Microsoft Exchange Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Exchange Server
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Microsoft Exchange skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 97 107
Rank change year-on-year +11 +10 -15
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 80 88 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.29% 1.90% 2.02%
As % of the Application Platforms category 21.98% 22.34% 19.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 69 77
10th Percentile £181 £218 £194
25th Percentile £236 £262 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £430 £313
Median % change year-on-year +33.72% +37.60% +22.55%
75th Percentile £600 £556 £468
90th Percentile - £608 £515
England median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +30.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £25.28
25th Percentile £13.13 - £31.31
Median hourly rate £13.75 £16.00 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% -62.57% +145.41%
75th Percentile £14.38 - £54.31
90th Percentile - - £60.43
England median hourly rate £26.00 £23.80 £19.31
% change year-on-year +9.24% +23.25% +33.17%

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 364 394 587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.44% 8.49% 10.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 250 396
10th Percentile £207 £262 £208
25th Percentile £356 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £565 £588
90th Percentile £653 £638 £678
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 26 36
10th Percentile £13.25 £25.06 £24.31
25th Percentile £25.75 £30.10 £49.69
Median hourly rate £32.77 £65.09 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.65% +13.19% +187.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £69.95 - £74.36
England median hourly rate £41.45 £47.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -12.74% +2.86% +109.91%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Exchange.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Exchange

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 13 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the South East

Microsoft Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Exchange.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Exchange

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 13 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 +39 34 £600 +6.67% 14
Thames Valley -7 32 £280 -37.08% 20
Buckinghamshire +3 22 £183 -56.74% 4
Surrey +8 10 £215 -16.83% 5
Berkshire -4 9 £490 -19.01% 11
East Sussex - 3 £130 - 9
Kent 0 1 £220 -32.31% 7
West Sussex -4 1 £275 +37.50% 1
Oxfordshire -11 1 - - 7
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 20 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 16 (20.00%) IBM Domino
3 14 (17.50%) Exchange Server 2010
3 14 (17.50%) Exchange Server 2013
4 13 (16.25%) Exchange Server 2003
4 13 (16.25%) Exchange Server 2007
4 13 (16.25%) Office Communications Server
4 13 (16.25%) SharePoint Server
4 13 (16.25%) Skype for Business
5 4 (5.00%) Apache
5 4 (5.00%) IIS
Applications
1 22 (27.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 44 (55.00%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (13.75%) Azure
3 10 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 9 (11.25%) AWS
5 8 (10.00%) GCP
5 8 (10.00%) IaaS
5 8 (10.00%) OpenShift
5 8 (10.00%) PaaS
6 3 (3.75%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.50%) Google Workspace
7 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.50%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.25%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.25%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.25%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.25%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (40.00%) DNS
2 27 (33.75%) Firewall
3 24 (30.00%) DHCP
4 21 (26.25%) VPN
5 16 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
6 14 (17.50%) SAN
7 13 (16.25%) DDNS
8 12 (15.00%) SMTP
9 2 (2.50%) MPLS
9 2 (2.50%) TCP/IP
10 1 (1.25%) HTTP
10 1 (1.25%) Internet
10 1 (1.25%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (1.25%) IP Telephony
10 1 (1.25%) LAN
10 1 (1.25%) NAS
10 1 (1.25%) Unified Communications
10 1 (1.25%) WAN
10 1 (1.25%) Wireless
10 1 (1.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (10.00%) Big Data
1 8 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Fiddler
General
1 16 (20.00%) Games
2 13 (16.25%) Public Sector
3 9 (11.25%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.25%) Finance
5 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (38.75%) Support Engineer
2 20 (25.00%) Exchange Engineer
3 16 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
4 14 (17.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 13 (16.25%) 3rd Line Support
5 13 (16.25%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 13 (16.25%) Exchange Support
5 13 (16.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (10.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 7 (8.75%) Infrastructure Support
7 7 (8.75%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) Windows Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Desktop Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Desktop Support
8 6 (7.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) IT Support
9 5 (6.25%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
9 5 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 5 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.00%) YAML
2 2 (2.50%) JSON
3 1 (1.25%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.25%) OAuth
3 1 (1.25%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.25%) PKI
1 13 (16.25%) Replication
2 10 (12.50%) Clustering
3 8 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.50%) Fat Client
5 2 (2.50%) IoT
5 2 (2.50%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.25%) CMDB
6 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 69 (86.25%) Windows
2 19 (23.75%) Mac OS
3 17 (21.25%) Windows Server
4 16 (20.00%) Android
4 16 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 13 (16.25%) Linux
6 9 (11.25%) Windows 10
7 3 (3.75%) Windows 7
8 2 (2.50%) Apple iOS
8 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.50%) Unix
9 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (31.25%) ITIL
2 17 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 16 (20.00%) High Availability
4 13 (16.25%) Architectural Design
4 13 (16.25%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (16.25%) Content Management
4 13 (16.25%) DevOps
4 13 (16.25%) Enterprise Content Management
4 13 (16.25%) Enterprise Search
4 13 (16.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 11 (13.75%) Migration
6 8 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 8 (10.00%) Machine Learning
6 8 (10.00%) Service Management
6 8 (10.00%) Software Deployment
7 7 (8.75%) Agile
7 7 (8.75%) Customer Service
7 7 (8.75%) Patch Management
8 4 (5.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 36 (45.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.75%) SQL
3 1 (1.25%) Bicep
3 1 (1.25%) C#
3 1 (1.25%) VB
3 1 (1.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (41.25%) Security Cleared
2 30 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 17 (21.25%) Degree
4 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.75%) A+ Certification
5 3 (3.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (2.50%) CCSP
6 2 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.50%) CISM
6 2 (2.50%) CISSP
6 2 (2.50%) GCFA
6 2 (2.50%) GCFE
6 2 (2.50%) GCIH
6 2 (2.50%) GREM
7 1 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.25%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.50%) SLA
2 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 66 (82.50%) Active Directory
2 16 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (16.25%) Brightmail
3 13 (16.25%) ISA Server
4 11 (13.75%) Hyper-V
5 8 (10.00%) BitLocker
5 8 (10.00%) Docker
5 8 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (10.00%) Terminal Services
5 8 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.25%) vSphere
7 1 (1.25%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 21 (26.25%) SCCM
2 20 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (17.50%) Ansible
4 13 (16.25%) Microsoft Clustering
5 9 (11.25%) Kubernetes
6 8 (10.00%) Nagios
6 8 (10.00%) Puppet
6 8 (10.00%) vCenter Server
6 8 (10.00%) vMotion
7 2 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.50%) EnCase
7 2 (2.50%) FTK
7 2 (2.50%) SCVMM
8 1 (1.25%) SCOM
8 1 (1.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 75 (93.75%) Microsoft
2 18 (22.50%) VMware
3 17 (21.25%) Cisco
4 16 (20.00%) Meraki
4 16 (20.00%) Splunk
5 10 (12.50%) Citrix
6 8 (10.00%) Google
6 8 (10.00%) HP
6 8 (10.00%) Symantec
7 3 (3.75%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.50%) Apple
8 2 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (2.50%) Darktrace
8 2 (2.50%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.50%) Yealink
9 1 (1.25%) F5