Microsoft Exchange Server
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Microsoft Exchange skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft Exchange over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 145 191
Rank change year-on-year +19 +46 -64
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 2,231 2,413 3,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.17% 2.48% 2.12%
As % of the Application Platforms category 20.95% 21.73% 15.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,811 1,948 2,873
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,175 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £56,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -1.33% +7.14% -4.11%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Microsoft Exchange is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 10,651 11,104 23,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.38% 11.41% 14.09%
Number of salaries quoted 7,087 7,484 11,651
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £34,125 £40,000 £37,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,022 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +0.04% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,672 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.85% +5.94% -

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microsoft Exchange as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Exchange in the UK

Microsoft Exchange
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Exchange in the UK

Microsoft Exchange
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the UK

Microsoft Exchange
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Exchange within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +26 2,089 £40,000 -5.88% 440
UK excluding London +12 1,583 £37,000 -1.33% 361
Work from Home -3 678 £45,000 -10.00% 170
London +32 608 £52,500 -4.55% 96
South East -9 403 £36,000 -10.00% 85
North of England 0 370 £35,000 -7.89% 105
Midlands +17 270 £35,000 - 56
South West +28 217 £40,000 +8.11% 61
East of England +10 215 £35,000 -12.50% 47
West Midlands +1 174 £35,000 - 37
North West -41 148 £40,000 -5.88% 55
Yorkshire +42 142 £32,500 +0.93% 44
East Midlands +12 92 £36,500 +21.67% 19
North East +31 80 £33,000 -8.33% 6
Scotland -69 64 £36,500 +21.67% 10
Wales +2 32 £38,000 -5.00% 10
Northern Ireland +15 8 £34,628 +0.37% 3
Isle of Man -9 4 £37,000 -48.97%

Microsoft Exchange
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 763 (34.20%) SharePoint
2 61 (2.73%) Exchange Server 2010
3 55 (2.47%) Exchange Server 2013
4 50 (2.24%) IIS
5 22 (0.99%) Exchange Server 2007
6 18 (0.81%) Skype for Business
7 14 (0.63%) SharePoint 2010
7 14 (0.63%) SharePoint 2013
8 13 (0.58%) CMS
9 11 (0.49%) WordPress
10 7 (0.31%) Confluence
10 7 (0.31%) SAS
11 6 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2000
12 5 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
13 4 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2003
14 2 (0.090%) Apache
14 2 (0.090%) BizTalk Server
15 1 (0.045%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.045%) IBM Domino
15 1 (0.045%) Tomcat
Applications
1 410 (18.38%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.13%) InfoPath
5 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.13%) SPSS
5 3 (0.13%) Trello
6 2 (0.090%) CATIA
6 2 (0.090%) NASTRAN
7 1 (0.045%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.045%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.045%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.045%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 42 (1.88%) Endur
2 26 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.76%) Fidessa
4 7 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.22%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 5 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
5 5 (0.22%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.18%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.18%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.13%) Eikon
8 2 (0.090%) Carpe Diem
8 2 (0.090%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.045%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 1,678 (75.21%) Microsoft 365
2 1,055 (47.29%) Azure
3 494 (22.14%) Entra ID
4 259 (11.61%) OneDrive
5 170 (7.62%) AWS
6 107 (4.80%) Power Platform
7 78 (3.50%) Mimecast
8 65 (2.91%) SaaS
9 59 (2.64%) GCP
10 54 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
11 53 (2.38%) PowerApps
12 50 (2.24%) Power Automate
13 49 (2.20%) Azure Monitor
14 41 (1.84%) IaaS
15 35 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
16 27 (1.21%) PaaS
17 25 (1.12%) Azure Storage
17 25 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
18 24 (1.08%) WhatsApp
19 23 (1.03%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 545 (24.43%) Firewall
2 498 (22.32%) DNS
3 373 (16.72%) DHCP
4 326 (14.61%) WAN
5 229 (10.26%) VPN
6 218 (9.77%) LAN
7 199 (8.92%) Wireless
8 184 (8.25%) TCP/IP
9 163 (7.31%) SAN
10 117 (5.24%) Wi-Fi
11 114 (5.11%) SD-WAN
12 103 (4.62%) VLAN
12 103 (4.62%) VoIP
13 80 (3.59%) WebEx
14 78 (3.50%) Cisco IOS
15 71 (3.18%) Network Security
16 69 (3.09%) Remote Desktop
17 48 (2.15%) NAS
18 47 (2.11%) Internet
19 44 (1.97%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (10.17%) SQL Server
2 60 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
3 56 (2.51%) Relational Database
4 49 (2.20%) RDBMS
5 46 (2.06%) Power BI
6 16 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (0.58%) MySQL
9 11 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (0.36%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.31%) Redis
12 5 (0.22%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.13%) Big Data
13 3 (0.13%) EDRMS
14 2 (0.090%) Metadata
14 2 (0.090%) Metadata Repository
14 2 (0.090%) PostgreSQL
15 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 36 (1.61%) JIRA
2 21 (0.94%) Git
3 7 (0.31%) Moq
4 2 (0.090%) Hudson
4 2 (0.090%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.090%) NeoLoad
4 2 (0.090%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.045%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.045%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.045%) Chocolatey
5 1 (0.045%) Jenkins
General
1 815 (36.53%) Social Skills
2 337 (15.11%) Finance
3 181 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (5.15%) Law
5 105 (4.71%) Legal
6 99 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 88 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
8 78 (3.50%) Manufacturing
9 77 (3.45%) Banking
9 77 (3.45%) Games
10 68 (3.05%) Marketing
11 58 (2.60%) Public Sector
12 43 (1.93%) Telecoms
13 42 (1.88%) Retail
14 29 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
15 28 (1.26%) Back Office
16 26 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (0.81%) Investment Banking
18 17 (0.76%) Local Government
19 16 (0.72%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 522 (23.40%) IT Support
2 423 (18.96%) Support Engineer
3 326 (14.61%) Analyst
4 322 (14.43%) IT Engineer
5 285 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 233 (10.44%) Senior
7 223 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
8 183 (8.20%) 2nd Line Support
9 168 (7.53%) Support Analyst
10 139 (6.23%) 3rd Line Support
11 138 (6.19%) IT Analyst
12 123 (5.51%) Consultant
13 112 (5.02%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 106 (4.75%) Support Specialist
15 105 (4.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 99 (4.44%) IT Support Analyst
17 96 (4.30%) IT Technician
18 95 (4.26%) Lead
19 91 (4.08%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
20 83 (3.72%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.17%) .NET
2 24 (1.08%) FIX Protocol
3 23 (1.03%) ARM Templates
4 21 (0.94%) HTML
5 17 (0.76%) .NET Framework
5 17 (0.76%) AngularJS
6 15 (0.67%) ASP.NET
6 15 (0.67%) ASP.NET MVC
6 15 (0.67%) Entity Framework
7 13 (0.58%) .NET Core
8 11 (0.49%) CSS
8 11 (0.49%) LAMP
9 10 (0.45%) HTML5
9 10 (0.45%) React
10 9 (0.40%) LDAP
11 8 (0.36%) ASP.NET Web API
11 8 (0.36%) Node.js
11 8 (0.36%) Vue
12 7 (0.31%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 7 (0.31%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 130 (5.83%) Driving Licence
2 126 (5.65%) Self-Motivation
3 101 (4.53%) Video Conferencing
4 87 (3.90%) Data Centre
5 74 (3.32%) Wiki
6 71 (3.18%) Management Information System
7 70 (3.14%) Replication
8 56 (2.51%) Clustering
9 54 (2.42%) Public Cloud
10 42 (1.88%) Swaptions
11 40 (1.79%) Smartphone
12 35 (1.57%) iPad
13 34 (1.52%) PKI
14 28 (1.26%) BYOD
14 28 (1.26%) Onboarding
15 26 (1.17%) Blackberry
16 25 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
17 22 (0.99%) iPhone
17 22 (0.99%) Virtual Team
18 17 (0.76%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 1,505 (67.46%) Windows
2 797 (35.72%) Windows Server
3 526 (23.58%) Windows 10
4 187 (8.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 183 (8.20%) Linux
6 164 (7.35%) Android
7 131 (5.87%) Windows Server 2019
8 114 (5.11%) Windows Server 2012
9 105 (4.71%) Windows 7
10 81 (3.63%) Apple iOS
11 72 (3.23%) Windows Server 2008
12 68 (3.05%) Windows 8
13 56 (2.51%) Mac OS
14 34 (1.52%) Unix
15 30 (1.34%) VMS
16 28 (1.26%) CentOS
17 27 (1.21%) Mac OS X
18 26 (1.17%) Ubuntu
19 14 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 14 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 478 (21.43%) ITIL
2 424 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
3 353 (15.82%) Customer Service
4 332 (14.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 220 (9.86%) Cybersecurity
6 162 (7.26%) Migration
7 145 (6.50%) Disaster Recovery
8 133 (5.96%) Agile
8 133 (5.96%) Project Management
9 129 (5.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 128 (5.74%) Service Management
11 123 (5.51%) Computer Science
12 120 (5.38%) Mobile Device Management
13 113 (5.06%) ITSM
14 111 (4.98%) Service Delivery
15 101 (4.53%) Roadmaps
16 91 (4.08%) Business Continuity
17 82 (3.68%) IT Strategy
18 80 (3.59%) Collaborative Working
19 77 (3.45%) Contract Negotiation
Programming Languages
1 337 (15.11%) PowerShell
2 275 (12.33%) SQL
3 60 (2.69%) C#
4 59 (2.64%) VB
5 50 (2.24%) Java
6 49 (2.20%) JavaScript
7 32 (1.43%) Python
8 30 (1.34%) Bash
9 18 (0.81%) VBScript
10 17 (0.76%) Bicep
10 17 (0.76%) Perl
10 17 (0.76%) Ruby
10 17 (0.76%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.45%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.13%) R
12 3 (0.13%) VBA
13 1 (0.045%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.045%) C++
13 1 (0.045%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.045%) VC++
Qualifications
1 353 (15.82%) Degree
2 208 (9.32%) Microsoft Certification
3 117 (5.24%) Security Cleared
4 107 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 86 (3.85%) MCSE
6 84 (3.77%) SC Cleared
7 77 (3.45%) Master's Degree
8 64 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
9 62 (2.78%) CCNA
9 62 (2.78%) MCSA
10 61 (2.73%) Azure Certification
11 57 (2.55%) MCP
12 55 (2.47%) ITIL Certification
13 46 (2.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 32 (1.43%) DV Cleared
15 24 (1.08%) MCITP
16 23 (1.03%) DBS Check
17 19 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
18 17 (0.76%) A+ Certification
19 16 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (8.65%) SLA
2 54 (2.42%) GDPR
3 33 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (0.58%) QA
6 8 (0.36%) NCSC
6 8 (0.36%) PMO
7 6 (0.27%) GRC
7 6 (0.27%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.18%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.13%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.090%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.045%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.045%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.045%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.045%) ISO 9000
11 1 (0.045%) NIST
System Software
1 1,608 (72.08%) Active Directory
2 491 (22.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 426 (19.09%) Hyper-V
4 176 (7.89%) XenApp
5 170 (7.62%) VMware ESXi
6 163 (7.31%) XenDesktop
7 99 (4.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 73 (3.27%) Microsoft App-V
9 68 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
9 68 (3.05%) vSphere
10 42 (1.88%) VirtualBox
11 24 (1.08%) VMware Workstation
12 22 (0.99%) Virtual Servers
13 19 (0.85%) Terminal Services
14 17 (0.76%) Docker
15 13 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 11 (0.49%) Firmware
17 9 (0.40%) Forefront TMG
17 9 (0.40%) pfSense
18 7 (0.31%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 494 (22.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 282 (12.64%) SCCM
3 81 (3.63%) WSUS
4 72 (3.23%) AirWatch
5 64 (2.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 56 (2.51%) SCOM
7 52 (2.33%) vCenter Server
8 41 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (1.61%) Backup Exec
10 32 (1.43%) Kubernetes
11 27 (1.21%) Terraform
12 24 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
13 22 (0.99%) NetBackup
14 20 (0.90%) FortiGate
14 20 (0.90%) Microsoft Clustering
15 13 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
16 12 (0.54%) Ansible
17 8 (0.36%) EMC VPLEX
17 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
17 8 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,634 (73.24%) Microsoft
2 704 (31.56%) VMware
3 363 (16.27%) Citrix
4 286 (12.82%) Cisco
5 141 (6.32%) Veeam
6 95 (4.26%) Apple
7 85 (3.81%) Dell
8 84 (3.77%) Oracle
9 81 (3.63%) HP
10 78 (3.50%) ServiceNow
11 76 (3.41%) Google
12 51 (2.29%) Sophos
13 50 (2.24%) Sybase
14 46 (2.06%) Meraki
15 44 (1.97%) Bloomberg
16 42 (1.88%) OpenLink
16 42 (1.88%) TIBCO
17 40 (1.79%) NetApp
18 38 (1.70%) Commvault
19 36 (1.61%) Aruba