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 26 July 2024, 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
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 5 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -6
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 273 334 307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 14.15% 19.53% 15.67%
As % of the Vendors category 44.83% 48.55% 42.00%
Number of salaries quoted 201 232 194
10th Percentile £24,500 £24,000 £28,775
25th Percentile £28,290 £30,375 £35,240
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £40,389 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.27% -10.25% +12.50%
75th Percentile £55,000 £52,625 £57,774
90th Percentile £70,250 £68,497 £67,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -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 609 688 731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 31.57% 40.23% 37.31%
Number of salaries quoted 400 351 451
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,886 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% -10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £56,748 £58,750 £60,625
90th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £74,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +1.85%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +4 202 £42,500 -5.63% 52
North Wales +9 42 £35,000 +7.69% 10
West Wales -1 23 £55,000 +57.14% 5
Mid Wales -8 3 - - 4
Dyfed - 1 £38,000 - 2
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 26 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (6.96%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.30%) Skype for Business
4 7 (2.56%) Confluence
5 3 (1.10%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.10%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.73%) Apache
6 2 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.37%) CMS
7 1 (0.37%) IIS
7 1 (0.37%) Umbraco
Applications
1 52 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (11.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (3.30%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.37%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 16 (5.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.73%) Primavera
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 97 (35.53%) Azure
2 82 (30.04%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (11.36%) Power Platform
4 25 (9.16%) AWS
5 20 (7.33%) Dynamics 365
6 19 (6.96%) Entra ID
7 17 (6.23%) SaaS
8 11 (4.03%) Power Automate
9 9 (3.30%) PowerApps
10 8 (2.93%) GCP
10 8 (2.93%) OneDrive
11 7 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (1.47%) Azure API Management
14 3 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (1.10%) GitHub
14 3 (1.10%) Nutanix
15 2 (0.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 2 (0.73%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 36 (13.19%) Firewall
2 34 (12.45%) DNS
3 19 (6.96%) DHCP
4 18 (6.59%) Wireless
5 15 (5.49%) Remote Desktop
6 14 (5.13%) VoIP
7 12 (4.40%) LAN
7 12 (4.40%) WAN
8 11 (4.03%) SAN
8 11 (4.03%) TCP/IP
9 10 (3.66%) Internet
10 9 (3.30%) IP Telephony
10 9 (3.30%) VPN
10 9 (3.30%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (2.56%) Unified Communications
12 4 (1.47%) MPLS
12 4 (1.47%) Network Security
13 3 (1.10%) Extranet
14 2 (0.73%) Intranet
14 2 (0.73%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (13.55%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.40%) Power BI
3 11 (4.03%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.20%) RDBMS
5 5 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.10%) Metabase
6 3 (1.10%) Power Query
7 2 (0.73%) Big Data
7 2 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.73%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.73%) Redis
7 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.37%) GIS
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (5.49%) Git
2 10 (3.66%) JIRA
3 4 (1.47%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.73%) GitKraken
5 2 (0.73%) JetBrains Rider
5 2 (0.73%) NUnit
5 2 (0.73%) ReSharper
5 2 (0.73%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.37%) Postman
6 1 (0.37%) Selenium
6 1 (0.37%) Serenity BDD
General
1 71 (26.01%) Social Skills
2 35 (12.82%) Finance
3 21 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (7.33%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.49%) Local Government
6 15 (5.49%) Police
7 13 (4.76%) Manufacturing
8 12 (4.40%) Retail
9 11 (4.03%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (3.30%) Advertising
11 7 (2.56%) Games
11 7 (2.56%) Law
12 5 (1.83%) Legal
13 4 (1.47%) Marketing
14 3 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.10%) Welsh Language
15 2 (0.73%) Telecoms
16 1 (0.37%) Banking
16 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (15.38%) Developer
2 35 (12.82%) Analyst
3 34 (12.45%) Senior
4 30 (10.99%) Lead
5 24 (8.79%) IT Support
6 23 (8.42%) Architect
6 23 (8.42%) Support Engineer
7 21 (7.69%) IT Engineer
8 20 (7.33%) Consultant
8 20 (7.33%) IT Technician
9 15 (5.49%) IT Support Engineer
10 14 (5.13%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 12 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (4.40%) Technical Architect
12 11 (4.03%) 2nd Line Support
12 11 (4.03%) Service Analyst
12 11 (4.03%) Service Desk Analyst
13 10 (3.66%) .NET Developer
13 10 (3.66%) Network Engineer
13 10 (3.66%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (11.36%) .NET
2 19 (6.96%) ASP.NET
3 17 (6.23%) HTML
4 14 (5.13%) CSS
5 9 (3.30%) AngularJS
5 9 (3.30%) RESTful
6 8 (2.93%) .NET Framework
6 8 (2.93%) ADO
6 8 (2.93%) ASP.NET Web API
6 8 (2.93%) HTML5 Canvas
6 8 (2.93%) React
6 8 (2.93%) Vue
7 7 (2.56%) .NET Core
8 6 (2.20%) HTML5
9 5 (1.83%) Entity Framework
9 5 (1.83%) Regular Expression
10 4 (1.47%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (1.47%) Blazor
10 4 (1.47%) CSS3
11 3 (1.10%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.33%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.49%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.66%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.30%) Smartphone
5 8 (2.93%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.56%) PKI
7 6 (2.20%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.83%) Replication
9 4 (1.47%) EPoS
9 4 (1.47%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.10%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.10%) Raspberry Pi
11 2 (0.73%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.73%) iPad
11 2 (0.73%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.73%) Security Operations Centre
12 1 (0.37%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 68 (24.91%) Windows
2 34 (12.45%) Windows Server
3 15 (5.49%) Windows 10
4 10 (3.66%) Linux
4 10 (3.66%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (2.93%) Mac OS
5 8 (2.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (2.56%) Android
7 4 (1.47%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.47%) Windows 7
8 3 (1.10%) VMS
9 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (18.68%) Customer Service
2 39 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (13.92%) Agile
4 25 (9.16%) Mentoring
5 23 (8.42%) Project Management
6 22 (8.06%) Actionable Insight
7 20 (7.33%) Business Intelligence
7 20 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (7.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 18 (6.59%) CRM
8 18 (6.59%) Software Engineering
9 14 (5.13%) Full Stack Development
10 13 (4.76%) Information Security
10 13 (4.76%) ITIL
10 13 (4.76%) Migration
10 13 (4.76%) Network Management
10 13 (4.76%) Project Delivery
11 12 (4.40%) DevOps
11 12 (4.40%) Mathematics
11 12 (4.40%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 37 (13.55%) C#
2 36 (13.19%) SQL
3 15 (5.49%) TypeScript
4 11 (4.03%) JavaScript
4 11 (4.03%) Python
5 5 (1.83%) C++
5 5 (1.83%) Groovy
5 5 (1.83%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (18.32%) Degree
2 27 (9.89%) Microsoft Certification
3 24 (8.79%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.79%) Security Cleared
4 10 (3.66%) CCNA
4 10 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (3.30%) ACCA
5 9 (3.30%) CIMA
6 7 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.83%) A+ Certification
7 5 (1.83%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (1.47%) MCSE
9 3 (1.10%) MCSA
10 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.73%) MCITP
10 2 (0.73%) MCP
11 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.96%) SLA
2 10 (3.66%) GDPR
3 9 (3.30%) IFRS
4 7 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.47%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.10%) QA
7 2 (0.73%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.73%) PMO
7 2 (0.73%) WCAG
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 59 (21.61%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.30%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.20%) Docker
5 5 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (6.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (2.20%) SCCM
3 3 (1.10%) Ansible
3 3 (1.10%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.10%) SCOM
4 2 (0.73%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.73%) SmoothWall
4 2 (0.73%) Terraform
5 1 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 19 (6.96%) VMware
2 15 (5.49%) Veeam
3 14 (5.13%) Cisco
3 14 (5.13%) Mitel
4 10 (3.66%) SAP
4 10 (3.66%) Sophos
5 9 (3.30%) Avaya
5 9 (3.30%) Datto
5 9 (3.30%) Hyperion
5 9 (3.30%) PeopleSoft
6 7 (2.56%) Google
6 7 (2.56%) Meraki
7 5 (1.83%) Acronis
7 5 (1.83%) Aruba
7 5 (1.83%) Sage
8 4 (1.47%) Apple
8 4 (1.47%) Asigra
8 4 (1.47%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.47%) Citrix
8 4 (1.47%) HP