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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 129 126
Rank change year-on-year +38 -3 -28
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 64 71 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.09% 1.24% 1.57%
As % of the Application Platforms category 18.34% 18.73% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 64 65
10th Percentile £188 £180 £185
25th Percentile £210 £260 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £470 £310
Median % change year-on-year +22.34% +51.61% +37.78%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £475
90th Percentile - - £605
England median daily rate £400 £418 £425
% change year-on-year -4.19% -1.76% +30.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £25.28
25th Percentile - - £31.31
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year - -62.57% +145.41%
75th Percentile - - £54.31
90th Percentile - - £60.43
England median hourly rate £26.45 £35.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -25.49% +61.36% +37.50%

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 349 379 585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.42% 6.64% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 245 419
10th Percentile £225 £255 £230
25th Percentile £375 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% +3.16%
75th Percentile £600 £576 £621
90th Percentile £630 £619 £694
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 35 31
10th Percentile £16.29 £16.00 £22.16
25th Percentile £32.05 £22.61 £36.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £38.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -33.04% +187.50%
75th Percentile £61.31 £70.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.40 £75.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £30.83 £49.25
% change year-on-year +70.32% -37.41% +123.86%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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
Thames Valley +13 28 £293 -43.75% 49
Hampshire +38 24 £600 +11.63% 26
Buckinghamshire +17 15 - - 14
Berkshire +12 12 £293 -51.65% 24
Surrey +21 9 £215 -19.06% 9
Kent +2 2 £498 +142.68% 15
Oxfordshire -1 1 - - 14
East Sussex - 1 - - 3
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 16 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 14 (21.88%) IBM Domino
3 6 (9.38%) Exchange Server 2003
3 6 (9.38%) Exchange Server 2007
3 6 (9.38%) Exchange Server 2010
3 6 (9.38%) Exchange Server 2013
3 6 (9.38%) Office Communications Server
3 6 (9.38%) SharePoint Server
3 6 (9.38%) Skype for Business
4 4 (6.25%) Apache
4 4 (6.25%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (64.06%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (18.75%) Azure
3 9 (14.06%) AWS
3 9 (14.06%) PaaS
4 8 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 8 (12.50%) GCP
4 8 (12.50%) IaaS
4 8 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 4 (6.25%) OneDrive
5 4 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.69%) SaaS
7 2 (3.13%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.56%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.56%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.56%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.56%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 25 (39.06%) Firewall
2 22 (34.38%) DNS
3 17 (26.56%) DHCP
4 15 (23.44%) VPN
5 14 (21.88%) Cisco IOS
6 12 (18.75%) SMTP
7 7 (10.94%) SAN
8 6 (9.38%) DDNS
9 3 (4.69%) TCP/IP
10 1 (1.56%) HTTP
10 1 (1.56%) Internet
10 1 (1.56%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (1.56%) IP Telephony
10 1 (1.56%) LAN
10 1 (1.56%) MPLS
10 1 (1.56%) NAS
10 1 (1.56%) Unified Communications
10 1 (1.56%) WAN
10 1 (1.56%) Wireless
10 1 (1.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (12.50%) Big Data
1 8 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Fiddler
1 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 14 (21.88%) Games
2 11 (17.19%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.63%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.56%) Legal
5 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (37.50%) Support Engineer
2 14 (21.88%) Platform Engineer
3 13 (20.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 13 (20.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (18.75%) 3rd Line Support
4 12 (18.75%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 8 (12.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (12.50%) Exchange Engineer
6 7 (10.94%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
7 6 (9.38%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) 2nd Line Support
7 6 (9.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) Desktop Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) Desktop Support
7 6 (9.38%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) Exchange Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.25%) YAML
2 2 (3.13%) JSON
3 1 (1.56%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.56%) OAuth
3 1 (1.56%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.88%) PKI
2 10 (15.63%) Clustering
3 9 (14.06%) Data Centre
4 6 (9.38%) Replication
5 2 (3.13%) Fat Client
5 2 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.13%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.56%) CMDB
6 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (76.56%) Windows
2 16 (25.00%) Mac OS
3 14 (21.88%) Android
3 14 (21.88%) Windows Server
4 12 (18.75%) Linux
5 9 (14.06%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (7.81%) Windows 10
7 2 (3.13%) Apple iOS
7 2 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (3.13%) Windows 7
7 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (28.13%) ITIL
2 14 (21.88%) E-Commerce
3 13 (20.31%) DevOps
3 13 (20.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (15.63%) Migration
5 9 (14.06%) Agile
6 8 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 8 (12.50%) High Availability
6 8 (12.50%) Machine Learning
6 8 (12.50%) Patch Management
6 8 (12.50%) Software Deployment
7 7 (10.94%) Service Management
8 6 (9.38%) Architectural Design
8 6 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (9.38%) Content Management
8 6 (9.38%) Enterprise Content Management
8 6 (9.38%) Enterprise Search
9 5 (7.81%) Prototyping
10 4 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 34 (53.13%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.69%) SQL
3 1 (1.56%) Bicep
3 1 (1.56%) C#
3 1 (1.56%) Python
3 1 (1.56%) VB
3 1 (1.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (35.94%) Security Cleared
2 22 (34.38%) DV Cleared
3 16 (25.00%) Degree
4 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.56%) MCP
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.56%) NIST
1 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (82.81%) Active Directory
2 16 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (17.19%) Hyper-V
4 8 (12.50%) BitLocker
4 8 (12.50%) Docker
4 8 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (12.50%) Terminal Services
4 8 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (9.38%) Brightmail
5 6 (9.38%) ISA Server
6 3 (4.69%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.56%) vSphere
7 1 (1.56%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 18 (28.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (26.56%) SCCM
3 14 (21.88%) Ansible
4 9 (14.06%) Kubernetes
5 8 (12.50%) Nagios
5 8 (12.50%) Puppet
5 8 (12.50%) vCenter Server
5 8 (12.50%) vMotion
6 6 (9.38%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (3.13%) SCVMM
8 1 (1.56%) SCOM
8 1 (1.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 53 (82.81%) Microsoft
2 18 (28.13%) VMware
3 16 (25.00%) Cisco
4 14 (21.88%) Meraki
4 14 (21.88%) Splunk
5 9 (14.06%) Citrix
5 9 (14.06%) Google
6 8 (12.50%) HP
6 8 (12.50%) Symantec
7 3 (4.69%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.13%) Apple
8 2 (3.13%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.56%) Commvault
9 1 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (1.56%) F5
9 1 (1.56%) Imperva
9 1 (1.56%) Netskope