Microsoft Exchange Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Exchange Server
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 91 100
Rank change year-on-year +20 +9 -31
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 43 51 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.23% 2.12% 1.97%
As % of the Application Platforms category 30.28% 16.19% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 46 49
10th Percentile £251 £145 £142
25th Percentile £350 £263 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £375 £300
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -4.38%
75th Percentile £400 £456 £388
90th Percentile £430 £538 £460
England median daily rate £375 £425 £325
% change year-on-year -11.76% +30.77% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile £14.06 - £15.60
25th Percentile £14.33 £15.10 £16.25
Median hourly rate £15.12 £15.97 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.32% -6.06% +32.92%
75th Percentile £15.56 £16.85 £20.00
90th Percentile £15.61 - £21.00
England median hourly rate £23.80 £17.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% +6.25% -3.70%

All Application Platform Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 142 315 514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.35% 13.12% 14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 234 348
10th Percentile £228 £266 £275
25th Percentile £313 £411 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £540 £540
90th Percentile £645 £600 £606
England median daily rate £498 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -5.24% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 11
10th Percentile £14.24 £12.62 £15.75
25th Percentile £14.77 £13.55 £16.13
Median hourly rate £15.65 £15.97 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -6.06% -
75th Percentile £35.33 £17.80 £20.00
90th Percentile £47.13 £18.37 £25.00
England median hourly rate £27.51 £32.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -15.36% +54.76% -6.67%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Exchange in the West Midlands

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the West Midlands

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the West Midlands

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the West Midlands

Microsoft Exchange
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 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
Birmingham +10 16 £350 +7.69% 8
Coventry +21 12 £400 -23.81% 2
Warwickshire +9 6 £400 -42.86% 5
Staffordshire +7 4 £333 +129.94% 4
Wednesbury - 2 £260 -
Worcestershire +6 1 £190 -42.86% 8
Microsoft Exchange
England

Microsoft Exchange
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 28 (65.12%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.65%) IIS
2 2 (4.65%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 35 (81.40%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (48.84%) OneDrive
3 20 (46.51%) Azure
4 10 (23.26%) Entra ID
4 10 (23.26%) Power Automate
5 6 (13.95%) Power Platform
5 6 (13.95%) PowerApps
6 5 (11.63%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.65%) Mimecast
8 1 (2.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 15 (34.88%) DNS
2 7 (16.28%) DHCP
3 6 (13.95%) Unified Communications
4 5 (11.63%) NetScaler
5 4 (9.30%) VPN
6 3 (6.98%) Firewall
6 3 (6.98%) SAN
7 2 (4.65%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (4.65%) iSCSI
7 2 (4.65%) NAS
7 2 (4.65%) TCP/IP
7 2 (4.65%) Wireless
8 1 (2.33%) Ethernet
8 1 (2.33%) FTP
8 1 (2.33%) HTTP
8 1 (2.33%) SMTP
8 1 (2.33%) SNMP
8 1 (2.33%) SSH
8 1 (2.33%) SSL
8 1 (2.33%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) Power BI
2 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.30%) Automotive
3 3 (6.98%) Advertising
3 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (2.33%) Legal
5 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 10 (23.26%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 7 (16.28%) Microsoft Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Deployment Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Citrix Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Desktop Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) Microsoft 365 Expert
5 4 (9.30%) Senior
5 4 (9.30%) Subject Matter Expert
6 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Citrix Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Desktop Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) 2nd Line Support
7 2 (4.65%) Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Exchange Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Implementation Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Network Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Digital Signage
1 6 (13.95%) PKI
2 5 (11.63%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.65%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.65%) Replication
4 1 (2.33%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 29 (67.44%) Windows
2 22 (51.16%) Windows Server
3 9 (20.93%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (18.60%) Windows 10
4 8 (18.60%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (4.65%) Linux
5 2 (4.65%) Ubuntu
5 2 (4.65%) VMS
6 1 (2.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (18.60%) ITIL
3 7 (16.28%) Change Management
3 7 (16.28%) Service Delivery
4 6 (13.95%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (13.95%) Customer Service
4 6 (13.95%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 5 (11.63%) Application Packaging
5 5 (11.63%) Patch Management
5 5 (11.63%) Server Patching
6 3 (6.98%) Data Protection
7 2 (4.65%) Decision-Making
7 2 (4.65%) Project Delivery
7 2 (4.65%) Time Management
8 1 (2.33%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (2.33%) E-Discovery
8 1 (2.33%) High Availability
8 1 (2.33%) Malware Detection/Protection
8 1 (2.33%) Mathematics
8 1 (2.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (18.60%) SC Cleared
1 8 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.33%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (2.33%) MCDST
2 1 (2.33%) MCP
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 25 (58.14%) Active Directory
2 5 (11.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 5 (11.63%) Virtual Desktop
2 5 (11.63%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (11.63%) XenApp
2 5 (11.63%) XenDesktop
3 2 (4.65%) vSphere
4 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (30.23%) SCCM
2 12 (27.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (13.95%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (13.95%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 30 (69.77%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.93%) VMware
3 6 (13.95%) Oracle
4 5 (11.63%) Citrix
4 5 (11.63%) NetApp
5 2 (4.65%) Aruba
5 2 (4.65%) Palo Alto
5 2 (4.65%) ProCurve
5 2 (4.65%) Rapid7
5 2 (4.65%) Sophos
5 2 (4.65%) Synology
5 2 (4.65%) Veeam
5 2 (4.65%) Zerto
6 1 (2.33%) Adobe