Microsoft Exchange Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Exchange Server
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 103 75
Rank change year-on-year -3 -28 -22
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 30 60 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.11% 1.89% 2.88%
As % of the Application Platforms category 15.54% 22.73% 25.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 43 86
10th Percentile £143 £145 £134
25th Percentile £175 £313 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £430 £245
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% +75.51% +20.10%
75th Percentile £450 £522 £438
90th Percentile £631 £550 £575
England median daily rate £380 £425 £325
% change year-on-year -10.59% +30.77% -10.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 10
10th Percentile - £13.46 £15.74
25th Percentile - £14.64 £16.44
Median hourly rate - £16.62 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year - -8.25% +11.61%
75th Percentile - £21.31 £19.20
90th Percentile - £24.12 £19.33
England median hourly rate £23.78 £17.25 £16.40
% change year-on-year +37.83% +5.18% +2.50%

All Application Platform Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 193 264 447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 7.15% 8.32% 11.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 185 318
10th Percentile £241 £229 £168
25th Percentile £312 £377 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £550
90th Percentile £618 £650 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 25
10th Percentile - £15.89 £16.25
25th Percentile £13.00 £16.34 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.12 £20.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.66% +7.89% +1.77%
75th Percentile £45.00 £28.06 £44.03
90th Percentile £46.18 £42.60 £54.83
England median hourly rate £25.50 £33.75 £20.95
% change year-on-year -24.44% +61.14% +4.73%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Microsoft Exchange as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Exchange in the North West

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the North West

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the North West over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the North West

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the North West

Microsoft Exchange
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 5 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
Manchester -9 14 £438 +1.74% 14
Cheshire +5 10 £350 -41.67% 7
Merseyside +15 4 £145 +11.54% 6
Microsoft Exchange
England

Microsoft Exchange
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 25 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (36.67%) Azure
3 4 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 3 (10.00%) AWS
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Stack
5 1 (3.33%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.33%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (3.33%) DNS
2 1 (3.33%) LAN
2 1 (3.33%) NAS
2 1 (3.33%) SAN
2 1 (3.33%) Skype
2 1 (3.33%) VPN
2 1 (3.33%) WAN
2 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.33%) Wireless
2 1 (3.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Hudson
General
1 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.33%) Finance
3 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.33%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 7 (23.33%) Senior
2 5 (16.67%) Administrator
2 5 (16.67%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 5 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Exchange Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) 1st Line Support
4 3 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) IT Support
4 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (6.67%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) IT Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Migration Specialist
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.33%) Clustering
2 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.33%) PKI
2 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Windows
2 2 (6.67%) Windows 10
2 2 (6.67%) Windows 7
2 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Customer Service
2 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (13.33%) DevOps
4 4 (13.33%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (10.00%) Migration
6 2 (6.67%) Break/Fix
6 2 (6.67%) Data Protection
6 2 (6.67%) ITIL
7 1 (3.33%) Change Management
7 1 (3.33%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (3.33%) Defect Management
7 1 (3.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (3.33%) High Availability
7 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (3.33%) Proactive Maintenance
7 1 (3.33%) Project Delivery
7 1 (3.33%) Security Management
7 1 (3.33%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.33%) Bash
2 1 (3.33%) Python
2 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) MCITP
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) DBS Check
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (90.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.33%) Hyper-V
3 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Terraform
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.67%) SCCM
4 1 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (36.67%) VMware
3 2 (6.67%) Bomgar
3 2 (6.67%) Cisco
3 2 (6.67%) iManage
3 2 (6.67%) Meraki
3 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.67%) Veeam
4 1 (3.33%) Citrix
4 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.33%) HP
4 1 (3.33%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (3.33%) Proofpoint
4 1 (3.33%) Sophos
4 1 (3.33%) Ubiquiti