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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 70 91
Rank change year-on-year +9 +21 -53
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 27 42 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.54% 2.15% 1.58%
As % of the Application Platforms category 19.15% 23.60% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 30 18
10th Percentile £191 £199 £163
25th Percentile £367 £416 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +29.41% +30.77%
75th Percentile £450 £575 £488
90th Percentile £473 £576 £576
England median daily rate £400 £418 £425
% change year-on-year -4.19% -1.76% +30.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.33 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.27 £14.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.64% -3.45% +4.84%
75th Percentile £31.33 - £14.75
90th Percentile £37.40 - £17.90
England median hourly rate £26.45 £35.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -25.49% +61.36% +37.50%

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 141 178 231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.28% 9.10% 11.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 129 152
10th Percentile £246 £220 £256
25th Percentile £379 £290 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -11.58% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £583 £673
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 24
10th Percentile £17.33 £12.13 £14.25
25th Percentile £43.82 - £16.45
Median hourly rate £66.00 £14.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +371.43% -36.36% +51.72%
75th Percentile £76.25 £15.50 £70.82
90th Percentile £153.00 £24.10 £73.75
England median hourly rate £52.50 £30.83 £49.25
% change year-on-year +70.32% -37.41% +123.86%

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 25 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the East of England over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 25 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
Bedfordshire +1 13 £600 +37.14% 4
Hertfordshire +8 5 £450 -18.18% 11
Cambridgeshire +12 4 £430 +115.00% 10
Essex +11 2 £213 - 5
Norfolk - 2 - - 1
Suffolk - 1 £450 - 4
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 8 (29.63%) SharePoint
2 7 (25.93%) IBM Domino
3 1 (3.70%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (70.37%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (29.63%) OneDrive
3 7 (25.93%) Azure
3 7 (25.93%) Entra ID
4 5 (18.52%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (14.81%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.93%) Cisco IOS
1 7 (25.93%) Firewall
2 6 (22.22%) DNS
3 5 (18.52%) LAN
3 5 (18.52%) SAN
3 5 (18.52%) TCP/IP
3 5 (18.52%) WAN
4 4 (14.81%) NAS
4 4 (14.81%) Skype
5 2 (7.41%) DHCP
6 1 (3.70%) VLAN
6 1 (3.70%) VoIP
6 1 (3.70%) VPN
6 1 (3.70%) VSAN
6 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) GitLab
General
1 7 (25.93%) Games
2 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Automotive
4 1 (3.70%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 7 (25.93%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Design Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Security Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Administrator
3 4 (14.81%) DevOps Administrator
3 4 (14.81%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (11.11%) Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Service Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) ICT Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) ICT Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) IT Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.70%) Lead
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Team Leader
6 1 (3.70%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (11.11%) Smartcard
2 3 (11.11%) YubiKey
3 1 (3.70%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.70%) PKI
3 1 (3.70%) RSA SecurID
3 1 (3.70%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 23 (85.19%) Windows
2 8 (29.63%) Windows Server
3 7 (25.93%) Android
3 7 (25.93%) Mac OS
4 5 (18.52%) Linux
5 4 (14.81%) Ubuntu
6 2 (7.41%) Windows 7
7 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (3.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) E-Commerce
2 5 (18.52%) Data Loss Prevention
2 5 (18.52%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (18.52%) Identity Management
2 5 (18.52%) Impact Analysis
2 5 (18.52%) Incident Management
2 5 (18.52%) ITIL
2 5 (18.52%) Knowledge Transfer
2 5 (18.52%) Privileged Identity Management
2 5 (18.52%) Security Operations
2 5 (18.52%) Zero Trust
3 4 (14.81%) Change Management
3 4 (14.81%) Customer Service
3 4 (14.81%) DevOps
3 4 (14.81%) GAP Analysis
3 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (14.81%) Problem Management
3 4 (14.81%) Resource Management
4 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) DV Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) GDPR
1 5 (18.52%) HIPAA
1 5 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (18.52%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (40.74%) SCCM
2 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (14.81%) WSUS
4 3 (11.11%) Nessus
5 1 (3.70%) Ansible
5 1 (3.70%) AppManager
5 1 (3.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 18 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (25.93%) Cisco
2 7 (25.93%) Meraki
2 7 (25.93%) Splunk
3 5 (18.52%) Red Hat
4 4 (14.81%) NetApp
5 3 (11.11%) Tenable
6 2 (7.41%) VMware
7 1 (3.70%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (3.70%) Dell
7 1 (3.70%) HP
7 1 (3.70%) Ivanti
7 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow