Microsoft Exchange Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Exchange Server
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 91 84
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 -4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 9 54 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.60% 2.01% 2.32%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.29% 28.42% 24.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 45 60
10th Percentile £289 £166 £185
25th Percentile £406 £225 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £465 £288
Median % change year-on-year +30.12% +61.73% +51.32%
75th Percentile £616 £608 £475
90th Percentile £622 - £494
South East median daily rate £575 £465 £310
% change year-on-year +23.66% +49.99% +51.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £19.05 -
25th Percentile - £23.63 £61.50
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - -52.38% +261.65%
75th Percentile - - £64.50
90th Percentile - £51.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £30.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year - -52.38% +320.00%

All Application Platform Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 143 190 283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.46% 7.07% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 113 218
10th Percentile £324 £201 £240
25th Percentile £408 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £563
90th Percentile £650 £608 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £436 £488
% change year-on-year +14.61% -10.51% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 6
10th Percentile £23.09 £17.50 £39.00
25th Percentile £26.45 £22.61 £55.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £24.43 £71.10
Median % change year-on-year +31.19% -65.64% +255.48%
75th Percentile - £32.50 £79.19
90th Percentile - £65.00 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year +57.14% -36.94% +177.50%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Exchange in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Exchange
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +12 7 £605 - 21
Oxfordshire -1 1 - - 12
Buckinghamshire -4 1 - - 15
Microsoft Exchange
South East

Microsoft Exchange
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (66.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
3 4 (44.44%) Entra ID
4 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (22.22%) OneDrive
6 1 (11.11%) AWS
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Storage
6 1 (11.11%) Mimecast
6 1 (11.11%) Nutanix
6 1 (11.11%) PaaS
6 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
6 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) DHCP
2 2 (22.22%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) Internet
3 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (11.11%) IP Telephony
3 1 (11.11%) LAN
3 1 (11.11%) MPLS
3 1 (11.11%) NAS
3 1 (11.11%) NetScaler
3 1 (11.11%) SAN
3 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
3 1 (11.11%) Skype
3 1 (11.11%) Unified Communications
3 1 (11.11%) VPN
3 1 (11.11%) WAN
3 1 (11.11%) Wireless
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Support
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) IT Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) IT Support
2 1 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Lead Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) PKI
1 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (11.11%) Linux
4 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
4 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) ITIL
2 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Identity Management
3 2 (22.22%) ITSM
3 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Log Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
4 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) RBAC
4 1 (11.11%) Threat Management
4 1 (11.11%) Ticket Management
4 1 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) Bicep
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) VB
2 1 (11.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) A+ Certification
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (11.11%) MCP
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (11.11%) vSphere
3 1 (11.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) SCOM
2 1 (11.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix
3 1 (11.11%) Commvault
3 1 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (11.11%) F5
3 1 (11.11%) Imperva
3 1 (11.11%) Netskope