Microsoft Exchange Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Exchange Server
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 106 108
Rank change year-on-year +24 +2 -18
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 43 56 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.01% 2.10% 2.09%
As % of the Application Platforms category 14.43% 17.28% 17.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 42 54
10th Percentile £180 £134 £155
25th Percentile £200 £156 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £210 £425
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -50.59% -
75th Percentile £500 £474 £525
90th Percentile £588 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £400 £425 £350
% change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £16.00 - £15.53
25th Percentile £17.37 - £16.27
Median hourly rate £20.08 - £17.50
75th Percentile £22.35 - -
90th Percentile £23.45 - -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £23.25 £16.50
% change year-on-year +2.37% +40.91% +8.20%

All Application Platform Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 298 324 407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 13.94% 12.13% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 231 286
10th Percentile £200 £178 £225
25th Percentile £350 £335 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £575
90th Percentile £659 £650 £644
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £15.94 - £15.78
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.25 £16.89
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +5.71% -55.70%
75th Percentile £20.84 £18.75 £22.25
90th Percentile £36.01 - £30.80
UK median hourly rate £30.08 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -42.70% +133.33% +7.14%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Exchange in Scotland

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in Scotland

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in Scotland over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in Scotland

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in Scotland

Microsoft Exchange
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 31 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
Glasgow +20 17 £213 -54.25% 6
South Lanarkshire +14 10 £588 +167.05%
Edinburgh -5 6 £235 +34.29% 8
Renfrewshire +1 4 £425 -19.05%
Lanarkshire +3 1 £185 -40.32% 2
Microsoft Exchange
UK

Microsoft Exchange
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (23.26%) Confluence
2 8 (18.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (16.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 20 (46.51%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (34.88%) Azure
3 10 (23.26%) Entra ID
4 9 (20.93%) OneDrive
5 3 (6.98%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.98%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (6.98%) DHCP
2 3 (6.98%) DNS
2 3 (6.98%) Firewall
2 3 (6.98%) SMTP
2 3 (6.98%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 10 (23.26%) JIRA
General
1 17 (39.53%) Public Sector
2 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.33%) Finance
3 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (37.21%) Exchange Engineer
2 10 (23.26%) IT Support
3 8 (18.60%) Analyst
4 7 (16.28%) IT Engineer
4 7 (16.28%) Support Analyst
5 6 (13.95%) IT Analyst
6 5 (11.63%) IT Support Analyst
7 4 (9.30%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (9.30%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 4 (9.30%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Senior
7 4 (9.30%) Support Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Senior Exchange Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Technical Specialist
9 2 (4.65%) 3rd Line Support
9 2 (4.65%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
9 2 (4.65%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 1 (2.33%) Cloud Automation Engineer
10 1 (2.33%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.98%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.98%) Clustering
1 3 (6.98%) PKI
1 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.33%) Blackberry
2 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.33%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 19 (44.19%) Windows
2 11 (25.58%) Windows 10
3 5 (11.63%) Linux
3 5 (11.63%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (6.98%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.65%) Android
5 2 (4.65%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.58%) Problem Management
2 9 (20.93%) Agile
2 9 (20.93%) High Availability
2 9 (20.93%) Identity Management
2 9 (20.93%) Roadmaps
3 7 (16.28%) Capacity Management
3 7 (16.28%) ITIL
4 6 (13.95%) Security Patching
5 4 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (6.98%) Change Control
6 3 (6.98%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (6.98%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (6.98%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (6.98%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (6.98%) Project Delivery
7 2 (4.65%) Incident Management
7 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (4.65%) Migration
7 2 (4.65%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 1 (2.33%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (51.16%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (39.53%) Security Cleared
2 15 (34.88%) SC Cleared
3 14 (32.56%) Degree
4 6 (13.95%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) HNC
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (4.65%) SLA
3 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (76.74%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.30%) BitLocker
3 3 (6.98%) Hyper-V
3 3 (6.98%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (6.98%) Terminal Services
3 3 (6.98%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (23.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 9 (20.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (16.28%) SCCM
4 3 (6.98%) vCenter Server
4 3 (6.98%) vMotion
Vendors
1 26 (60.47%) Microsoft
2 10 (23.26%) Atlassian
3 4 (9.30%) Citrix
4 3 (6.98%) Infoblox
4 3 (6.98%) VMware
5 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.33%) Equitrac
6 1 (2.33%) HP
6 1 (2.33%) IFS
6 1 (2.33%) Meraki