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 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 7 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft 255 220 306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 15.24% 18.52% 19.45%
As % of the Vendors category 40.93% 47.72% 44.35%
Number of salaries quoted 192 145 165
10th Percentile £24,500 £24,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £28,290 £30,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £59,750 £53,096 £55,000
90th Percentile £70,878 £68,497 £64,558
Wales median annual salary £40,000 £37,860 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.65% -10.92% +11.84%

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 623 461 690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 37.24% 38.80% 43.87%
Number of salaries quoted 404 234 352
10th Percentile £26,975 £26,355 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,990 £35,960
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,886 £45,000 £46,865
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% -3.98% +10.27%
75th Percentile £59,813 £62,282 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,497 £73,175
Wales median annual salary £44,886 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.19% -3.33% +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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +1 119 £50,000 +23.46% 40
Bridgend +3 57 £36,476 +21.59% 3
Newport +1 31 £38,750 -24.17% 10
Gwent - 18 £28,290 - 8
Glamorgan -4 12 £28,290 -29.28% 28
Caerphilly +4 11 £25,047 -46.71% 6
Rhondda Cynon Taff +2 2 £32,500 -2.99% 2
Torfaen -5 2 £27,500 -57.69% 2
Vale of Glamorgan - 1 £24,500 - 1
Monmouthshire - 1 £31,967 - 2
Neath Port Talbot - 1 £25,500 - 3
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 22 (8.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 14 (5.49%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.78%) Apache
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 59 (23.14%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (15.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (9.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (3.92%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.39%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 11 (4.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.78%) Primavera
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 93 (36.47%) Azure
2 74 (29.02%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 23 (9.02%) Entra ID
5 17 (6.67%) AWS
6 16 (6.27%) OneDrive
6 16 (6.27%) PowerApps
7 15 (5.88%) SaaS
8 13 (5.10%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (3.14%) GCP
11 7 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (2.35%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.57%) Azure API Management
15 3 (1.18%) Azure AKS
15 3 (1.18%) Power Automate
16 2 (0.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 2 (0.78%) Azure Functions
16 2 (0.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 38 (14.90%) DNS
2 34 (13.33%) Firewall
3 23 (9.02%) Wireless
4 18 (7.06%) Remote Desktop
5 16 (6.27%) SAN
6 14 (5.49%) IP Telephony
6 14 (5.49%) VoIP
7 12 (4.71%) DHCP
8 10 (3.92%) TCP/IP
9 9 (3.53%) LAN
9 9 (3.53%) Unified Communications
9 9 (3.53%) WAN
10 7 (2.75%) Internet
11 5 (1.96%) Extranet
11 5 (1.96%) VPN
12 4 (1.57%) Intranet
12 4 (1.57%) MPLS
12 4 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.78%) Network Security
14 1 (0.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.12%) SQL Server
2 14 (5.49%) Power BI
2 14 (5.49%) Relational Database
3 10 (3.92%) RDBMS
4 9 (3.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (2.35%) GIS
6 5 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.18%) Power Query
7 3 (1.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.39%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Visual Studio
2 2 (0.78%) Git
2 2 (0.78%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.78%) JIRA
2 2 (0.78%) NUnit
2 2 (0.78%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.39%) GitKraken
3 1 (0.39%) JetBrains Rider
3 1 (0.39%) ReSharper
General
1 82 (32.16%) Social Skills
2 42 (16.47%) Finance
3 26 (10.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (9.41%) Local Government
4 24 (9.41%) Police
5 19 (7.45%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.92%) Law
8 10 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.53%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.35%) Advertising
10 6 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.96%) Games
12 3 (1.18%) Banking
12 3 (1.18%) Retail
13 2 (0.78%) Legal
13 2 (0.78%) Marketing
14 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (19.61%) Senior
2 41 (16.08%) Analyst
3 36 (14.12%) Developer
4 25 (9.80%) Lead
5 24 (9.41%) Architect
6 19 (7.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 19 (7.45%) Support Engineer
7 15 (5.88%) IT Technician
7 15 (5.88%) Network Engineer
8 14 (5.49%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 14 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (5.49%) Senior Network Engineer
9 13 (5.10%) Desktop Engineer
9 13 (5.10%) Desktop Support
9 13 (5.10%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 12 (4.71%) ICT Engineer
10 12 (4.71%) Senior Analyst
11 11 (4.31%) IT Engineer
12 10 (3.92%) Senior Technical Engineer
12 10 (3.92%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (10.59%) .NET
2 13 (5.10%) ASP.NET
3 12 (4.71%) RESTful
4 9 (3.53%) HTML
5 7 (2.75%) HTML5
6 6 (2.35%) .NET Core
6 6 (2.35%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.96%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (1.96%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (1.96%) LINQ
8 4 (1.57%) .NET Framework
8 4 (1.57%) CSS
9 3 (1.18%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.18%) SOAP
9 3 (1.18%) Web Services
10 2 (0.78%) CSS3
10 2 (0.78%) jQuery
10 2 (0.78%) Kafka
10 2 (0.78%) REST
10 2 (0.78%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.80%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (3.14%) Data Structures
3 8 (3.14%) Public Cloud
4 7 (2.75%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.75%) PKI
4 7 (2.75%) Smartphone
5 6 (2.35%) iPad
5 6 (2.35%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.35%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.35%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (1.96%) Driving Licence
6 5 (1.96%) Replication
7 4 (1.57%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.78%) Social Media
8 2 (0.78%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.39%) FMCG
9 1 (0.39%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 67 (26.27%) Windows
2 24 (9.41%) Windows Server
3 21 (8.24%) Windows 10
4 8 (3.14%) Android
4 8 (3.14%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (2.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.57%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.57%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.18%) VMS
8 2 (0.78%) Linux
8 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (14.90%) Customer Service
2 36 (14.12%) Mentoring
3 31 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (11.37%) Agile
5 27 (10.59%) Actionable Insight
6 25 (9.80%) Business Intelligence
7 19 (7.45%) Project Management
8 18 (7.06%) Migration
9 16 (6.27%) Business Continuity
9 16 (6.27%) DevOps
9 16 (6.27%) Incident Management
10 15 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 14 (5.49%) Network Management
12 13 (5.10%) Break/Fix
12 13 (5.10%) Ticket Management
13 12 (4.71%) Coaching
14 11 (4.31%) Decision-Making
14 11 (4.31%) Performance Tuning
14 11 (4.31%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 33 (12.94%) SQL
2 26 (10.20%) C#
3 8 (3.14%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.96%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.57%) Python
6 3 (1.18%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.39%) C++
7 1 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (14.90%) Degree
2 28 (10.98%) Security Cleared
3 27 (10.59%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (3.53%) ACCA
5 9 (3.53%) CIMA
6 6 (2.35%) CCNA
6 6 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.96%) A+ Certification
8 4 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.57%) MCP
9 3 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.39%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.39%) PMP
11 1 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.10%) SLA
2 9 (3.53%) IFRS
3 6 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (2.35%) GDPR
4 2 (0.78%) PMO
5 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (21.18%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.14%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.18%) Docker
5 3 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (10.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (2.35%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.35%) SCCM
3 5 (1.96%) SCOM
4 2 (0.78%) Kibana
4 2 (0.78%) SmoothWall
4 2 (0.78%) Terraform
5 1 (0.39%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.39%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 19 (7.45%) Mitel
2 17 (6.67%) Cisco
2 17 (6.67%) Veeam
2 17 (6.67%) VMware
3 14 (5.49%) Avaya
4 10 (3.92%) Sophos
5 9 (3.53%) Datto
5 9 (3.53%) Hyperion
5 9 (3.53%) PeopleSoft
6 8 (3.14%) Google
7 7 (2.75%) Citrix
7 7 (2.75%) SAP
8 6 (2.35%) HP
9 5 (1.96%) Acronis
9 5 (1.96%) Aruba
9 5 (1.96%) NetApp
9 5 (1.96%) Sage
10 4 (1.57%) Asigra
11 3 (1.18%) Meraki
11 3 (1.18%) Xamarin