Microsoft Exchange Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Microsoft Exchange Server
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Microsoft Exchange skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 28 33
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 -15
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 7 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 3.13% 2.00% 1.21%
As % of the Application Platforms category 58.33% 30.00% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £175 £82 £366
25th Percentile £376 £135 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £224 £388
Median % change year-on-year +134.64% -42.26% +40.91%
75th Percentile £550 £312 £397
90th Percentile - £365 £399
East of England median daily rate £500 £488 £265
% change year-on-year +2.56% +83.96% -26.90%

All Application Platform Skills
Bedfordshire

Microsoft Exchange falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 12 10 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 5.36% 6.67% 6.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 6
10th Percentile £354 £202 £313
25th Percentile £506 £308 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £363
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% +10.34% -23.68%
75th Percentile £541 £469 £397
90th Percentile £550 £555 £419
East of England median daily rate £425 £375 £375
% change year-on-year +13.33% - -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +329.27%
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £15.00 £64.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year -76.74% +360.71% -3.45%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Exchange relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Microsoft Exchange job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Microsoft Exchange.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in Bedfordshire

Microsoft Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Microsoft Exchange.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Exchange
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Luton - 3 £550 - 1
Dunstable +1 1 £500 +123.46%
Bedford - 1 £41 - 1
Microsoft Exchange
East of England

Microsoft Exchange
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (57.14%) OneDrive
3 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
4 2 (28.57%) Azure
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Consultant
2 3 (42.86%) IT Consultant
2 3 (42.86%) Service Design Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Design Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Service Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) ITIL
2 4 (57.14%) Acceptance Criteria
2 4 (57.14%) Impact Assessments
2 4 (57.14%) Incident Management
2 4 (57.14%) ITSM
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Service Design
2 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (57.14%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
4 1 (14.29%) Impact Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Software Deployment
4 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) Remedy
2 4 (57.14%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (14.29%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) Veeam
3 1 (14.29%) Zscaler