Microsoft Exchange Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Exchange Server
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 105 100 78
Rank change year-on-year -5 -22 -27
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 32 53 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.16% 1.65% 2.83%
As % of the Application Platforms category 16.49% 19.92% 26.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 41 84
10th Percentile £143 £140 £131
25th Percentile £178 £308 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £450 £230
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +95.65% +12.75%
75th Percentile £447 £538 £438
90th Percentile £628 £550 £597
England median daily rate £375 £425 £325
% change year-on-year -11.76% +30.77% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 10
10th Percentile - £13.08 £15.74
25th Percentile - £13.71 £16.44
Median hourly rate - £15.50 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year - -14.44% -
75th Percentile - £21.13 £19.20
90th Percentile - £24.05 £19.33
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 West

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 West with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 194 266 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 7.02% 8.28% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 192 317
10th Percentile £225 £237 £172
25th Percentile £313 £374 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £515 £558 £560
90th Percentile £613 £650 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 24
10th Percentile - £14.33 £16.25
25th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.12 £18.50 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +73.59% -1.33% -4.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £26.00 £44.03
90th Percentile £46.18 £36.20 £53.39
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Exchange in the North West

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the North West

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the North West

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the North West

Microsoft Exchange
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester -9 14 £438 -5.41% 12
Cheshire +8 10 £350 -41.67% 9
Merseyside +20 5 £145 +11.54% 8
Microsoft Exchange
England

Microsoft Exchange
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (31.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (84.38%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (34.38%) Azure
3 4 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 3 (9.38%) AWS
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Stack
5 1 (3.13%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.13%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (3.13%) DNS
2 1 (3.13%) LAN
2 1 (3.13%) NAS
2 1 (3.13%) SAN
2 1 (3.13%) Skype
2 1 (3.13%) VPN
2 1 (3.13%) WAN
2 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.13%) Wireless
2 1 (3.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Hudson
General
1 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Finance
4 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.13%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 7 (21.88%) Senior
1 7 (21.88%) Support Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Administrator
2 5 (15.63%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 5 (15.63%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Exchange Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) IT Support
4 3 (9.38%) 1st Line Support
4 3 (9.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) IT Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (6.25%) Migration Specialist
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.13%) Clustering
2 1 (3.13%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.13%) PKI
2 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (6.25%) Apple iOS
2 2 (6.25%) Windows 10
2 2 (6.25%) Windows 7
2 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.13%) Android
3 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 4 (12.50%) DevOps
4 4 (12.50%) Migration
4 4 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (6.25%) Break/Fix
5 2 (6.25%) Data Protection
5 2 (6.25%) ITIL
6 1 (3.13%) Configuration Management
6 1 (3.13%) Customer Engagement
6 1 (3.13%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (3.13%) Defect Management
6 1 (3.13%) High Availability
6 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (3.13%) Project Delivery
6 1 (3.13%) Service Management
6 1 (3.13%) Software Deployment
6 1 (3.13%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.13%) Bash
2 1 (3.13%) Python
2 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.25%) MCITP
2 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.13%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) MCSA
3 1 (3.13%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Terraform
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (9.38%) SCCM
3 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.13%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (3.13%) SCOM
3 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (84.38%) Microsoft
2 11 (34.38%) VMware
3 3 (9.38%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.25%) Bomgar
4 2 (6.25%) Cisco
4 2 (6.25%) iManage
4 2 (6.25%) Meraki
4 2 (6.25%) Veeam
5 1 (3.13%) Citrix
5 1 (3.13%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.13%) Dell
5 1 (3.13%) HP
5 1 (3.13%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (3.13%) Proofpoint
5 1 (3.13%) Sophos
5 1 (3.13%) Ubiquiti