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 12 May 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -18 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 74 336 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 7.11% 16.47% 16.48%
As % of the Vendors category 13.17% 46.03% 43.29%
Number of salaries quoted 61 249 210
10th Percentile £24,600 £24,500 £23,000
25th Percentile £29,438 £28,125 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £38,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -1.96% -10.53%
75th Percentile £56,750 £55,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £68,500 £70,250 £68,455
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -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 562 730 626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 53.99% 35.78% 38.08%
Number of salaries quoted 358 476 321
10th Percentile - £26,250 £24,975
25th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £42,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% -1.16% -4.44%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £56,250
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 12 May 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 12 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales -14 55 £42,500 +11.84% 130
North Wales -12 8 £40,000 +17.65% 12
West Wales -8 5 £37,500 -31.82% 9
Mid Wales +9 2 £32,500 +44.44% 3
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 6 (8.11%) SharePoint
2 5 (6.76%) Confluence
3 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.70%) IIS
5 1 (1.35%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (1.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (16.22%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (54.05%) Azure
2 16 (21.62%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (14.86%) Power Platform
3 11 (14.86%) SaaS
4 10 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (12.16%) PaaS
6 8 (10.81%) IaaS
7 6 (8.11%) GitHub
7 6 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (6.76%) AWS
8 5 (6.76%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.05%) Azure API Management
9 3 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (4.05%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (2.70%) OneDrive
11 1 (1.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (1.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (14.86%) DNS
2 7 (9.46%) IP Telephony
3 6 (8.11%) Internet
4 5 (6.76%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (5.41%) Firewall
6 3 (4.05%) DHCP
6 3 (4.05%) SAN
6 3 (4.05%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.70%) NAS
7 2 (2.70%) Network Security
7 2 (2.70%) Wireless
8 1 (1.35%) Extranet
8 1 (1.35%) LAN
8 1 (1.35%) VLAN
8 1 (1.35%) VoIP
8 1 (1.35%) VPN
8 1 (1.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.11%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.76%) Power BI
3 5 (6.76%) Redis
4 2 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.70%) Big Data
4 2 (2.70%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (2.70%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.35%) Metadata
5 1 (1.35%) MS Access
5 1 (1.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (8.11%) JIRA
2 5 (6.76%) Git
2 5 (6.76%) SonarQube
3 2 (2.70%) Postman
3 2 (2.70%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 40 (54.05%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.27%) Finance
3 12 (16.22%) Public Sector
4 10 (13.51%) Welsh Language
5 8 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (9.46%) Telecoms
7 6 (8.11%) Manufacturing
8 4 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.70%) Retail
10 1 (1.35%) Back Office
10 1 (1.35%) Environmental Health
10 1 (1.35%) Games
10 1 (1.35%) Legal
10 1 (1.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (14.86%) Developer
2 8 (10.81%) Senior
2 8 (10.81%) Server Engineer
3 7 (9.46%) Telesales Executive
4 6 (8.11%) Help Desk Adviser
5 5 (6.76%) Backend Developer
5 5 (6.76%) Senior Backend Developer
5 5 (6.76%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.41%) Analyst
6 4 (5.41%) Architect
6 4 (5.41%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (5.41%) Security Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) IT Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Junior
7 3 (4.05%) Junior Developer
7 3 (4.05%) Technical Support
8 2 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.70%) Support Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Technical Consultant
8 2 (2.70%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.46%) RESTful
2 5 (6.76%) Django
2 5 (6.76%) FastAPI
2 5 (6.76%) Flask
2 5 (6.76%) GraphQL
2 5 (6.76%) Keycloak
2 5 (6.76%) OAuth
2 5 (6.76%) pytest
2 5 (6.76%) SQLAlchemy
2 5 (6.76%) WebSockets
3 3 (4.05%) .NET
4 2 (2.70%) ADO
4 2 (2.70%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.70%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.70%) CSS
4 2 (2.70%) HTML
4 2 (2.70%) Regular Expression
4 2 (2.70%) REST
4 2 (2.70%) SOAP
4 2 (2.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) IoT
2 7 (9.46%) Private Cloud
3 5 (6.76%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.05%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.05%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.05%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.70%) Clustering
5 2 (2.70%) NHS
5 2 (2.70%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.70%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.35%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.35%) LIMS
6 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.35%) PMI
6 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.35%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.62%) Windows
2 13 (17.57%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.41%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.35%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.35%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (35.14%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (20.27%) DevOps
3 13 (17.57%) Customer Service
4 12 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (14.86%) Data Collection
6 10 (13.51%) CI/CD
6 10 (13.51%) ITIL
7 9 (12.16%) Agile
7 9 (12.16%) Collaborative Working
7 9 (12.16%) Decision-Making
7 9 (12.16%) Scrum
8 8 (10.81%) Incident Management
8 8 (10.81%) Performance Monitoring
8 8 (10.81%) Proactive Maintenance
8 8 (10.81%) Proactive Monitoring
8 8 (10.81%) Problem Management
8 8 (10.81%) Server Migrations
8 8 (10.81%) Service Management
9 7 (9.46%) Telesales
9 7 (9.46%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.22%) SQL
2 5 (6.76%) Python
3 4 (5.41%) C#
4 3 (4.05%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.05%) TypeScript
4 3 (4.05%) VBA
5 2 (2.70%) C++
5 2 (2.70%) Groovy
6 1 (1.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (12.16%) Azure Certification
1 9 (12.16%) DBS Check
2 8 (10.81%) Degree
2 8 (10.81%) MCSA
2 8 (10.81%) MCSE
2 8 (10.81%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (10.81%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.05%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.70%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.70%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.35%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.35%) MRICS
6 1 (1.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.51%) SLA
2 3 (4.05%) PMO
2 3 (4.05%) QA
3 2 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.35%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (18.92%) Active Directory
2 8 (10.81%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (8.11%) Docker
4 5 (6.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (4.05%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.76%) Grafana
2 5 (6.76%) Prometheus
3 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.35%) Ansible
4 1 (1.35%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (1.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (6.76%) VMware
2 3 (4.05%) Cisco
3 2 (2.70%) Facebook
3 2 (2.70%) Mitel
3 2 (2.70%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.35%) Databricks
4 1 (1.35%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.35%) Instagram
4 1 (1.35%) JDA
4 1 (1.35%) Pega
4 1 (1.35%) RedPrairie
4 1 (1.35%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.35%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.35%) Twitter
4 1 (1.35%) Veeam