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 £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 August 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
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 367 408
Rank change year-on-year +11 +41 +103
Contract jobs requiring an Exchange Engineer 21 9 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.049% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.053% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 9
10th Percentile £500 £298 £323
25th Percentile £525 £326 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £413 £425
Median % change year-on-year +42.42% -2.94% +139.44%
75th Percentile £600 £441 £450
90th Percentile - £519 £500
UK median daily rate £550 £433 £400
% change year-on-year +27.17% +8.13% +6.67%

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 13,827 16,897 21,123
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 92.01% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,468 10,365 14,318
10th Percentile £215 £219 £230
25th Percentile £363 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £683 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,209 1,773 1,166
10th Percentile £13.37 £14.00 £13.98
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.35 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -42.71% +11.00% +86.12%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +66.47%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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
South East +39 16 £588 +41.57% 6
North West - 3 - -
North of England - 3 - -
West Midlands -7 1 - -
Midlands -11 1 - -
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 3 August 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 21 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 21 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (80.95%) Windows
3 14 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 14 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 14 (66.67%) Skype for Business
3 14 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
4 13 (61.90%) High Availability
4 13 (61.90%) DNS
5 12 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (57.14%) SharePoint
5 12 (57.14%) Microsoft Office
6 11 (52.38%) DHCP
6 11 (52.38%) VPN
6 11 (52.38%) SAN
6 11 (52.38%) Windows Server 2003
6 11 (52.38%) ISA Server
6 11 (52.38%) DDNS
6 11 (52.38%) ITIL
6 11 (52.38%) Replication
6 11 (52.38%) Content Management
6 11 (52.38%) Exchange Server 2003
6 11 (52.38%) SharePoint Server
6 11 (52.38%) Enterprise Content Management
6 11 (52.38%) Office Communications Server
6 11 (52.38%) Exchange Server 2007
6 11 (52.38%) Brightmail
6 11 (52.38%) Exchange Server 2013
6 11 (52.38%) Microsoft Clustering
6 11 (52.38%) Architectural Design

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 21 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 14 (66.67%) Skype for Business
3 12 (57.14%) SharePoint
4 11 (52.38%) Exchange Server 2003
4 11 (52.38%) Exchange Server 2007
4 11 (52.38%) Exchange Server 2013
4 11 (52.38%) Office Communications Server
4 11 (52.38%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (57.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (4.76%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 13 (61.90%) DNS
2 11 (52.38%) DDNS
2 11 (52.38%) DHCP
2 11 (52.38%) SAN
2 11 (52.38%) VPN
3 3 (14.29%) PSTN
3 3 (14.29%) Skype
3 3 (14.29%) SMTP
4 1 (4.76%) Firewall
General
1 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.76%) Electronics
2 1 (4.76%) Finance
2 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.76%) Italian Language
2 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
2 1 (4.76%) Marketing
2 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (52.38%) Replication
2 3 (14.29%) Blackberry
2 3 (14.29%) Handset
3 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (80.95%) Windows
2 11 (52.38%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (14.29%) Android
3 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) High Availability
2 12 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (52.38%) Architectural Design
3 11 (52.38%) Content Management
3 11 (52.38%) Enterprise Content Management
3 11 (52.38%) Enterprise Search
3 11 (52.38%) ITIL
4 6 (28.57%) Migration
5 3 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (14.29%) Problem Management
5 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (9.52%) Validation
7 1 (4.76%) Actionable Insight
7 1 (4.76%) Client Onboarding
7 1 (4.76%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (4.76%) Cost Reduction
7 1 (4.76%) Digital Marketing
7 1 (4.76%) Mobile Device Management
7 1 (4.76%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (47.62%) DV Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 11 (52.38%) Brightmail
2 11 (52.38%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 11 (52.38%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Clearswift
2 3 (14.29%) Ribbon
3 1 (4.76%) SAP