Microsoft Exchange Contracts in England

Microsoft Exchange Server
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Microsoft Exchange skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft Exchange over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 145 155
Rank change year-on-year -13 +10 -10
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 560 883 1,297
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.54% 1.82% 1.84%
As % of the Application Platforms category 16.00% 16.99% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 682 959
10th Percentile £163 £156 £150
25th Percentile £235 £230 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £425 £325
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +30.77% -8.45%
75th Percentile £556 £559 £488
90th Percentile £650 £700 £575
UK median daily rate £400 £425 £350
% change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 27 86
10th Percentile - £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.88 £14.25
Median hourly rate £23.80 £17.72 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +34.31% +7.72% +2.81%
75th Percentile £40.00 £24.13 £20.00
90th Percentile - £26.48 £26.88
UK median hourly rate £23.75 £21.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year +13.10% +25.37% +4.69%

All Application Platform Skills
England

Microsoft Exchange is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,501 5,197 8,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.62% 10.72% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,515 3,704 6,107
10th Percentile £256 £263 £258
25th Percentile £363 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £625
90th Percentile £775 £763 £716
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £510
% change year-on-year -2.44% +0.49% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 136 197
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.76 £13.72
25th Percentile £15.06 £19.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.52 £37.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.63% +66.67% +14.36%
75th Percentile £46.18 £65.19 £53.00
90th Percentile £69.75 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £46.25 £24.50
% change year-on-year -35.14% +88.78% +14.89%

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 19 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 19 May 2024. 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 +18 259 £380 -21.24% 103
South East -17 75 £465 +49.99% 86
North of England -21 62 £300 -11.11% 106
Midlands -19 57 £350 +5.26% 69
South West -10 56 £439 -7.53% 55
West Midlands +19 44 £375 - 40
East of England +9 37 £550 +22.22% 58
Yorkshire -5 30 £300 +22.45% 47
North West -17 29 £363 -14.71% 50
East Midlands -13 13 £150 -20.00% 29
North East +13 3 £195 +11.43% 9
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 (28.21%) SharePoint
2 37 (6.61%) Exchange Server 2010
3 33 (5.89%) Exchange Server 2013
4 25 (4.46%) Skype for Business
5 24 (4.29%) Exchange Server 2007
6 21 (3.75%) Confluence
7 16 (2.86%) Exchange Server 2003
8 14 (2.50%) IIS
9 5 (0.89%) CMS
10 4 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2000
11 3 (0.54%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.54%) WordPress
12 2 (0.36%) Exchange Server 5.5
13 1 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.18%) IBM Notes
13 1 (0.18%) nginx
13 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 66 (11.79%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.18%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.36%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.36%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.36%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 341 (60.89%) Microsoft 365
2 220 (39.29%) Azure
3 107 (19.11%) Entra ID
4 83 (14.82%) OneDrive
5 34 (6.07%) Power Platform
6 26 (4.64%) Mimecast
7 25 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
8 18 (3.21%) Azure Storage
9 16 (2.86%) AWS
9 16 (2.86%) Power Automate
10 15 (2.68%) IaaS
11 14 (2.50%) PowerApps
12 12 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (1.61%) PaaS
14 7 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
15 6 (1.07%) WhatsApp
16 5 (0.89%) SaaS
16 5 (0.89%) Tricentis Tosca
17 4 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 125 (22.32%) DNS
2 101 (18.04%) Firewall
3 89 (15.89%) DHCP
4 47 (8.39%) SAN
5 44 (7.86%) VPN
6 34 (6.07%) Skype
7 26 (4.64%) LAN
7 26 (4.64%) WAN
8 19 (3.39%) Wi-Fi
9 18 (3.21%) MPLS
9 18 (3.21%) TCP/IP
10 17 (3.04%) NAS
11 16 (2.86%) SMTP
12 14 (2.50%) Wireless
13 13 (2.32%) VLAN
14 12 (2.14%) Unified Communications
14 12 (2.14%) VoIP
15 11 (1.96%) Cisco IOS
16 8 (1.43%) Fibre Channel
17 7 (1.25%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.64%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.21%) Power BI
3 6 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.71%) Big Data
4 4 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.54%) Data Mart
5 3 (0.54%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.18%) MySQL
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 29 (5.18%) JIRA
2 6 (1.07%) Hudson
3 5 (0.89%) LoadRunner
3 5 (0.89%) NeoLoad
4 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.36%) Selenium
5 1 (0.18%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.18%) Gatling
5 1 (0.18%) GitLab
5 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.18%) JMeter
5 1 (0.18%) Maven
5 1 (0.18%) Postman
5 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 203 (36.25%) Social Skills
2 74 (13.21%) Finance
3 63 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (7.68%) Public Sector
5 40 (7.14%) Banking
6 20 (3.57%) Legal
6 20 (3.57%) Military
7 14 (2.50%) French Language
7 14 (2.50%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.79%) Law
10 9 (1.61%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.61%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.61%) Marketing
11 8 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.43%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.07%) Local Government
14 5 (0.89%) German Language
14 5 (0.89%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 75 (13.39%) Support Engineer
2 69 (12.32%) Analyst
3 62 (11.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 44 (7.86%) IT Support
5 35 (6.25%) Service Analyst
5 35 (6.25%) Service Desk Analyst
6 34 (6.07%) Architect
7 32 (5.71%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 30 (5.36%) 2nd Line Support
8 30 (5.36%) Senior
9 29 (5.18%) Administrator
9 29 (5.18%) IT Engineer
10 28 (5.00%) Desktop Support
11 23 (4.11%) Desktop Engineer
12 21 (3.75%) IT Support Engineer
12 21 (3.75%) Systems Administrator
13 20 (3.57%) Integration Engineer
14 19 (3.39%) Active Directory Support
15 18 (3.21%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 17 (3.04%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.04%) ARM Templates
2 6 (1.07%) SailPoint
2 6 (1.07%) XMPP
3 5 (0.89%) .NET
3 5 (0.89%) LDAP
4 4 (0.71%) .NET Framework
4 4 (0.71%) REST
5 3 (0.54%) LAMP
5 3 (0.54%) Murex MxML
6 2 (0.36%) ADSI
6 2 (0.36%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.36%) JSON
6 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.36%) Software Packaging
6 2 (0.36%) YAML
7 1 (0.18%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.18%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.18%) Playwright
7 1 (0.18%) React
7 1 (0.18%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 74 (13.21%) PKI
2 31 (5.54%) Data Centre
3 30 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (4.64%) Video Conferencing
5 25 (4.46%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.21%) Clustering
7 12 (2.14%) Blackberry
7 12 (2.14%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.14%) Smartphone
8 9 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.43%) Client/Server
9 8 (1.43%) Driving Licence
10 6 (1.07%) Digital Signage
10 6 (1.07%) iPhone
11 5 (0.89%) Hedge funds
11 5 (0.89%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.89%) Replication
12 4 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (0.71%) NHS
13 3 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 377 (67.32%) Windows
2 175 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 96 (17.14%) Windows 10
4 71 (12.68%) Windows Server 2012
5 55 (9.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 51 (9.11%) Linux
7 41 (7.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 33 (5.89%) Windows 7
9 30 (5.36%) Windows Server 2008
10 26 (4.64%) Android
11 20 (3.57%) VMS
12 19 (3.39%) Windows Server 2003
13 16 (2.86%) Apple iOS
13 16 (2.86%) Unix
14 14 (2.50%) Mac OS
15 11 (1.96%) Mac OS X
16 5 (0.89%) Ubuntu
17 4 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 4 (0.71%) Windows 2000
18 3 (0.54%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (20.89%) ITIL
2 97 (17.32%) Customer Service
3 89 (15.89%) Migration
4 78 (13.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 73 (13.04%) Agile
6 65 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (7.32%) Service Management
8 39 (6.96%) Change Management
9 36 (6.43%) Project Management
10 33 (5.89%) DevOps
11 32 (5.71%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 31 (5.54%) Identity Management
12 31 (5.54%) Project Delivery
13 28 (5.00%) CI/CD
13 28 (5.00%) Data Protection
14 27 (4.82%) Data Loss Prevention
14 27 (4.82%) Service Delivery
15 26 (4.64%) ITSM
15 26 (4.64%) Release Management
16 25 (4.46%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 123 (21.96%) PowerShell
2 59 (10.54%) SQL
3 18 (3.21%) C#
4 17 (3.04%) Bicep
4 17 (3.04%) VB
4 17 (3.04%) VBScript
5 3 (0.54%) Java
5 3 (0.54%) Python
6 2 (0.36%) Bash
6 2 (0.36%) VBA
7 1 (0.18%) C++
7 1 (0.18%) Perl
7 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 121 (21.61%) Security Cleared
2 103 (18.39%) Degree
3 89 (15.89%) SC Cleared
4 52 (9.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 44 (7.86%) DV Cleared
6 30 (5.36%) MCSE
7 25 (4.46%) MCSA
8 21 (3.75%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (3.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 20 (3.57%) CCNA
10 17 (3.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 15 (2.68%) MCP
12 14 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (2.32%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.71%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.71%) CCNP
15 3 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.54%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
16 2 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.89%) SLA
2 9 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.07%) QA
4 3 (0.54%) COBIT
4 3 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.54%) GDPR
4 3 (0.54%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.36%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.36%) NCSC
5 2 (0.36%) PMO
6 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.18%) GLBA
6 1 (0.18%) ISAE 3402
6 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.18%) NIST
6 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 418 (74.64%) Active Directory
2 89 (15.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (5.54%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (4.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (3.57%) Hyper-V
6 19 (3.39%) vSphere
7 17 (3.04%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (1.43%) VMware Workstation
10 7 (1.25%) XenApp
11 5 (0.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 5 (0.89%) Firmware
11 5 (0.89%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.89%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.71%) Docker
12 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.54%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.54%) KVM
13 3 (0.54%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 118 (21.07%) SCCM
2 108 (19.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 36 (6.43%) SCOM
4 29 (5.18%) WSUS
5 27 (4.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 27 (4.82%) Kubernetes
6 21 (3.75%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.96%) MAILsweeper
7 11 (1.96%) Microsoft Clustering
7 11 (1.96%) NetBackup
8 10 (1.79%) Jamf Pro
9 9 (1.61%) Terraform
9 9 (1.61%) vCenter Server
10 8 (1.43%) Ansible
10 8 (1.43%) Nagios
11 5 (0.89%) Nessus
11 5 (0.89%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.71%) CASB
13 3 (0.54%) AirWatch
13 3 (0.54%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 345 (61.61%) Microsoft
2 129 (23.04%) VMware
3 70 (12.50%) Citrix
4 45 (8.04%) Cisco
5 27 (4.82%) HP
6 22 (3.93%) ServiceNow
7 20 (3.57%) Apple
7 20 (3.57%) Avaya
8 19 (3.39%) EMC
9 17 (3.04%) NetApp
10 16 (2.86%) Dell
11 15 (2.68%) Sophos
12 14 (2.50%) Oracle
12 14 (2.50%) Trend Micro
12 14 (2.50%) Veeam
13 12 (2.14%) CheckPoint
14 11 (1.96%) SolarWinds
15 8 (1.43%) Hitachi
15 8 (1.43%) Mitel
16 7 (1.25%) CA