Microsoft Contracts in Cardiff

Microsoft
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 4 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 -7
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 47 55 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 22.07% 19.30% 11.66%
As % of the Vendors category 47.00% 44.72% 35.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 45 45
10th Percentile £190 £197 £179
25th Percentile £475 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.18% +29.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £547 £586 £475
90th Percentile £665 £608 £575
South Wales median daily rate £513 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -2.38% +16.67% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £15.28
25th Percentile - £18.03 £15.31
Median hourly rate - £18.06 £15.75
Median % change year-on-year - +14.67% -7.35%
75th Percentile - £18.09 £16.31
90th Percentile - - £16.43
South Wales median hourly rate £49.68 £18.06 £16.50
% change year-on-year +175.08% +9.45% -0.45%

All Vendors
Cardiff

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 100 123 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 46.95% 43.16% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 92 115
10th Percentile £206 £193 £218
25th Percentile £413 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £519 £448
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% +15.92% +5.29%
75th Percentile £553 £586 £525
90th Percentile £600 £637 £608
South Wales median daily rate £509 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +1.70% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £18.00 £13.75
25th Percentile £55.00 £18.01 £15.31
Median hourly rate £60.00 £19.03 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +215.29% +5.72% +5.88%
75th Percentile £65.00 £21.02 £22.81
90th Percentile - £21.61 £24.75
South Wales median hourly rate £72.00 £33.75 £19.91
% change year-on-year +113.33% +69.51% +9.52%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Cardiff over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Cardiff

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend 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 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (25.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.13%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 19 (40.43%) Azure
2 14 (29.79%) GitHub
3 10 (21.28%) Dynamics 365
3 10 (21.28%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (12.77%) AWS
5 5 (10.64%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (8.51%) Entra ID
7 3 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (6.38%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.13%) GCP
9 1 (2.13%) Power Automate
9 1 (2.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) Firewall
2 4 (8.51%) VPN
3 3 (6.38%) LAN
3 3 (6.38%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.26%) WLAN
5 1 (2.13%) Internet
5 1 (2.13%) IP Telephony
5 1 (2.13%) Network Security
5 1 (2.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.66%) MySQL
2 7 (14.89%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.38%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.26%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (17.02%) Cypress.io
2 6 (12.77%) Postman
3 4 (8.51%) GitLab
3 4 (8.51%) JIRA
4 3 (6.38%) Storybook
5 2 (4.26%) Burp Suite
5 2 (4.26%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.13%) AppScan
6 1 (2.13%) Git
6 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.13%) Subversion
6 1 (2.13%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (10.64%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.26%) Finance
3 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (4.26%) Legal
4 1 (2.13%) Digital Economy
4 1 (2.13%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 18 (38.30%) Developer
2 9 (19.15%) Project Manager
3 7 (14.89%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 5 (10.64%) Full Stack Developer
4 5 (10.64%) Migration Manager
4 5 (10.64%) Migration Project Manager
5 4 (8.51%) PHP Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Administrator
6 3 (6.38%) Azure Administrator
6 3 (6.38%) DBA
6 3 (6.38%) Full Stack PHP Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Support Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Database Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Field Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) IT Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) IT Support Technician
7 2 (4.26%) Network Manager
7 2 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.89%) Vue
2 6 (12.77%) Laravel
3 5 (10.64%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (8.51%) Keycloak
4 4 (8.51%) OAuth
4 4 (8.51%) OAuth2
4 4 (8.51%) Playwright
4 4 (8.51%) React
4 4 (8.51%) SAML
5 3 (6.38%) .NET
5 3 (6.38%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.13%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.13%) Xamarin.iOS
6 1 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.28%) Product Ownership
2 9 (19.15%) Public Cloud
3 6 (12.77%) NHS
4 4 (8.51%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (25.53%) Windows
2 9 (19.15%) Linux
3 8 (17.02%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.26%) Mac OS
4 2 (4.26%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (4.26%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.13%) AIX
5 1 (2.13%) Android
5 1 (2.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.04%) Agile
1 16 (34.04%) Project Management
2 11 (23.40%) Analytics
3 10 (21.28%) CI/CD
4 9 (19.15%) Data Analytics
4 9 (19.15%) Scrum
4 9 (19.15%) Test Automation
5 8 (17.02%) Decision-Making
5 8 (17.02%) Migration
5 8 (17.02%) SDLC
6 7 (14.89%) Containerisation
6 7 (14.89%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (14.89%) DevOps
7 6 (12.77%) Full Stack Development
7 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (8.51%) Change Control
8 4 (8.51%) Front End Development
8 4 (8.51%) Kanban
8 4 (8.51%) PRINCE2
9 3 (6.38%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.28%) PHP
2 5 (10.64%) SQL
3 4 (8.51%) TypeScript
4 3 (6.38%) C#
5 1 (2.13%) Bash
5 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (23.40%) Degree
2 2 (4.26%) DBS Check
2 2 (4.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (4.26%) SANS
3 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.13%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (25.53%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) SLA
3 1 (2.13%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 7 (14.89%) Docker
2 5 (10.64%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.26%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (10.64%) Ansible
1 5 (10.64%) Argo
1 5 (10.64%) Grafana
1 5 (10.64%) Graylog
1 5 (10.64%) Nagios
1 5 (10.64%) Prometheus
1 5 (10.64%) Terraform
2 4 (8.51%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.26%) SCCM
4 1 (2.13%) HP Fortify
4 1 (2.13%) Nessus
4 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.13%) Puppet
4 1 (2.13%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 7 (14.89%) Atlassian
2 5 (10.64%) Splunk
3 4 (8.51%) Cisco
4 3 (6.38%) Xamarin
5 2 (4.26%) Checkmarx
5 2 (4.26%) Dell
5 2 (4.26%) Progress
5 2 (4.26%) SonicWALL
5 2 (4.26%) VMware
5 2 (4.26%) WatchGuard
6 1 (2.13%) Cegedim Rx
6 1 (2.13%) Citrix
6 1 (2.13%) HP
6 1 (2.13%) Meraki
6 1 (2.13%) Veracode