Microsoft Exchange Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Exchange Server
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 83 76 73
Rank change year-on-year -7 -3 +23
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 28 57 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.46% 2.07% 3.08%
As % of the Application Platforms category 15.56% 27.80% 23.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 46 91
10th Percentile £168 £145 £122
25th Percentile £185 £213 £177
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £230 £350 £340
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% +2.94% +36.00%
75th Percentile £400 £400 £448
90th Percentile £413 £466 £576
England median daily rate £413 £380 £425
% change year-on-year +8.55% -10.59% +30.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £14.06 £15.67
25th Percentile - £14.33 £16.62
Median hourly rate - £15.12 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year - -19.83% +7.77%
75th Percentile - £15.56 £24.86
90th Percentile - £15.61 £26.48
England median hourly rate £26.45 £23.80 £17.00
% change year-on-year +11.13% +40.00% +6.25%

All Application Platform Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 180 205 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.40% 7.44% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 144 323
10th Percentile £250 £147 £209
25th Percentile £363 £298 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £375 £455
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -17.58% +1.56%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £540
90th Percentile £588 £638 £619
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 9
10th Percentile £16.60 £17.47 £14.48
25th Percentile £16.94 £22.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.50 £39.53 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.20% +113.68% -7.50%
75th Percentile £20.24 £51.91 £26.48
90th Percentile £32.36 - £34.93
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Exchange in the Midlands

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the Midlands

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the Midlands

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the Midlands

Microsoft Exchange
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands -7 22 £388 +3.33% 34
East Midlands +3 6 £190 +26.67% 14
Microsoft Exchange
England

Microsoft Exchange
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 13 (46.43%) SharePoint
2 3 (10.71%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.57%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 25 (89.29%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (42.86%) OneDrive
3 7 (25.00%) Azure
4 6 (21.43%) Power Platform
5 5 (17.86%) Entra ID
6 4 (14.29%) Mimecast
6 4 (14.29%) PowerApps
7 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (10.71%) Power Automate
8 1 (3.57%) Azure Storage
8 1 (3.57%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (3.57%) SaaS
8 1 (3.57%) ShareGate
8 1 (3.57%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Unified Communications
2 2 (7.14%) Firewall
2 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.14%) VPN
3 1 (3.57%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Legal
4 1 (3.57%) Advertising
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (14.29%) Analyst
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Service Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Support Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Unified Communications Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (3.57%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (3.57%) Administrator
5 1 (3.57%) Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Desktop Support
5 1 (3.57%) IT Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.57%) iPhone
2 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.57%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 12 (42.86%) Windows
2 10 (35.71%) Windows 10
3 2 (7.14%) Mac OS X
3 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.57%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Migration
2 6 (21.43%) Customer Service
3 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (17.86%) User Experience
4 4 (14.29%) Asset Management
4 4 (14.29%) Change Management
4 4 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
4 4 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 4 (14.29%) Information Security
4 4 (14.29%) ITIL
4 4 (14.29%) ITSM
4 4 (14.29%) Patch Management
4 4 (14.29%) PLM
4 4 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
4 4 (14.29%) System Testing
5 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (10.71%) Service Catalogue
6 2 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (7.14%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) A+ Certification
2 2 (7.14%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (39.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) Cisco
2 4 (14.29%) Proofpoint
3 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.57%) Citrix
4 1 (3.57%) Snow