Microsoft Exchange Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft Exchange Server
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 40 82 80
Rank change year-on-year +42 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 40 14 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.32% 0.92% 2.01%
As % of the Application Platforms category 27.97% 16.09% 26.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 14 29
10th Percentile £156 £178 £267
25th Percentile £213 £217 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £438 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.51% -5.41% +103.30%
75th Percentile £503 £573 £506
90th Percentile £563 £648 £550
North West median daily rate £363 £338 £450
% change year-on-year +7.41% -25.00% +87.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.00
25th Percentile - - £16.00
Median hourly rate - - £19.65
75th Percentile - - £22.98
90th Percentile - - £24.79
North West median hourly rate - - £19.65
% change year-on-year - - +8.46%

All Application Platform Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 143 87 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.44% 5.74% 7.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 60 103
10th Percentile £213 £251 £314
25th Percentile £375 £311 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £515 £526 £550
90th Percentile £600 £653 £650
North West median daily rate £425 £438 £475
% change year-on-year -2.86% -7.89% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £16.14 £27.78 £16.67
25th Percentile £16.25 £34.19 £22.67
Median hourly rate £75.00 £45.50 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +64.84% +70.09% +47.67%
75th Percentile £77.50 £57.44 £38.06
90th Percentile £78.25 £64.23 £54.83
North West median hourly rate £40.59 £32.12 £20.50
% change year-on-year +26.39% +56.66% +9.33%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Exchange in Manchester

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in Manchester

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in Manchester

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in Manchester

Microsoft Exchange
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester 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
Wigan +4 3 £163 +1.56%
Bolton - 2 £220 - 1
Stockport - 1 £145 -
Altrincham - 1 £525 -
Microsoft Exchange
North West

Microsoft Exchange
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 14 (35.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.50%) CICS
Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.50%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 29 (72.50%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (67.50%) Azure
3 20 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 13 (32.50%) IaaS
5 5 (12.50%) OneDrive
6 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (10.00%) SaaS
7 3 (7.50%) PaaS
8 2 (5.00%) AWS
9 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (35.00%) Firewall
2 11 (27.50%) Intrusion Detection
2 11 (27.50%) Network Security
3 5 (12.50%) DHCP
3 5 (12.50%) DNS
4 4 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (5.00%) VPN
6 1 (2.50%) H.323
6 1 (2.50%) Intranet
6 1 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.50%) Unified Communications
6 1 (2.50%) VLAN
6 1 (2.50%) VoIP
6 1 (2.50%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (32.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Hudson
2 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 11 (27.50%) Telecoms
2 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Military
6 1 (2.50%) Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Analyst
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 8 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 5 (12.50%) 1st Line Support
3 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) 1st Line Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) 1st Line Support Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Desktop Support
5 3 (7.50%) Exchange Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) IT Manager
5 3 (7.50%) IT Support
5 3 (7.50%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) ISPF
1 1 (2.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.50%) Blog
2 1 (2.50%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (2.50%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.50%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.50%) NHS
2 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 30 (75.00%) Windows
2 16 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (7.50%) VMS
3 3 (7.50%) Windows 10
3 3 (7.50%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (27.50%) Business Continuity
2 11 (27.50%) Change Management
2 11 (27.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 9 (22.50%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (20.00%) BCP
4 8 (20.00%) Business Continuity Planning
4 8 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 8 (20.00%) Information Security
4 8 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 8 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
5 7 (17.50%) High Availability
5 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (17.50%) ITIL
5 7 (17.50%) Line Management
5 7 (17.50%) Migration
5 7 (17.50%) Web Operations
6 6 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (12.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.50%) JCL
Qualifications
1 12 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (27.50%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.50%) MCP
4 1 (2.50%) MCSA
4 1 (2.50%) MCSE
4 1 (2.50%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 31 (77.50%) Active Directory
2 11 (27.50%) vSphere
3 10 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.50%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 21 (52.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (10.00%) WSUS
3 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.50%) CA Endevor
4 1 (2.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 37 (92.50%) Microsoft
2 14 (35.00%) VMware
3 2 (5.00%) Citrix
4 1 (2.50%) Autodesk
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco
4 1 (2.50%) Dell
4 1 (2.50%) Google
4 1 (2.50%) HP
4 1 (2.50%) IBM
4 1 (2.50%) Meraki
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle