Microsoft Exchange Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Exchange Server
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Microsoft Exchange skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 228 172
Rank change year-on-year -30 -56 +10
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 171 120 252
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.92% 0.98% 1.43%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.88% 8.57% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 70 185
10th Percentile £302 £212 £190
25th Percentile £413 £267 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £414 £380
Median % change year-on-year +14.80% +8.88% -24.00%
75th Percentile £625 £547 £560
90th Percentile £700 £603 £700
England median daily rate £450 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £22.80 £26.09 -
25th Percentile £23.68 £26.23 £23.80
Median hourly rate £25.15 £26.45 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.91% -33.88% +72.04%
75th Percentile £27.02 £27.23 £48.75
90th Percentile £28.13 £27.69 £64.50
England median hourly rate £74.00 £26.45 £26.90
% change year-on-year +179.77% -1.67% +34.50%

All Application Platform Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,730 1,401 2,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.30% 11.47% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,149 929 1,594
10th Percentile £363 £356 £280
25th Percentile £425 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £670 £688
90th Percentile £707 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 11 30
10th Percentile £15.45 £26.04 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.09 £26.45 £23.75
Median hourly rate £26.50 £45.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -41.11% +49.20% -7.20%
75th Percentile £39.69 £53.75 £33.58
90th Percentile £64.68 £87.50 £58.25
England median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -38.10% +75.00% -36.84%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Exchange relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Microsoft Exchange job vacancy trend in London

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft Exchange.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in London over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in London

Microsoft Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft Exchange.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Exchange
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 7 June 2026. 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
Central London -19 19 £613 +166.30% 15
South London -9 4 £425 -0.06%
West London -22 3 £475 +5.56% 4
North London - 2 £438 - 1
East London -8 1 £700 +19.66% 3
Microsoft Exchange
England

Microsoft Exchange
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 96 (56.14%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.51%) Confluence
3 4 (2.34%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.75%) Apache
4 3 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.58%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.58%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (5.85%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (5.85%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 1 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 142 (83.04%) Microsoft 365
2 84 (49.12%) Azure
3 78 (45.61%) Entra ID
4 51 (29.82%) OneDrive
5 20 (11.70%) Microsoft Copilot
5 20 (11.70%) PaaS
6 19 (11.11%) SaaS
7 18 (10.53%) Microsoft Purview
8 17 (9.94%) IaaS
9 14 (8.19%) Mimecast
10 10 (5.85%) AWS
10 10 (5.85%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (5.85%) Power Platform
11 9 (5.26%) GCP
12 8 (4.68%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (4.09%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (4.09%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (4.09%) GitHub
13 7 (4.09%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (4.09%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 36 (21.05%) DNS
2 25 (14.62%) Firewall
3 17 (9.94%) DKIM
4 14 (8.19%) DHCP
4 14 (8.19%) DMARC
5 13 (7.60%) VPN
6 11 (6.43%) WAN
7 8 (4.68%) LAN
8 7 (4.09%) Unified Communications
8 7 (4.09%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (3.51%) MPLS
10 5 (2.92%) Network Security
11 4 (2.34%) PSTN
11 4 (2.34%) SMTP
12 3 (1.75%) TCP/IP
13 2 (1.17%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (1.17%) SD-WAN
13 2 (1.17%) VLAN
13 2 (1.17%) VoIP
13 2 (1.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.60%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.92%) Big Data
3 4 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (2.34%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.34%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.34%) RDBMS
3 4 (2.34%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.75%) Hadoop
4 3 (1.75%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.17%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.58%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (8.77%) JIRA
2 1 (0.58%) Fiddler
2 1 (0.58%) Git
2 1 (0.58%) MSI
2 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio
General
1 50 (29.24%) Social Skills
2 35 (20.47%) Finance
3 14 (8.19%) Public Sector
4 12 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.85%) Legal
6 8 (4.68%) Banking
7 7 (4.09%) Law
8 5 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.92%) German Language
9 3 (1.75%) Military
9 3 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.17%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.17%) Local Government
10 2 (1.17%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.58%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (19.30%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 23 (13.45%) Senior
3 16 (9.36%) Support Engineer
4 13 (7.60%) Architect
5 11 (6.43%) Developer
6 10 (5.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (5.85%) IT Support
7 9 (5.26%) IT Engineer
7 9 (5.26%) IT Support Engineer
8 8 (4.68%) Consultant
8 8 (4.68%) Messaging Engineer
9 7 (4.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 7 (4.09%) Administrator
9 7 (4.09%) Applications Architect
10 6 (3.51%) Analyst
10 6 (3.51%) Exchange Engineer
10 6 (3.51%) Integration Engineer
10 6 (3.51%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
10 6 (3.51%) Migration Engineer
10 6 (3.51%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.11%) Microsoft Graph
2 11 (6.43%) .NET
3 9 (5.26%) .NET Framework
4 7 (4.09%) Web Services
5 5 (2.92%) OAuth
5 5 (2.92%) REST
5 5 (2.92%) SOAP
6 4 (2.34%) CSS
6 4 (2.34%) HTML
6 4 (2.34%) Kafka
7 3 (1.75%) LDAP
7 3 (1.75%) Spring
7 3 (1.75%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.17%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.17%) jQuery
9 1 (0.58%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.58%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.60%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (6.43%) BYOD
2 11 (6.43%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.68%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.51%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.51%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.34%) Clustering
7 4 (2.34%) IoT
7 4 (2.34%) PKI
7 4 (2.34%) PMI
7 4 (2.34%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.34%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.75%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.75%) Freedom of Information
8 3 (1.75%) iPhone
9 2 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.17%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 61 (35.67%) Windows
2 28 (16.37%) Windows Server
3 10 (5.85%) Windows 10
4 9 (5.26%) Mac OS
5 6 (3.51%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (2.92%) Linux
7 4 (2.34%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.75%) Android
8 3 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.17%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.58%) CentOS
10 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (29.82%) Migration
2 27 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
3 26 (15.20%) Roadmaps
4 22 (12.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 22 (12.87%) ITIL
4 22 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (12.28%) High Availability
6 20 (11.70%) Data Loss Prevention
6 20 (11.70%) DevOps
7 18 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
7 18 (10.53%) E-Discovery
8 17 (9.94%) Agile
9 15 (8.77%) AI
9 15 (8.77%) Change Management
10 14 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (8.19%) Project Delivery
10 14 (8.19%) Service Delivery
10 14 (8.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (7.60%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (7.02%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 74 (43.27%) PowerShell
2 14 (8.19%) SQL
3 10 (5.85%) C#
4 6 (3.51%) Python
5 5 (2.92%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.92%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.75%) Java
6 3 (1.75%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.75%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.17%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.58%) Bash
8 1 (0.58%) C++
8 1 (0.58%) Scala
8 1 (0.58%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 37 (21.64%) Degree
2 30 (17.54%) Security Cleared
3 23 (13.45%) SC Cleared
4 20 (11.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (7.60%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.68%) MCSA
6 8 (4.68%) MCSE
7 7 (4.09%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.92%) PMI Certification
8 5 (2.92%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.58%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.58%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (4.09%) SLA
2 4 (2.34%) GDPR
2 4 (2.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 4 (2.34%) NIST
2 4 (2.34%) QA
3 3 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.17%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.58%) FINRA
5 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.58%) MiFID
5 1 (0.58%) PMO
System Software
1 95 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.51%) Docker
3 6 (3.51%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (2.34%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.75%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.75%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.75%) Terminal Services
5 3 (1.75%) vSphere
6 2 (1.17%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (1.17%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.58%) Firmware
7 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.58%) zsh
Systems Management
1 57 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (7.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 12 (7.02%) SCCM
3 9 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (4.09%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (4.09%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.75%) vCenter Server
5 3 (1.75%) vMotion
6 2 (1.17%) Ansible
6 2 (1.17%) Nagios
6 2 (1.17%) Puppet
6 2 (1.17%) SCOM
6 2 (1.17%) Terraform
6 2 (1.17%) WMI
Vendors
1 142 (83.04%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.77%) Citrix
2 15 (8.77%) ServiceNow
3 12 (7.02%) VMware
4 10 (5.85%) Google
5 9 (5.26%) Proofpoint
6 7 (4.09%) Clearswift
6 7 (4.09%) SAP
7 6 (3.51%) Apple
7 6 (3.51%) iManage
7 6 (3.51%) Intapp
8 5 (2.92%) Cisco
9 4 (2.34%) Aderant
9 4 (2.34%) Informatica
9 4 (2.34%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.75%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.75%) Forcepoint
10 3 (1.75%) HP
10 3 (1.75%) Reuters
10 3 (1.75%) Symantec