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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 82 68
Rank change year-on-year +36 -14 +12
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 32 14 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.58% 0.99% 2.53%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.60% 15.91% 32.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 14 33
10th Percentile £156 £191 £216
25th Percentile £250 £222 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £438 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +2.94% +80.85%
75th Percentile £510 £573 £506
90th Percentile £563 £648 £548
North West median daily rate £363 £363 £425
% change year-on-year - -14.71% +58.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £13.46
25th Percentile - - £14.64
Median hourly rate - - £16.62
75th Percentile - - £21.31
90th Percentile - - £24.12
North West median hourly rate - - £16.62
% change year-on-year - - -8.25%

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 125 88 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 13.97% 6.24% 7.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 59 105
10th Percentile £304 £251 £285
25th Percentile £400 £309 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £635 £678 £650
North West median daily rate £425 £453 £475
% change year-on-year -6.08% -4.74% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £33.13 £27.78 £14.25
25th Percentile £58.44 £34.19 £16.62
Median hourly rate £75.00 £45.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.84% +75.00% -62.86%
75th Percentile £77.81 £57.44 £28.75
90th Percentile £78.38 £64.23 £51.10
North West median hourly rate £41.84 £32.12 £20.02
% change year-on-year +30.28% +60.45% -61.88%

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 21 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 21 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
Bolton - 2 £220 - 9
Wigan +4 1 £163 +1.56%
Altrincham - 1 £525 - 5
Stockport - 1 £145 - 1
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 8 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.13%) CICS
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.13%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 22 (68.75%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (65.63%) Azure
3 16 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 11 (34.38%) IaaS
5 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (12.50%) OneDrive
6 2 (6.25%) AWS
7 1 (3.13%) PaaS
7 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (40.63%) Firewall
2 11 (34.38%) Intrusion Detection
2 11 (34.38%) Network Security
3 3 (9.38%) DHCP
4 2 (6.25%) DNS
4 2 (6.25%) VPN
5 1 (3.13%) H.323
5 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.13%) Unified Communications
5 1 (3.13%) VoIP
5 1 (3.13%) WebEx
5 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Hudson
1 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 11 (34.38%) Telecoms
2 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Military
6 1 (3.13%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 6 (18.75%) Support Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) 1st Line Support
4 3 (9.38%) IT Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) IT Support
4 3 (9.38%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) 1st Line Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) 1st Line Support Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Lead
5 2 (6.25%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior
6 1 (3.13%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.13%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (3.13%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.13%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.13%) NHS
2 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.13%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (78.13%) Windows
2 15 (46.88%) Windows Server
3 3 (9.38%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.25%) VMS
5 1 (3.13%) Windows 7
5 1 (3.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (34.38%) Business Continuity
2 11 (34.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 10 (31.25%) Change Management
4 9 (28.13%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (25.00%) BCP
5 8 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
5 8 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 8 (25.00%) High Availability
5 8 (25.00%) Information Security
5 8 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 8 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
6 7 (21.88%) Line Management
6 7 (21.88%) Web Operations
7 6 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (18.75%) ITIL
7 6 (18.75%) Migration
8 5 (15.63%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.13%) JCL
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (34.38%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (3.13%) MCP
4 1 (3.13%) MCSA
4 1 (3.13%) MCSE
4 1 (3.13%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 25 (78.13%) Active Directory
2 11 (34.38%) vSphere
3 10 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.13%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 18 (56.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (6.25%) WSUS
3 1 (3.13%) CA Endevor
3 1 (3.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (90.63%) Microsoft
2 13 (40.63%) VMware
3 2 (6.25%) Citrix
4 1 (3.13%) Autodesk
4 1 (3.13%) Dell
4 1 (3.13%) Google
4 1 (3.13%) HP
4 1 (3.13%) IBM
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle