Exchange Engineer Contracts

Exchange Engineer
UK

The median Exchange Engineer daily rate in the UK is £451 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 678 821
Rank change year-on-year +133 +143 -183
Contract jobs requiring an Exchange Engineer 34 22 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.078% 0.037% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.039% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 30
10th Percentile £294 £349 £165
25th Percentile £328 £391 £191
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £450 £338
Median % change year-on-year +0.28% +33.33% -3.57%
75th Percentile £588 £528 £491
90th Percentile £609 £653 £493
UK excluding London median daily rate £439 £450 £190
% change year-on-year -2.50% +136.84% -36.67%

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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +84 25 £439 -2.50% 2
England +114 17 £425 -15.00% 4
Work from Home +125 16 £425 -5.56% 3
Scotland - 16 £575 -
London +112 7 £475 -10.59% 3
North of England +26 4 £353 -29.50%
North West - 4 £353 -
Midlands +29 2 £298 -18.36% 1
East of England +14 2 £425 -5.56%
West Midlands - 2 £298 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 31 (91.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (58.82%) Active Directory
2 20 (58.82%) PowerShell
3 19 (55.88%) Security Cleared
4 17 (50.00%) SC Cleared
5 16 (47.06%) Degree
6 13 (38.24%) Windows
6 13 (38.24%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (35.29%) Public Sector
7 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
8 11 (32.35%) Problem Management
9 10 (29.41%) JIRA
9 10 (29.41%) Agile
9 10 (29.41%) Atlassian
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%) Migration
13 6 (17.65%) SharePoint
14 5 (14.71%) VMware
14 5 (14.71%) Linux
14 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Office
14 5 (14.71%) Data Protection
14 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
15 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
15 4 (11.76%) Azure

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 31 (91.18%) 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 4 (11.76%) 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
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
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 13 (38.24%) Windows
2 5 (14.71%) Linux
3 2 (5.88%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.94%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) Problem Management
2 10 (29.41%) Agile
3 9 (26.47%) Identity Management
3 9 (26.47%) Roadmaps
4 8 (23.53%) High Availability
5 7 (20.59%) Capacity Management
6 6 (17.65%) Migration
6 6 (17.65%) Security Patching
7 5 (14.71%) Data Protection
8 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (8.82%) Digital Marketing
9 3 (8.82%) Programme Management
10 2 (5.88%) Client Onboarding
10 2 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
10 2 (5.88%) Decision-Making
10 2 (5.88%) Email Migration
10 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 2 (5.88%) Mobile Device Management
10 2 (5.88%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (58.82%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
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 20 (58.82%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
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%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (29.41%) Atlassian
3 5 (14.71%) VMware
4 3 (8.82%) SAP
5 2 (5.88%) Clearswift
5 2 (5.88%) Proofpoint
6 1 (2.94%) Cisco
6 1 (2.94%) IronPort
6 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds