Exchange Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South East

Exchange Engineer
England > South East

The median Exchange Engineer daily rate in the South East is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 188 -
Rank change year-on-year +45 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Exchange Engineer 20 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.57% 0.022% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.023% -
Number of daily rates quoted 20 1 0
10th Percentile £500 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £415 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.57% - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £604 - -
England median daily rate £563 £433 £413
% change year-on-year +30.06% +4.85% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 3,140 4,272 5,340
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.10% 92.41% 94.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,025 2,550 3,649
10th Percentile £205 £250 £213
25th Percentile £370 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £660 £688 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 335 241
10th Percentile £13.58 £16.10 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £35.00 £21.05
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +111.01%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.53 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% +73.08%

Exchange Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Exchange Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Exchange Engineer in the South East

Exchange Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Exchange Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Exchange Engineer job vacancies in the South East

Exchange Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Exchange Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 9 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Exchange Engineer in the South East

Exchange Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Exchange Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Exchange Engineer job vacancies in the South East

Exchange Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 September 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
Hampshire - 20 £588 - 2
Exchange Engineer
England

Exchange Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 9 September 2025, Exchange Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring Exchange Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Windows
1 20 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 20 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 16 (80.00%) DNS
2 16 (80.00%) High Availability
3 13 (65.00%) Exchange Server 2013
3 13 (65.00%) Enterprise Content Management
3 13 (65.00%) Skype for Business
3 13 (65.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 13 (65.00%) Brightmail
3 13 (65.00%) Replication
3 13 (65.00%) Content Management
3 13 (65.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 13 (65.00%) SharePoint Server
3 13 (65.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 13 (65.00%) Security Cleared
3 13 (65.00%) Office Communications Server
3 13 (65.00%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (65.00%) DHCP
3 13 (65.00%) VPN
3 13 (65.00%) SharePoint
3 13 (65.00%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (65.00%) ITIL
3 13 (65.00%) SAN
3 13 (65.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 13 (65.00%) ISA Server
3 13 (65.00%) DDNS
3 13 (65.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 13 (65.00%) Enterprise Search

Exchange Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (65.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 13 (65.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 13 (65.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 13 (65.00%) Exchange Server 2013
2 13 (65.00%) Office Communications Server
2 13 (65.00%) SharePoint
2 13 (65.00%) SharePoint Server
2 13 (65.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (65.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 16 (80.00%) DNS
2 13 (65.00%) DDNS
2 13 (65.00%) DHCP
2 13 (65.00%) SAN
2 13 (65.00%) VPN
General
1 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 13 (65.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (65.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) High Availability
2 13 (65.00%) Architectural Design
2 13 (65.00%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (65.00%) Content Management
2 13 (65.00%) Enterprise Content Management
2 13 (65.00%) Enterprise Search
2 13 (65.00%) ITIL
3 7 (35.00%) Migration
4 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (65.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (60.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 16 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (65.00%) Brightmail
2 13 (65.00%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 13 (65.00%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) Microsoft