Microsoft Exchange Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Exchange Server
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Microsoft Exchange skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Exchange over the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 86 103
Rank change year-on-year +8 +17 +14
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 12 28 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.06% 1.42% 0.94%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.76% 24.78% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 25 15
10th Percentile £158 £325 £170
25th Percentile £171 £603 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £293 £605 £450
Median % change year-on-year -51.65% +34.44% +44.93%
75th Percentile £553 £608 £497
90th Percentile £616 - £703
South East median daily rate £575 £470 £310
% change year-on-year +22.34% +51.61% +37.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.50
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
75th Percentile - - £64.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £16.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year - -62.57% +145.41%

All Application Platform Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 123 113 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 10.88% 5.74% 8.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 58 107
10th Percentile £325 £325 £333
25th Percentile £350 £450 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.51% +7.50% +5.76%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £634
90th Percentile £607 £612 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 6
10th Percentile - £21.37 £39.00
25th Percentile £32.05 £27.18 £55.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £32.91 £71.10
Median % change year-on-year +89.90% -53.71% +118.75%
75th Percentile £71.50 £45.63 £79.19
90th Percentile £76.60 £64.75 -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £38.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +36.36% -33.04% +187.50%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Microsoft Exchange as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Exchange in Berkshire

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in Berkshire

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in Berkshire over the 6 months to 26 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in Berkshire

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in Berkshire

Microsoft Exchange
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 26 June 2025. 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
Wokingham 0 6 £625 +20.19% 2
Reading +15 2 £293 -51.65% 15
Bracknell - 1 - - 2
Microsoft Exchange
South East

Microsoft Exchange
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 7 (58.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (58.33%) Azure
3 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
4 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (16.67%) OneDrive
5 2 (16.67%) PowerApps
5 2 (16.67%) SaaS
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Storage
6 1 (8.33%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (8.33%) PaaS
6 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) HTTP
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
2 1 (8.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Fiddler
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) 1st Line Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Architect
1 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
1 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Support
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Support Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Lead
2 1 (8.33%) Lead Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Migration Specialist
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Support
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (8.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Clustering
1 2 (16.67%) Fat Client
1 2 (16.67%) Thin Client
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (16.67%) Windows 7
4 1 (8.33%) Linux
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Migration
2 3 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 3 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) ITSM
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (16.67%) Privileged Identity Management
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) Business Continuity
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
4 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (8.33%) High Availability
4 1 (8.33%) Process Improvement
4 1 (8.33%) Release Management
4 1 (8.33%) Resource Management
4 1 (8.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Bicep
2 1 (8.33%) C#
2 1 (8.33%) VB
2 1 (8.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (16.67%) SCVMM
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) SCCM
2 1 (8.33%) SCOM
2 1 (8.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco