Microsoft Exchange Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Exchange Server
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 79 84
Rank change year-on-year -15 +5 -10
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 60 92 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.89% 2.61% 2.61%
As % of the Application Platforms category 20.34% 21.20% 22.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 70 71
10th Percentile £132 £163 £150
25th Percentile £214 £363 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £475 £325
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% +46.15% -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £456
90th Percentile £646 £601 £538
England median daily rate £380 £425 £325
% change year-on-year -10.59% +30.77% -10.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 7
10th Percentile - - £13.87
25th Percentile - - £14.44
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £69.05
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.78 £17.61 £16.45
% change year-on-year +35.01% +7.05% +17.50%

All Application Platform Skills
South 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 South West with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 295 434 435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.27% 12.30% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 340 310
10th Percentile £215 £250 £208
25th Percentile £363 £379 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £633 £600
90th Percentile £700 £713 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £511
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.65% +7.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 26 8
10th Percentile - £17.50 £13.87
25th Percentile - £53.75 £14.72
Median hourly rate £40.00 £69.17 £59.78
Median % change year-on-year -42.17% +15.71% +174.83%
75th Percentile £68.00 £79.69 £69.05
90th Percentile £74.44 £86.66 -
England median hourly rate £26.50 £40.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -33.75% +77.78% +12.50%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Exchange in the South West

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the South West

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the South West over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the South West

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the South West

Microsoft Exchange
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 11 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
Bristol +20 16 £300 +46.34% 12
Wiltshire -9 15 £538 -2.27% 17
Somerset +9 10 £158 -73.75% 5
Devon -3 9 £163 +20.37% 2
Gloucestershire -18 8 £425 -13.27% 7
Microsoft Exchange
England

Microsoft Exchange
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 13 (21.67%) SharePoint
2 8 (13.33%) Confluence
3 3 (5.00%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.67%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (21.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 28 (46.67%) Azure
2 25 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 8 (13.33%) OneDrive
4 8 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 7 (11.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 7 (11.67%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (6.67%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.33%) PaaS
8 1 (1.67%) IaaS
8 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.67%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (33.33%) DNS
2 19 (31.67%) DHCP
3 16 (26.67%) Firewall
4 14 (23.33%) SAN
5 12 (20.00%) LAN
5 12 (20.00%) WAN
6 9 (15.00%) Skype
6 9 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (13.33%) MPLS
8 2 (3.33%) SMTP
8 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
8 2 (3.33%) Unified Communications
9 1 (1.67%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (1.67%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (1.67%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (1.67%) VLAN
9 1 (1.67%) VPN
9 1 (1.67%) VSAN
9 1 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 7 (11.67%) Power BI
3 5 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 28 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 18 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.00%) Military
4 8 (13.33%) Aerospace
5 4 (6.67%) Local Government
6 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Finance
8 1 (1.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (31.67%) Analyst
2 13 (21.67%) IT Analyst
3 8 (13.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 8 (13.33%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Integration Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Test and Integration Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Test Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) Technical Support
6 5 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) IT Support
6 5 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Support Analyst
6 5 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
6 5 (8.33%) Technical Support Analyst
6 5 (8.33%) Wintel Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Administrator
7 4 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
7 4 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.00%) PKI
2 11 (18.33%) Data Centre
3 8 (13.33%) Client/Server
3 8 (13.33%) Clustering
4 3 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.33%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 41 (68.33%) Windows
2 20 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 15 (25.00%) Windows 10
4 11 (18.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (13.33%) Unix
6 7 (11.67%) Linux
6 7 (11.67%) VMS
7 5 (8.33%) Android
7 5 (8.33%) Mac OS
8 2 (3.33%) CentOS
9 1 (1.67%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (28.33%) ITIL
1 17 (28.33%) Migration
2 12 (20.00%) Agile
3 11 (18.33%) Containerisation
4 10 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
4 10 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 9 (15.00%) Service Management
6 8 (13.33%) Application Packaging
6 8 (13.33%) Asset Management
6 8 (13.33%) Business Transformation
6 8 (13.33%) Capacity Management
6 8 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
6 8 (13.33%) Data Migration
6 8 (13.33%) Data Protection
6 8 (13.33%) Network Management
6 8 (13.33%) Server Management
7 7 (11.67%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (11.67%) Regression Testing
7 7 (11.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 21 (35.00%) PowerShell
1 21 (35.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 18 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (25.00%) Degree
3 10 (16.67%) MCSE
3 10 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (11.67%) MCSA
4 7 (11.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (3.33%) MCP
7 1 (1.67%) CCNA
7 1 (1.67%) CCNP
7 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.67%) CISM
7 1 (1.67%) CISSP
7 1 (1.67%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) SLA
2 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 53 (88.33%) Active Directory
2 28 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (18.33%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (13.33%) VMware Workstation
5 5 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (8.33%) VMware NSX
6 4 (6.67%) Hyper-V
7 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (23.33%) SCCM
2 10 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (13.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 8 (13.33%) Nagios
3 8 (13.33%) NetBackup
4 7 (11.67%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (6.67%) Ansible
5 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes
6 3 (5.00%) SCOM
6 3 (5.00%) WSUS
7 2 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (3.33%) OPNET
8 1 (1.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 35 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 29 (48.33%) VMware
3 8 (13.33%) Hitachi
3 8 (13.33%) NetApp
4 7 (11.67%) CA
4 7 (11.67%) Citrix
5 4 (6.67%) Cisco
5 4 (6.67%) CyberArk
6 3 (5.00%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.33%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.33%) Remedy
7 2 (3.33%) Veeam
8 1 (1.67%) Apple
8 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.67%) Oracle
8 1 (1.67%) Splunk