Microsoft Exchange Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft Exchange Server
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 74 71
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 -31
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 16 38 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.71% 1.99% 2.52%
As % of the Application Platforms category 14.95% 24.05% 20.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 18 35
10th Percentile £236 £194 £163
25th Percentile £328 £258 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £438 £433
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +1.16% +33.08%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £500
90th Percentile £560 £603 £540
England median daily rate £413 £380 £425
% change year-on-year +8.55% -10.59% +30.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.25
Median hourly rate - £14.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% -
75th Percentile - - £18.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.45 £23.80 £17.00
% change year-on-year +11.13% +40.00% +6.25%

All Application Platform Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 107 158 252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.41% 8.28% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 104 164
10th Percentile £235 £202 £239
25th Percentile £372 £288 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £393 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.65% -17.37% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £519 £569
90th Percentile £675 £584 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 26
10th Percentile £49.24 £12.13 -
25th Percentile £61.50 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £66.00 £14.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +371.43% -17.65% +17.24%
75th Percentile £77.50 £15.39 £23.00
90th Percentile £176.50 £18.73 £65.13
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Exchange in the East of England

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the East of England

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the East of England

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the East of England

Microsoft Exchange
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hertfordshire +22 7 £513 -6.82% 16
Essex +8 4 £241 -43.24% 7
Cambridgeshire +3 4 £430 +115.00% 6
Suffolk -7 1 £450 +200.00% 10
Microsoft Exchange
England

Microsoft Exchange
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (31.25%) SharePoint
1 5 (31.25%) Skype for Business
2 4 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 4 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Cohesity
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (31.25%) OneDrive
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) SAN
2 7 (43.75%) LAN
2 7 (43.75%) Skype
2 7 (43.75%) WAN
3 6 (37.50%) DNS
4 4 (25.00%) IMAP
4 4 (25.00%) NAS
4 4 (25.00%) SMTP
4 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (18.75%) DHCP
5 3 (18.75%) VLAN
5 3 (18.75%) VoIP
5 3 (18.75%) VPN
5 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (6.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
1 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Electronics
2 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 2 (12.50%) Marketing
2 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.25%) Automotive
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Administrator
1 4 (25.00%) DevOps Administrator
1 4 (25.00%) Messaging Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (18.75%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Desktop Support
2 3 (18.75%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Desktop Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Desktop Support
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Exchange Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Blackberry
2 4 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (12.50%) Smartcard
3 2 (12.50%) YubiKey
4 1 (6.25%) PKI
4 1 (6.25%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 11 (68.75%) Windows
2 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
3 5 (31.25%) Linux
4 4 (25.00%) Ubuntu
5 3 (18.75%) Windows 10
6 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Problem Management
2 4 (25.00%) Change Management
2 4 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 4 (25.00%) DevOps
2 4 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 4 (25.00%) ITIL
2 4 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) Programme Management
5 1 (6.25%) Capacity Management
5 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (6.25%) Decision-Making
5 1 (6.25%) Migration
5 1 (6.25%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 1 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (6.25%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) DV Cleared
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Active Directory
2 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
5 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) SCCM
2 3 (18.75%) AppManager
2 3 (18.75%) WSUS
3 2 (12.50%) Nessus
4 1 (6.25%) Ansible
4 1 (6.25%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (50.00%) NetApp
2 8 (50.00%) VMware
3 5 (31.25%) Red Hat
4 3 (18.75%) Ivanti
5 2 (12.50%) SAP
5 2 (12.50%) Tenable
6 1 (6.25%) Fujitsu
6 1 (6.25%) HP