Microsoft Contracts in Wales

Microsoft
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 May 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 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 3 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 81 137 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 20.61% 21.54% 14.80%
As % of the Vendors category 51.59% 47.40% 42.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 105 117
10th Percentile £208 £161 £142
25th Percentile £475 £230 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £426
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +17.37% +21.71%
75th Percentile £605 £575 £575
90th Percentile £645 £595 £625
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 4
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.01 £15.40
25th Percentile £11.95 £16.77 £15.63
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.06 £18.21
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -0.80% +10.33%
75th Percentile £87.10 £24.55 £21.81
90th Percentile £87.82 £28.42 £25.22
UK median hourly rate £15.42 £23.50 £18.55
% change year-on-year -34.38% +26.68% +6.00%

All Vendors
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 157 289 353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 39.95% 45.44% 35.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 215 255
10th Percentile £209 £189 £163
25th Percentile £425 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +5.56% +3.45%
75th Percentile £563 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £625 £633
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.52% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 15
10th Percentile £11.02 £14.88 £13.45
25th Percentile £13.56 £16.13 £17.83
Median hourly rate £39.50 £24.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.03% +9.02% +15.38%
75th Percentile £86.45 £44.31 £29.25
90th Percentile £87.80 £49.38 £46.88
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £43.75 £21.02
% change year-on-year -49.54% +108.14% -6.24%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Wales

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Wales

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in Wales

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Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Wales region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales +1 70 £515 -1.90% 87
North Wales +3 3 £213 +16.44% 15
West Wales -5 1 £450 +62.16% 18
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UK

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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 16 (19.75%) SharePoint
2 7 (8.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (24.69%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (13.58%) Acrobat
3 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (7.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (35.80%) Azure
2 18 (22.22%) GitHub
3 14 (17.28%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (13.58%) Dynamics 365
4 11 (13.58%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (8.64%) AWS
6 6 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (4.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (4.94%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.70%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.70%) OneDrive
9 2 (2.47%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.23%) GCP
10 1 (1.23%) IaaS
10 1 (1.23%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.88%) Firewall
2 5 (6.17%) VPN
3 4 (4.94%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.70%) LAN
5 2 (2.47%) WLAN
6 1 (1.23%) DHCP
6 1 (1.23%) DNS
6 1 (1.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (22.22%) MySQL
2 8 (9.88%) Relational Database
3 6 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (3.70%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.23%) Power BI
5 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (9.88%) Cypress.io
2 6 (7.41%) JIRA
2 6 (7.41%) Postman
3 4 (4.94%) GitLab
4 3 (3.70%) Storybook
5 2 (2.47%) Burp Suite
5 2 (2.47%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.23%) AppScan
6 1 (1.23%) Git
6 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.23%) Subversion
6 1 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.23%) tSQLt
6 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (24.69%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.58%) Local Government
2 11 (13.58%) Marketing
3 10 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.17%) Finance
4 5 (6.17%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.94%) Legal
6 2 (2.47%) Digital Economy
7 1 (1.23%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 18 (22.22%) Developer
2 14 (17.28%) Project Manager
3 11 (13.58%) Bid Manager
3 11 (13.58%) Senior
4 9 (11.11%) Migration Manager
4 9 (11.11%) Migration Project Manager
4 9 (11.11%) Senior Bid Manager
4 9 (11.11%) Senior Manager
5 8 (9.88%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 5 (6.17%) Analyst
6 5 (6.17%) DBA
7 4 (4.94%) Administrator
7 4 (4.94%) Consultant
7 4 (4.94%) PHP Developer
7 4 (4.94%) Software Project Manager
8 3 (3.70%) CRM Consultant
8 3 (3.70%) Development Project Manager
8 3 (3.70%) Migration Consultant
8 3 (3.70%) Software Development Manager
8 3 (3.70%) Software Development Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.64%) Vue
2 6 (7.41%) Laravel
3 5 (6.17%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (4.94%) Keycloak
4 4 (4.94%) OAuth
4 4 (4.94%) OAuth2
4 4 (4.94%) Playwright
4 4 (4.94%) React
4 4 (4.94%) SAML
5 2 (2.47%) .NET
5 2 (2.47%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.47%) XML
6 1 (1.23%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.23%) FHIR
6 1 (1.23%) Xamarin.iOS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.81%) Product Ownership
2 10 (12.35%) Public Cloud
3 7 (8.64%) NHS
4 2 (2.47%) BYOD
4 2 (2.47%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.23%) Clustering
5 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.23%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (23.46%) Windows
2 10 (12.35%) Linux
3 8 (9.88%) Windows Server
4 5 (6.17%) Windows 10
5 3 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.47%) Android
6 2 (2.47%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.47%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.23%) AIX
7 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (35.80%) Project Management
2 24 (29.63%) Agile
3 22 (27.16%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (20.99%) Migration
5 16 (19.75%) Scrum
6 14 (17.28%) SDLC
7 12 (14.81%) Analytics
7 12 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
7 12 (14.81%) PRINCE2
7 12 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (13.58%) Containerisation
8 11 (13.58%) Value Proposition
9 10 (12.35%) CI/CD
9 10 (12.35%) Data Analytics
9 10 (12.35%) DevOps
9 10 (12.35%) Psychology
9 10 (12.35%) Risk Management
10 9 (11.11%) Test Automation
11 8 (9.88%) Critical Thinking
11 8 (9.88%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.28%) PHP
2 9 (11.11%) SQL
3 4 (4.94%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.94%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.23%) Bash
4 1 (1.23%) C#
4 1 (1.23%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.23%) Python
4 1 (1.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (32.10%) Degree
2 14 (17.28%) Security Cleared
3 13 (16.05%) SC Cleared
4 11 (13.58%) PMI Certification
4 11 (13.58%) PMP
5 2 (2.47%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.47%) SANS
6 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.23%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.05%) QA
2 2 (2.47%) SLA
3 1 (1.23%) GDPR
3 1 (1.23%) HL7
System Software
1 9 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.64%) Docker
3 3 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.47%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.47%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.23%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (11.11%) Argo
2 7 (8.64%) Terraform
3 6 (7.41%) Ansible
3 6 (7.41%) Grafana
3 6 (7.41%) Nagios
4 5 (6.17%) Graylog
4 5 (6.17%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.94%) SCCM
5 4 (4.94%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.47%) Kubernetes
8 1 (1.23%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.23%) Nessus
8 1 (1.23%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.23%) Puppet
8 1 (1.23%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 13 (16.05%) Atlassian
2 11 (13.58%) Adobe
3 5 (6.17%) Splunk
4 4 (4.94%) Cisco
5 3 (3.70%) Dell
5 3 (3.70%) VMware
6 2 (2.47%) Checkmarx
6 2 (2.47%) Oracle
6 2 (2.47%) Progress
6 2 (2.47%) SonicWALL
6 2 (2.47%) WatchGuard
7 1 (1.23%) Citrix
7 1 (1.23%) EMC
7 1 (1.23%) HP
7 1 (1.23%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.23%) RedGate
7 1 (1.23%) Veracode
7 1 (1.23%) Xamarin
7 1 (1.23%) Zscaler