Microsoft Exchange Contracts in England

Microsoft Exchange Server
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 156 142
Rank change year-on-year -27 -14 +9
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 360 567 881
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.48% 1.56% 1.82%
As % of the Application Platforms category 13.03% 16.32% 17.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 432 683
10th Percentile £182 £163 £158
25th Percentile £230 £229 £236
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £380 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% -10.59% +30.77%
75th Percentile £547 £556 £563
90th Percentile £602 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £400 £390 £425
% change year-on-year +2.56% -8.24% +21.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 31 27
10th Percentile £24.46 - £14.25
25th Percentile £25.45 £14.00 £14.88
Median hourly rate £26.45 £23.80 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.13% +34.31% +7.39%
75th Percentile £26.84 £40.00 £24.13
90th Percentile £27.54 - £26.48
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £23.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year +11.37% +13.10% +23.53%

All Application Platform Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,762 3,475 5,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 9.56% 10.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,842 2,487 3,692
10th Percentile £281 £251 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 141 131
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.00 £15.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.91% -21.43% +53.85%
75th Percentile £64.50 £46.18 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £29.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year +57.88% -35.00% +80.00%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Exchange in England

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in England

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in England

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in England

Microsoft Exchange
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London -65 138 £450 +19.21% 207
North of England +57 107 £240 -20.00% 94
North West +56 81 £363 +3.57% 52
South West +22 40 £425 -3.24% 51
South East +15 38 £550 +18.29% 155
Midlands -18 24 £388 +10.71% 51
Yorkshire +3 20 £235 -21.67% 29
West Midlands -14 19 £400 +6.67% 30
East of England +5 16 £430 -21.10% 53
North East +2 6 £188 -3.85% 14
East Midlands +1 5 £190 +26.67% 17
Microsoft Exchange
UK

Microsoft Exchange
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 158 (43.89%) SharePoint
2 27 (7.50%) Skype for Business
3 10 (2.78%) Exchange Server 2013
4 9 (2.50%) Confluence
5 7 (1.94%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (1.39%) SharePoint Server
7 4 (1.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 3 (0.83%) CMS
8 3 (0.83%) Exchange Server 2003
8 3 (0.83%) Exchange Server 2007
8 3 (0.83%) Office Communications Server
9 1 (0.28%) CICS
9 1 (0.28%) nginx
9 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 79 (21.94%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.56%) Revit
7 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.56%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 247 (68.61%) Microsoft 365
2 168 (46.67%) Azure
3 136 (37.78%) Entra ID
4 92 (25.56%) OneDrive
5 39 (10.83%) IaaS
6 29 (8.06%) AWS
7 28 (7.78%) Power Platform
8 27 (7.50%) SaaS
9 18 (5.00%) Mimecast
10 17 (4.72%) PaaS
11 14 (3.89%) Power Automate
12 11 (3.06%) Microsoft Purview
13 10 (2.78%) GCP
13 10 (2.78%) Google Workspace
14 9 (2.50%) OpenShift
15 7 (1.94%) Cohesity
16 6 (1.67%) Asana
16 6 (1.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 6 (1.67%) PowerApps
16 6 (1.67%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 81 (22.50%) DNS
2 66 (18.33%) Firewall
3 61 (16.94%) DHCP
4 49 (13.61%) VPN
5 42 (11.67%) Skype
6 29 (8.06%) WAN
7 24 (6.67%) LAN
8 22 (6.11%) Network Security
9 21 (5.83%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (5.28%) SAN
10 19 (5.28%) SMTP
11 17 (4.72%) VLAN
12 14 (3.89%) MPLS
12 14 (3.89%) TCP/IP
13 12 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
13 12 (3.33%) Unified Communications
14 11 (3.06%) VoIP
15 6 (1.67%) Internet
15 6 (1.67%) NAS
15 6 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.61%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (2.50%) Big Data
3 9 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.94%) Power BI
5 2 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.28%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.28%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.28%) Redis
6 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (4.72%) JIRA
2 3 (0.83%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.28%) Git
3 1 (0.28%) GitLab
3 1 (0.28%) Hudson
General
1 94 (26.11%) Social Skills
2 58 (16.11%) Finance
3 48 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 21 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.56%) Legal
5 20 (5.56%) Telecoms
6 11 (3.06%) Banking
6 11 (3.06%) Marketing
7 10 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.50%) Military
9 7 (1.94%) Electronics
9 7 (1.94%) Local Government
9 7 (1.94%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.67%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.39%) Spanish Language
12 4 (1.11%) Law
13 3 (0.83%) Advertising
14 2 (0.56%) Front Office
14 2 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 89 (24.72%) Support Engineer
2 59 (16.39%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 37 (10.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 35 (9.72%) Desktop Engineer
5 33 (9.17%) Desktop Support
5 33 (9.17%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 30 (8.33%) Analyst
6 30 (8.33%) Senior
7 24 (6.67%) IT Engineer
7 24 (6.67%) IT Support
8 20 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
8 20 (5.56%) Architect
9 19 (5.28%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 16 (4.44%) Exchange Engineer
10 16 (4.44%) IT Support Engineer
10 16 (4.44%) Microsoft Engineer
11 15 (4.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 14 (3.89%) 3rd Line Support
12 14 (3.89%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 14 (3.89%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Graph
2 4 (1.11%) .NET
2 4 (1.11%) LDAP
3 3 (0.83%) OAuth
3 3 (0.83%) OpenID
3 3 (0.83%) REST
3 3 (0.83%) Web Services
4 2 (0.56%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (0.56%) Node.js
4 2 (0.56%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.28%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.28%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.28%) ISPF
5 1 (0.28%) JSON
5 1 (0.28%) Kafka
5 1 (0.28%) Murex MxML
5 1 (0.28%) RESTful
5 1 (0.28%) SignalR
5 1 (0.28%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.06%) PKI
2 21 (5.83%) Data Centre
3 12 (3.33%) Clustering
3 12 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 9 (2.50%) Blackberry
5 7 (1.94%) Management Information System
5 7 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.11%) Handset
8 4 (1.11%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (0.83%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.83%) iPhone
9 3 (0.83%) IVR
9 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Licensing
9 3 (0.83%) Replication
9 3 (0.83%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 199 (55.28%) Windows
2 95 (26.39%) Windows Server
3 65 (18.06%) Windows 10
4 35 (9.72%) Linux
5 23 (6.39%) Windows Server 2016
6 19 (5.28%) Android
7 18 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 16 (4.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 11 (3.06%) Apple iOS
10 10 (2.78%) VMS
11 9 (2.50%) Unix
11 9 (2.50%) Windows 7
12 8 (2.22%) Mac OS
12 8 (2.22%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (1.11%) Mac OS X
13 4 (1.11%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 2 (0.56%) CentOS
15 2 (0.56%) Windows 8
15 2 (0.56%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (25.28%) ITIL
2 67 (18.61%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (18.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 62 (17.22%) Migration
5 53 (14.72%) Customer Service
6 48 (13.33%) ITSM
7 40 (11.11%) Agile
8 38 (10.56%) Data Loss Prevention
9 34 (9.44%) Collaborative Working
10 33 (9.17%) High Availability
11 32 (8.89%) Service Delivery
12 30 (8.33%) Service Management
13 29 (8.06%) DevOps
14 28 (7.78%) Project Delivery
15 24 (6.67%) Change Management
15 24 (6.67%) Information Security
16 23 (6.39%) Problem Management
17 21 (5.83%) Identity Management
18 20 (5.56%) Roadmaps
19 19 (5.28%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 91 (25.28%) PowerShell
2 22 (6.11%) SQL
3 10 (2.78%) Python
4 7 (1.94%) VB
4 7 (1.94%) VBScript
5 4 (1.11%) C#
6 3 (0.83%) Bash
7 2 (0.56%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.56%) Perl
8 1 (0.28%) Bicep
8 1 (0.28%) Java
8 1 (0.28%) JCL
8 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 83 (23.06%) Security Cleared
2 65 (18.06%) Degree
3 52 (14.44%) SC Cleared
4 40 (11.11%) DV Cleared
5 33 (9.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.44%) MCSE
7 15 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 12 (3.33%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.94%) MCSA
10 6 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (1.39%) MCP
12 4 (1.11%) CCNA
12 4 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.83%) A+ Certification
14 2 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.56%) PMP
14 2 (0.56%) RIBA
15 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
15 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 14 (3.89%) SLA
2 2 (0.56%) NCSC
2 2 (0.56%) NIST
2 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.56%) QA
2 2 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.28%) GDPR
3 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
System Software
1 258 (71.67%) Active Directory
2 62 (17.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (6.11%) Hyper-V
4 21 (5.83%) vSphere
5 18 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (4.72%) BitLocker
7 16 (4.44%) Microsoft App-V
8 13 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
9 10 (2.78%) Terminal Services
9 10 (2.78%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (2.50%) Docker
10 9 (2.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 9 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.83%) Brightmail
11 3 (0.83%) ISA Server
11 3 (0.83%) XenApp
12 2 (0.56%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.28%) Firmware
13 1 (0.28%) NFS
13 1 (0.28%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 124 (34.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (12.22%) SCCM
3 29 (8.06%) WSUS
4 17 (4.72%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (4.17%) vCenter Server
6 11 (3.06%) Ansible
6 11 (3.06%) Kubernetes
7 10 (2.78%) Nagios
7 10 (2.78%) vMotion
8 9 (2.50%) AppManager
8 9 (2.50%) Puppet
9 6 (1.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (1.67%) Terraform
10 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (0.83%) CASB
11 3 (0.83%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.83%) Norton AntiVirus
11 3 (0.83%) PingFederate
11 3 (0.83%) SCOM
11 3 (0.83%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 277 (76.94%) Microsoft
2 85 (23.61%) VMware
3 38 (10.56%) Citrix
4 33 (9.17%) ServiceNow
5 19 (5.28%) Cisco
5 19 (5.28%) Google
6 18 (5.00%) Symantec
7 16 (4.44%) HP
8 13 (3.61%) NetApp
9 12 (3.33%) Proofpoint
10 9 (2.50%) Ivanti
10 9 (2.50%) Red Hat
10 9 (2.50%) Veeam
11 7 (1.94%) Apple
11 7 (1.94%) SAP
11 7 (1.94%) Wyse
12 6 (1.67%) iManage
12 6 (1.67%) McAfee
12 6 (1.67%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.39%) Zscaler