Exchange Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Exchange Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Exchange Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 374 452
Rank change year-on-year +55 +78 +51
Contract jobs requiring an Exchange Engineer 17 25 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.12% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.13% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 5
10th Percentile - £298 £384
25th Percentile £148 £382 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £439 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +136.84%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £525
90th Percentile £600 £599 £533
UK median daily rate £450 £451 £450
% change year-on-year -0.28% +0.28% +33.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Exchange Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Exchange Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Exchange Engineer in the UK excluding London

Exchange Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Exchange Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Exchange Engineer in the UK excluding London

Exchange Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Exchange Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Exchange Engineer in the UK excluding London

Exchange Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Exchange Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Exchange Engineer in the UK excluding London

Exchange Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +22 7 £450 +27.66%
North West +20 7 £450 +27.66%
Scotland +2 5 £148 -74.26%
South East - 3 £550 - 6
East of England +29 1 £575 +35.29%
South West - 1 - -
Exchange Engineer
UK

Exchange Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Exchange Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (70.59%) SharePoint
3 11 (64.71%) Microsoft
4 9 (52.94%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (47.06%) Azure
5 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
6 7 (41.18%) Skype for Business
6 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
7 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (35.29%) Exchange Server 2010
7 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (29.41%) Time Management
8 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
8 5 (29.41%) QA
8 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
8 5 (29.41%) Citrix
8 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (29.41%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 5 (29.41%) Skype
8 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (23.53%) Exchange Server 2013
9 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
9 4 (23.53%) SAN
9 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Office
9 4 (23.53%) Windows
9 4 (23.53%) SMTP
9 4 (23.53%) Blackberry
10 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (17.65%) ISA Server
10 3 (17.65%) DDNS

Exchange Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (70.59%) SharePoint
3 7 (41.18%) Skype for Business
4 6 (35.29%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (23.53%) Exchange Server 2013
6 3 (17.65%) Exchange Server 2003
6 3 (17.65%) Exchange Server 2007
6 3 (17.65%) Office Communications Server
6 3 (17.65%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (5.88%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (47.06%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) IaaS
3 3 (17.65%) PaaS
3 3 (17.65%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Cohesity
4 1 (5.88%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Skype
2 4 (23.53%) SAN
2 4 (23.53%) SMTP
3 3 (17.65%) DDNS
3 3 (17.65%) DHCP
3 3 (17.65%) DNS
3 3 (17.65%) PSTN
3 3 (17.65%) VPN
3 3 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (5.88%) Firewall
4 1 (5.88%) IMAP
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.76%) Electronics
4 2 (11.76%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
4 2 (11.76%) Marketing
4 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.88%) Italian Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Blackberry
2 3 (17.65%) Handset
2 3 (17.65%) Replication
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Android
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (29.41%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 5 (29.41%) Time Management
3 3 (17.65%) Architectural Design
3 3 (17.65%) Content Management
3 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Content Management
3 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Search
3 3 (17.65%) High Availability
3 3 (17.65%) ITIL
3 3 (17.65%) Performance Monitoring
3 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (17.65%) Problem Management
4 2 (11.76%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (11.76%) Programme Management
5 1 (5.88%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (5.88%) Cost Reduction
5 1 (5.88%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) QA
2 3 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 3 (17.65%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) Brightmail
2 3 (17.65%) ISA Server
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (5.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) Citrix
3 3 (17.65%) Clearswift
3 3 (17.65%) Ribbon
4 2 (11.76%) SAP
4 2 (11.76%) VMware
5 1 (5.88%) NetApp
5 1 (5.88%) Wyse