Microsoft Exchange Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Exchange Server
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 115 75
Rank change year-on-year -4 -40 -14
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 66 109 222
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.39% 1.87% 3.08%
As % of the Application Platforms category 18.75% 21.93% 26.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 86 164
10th Percentile £144 £142 £138
25th Percentile £187 £184 £171
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £338 £230
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +46.74% +12.75%
75th Percentile £500 £506 £413
90th Percentile £628 £538 £500
England median daily rate £375 £425 £325
% change year-on-year -11.76% +30.77% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 23
10th Percentile - £13.29 £16.00
25th Percentile £13.25 £14.23 £16.31
Median hourly rate £14.50 £18.75 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% +4.17% +2.86%
75th Percentile £15.75 £23.00 £19.38
90th Percentile - £24.80 £22.20
England median hourly rate £23.80 £17.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% +6.25% -0.39%

All Application Platform Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 352 497 852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 7.39% 8.51% 11.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 360 622
10th Percentile £201 £200 £174
25th Percentile £313 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +8.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £575 £552 £525
90th Percentile £650 £650 £631
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 11 40
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.75 £16.00
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.25 £16.56
Median hourly rate £15.23 £22.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +18.92% -2.63%
75th Percentile £44.47 £27.38 £29.89
90th Percentile £46.18 £33.75 £44.30
England median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +54.76% -1.89%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Exchange in the North of England

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the North of England

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the North of England

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the North of England

Microsoft Exchange
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
North West -5 32 £338 -25.00% 42
Yorkshire +2 31 £300 +22.45% 29
North East +16 3 £195 +23.81% 6
Microsoft Exchange
England

Microsoft Exchange
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 20 (30.30%) SharePoint
2 6 (9.09%) IIS
3 1 (1.52%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (1.52%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (1.52%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 56 (84.85%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (31.82%) Azure
3 12 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 3 (4.55%) AWS
4 3 (4.55%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.52%) Azure Stack
5 1 (1.52%) GCP
5 1 (1.52%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.52%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.52%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 13 (19.70%) Firewall
2 9 (13.64%) VPN
3 5 (7.58%) DNS
4 3 (4.55%) DHCP
4 3 (4.55%) NAS
4 3 (4.55%) SAN
5 2 (3.03%) VLAN
6 1 (1.52%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.52%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.52%) LAN
6 1 (1.52%) Skype
6 1 (1.52%) SMTP
6 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.52%) WAN
6 1 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.52%) Wireless
6 1 (1.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.06%) Big Data
2 2 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Hudson
1 1 (1.52%) JIRA
General
1 24 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.09%) Finance
2 6 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.52%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 13 (19.70%) Support Engineer
2 12 (18.18%) IT Support
3 9 (13.64%) 3rd Line Support
3 9 (13.64%) Senior
4 8 (12.12%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 7 (10.61%) Analyst
5 7 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Service Analyst
6 6 (9.09%) Service Desk Analyst
6 6 (9.09%) Wintel Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (7.58%) Administrator
7 5 (7.58%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Migration Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 5 (7.58%) Systems Administrator
8 4 (6.06%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.03%) ADSI
2 1 (1.52%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.09%) Clustering
3 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.03%) PKI
4 1 (1.52%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.52%) iPad
4 1 (1.52%) NHS
4 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 43 (65.15%) Windows
2 18 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 11 (16.67%) Windows 10
4 7 (10.61%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (10.61%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (9.09%) VMS
6 4 (6.06%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (3.03%) Apple iOS
7 2 (3.03%) Windows 7
7 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.52%) Android
8 1 (1.52%) Linux
8 1 (1.52%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 14 (21.21%) Migration
3 8 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (10.61%) Server Virtualisation
5 6 (9.09%) ITIL
6 4 (6.06%) CI/CD
6 4 (6.06%) DevOps
6 4 (6.06%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (6.06%) Service Management
7 3 (4.55%) Patch Management
7 3 (4.55%) Project Delivery
8 2 (3.03%) Break/Fix
8 2 (3.03%) Data Migration
8 2 (3.03%) High Availability
8 2 (3.03%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (3.03%) Project Management
8 2 (3.03%) Service Migration
8 2 (3.03%) Software Deployment
8 2 (3.03%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 5 (7.58%) SQL
3 1 (1.52%) Bash
3 1 (1.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (7.58%) Degree
2 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (4.55%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.03%) MCITP
3 2 (3.03%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.52%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.52%) MCSA
4 1 (1.52%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) SLA
2 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 59 (89.39%) Active Directory
2 8 (12.12%) Hyper-V
3 6 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.52%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.52%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.52%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 8 (12.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (7.58%) SCCM
3 4 (6.06%) Terraform
4 2 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.52%) SCOM
5 1 (1.52%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.52%) vMotion
Vendors
1 46 (69.70%) Microsoft
2 16 (24.24%) VMware
3 4 (6.06%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.55%) Cisco
5 2 (3.03%) Bomgar
5 2 (3.03%) Citrix
5 2 (3.03%) HP
5 2 (3.03%) iManage
5 2 (3.03%) Meraki
5 2 (3.03%) Veeam
6 1 (1.52%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.52%) Dell
6 1 (1.52%) Google
6 1 (1.52%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.52%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (1.52%) Proofpoint
6 1 (1.52%) Sophos
6 1 (1.52%) Symantec
6 1 (1.52%) Ubiquiti