Exchange Engineer Contracts

Exchange Engineer
UK

The median Exchange Engineer daily rate in the UK is £464 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 548 681 799
Rank change year-on-year +133 +118 -144
Contract jobs requiring an Exchange Engineer 34 22 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.038% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.040% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 29
10th Percentile £294 £338 £164
25th Percentile £328 £365 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £450 £325
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% +38.46% -7.14%
75th Percentile £597 £525 £450
90th Percentile £637 £639 £493
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £438 £283
% change year-on-year +3.43% +54.87% -6.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Exchange Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Exchange Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Exchange Engineer in the UK

Exchange Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Exchange Engineer in the UK

Exchange Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Exchange Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Exchange Engineer in the UK

Exchange Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Exchange Engineer in the UK

Exchange Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
UK excluding London +71 24 £453 +3.43% 2
England +98 17 £438 -12.50% 2
Scotland +54 16 £575 +64.29%
Work from Home +121 15 £425 - 1
London +97 8 £544 +2.35% 1
North of England +33 4 £353 -29.50%
North West - 4 £353 -
Midlands +27 2 £298 -18.36% 1
West Midlands - 2 £298 -
East of England +15 1 £425 -5.56%
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

Exchange Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Exchange Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Exchange Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (88.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (55.88%) Active Directory
2 19 (55.88%) Security Cleared
2 19 (55.88%) PowerShell
3 17 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 16 (47.06%) Degree
5 14 (41.18%) Windows
6 13 (38.24%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (35.29%) Public Sector
7 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
8 11 (32.35%) Agile
8 11 (32.35%) Problem Management
8 11 (32.35%) Atlassian
9 10 (29.41%) JIRA
9 10 (29.41%) Confluence
10 9 (26.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (26.47%) Roadmaps
10 9 (26.47%) Identity Management
11 8 (23.53%) High Availability
12 7 (20.59%) Capacity Management
13 6 (17.65%) Security Patching
13 6 (17.65%) SharePoint
13 6 (17.65%) Migration
14 5 (14.71%) VMware
14 5 (14.71%) Data Protection
14 5 (14.71%) Linux
14 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Office
14 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
15 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
15 4 (11.76%) Firewall

Exchange Engineer Skill Set
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 30 (88.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (29.41%) Confluence
3 6 (17.65%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.94%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (2.94%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (2.94%) IIS
4 1 (2.94%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.94%) InfoPath
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (38.24%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (8.82%) Azure
3 2 (5.88%) Yammer
4 1 (2.94%) AWS
4 1 (2.94%) Mimecast
4 1 (2.94%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) FTP
2 1 (2.94%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 10 (29.41%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (2.94%) Git
2 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.94%) Travis CI
General
1 12 (35.29%) Public Sector
2 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Electronics
3 3 (8.82%) Finance
3 3 (8.82%) Manufacturing
3 3 (8.82%) Marketing
3 3 (8.82%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) Web Services
2 1 (2.94%) COM
2 1 (2.94%) HTML
2 1 (2.94%) HTML5
2 1 (2.94%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (8.82%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.88%) Social Media
3 1 (2.94%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.94%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 14 (41.18%) Windows
2 5 (14.71%) Linux
3 2 (5.88%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.94%) Unix
4 1 (2.94%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) Agile
1 11 (32.35%) Problem Management
2 9 (26.47%) Identity Management
2 9 (26.47%) Roadmaps
3 8 (23.53%) High Availability
4 7 (20.59%) Capacity Management
5 6 (17.65%) Migration
5 6 (17.65%) Security Patching
6 5 (14.71%) Data Protection
7 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (8.82%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (8.82%) Digital Marketing
8 3 (8.82%) Programme Management
9 2 (5.88%) Client Onboarding
9 2 (5.88%) Decision-Making
9 2 (5.88%) Email Migration
9 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (5.88%) Mobile Device Management
9 2 (5.88%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (55.88%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.94%) Python
2 1 (2.94%) Ruby
2 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (55.88%) Security Cleared
2 17 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 16 (47.06%) Degree
4 3 (8.82%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.94%) MCSA
5 1 (2.94%) MCSE
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (55.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (26.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.88%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.94%) Ansible
4 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.94%) Puppet
4 1 (2.94%) Salt
4 1 (2.94%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (32.35%) Atlassian
3 5 (14.71%) VMware
4 3 (8.82%) SAP
5 1 (2.94%) Cisco
5 1 (2.94%) Clearswift
5 1 (2.94%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.94%) IronPort
5 1 (2.94%) Proofpoint
5 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds