
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -21 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 62 329 272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 7.00% 16.54% 16.46%
As % of the Vendors category 15.05% 45.69% 43.80%
Number of salaries quoted 54 245 211
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £24,000
25th Percentile £34,375 £28,290 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £36,476 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.52% -2.73% -16.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £71,000 £70,150 £66,000
UK median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +5.00%

All Vendors
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 412 720 621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 46.50% 36.20% 37.59%
Number of salaries quoted 268 461 322
10th Percentile - £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £30,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,094 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,500 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £70,600 £70,000 £68,497
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Wales

Microsoft
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in Wales

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Wales over the 6 months to 21 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in Wales

Microsoft
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Wales region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales -14 44 £52,296 +43.37% 87
North Wales -14 7 £40,000 +18.52% 17
West Wales -6 5 £37,500 -31.82% 7
Mid Wales +8 1 - - 4
Dyfed +1 1 £75,000 +97.37% 1
Microsoft
UK

Microsoft
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 7 (11.29%) Confluence
2 5 (8.06%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (64.52%) Azure
2 13 (20.97%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (17.74%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (17.74%) SaaS
4 10 (16.13%) Power Platform
5 9 (14.52%) PaaS
6 8 (12.90%) IaaS
7 7 (11.29%) GitHub
7 7 (11.29%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.45%) AWS
9 3 (4.84%) Azure API Management
9 3 (4.84%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (4.84%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.84%) PowerApps
10 2 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (1.61%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.52%) DNS
2 5 (8.06%) Internet
3 4 (6.45%) IP Telephony
3 4 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (3.23%) Firewall
4 2 (3.23%) SAN
4 2 (3.23%) Wireless
5 1 (1.61%) DHCP
5 1 (1.61%) Extranet
5 1 (1.61%) NAS
5 1 (1.61%) Network Security
5 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.13%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (11.29%) Redis
2 7 (11.29%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.84%) Power BI
3 3 (4.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (4.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (3.23%) MySQL
5 1 (1.61%) Big Data
5 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.61%) Metadata
5 1 (1.61%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 8 (12.90%) JIRA
2 7 (11.29%) Git
2 7 (11.29%) SonarQube
3 2 (3.23%) Postman
3 2 (3.23%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (53.23%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.97%) Finance
2 13 (20.97%) Public Sector
3 10 (16.13%) Welsh Language
4 6 (9.68%) Manufacturing
5 4 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.45%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.61%) Environmental Health
7 1 (1.61%) Games
7 1 (1.61%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (20.97%) Developer
2 9 (14.52%) Senior
3 8 (12.90%) Server Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) Backend Developer
4 7 (11.29%) Senior Backend Developer
4 7 (11.29%) Senior Developer
5 4 (6.45%) Architect
5 4 (6.45%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (6.45%) Security Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Telesales Executive
6 3 (4.84%) Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) Consultant
7 2 (3.23%) Help Desk Adviser
7 2 (3.23%) Junior
7 2 (3.23%) Junior Developer
7 2 (3.23%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Technical Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (3.23%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.13%) RESTful
2 7 (11.29%) Django
2 7 (11.29%) FastAPI
2 7 (11.29%) Flask
2 7 (11.29%) GraphQL
2 7 (11.29%) Keycloak
2 7 (11.29%) OAuth
2 7 (11.29%) pytest
2 7 (11.29%) SQLAlchemy
2 7 (11.29%) WebSockets
3 3 (4.84%) .NET
3 3 (4.84%) ASP.NET
3 3 (4.84%) CSS
3 3 (4.84%) HTML
3 3 (4.84%) REST
3 3 (4.84%) SOAP
3 3 (4.84%) Web Services
4 2 (3.23%) ADO
4 2 (3.23%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.23%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) IoT
2 7 (11.29%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.45%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.23%) NHS
4 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.23%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.61%) Clustering
5 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.61%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 12 (19.35%) Windows
2 10 (16.13%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.23%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.61%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (40.32%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (25.81%) DevOps
3 12 (19.35%) CI/CD
4 11 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (16.13%) Agile
5 10 (16.13%) Data Collection
5 10 (16.13%) Scrum
6 9 (14.52%) ITIL
7 8 (12.90%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (12.90%) Customer Service
7 8 (12.90%) Incident Management
7 8 (12.90%) Performance Monitoring
7 8 (12.90%) Proactive Maintenance
7 8 (12.90%) Proactive Monitoring
7 8 (12.90%) Problem Management
7 8 (12.90%) Server Migrations
7 8 (12.90%) Service Management
8 7 (11.29%) Containerisation
8 7 (11.29%) Front End Development
9 6 (9.68%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.58%) SQL
2 7 (11.29%) Python
3 6 (9.68%) C#
4 3 (4.84%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.23%) C++
5 2 (3.23%) Groovy
5 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (14.52%) Azure Certification
1 9 (14.52%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.90%) DBS Check
2 8 (12.90%) MCSA
2 8 (12.90%) MCSE
2 8 (12.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (11.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (8.06%) Degree
5 2 (3.23%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.23%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (3.23%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.90%) SLA
2 3 (4.84%) PMO
2 3 (4.84%) QA
3 2 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (17.74%) Active Directory
2 8 (12.90%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (11.29%) Docker
4 3 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (11.29%) Grafana
1 7 (11.29%) Kubernetes
1 7 (11.29%) Prometheus
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.61%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 3 (4.84%) VMware
2 2 (3.23%) Cisco
2 2 (3.23%) Mitel
2 2 (3.23%) Palo Alto
3 1 (1.61%) Databricks
3 1 (1.61%) JDA
3 1 (1.61%) RedPrairie
3 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.61%) Veeam