Exchange Server 2003 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Exchange Server 2003 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Exchange Server 2003 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 332 395 460
Rank change year-on-year +63 +65 +50
Contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 4 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.019% 0.008%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.27% 0.22% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £281 £466 -
25th Percentile £422 £474 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £505 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% -22.31% +36.84%
75th Percentile £600 £544 £675
90th Percentile - £557 -
UK median daily rate £550 £380 £490
% change year-on-year +44.74% -22.45% +206.25%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

Exchange Server 2003 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,494 1,779 2,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.70% 8.56% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 977 1,187 1,925
10th Percentile £213 £213 £201
25th Percentile £350 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 123 98
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.30 £14.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £46.18 £23.75 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -9.49% +41.84%
75th Percentile £64.50 £46.18 £65.44
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

Exchange Server 2003
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Exchange Server 2003 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Exchange Server 2003 in the UK excluding London

Exchange Server 2003
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Exchange Server 2003 in the UK excluding London

Exchange Server 2003
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Exchange Server 2003 in the UK excluding London

Exchange Server 2003
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Exchange Server 2003 in the UK excluding London

Exchange Server 2003
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 Server 2003 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
South East - 3 £550 - 1
Wales - 1 £200 -
Exchange Server 2003
UK

Exchange Server 2003
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 4 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 4 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2013
2 3 (75.00%) Office Communications Server
2 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (75.00%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (75.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DDNS
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Exchange Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Exchange Support
3 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Vista
2 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Architectural Design
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Content Management
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Content Management
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Search
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Brightmail
2 3 (75.00%) ISA Server
3 1 (25.00%) Terminal Services
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) VMware