Microsoft Exchange Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Exchange Server
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 111 99
Rank change year-on-year -4 -12 -11
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 40 80 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.33% 1.44% 2.27%
As % of the Application Platforms category 13.03% 21.22% 21.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 68 96
10th Percentile £210 £170 £185
25th Percentile £500 £225 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £465 £313
Median % change year-on-year +20.98% +48.79% +49.70%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £475
90th Percentile £626 - £534
England median daily rate £413 £380 £425
% change year-on-year +8.55% -10.59% +30.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £18.29 -
25th Percentile - £21.72 £61.50
Median hourly rate - £26.88 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - -57.34% +320.00%
75th Percentile - £38.75 £64.50
90th Percentile - £54.50 -
England median hourly rate £26.45 £23.78 £17.25
% change year-on-year +11.25% +37.83% +7.81%

All Application Platform Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 307 377 622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.23% 6.80% 10.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 244 453
10th Percentile £263 £225 £244
25th Percentile £402 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £436 £493
Median % change year-on-year +14.61% -11.42% +3.68%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £600
90th Percentile £650 £608 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 25 27
10th Percentile £25.33 £16.00 £22.16
25th Percentile £38.53 £22.61 £50.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £38.50 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -30.63% +177.50%
75th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £64.13
90th Percentile £64.50 £76.50 £76.68
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £33.75
% change year-on-year +105.88% -24.44% +67.20%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Exchange in the South East

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the South East

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the South East over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the South East

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the South East

Microsoft Exchange
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 Microsoft Exchange within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 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
Hampshire +36 19 £575 +6.98% 25
Thames Valley -10 9 £605 +30.12% 30
Berkshire +9 7 £605 - 16
East Sussex - 6 £525 - 3
Surrey +14 4 £195 -44.29% 8
Kent +6 2 £498 +142.68% 7
Oxfordshire 0 1 - - 9
Buckinghamshire -5 1 - - 8
Microsoft Exchange
England

Microsoft Exchange
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 11 (27.50%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.50%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (7.50%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (7.50%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (7.50%) Exchange Server 2013
2 3 (7.50%) Office Communications Server
2 3 (7.50%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (7.50%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (37.50%) Azure
3 14 (35.00%) PaaS
4 13 (32.50%) IaaS
5 9 (22.50%) AWS
5 9 (22.50%) Entra ID
6 8 (20.00%) GCP
6 8 (20.00%) OpenShift
7 4 (10.00%) OneDrive
8 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
9 2 (5.00%) SaaS
10 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (2.50%) Azure Storage
10 1 (2.50%) Google Workspace
10 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (2.50%) Mimecast
10 1 (2.50%) Nutanix
10 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
10 1 (2.50%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 15 (37.50%) DNS
2 14 (35.00%) DHCP
2 14 (35.00%) VPN
3 13 (32.50%) Firewall
4 8 (20.00%) SMTP
5 4 (10.00%) SAN
6 3 (7.50%) DDNS
6 3 (7.50%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.50%) Internet
7 1 (2.50%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (2.50%) IP Telephony
7 1 (2.50%) LAN
7 1 (2.50%) MPLS
7 1 (2.50%) NAS
7 1 (2.50%) NetScaler
7 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
7 1 (2.50%) Skype
7 1 (2.50%) Unified Communications
7 1 (2.50%) WAN
7 1 (2.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (20.00%) Big Data
1 8 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 15 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 9 (22.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (2.50%) Legal
4 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) Support Engineer
2 11 (27.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 11 (27.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 10 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 8 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (17.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Support
5 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) Exchange Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) Lead
7 4 (10.00%) Architect
8 3 (7.50%) Active Directory Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) Active Directory Support
8 3 (7.50%) Active Directory Support Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) Exchange Support
8 3 (7.50%) IT Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) 1st Line Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
9 2 (5.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) ARM Templates
1 1 (2.50%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) PKI
2 9 (22.50%) Data Centre
3 8 (20.00%) Clustering
4 3 (7.50%) Replication
5 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.50%) CMDB
6 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (62.50%) Windows
2 13 (32.50%) Windows Server
3 10 (25.00%) Linux
4 6 (15.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (12.50%) Windows 10
6 2 (5.00%) Mac OS
6 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (27.50%) ITIL
2 11 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (22.50%) DevOps
3 9 (22.50%) Migration
4 8 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 8 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 8 (20.00%) Software Deployment
5 6 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (12.50%) High Availability
7 4 (10.00%) Patch Management
8 3 (7.50%) Agile
8 3 (7.50%) Architectural Design
8 3 (7.50%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (7.50%) Content Management
8 3 (7.50%) Data Loss Prevention
8 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Content Management
8 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Search
8 3 (7.50%) Roadmaps
8 3 (7.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.50%) Bicep
2 1 (2.50%) C#
2 1 (2.50%) Python
2 1 (2.50%) SQL
2 1 (2.50%) VB
2 1 (2.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 12 (30.00%) Degree
4 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.00%) CCNA
5 2 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.50%) A+ Certification
6 1 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.50%) MCP
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) NIST
1 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (22.50%) Hyper-V
4 8 (20.00%) BitLocker
4 8 (20.00%) Docker
4 8 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (20.00%) Terminal Services
4 8 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (7.50%) Brightmail
5 3 (7.50%) ISA Server
6 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.50%) vSphere
6 1 (2.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 9 (22.50%) Kubernetes
2 8 (20.00%) Ansible
2 8 (20.00%) Nagios
2 8 (20.00%) Puppet
2 8 (20.00%) vCenter Server
2 8 (20.00%) vMotion
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (7.50%) SCCM
5 1 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.50%) SCOM
5 1 (2.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (25.00%) VMware
3 9 (22.50%) Citrix
3 9 (22.50%) Google
4 8 (20.00%) HP
4 8 (20.00%) Symantec
5 4 (10.00%) Cisco
6 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.50%) Commvault
7 1 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.50%) F5
7 1 (2.50%) Imperva
7 1 (2.50%) Netskope