Microsoft Jobs in South Wales

Microsoft
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 7 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 239 193 296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 16.31% 16.93% 20.01%
As % of the Vendors category 41.49% 47.07% 44.31%
Number of salaries quoted 181 133 161
10th Percentile £24,500 £23,300 £27,000
25th Percentile £28,290 £30,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £40,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% -5.81% +7.50%
75th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £53,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £68,497 £64,500
Wales median annual salary £37,750 £37,500 £43,000
% change year-on-year +0.67% -12.79% +13.16%

All Vendors
South 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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 576 410 668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 39.32% 35.96% 45.17%
Number of salaries quoted 366 220 348
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,675 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,997 £35,960
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £44,666 £45,974
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% -2.85% +8.17%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,825 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,599 £68,497 £71,250
Wales median annual salary £42,500 £43,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.16% -4.44% +12.50%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in South Wales

Microsoft
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Microsoft in South Wales

Microsoft
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in South Wales over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft in South Wales

Microsoft
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 15 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff +1 104 £47,500 +17.28% 37
Bridgend +5 57 £36,476 +21.59% 9
Newport +8 33 £45,000 -11.94% 13
Gwent - 17 £28,290 - 10
Glamorgan -2 11 £28,290 -24.56% 33
Caerphilly +3 10 £25,047 -46.14% 3
Torfaen -5 2 £27,500 -57.69% 2
Rhondda Cynon Taff - 2 £32,500 - 1
Neath Port Talbot -2 1 £25,500 +6.25% 5
Vale of Glamorgan - 1 £24,500 - 1
Monmouthshire - 1 £31,967 - 5
Microsoft
Wales

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 21 (8.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (5.86%) Skype for Business
3 12 (5.02%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.84%) Apache
4 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 57 (23.85%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (16.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (9.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (4.18%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.42%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 11 (4.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.84%) Primavera
3 1 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 86 (35.98%) Azure
2 65 (27.20%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (14.23%) Power Platform
4 20 (8.37%) Entra ID
5 16 (6.69%) OneDrive
5 16 (6.69%) PowerApps
6 14 (5.86%) AWS
7 13 (5.44%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (5.44%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (3.77%) SaaS
9 8 (3.35%) GCP
10 7 (2.93%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (2.51%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (2.09%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (1.67%) Azure API Management
14 3 (1.26%) Azure AKS
14 3 (1.26%) Power Automate
15 2 (0.84%) Azure Functions
15 2 (0.84%) PaaS
15 2 (0.84%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 38 (15.90%) DNS
2 32 (13.39%) Firewall
3 22 (9.21%) Wireless
4 17 (7.11%) Remote Desktop
5 14 (5.86%) IP Telephony
5 14 (5.86%) SAN
6 12 (5.02%) VoIP
7 11 (4.60%) DHCP
8 9 (3.77%) TCP/IP
8 9 (3.77%) Unified Communications
9 8 (3.35%) LAN
9 8 (3.35%) WAN
10 7 (2.93%) Internet
11 5 (2.09%) Extranet
12 4 (1.67%) Intranet
12 4 (1.67%) MPLS
12 4 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (1.26%) VPN
14 1 (0.42%) Broadband
14 1 (0.42%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.81%) SQL Server
2 14 (5.86%) Power BI
2 14 (5.86%) Relational Database
3 10 (4.18%) RDBMS
4 9 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (2.51%) GIS
6 5 (2.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.26%) Power Query
7 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Git
1 3 (1.26%) Visual Studio
2 2 (0.84%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.84%) JIRA
2 2 (0.84%) NUnit
2 2 (0.84%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.42%) GitKraken
3 1 (0.42%) JetBrains Rider
3 1 (0.42%) ReSharper
General
1 79 (33.05%) Social Skills
2 42 (17.57%) Finance
3 26 (10.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (10.04%) Local Government
4 24 (10.04%) Police
5 18 (7.53%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.18%) Law
7 10 (4.18%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (4.18%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.77%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.51%) Advertising
9 6 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.09%) Games
11 3 (1.26%) Banking
11 3 (1.26%) Retail
12 2 (0.84%) Marketing
13 1 (0.42%) Legal
13 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (21.34%) Senior
2 40 (16.74%) Analyst
3 36 (15.06%) Developer
4 26 (10.88%) Lead
5 19 (7.95%) Support Engineer
6 18 (7.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 17 (7.11%) Architect
8 15 (6.28%) Network Engineer
9 14 (5.86%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 14 (5.86%) Senior Network Engineer
10 13 (5.44%) Desktop Engineer
10 13 (5.44%) Desktop Support
10 13 (5.44%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 13 (5.44%) IT Technician
11 12 (5.02%) ICT Engineer
11 12 (5.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (5.02%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (4.18%) IT Support
12 10 (4.18%) Senior Technical Engineer
12 10 (4.18%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.21%) .NET
2 13 (5.44%) RESTful
3 9 (3.77%) ASP.NET
3 9 (3.77%) HTML
4 7 (2.93%) HTML5
5 6 (2.51%) .NET Core
5 6 (2.51%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.09%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (2.09%) ASP.NET Web API
6 5 (2.09%) LINQ
7 4 (1.67%) CSS
8 3 (1.26%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.26%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.26%) SOAP
8 3 (1.26%) Web Services
9 2 (0.84%) CSS3
9 2 (0.84%) jQuery
9 2 (0.84%) Kafka
9 2 (0.84%) REST
9 2 (0.84%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.46%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.02%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (3.77%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.35%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.93%) PKI
6 6 (2.51%) iPad
6 6 (2.51%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.51%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.51%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.51%) Renewable Energy
6 6 (2.51%) Smartphone
7 5 (2.09%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.09%) Replication
8 3 (1.26%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.84%) Social Media
9 2 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.42%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.42%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 62 (25.94%) Windows
2 21 (8.79%) Windows 10
3 20 (8.37%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.35%) Android
4 8 (3.35%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (2.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.67%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.26%) VMS
8 2 (0.84%) Linux
8 2 (0.84%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (15.48%) Mentoring
2 36 (15.06%) Customer Service
3 30 (12.55%) Agile
3 30 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (11.30%) Actionable Insight
5 26 (10.88%) Business Intelligence
6 19 (7.95%) Project Management
7 18 (7.53%) DevOps
7 18 (7.53%) Migration
8 16 (6.69%) Business Continuity
8 16 (6.69%) Incident Management
9 14 (5.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (5.86%) Network Management
10 13 (5.44%) Break/Fix
10 13 (5.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 13 (5.44%) Ticket Management
11 11 (4.60%) Coaching
11 11 (4.60%) Microservices
11 11 (4.60%) Performance Tuning
11 11 (4.60%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 34 (14.23%) SQL
2 22 (9.21%) C#
3 8 (3.35%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.09%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.26%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.84%) Python
7 1 (0.42%) Bash
7 1 (0.42%) Bicep
7 1 (0.42%) C++
7 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (15.48%) Degree
2 30 (12.55%) Security Cleared
3 28 (11.72%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (3.77%) ACCA
5 9 (3.77%) CIMA
6 5 (2.09%) CCNA
6 5 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.67%) A+ Certification
7 4 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.67%) MCP
8 3 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.84%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.42%) PMP
10 1 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.44%) SLA
2 9 (3.77%) IFRS
3 5 (2.09%) GDPR
4 4 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.84%) PMO
6 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (20.92%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.51%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.26%) Docker
6 2 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (9.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (2.51%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.51%) SCCM
3 5 (2.09%) SCOM
4 3 (1.26%) Terraform
5 2 (0.84%) Kibana
6 1 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.42%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 18 (7.53%) Mitel
2 17 (7.11%) Cisco
2 17 (7.11%) Veeam
3 14 (5.86%) Avaya
3 14 (5.86%) VMware
4 9 (3.77%) Hyperion
4 9 (3.77%) PeopleSoft
4 9 (3.77%) Sophos
5 8 (3.35%) Datto
5 8 (3.35%) Google
6 6 (2.51%) Citrix
6 6 (2.51%) HP
7 5 (2.09%) NetApp
7 5 (2.09%) Sage
8 4 (1.67%) Acronis
8 4 (1.67%) Aruba
8 4 (1.67%) Asigra
9 3 (1.26%) Meraki
10 2 (0.84%) Dell
10 2 (0.84%) Xamarin