Microsoft Exchange Contracts in England

Microsoft Exchange Server
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Microsoft Exchange skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft Exchange over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 150 156
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 -17
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 595 919 1,293
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.61% 1.82% 1.82%
As % of the Application Platforms category 17.33% 16.78% 14.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 718 951
10th Percentile £160 £160 £145
25th Percentile £219 £230 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £325
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +30.77% -7.14%
75th Percentile £540 £538 £488
90th Percentile £650 £679 £588
UK median daily rate £380 £425 £350
% change year-on-year -10.59% +21.43% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 28 88
10th Percentile - - £13.21
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £23.80 £17.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +6.25% -0.39%
75th Percentile £40.00 £23.94 £19.63
90th Percentile - £37.89 £24.65
UK median hourly rate £23.75 £20.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year +18.75% +21.21% +3.13%

All Application Platform Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,433 5,476 8,907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.29% 10.83% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,453 3,934 6,115
10th Percentile £250 £261 £263
25th Percentile £358 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £755 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £520
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 131 189
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.10 £13.97
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +54.76% -1.89%
75th Percentile £45.59 £66.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.25 £65.90
UK median hourly rate £27.52 £42.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -35.26% +93.18% -2.22%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Exchange in England

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in England

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in England

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in England

Microsoft Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in England

Microsoft Exchange
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Exchange within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +32 277 £375 -19.70% 108
South East -22 81 £465 +49.99% 83
North of England -4 66 £300 -11.11% 77
South West -8 63 £425 -9.33% 44
Midlands -14 57 £350 +2.94% 50
West Midlands +23 43 £375 - 35
East of England +2 37 £425 -1.73% 58
North West -5 32 £338 -25.00% 42
Yorkshire +2 31 £300 +22.45% 29
East Midlands -13 13 £150 -32.74% 15
North East +16 3 £195 +23.81% 6
Microsoft Exchange
UK

Microsoft Exchange
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 174 (29.24%) SharePoint
2 40 (6.72%) Exchange Server 2010
3 37 (6.22%) Exchange Server 2013
4 29 (4.87%) Skype for Business
5 25 (4.20%) Exchange Server 2007
6 20 (3.36%) Confluence
7 16 (2.69%) Exchange Server 2003
7 16 (2.69%) IIS
8 5 (0.84%) CMS
9 4 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2000
9 4 (0.67%) nginx
10 3 (0.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 3 (0.50%) WordPress
11 2 (0.34%) Exchange Server 5.5
11 2 (0.34%) IBM Notes
12 1 (0.17%) Apache
12 1 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.17%) IBM Domino
12 1 (0.17%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 72 (12.10%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 5 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.50%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.34%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.34%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.34%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 376 (63.19%) Microsoft 365
2 236 (39.66%) Azure
3 112 (18.82%) Entra ID
4 92 (15.46%) OneDrive
5 33 (5.55%) Power Platform
6 29 (4.87%) Mimecast
7 23 (3.87%) Azure Monitor
8 18 (3.03%) IaaS
9 16 (2.69%) Azure Storage
10 15 (2.52%) Power Automate
11 14 (2.35%) AWS
11 14 (2.35%) PowerApps
12 11 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (1.68%) PaaS
14 8 (1.34%) WhatsApp
15 7 (1.18%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
16 5 (0.84%) SaaS
17 4 (0.67%) Nutanix
17 4 (0.67%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 132 (22.18%) DNS
2 110 (18.49%) Firewall
3 90 (15.13%) DHCP
4 52 (8.74%) VPN
5 51 (8.57%) SAN
6 38 (6.39%) Skype
7 31 (5.21%) LAN
7 31 (5.21%) WAN
8 21 (3.53%) TCP/IP
9 19 (3.19%) MPLS
10 18 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (2.86%) NAS
12 16 (2.69%) Cisco IOS
12 16 (2.69%) Wireless
13 14 (2.35%) Unified Communications
14 12 (2.02%) VLAN
14 12 (2.02%) VoIP
15 11 (1.85%) SMTP
16 8 (1.34%) Fibre Channel
16 8 (1.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.04%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.86%) Power BI
3 6 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.67%) Big Data
5 4 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.67%) MySQL
6 3 (0.50%) Data Mart
6 3 (0.50%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 30 (5.04%) JIRA
2 6 (1.01%) Hudson
3 4 (0.67%) LoadRunner
3 4 (0.67%) NeoLoad
4 3 (0.50%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.34%) Selenium
6 1 (0.17%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.17%) Gatling
6 1 (0.17%) GitLab
6 1 (0.17%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.17%) JMeter
6 1 (0.17%) Maven
6 1 (0.17%) Postman
6 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 207 (34.79%) Social Skills
2 82 (13.78%) Finance
3 62 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (8.24%) Public Sector
5 39 (6.55%) Banking
6 21 (3.53%) Legal
7 18 (3.03%) Military
8 17 (2.86%) Manufacturing
9 16 (2.69%) French Language
10 13 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.02%) Marketing
12 11 (1.85%) Law
13 10 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.68%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.51%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.34%) Financial Institution
15 8 (1.34%) German Language
16 7 (1.18%) Electronics
16 7 (1.18%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 90 (15.13%) Support Engineer
2 68 (11.43%) Analyst
3 62 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 55 (9.24%) IT Support
5 38 (6.39%) Administrator
6 36 (6.05%) Architect
7 35 (5.88%) IT Engineer
7 35 (5.88%) Service Desk Analyst
8 34 (5.71%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 34 (5.71%) Senior
8 34 (5.71%) Service Analyst
9 33 (5.55%) 2nd Line Support
10 29 (4.87%) IT Support Engineer
10 29 (4.87%) Systems Administrator
11 28 (4.71%) Desktop Support
12 25 (4.20%) Desktop Engineer
13 21 (3.53%) Project Manager
14 19 (3.19%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 19 (3.19%) Integration Engineer
15 18 (3.03%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.52%) ARM Templates
2 7 (1.18%) .NET
3 6 (1.01%) SailPoint
3 6 (1.01%) XMPP
4 5 (0.84%) .NET Framework
4 5 (0.84%) LDAP
5 4 (0.67%) REST
6 3 (0.50%) EDI
6 3 (0.50%) LAMP
6 3 (0.50%) Murex MxML
7 2 (0.34%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.34%) ADSI
7 2 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.34%) JSON
7 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.34%) Software Packaging
7 2 (0.34%) Web Services
7 2 (0.34%) YAML
8 1 (0.17%) Keycloak
8 1 (0.17%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 69 (11.60%) PKI
2 33 (5.55%) Data Centre
3 31 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
4 30 (5.04%) Video Conferencing
5 28 (4.71%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.03%) Clustering
7 14 (2.35%) Onboarding
8 13 (2.18%) Blackberry
9 10 (1.68%) Smartphone
10 9 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.51%) Driving Licence
11 8 (1.34%) Client/Server
12 7 (1.18%) iPhone
13 6 (1.01%) Digital Signage
13 6 (1.01%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.01%) Replication
14 5 (0.84%) Hedge funds
14 5 (0.84%) NHS
15 4 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
15 4 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 402 (67.56%) Windows
2 178 (29.92%) Windows Server
3 108 (18.15%) Windows 10
4 77 (12.94%) Windows Server 2012
5 56 (9.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 48 (8.07%) Linux
7 45 (7.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 38 (6.39%) Windows 7
9 36 (6.05%) Windows Server 2008
10 33 (5.55%) Android
11 20 (3.36%) VMS
12 19 (3.19%) Apple iOS
12 19 (3.19%) Windows Server 2003
13 18 (3.03%) Mac OS
14 17 (2.86%) Unix
15 13 (2.18%) Mac OS X
16 7 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 7 (1.18%) Ubuntu
17 4 (0.67%) Windows 2000
18 2 (0.34%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (21.01%) ITIL
2 104 (17.48%) Customer Service
3 99 (16.64%) Migration
4 79 (13.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 74 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
6 69 (11.60%) Agile
7 41 (6.89%) Service Management
8 37 (6.22%) Change Management
8 37 (6.22%) Project Management
9 36 (6.05%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 34 (5.71%) Project Delivery
11 31 (5.21%) ITSM
12 30 (5.04%) Service Delivery
13 29 (4.87%) Identity Management
13 29 (4.87%) Mobile Device Management
14 28 (4.71%) Data Loss Prevention
14 28 (4.71%) Data Protection
14 28 (4.71%) DevOps
15 26 (4.37%) Problem Management
15 26 (4.37%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 132 (22.18%) PowerShell
2 57 (9.58%) SQL
3 16 (2.69%) C#
3 16 (2.69%) VBScript
4 15 (2.52%) Bicep
4 15 (2.52%) VB
5 3 (0.50%) Java
5 3 (0.50%) Python
6 2 (0.34%) Bash
6 2 (0.34%) VBA
7 1 (0.17%) C++
7 1 (0.17%) Perl
7 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 118 (19.83%) Security Cleared
2 110 (18.49%) Degree
3 86 (14.45%) SC Cleared
4 49 (8.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 43 (7.23%) DV Cleared
6 28 (4.71%) MCSE
7 25 (4.20%) MCSA
8 22 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (3.53%) CCNA
10 19 (3.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 18 (3.03%) MCP
12 16 (2.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 15 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
13 15 (2.52%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.84%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.84%) CISSP
15 4 (0.67%) CCNP
15 4 (0.67%) CISM
15 4 (0.67%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.22%) SLA
2 7 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.84%) QA
4 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.34%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.34%) NCSC
5 2 (0.34%) PMO
6 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.17%) COBIT
6 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.17%) GDPR
6 1 (0.17%) GLBA
6 1 (0.17%) ISAE 3402
6 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.17%) NIST
6 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 450 (75.63%) Active Directory
2 98 (16.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (4.87%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (4.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 22 (3.70%) Hyper-V
6 19 (3.19%) vSphere
7 18 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (2.52%) Virtual Servers
9 10 (1.68%) VMware Workstation
10 8 (1.34%) XenApp
11 6 (1.01%) Docker
11 6 (1.01%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.84%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 5 (0.84%) Firmware
12 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.84%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.50%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.50%) KVM
13 3 (0.50%) Microsoft App-V
13 3 (0.50%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 130 (21.85%) SCCM
2 120 (20.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 37 (6.22%) SCOM
4 26 (4.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 26 (4.37%) WSUS
5 25 (4.20%) Kubernetes
6 19 (3.19%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (2.02%) NetBackup
8 11 (1.85%) Jamf Pro
8 11 (1.85%) Microsoft Clustering
9 10 (1.68%) vCenter Server
10 9 (1.51%) Ansible
10 9 (1.51%) Terraform
11 8 (1.34%) Nagios
12 5 (0.84%) MAILsweeper
12 5 (0.84%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.67%) AirWatch
13 4 (0.67%) EMC NetWorker
13 4 (0.67%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.67%) Nessus
Vendors
1 356 (59.83%) Microsoft
2 144 (24.20%) VMware
3 80 (13.45%) Citrix
4 53 (8.91%) Cisco
5 32 (5.38%) HP
6 27 (4.54%) ServiceNow
7 24 (4.03%) EMC
8 22 (3.70%) Avaya
9 21 (3.53%) Apple
10 19 (3.19%) Veeam
11 17 (2.86%) Dell
12 16 (2.69%) NetApp
13 13 (2.18%) CheckPoint
13 13 (2.18%) Oracle
13 13 (2.18%) SolarWinds
14 10 (1.68%) Proofpoint
15 9 (1.51%) Mitel
15 9 (1.51%) Remedy
15 9 (1.51%) Sophos
16 8 (1.34%) Hitachi