Exchange Specialist Contracts

Exchange Specialist
UK

The median Exchange Specialist daily rate in the UK is £713 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 692 834
Rank change year-on-year +112 +142 -138
Contract jobs requiring an Exchange Specialist 6 1 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.002% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.002% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 14
10th Percentile £600 - £413
25th Percentile £663 - £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +11.11% -13.07%
75th Percentile £738 - £591
90th Percentile £744 - £613
UK excluding London median daily rate - £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -13.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.50
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
75th Percentile - - £37.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 39,991 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,011 38,395 59,001
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 2,675 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.28 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Exchange Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Exchange Specialist in the UK

Exchange Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Exchange Specialist in the UK

Exchange Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Exchange Specialist in the UK

Exchange Specialist
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
England +96 6 £713 +42.50%
London - 5 £725 -

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Exchange Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) SAN
1 4 (66.67%) Facilities Management
1 4 (66.67%) NAS
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (50.00%) KVM
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) NetApp
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (50.00%) HP
2 3 (50.00%) Dell
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Derivative
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) FIX Protocol

Exchange Specialist 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 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) NAS
1 4 (66.67%) SAN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Derivative
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Facilities Management
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithmic Trading
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Low Latency
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (50.00%) KVM
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Dell
2 3 (50.00%) HP
2 3 (50.00%) NetApp
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (50.00%) VMware