Microsoft Exchange Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Exchange Server
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 130 100
Rank change year-on-year +8 -30 -10
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 258 356 608
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.02% 1.72% 2.54%
As % of the Application Platforms category 17.19% 20.11% 22.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 268 463
10th Percentile £160 £150 £146
25th Percentile £210 £205 £197
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £375
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - +36.36%
75th Percentile £538 £556 £506
90th Percentile £600 £608 £598
UK median daily rate £401 £380 £425
% change year-on-year +5.39% -10.59% +21.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 28 25
10th Percentile £21.78 £13.97 -
25th Percentile £24.00 £14.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.18 £15.99 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.27% -5.97% +4.74%
75th Percentile £41.50 £40.00 £20.00
90th Percentile £47.98 - £26.48
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +20.23% +10.00% +19.40%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,501 1,770 2,657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.74% 8.57% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 983 1,186 1,913
10th Percentile £213 £208 £203
25th Percentile £350 £322 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £580
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 123 100
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.00 £14.93
25th Percentile £20.30 £14.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £46.18 £23.50 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year +96.51% -11.25% +43.14%
75th Percentile £64.50 £46.18 £65.81
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £78.12
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £26.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +54.72% -41.11% +102.25%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Exchange in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Exchange
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 Microsoft Exchange within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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 +60 118 £245 -18.33% 76
North West +62 88 £363 +3.57% 42
South East 0 40 £563 +20.98% 141
South West +21 39 £425 -1.65% 43
Midlands -16 28 £230 -34.29% 50
Yorkshire +1 22 £235 -21.67% 25
West Midlands -6 22 £388 +3.33% 32
Scotland -11 20 £225 -2.17% 12
East of England +13 16 £430 -1.71% 34
North East +4 8 £188 -3.85% 11
East Midlands +5 6 £190 +26.67% 16
Northern Ireland -4 4 £160 - 3
Wales +1 2 £306 +39.20% 5
Microsoft Exchange
UK

Microsoft Exchange
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
1 109 (42.25%) SharePoint
2 25 (9.69%) Skype for Business
3 10 (3.88%) Exchange Server 2013
4 8 (3.10%) Confluence
4 8 (3.10%) Exchange Server 2010
5 5 (1.94%) SharePoint Server
6 4 (1.55%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 4 (1.55%) Exchange Server 2003
6 4 (1.55%) Exchange Server 2007
7 3 (1.16%) Office Communications Server
8 1 (0.39%) CICS
Applications
1 75 (29.07%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.16%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.39%) Revit
5 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 173 (67.05%) Microsoft 365
2 106 (41.09%) Azure
3 78 (30.23%) Entra ID
4 48 (18.60%) OneDrive
5 29 (11.24%) IaaS
6 22 (8.53%) SaaS
7 20 (7.75%) PaaS
8 12 (4.65%) AWS
9 10 (3.88%) Power Platform
10 8 (3.10%) GCP
10 8 (3.10%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (3.10%) OpenShift
11 7 (2.71%) Cohesity
12 6 (2.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 5 (1.94%) Mimecast
13 5 (1.94%) PowerApps
14 3 (1.16%) Power Automate
15 2 (0.78%) Azure Storage
15 2 (0.78%) WhatsApp
15 2 (0.78%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 66 (25.58%) DNS
2 59 (22.87%) DHCP
3 44 (17.05%) VPN
4 42 (16.28%) Firewall
5 41 (15.89%) Skype
6 23 (8.91%) LAN
6 23 (8.91%) WAN
7 22 (8.53%) Wi-Fi
8 17 (6.59%) SMTP
8 17 (6.59%) TCP/IP
9 16 (6.20%) SAN
9 16 (6.20%) VLAN
10 15 (5.81%) Network Security
11 12 (4.65%) Intrusion Detection
11 12 (4.65%) Unified Communications
12 11 (4.26%) VoIP
13 7 (2.71%) Remote Desktop
14 5 (1.94%) NAS
15 4 (1.55%) Internet
15 4 (1.55%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.53%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (3.10%) Big Data
3 8 (3.10%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.94%) Power BI
5 2 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (6.20%) JIRA
2 3 (1.16%) Bitbucket
2 3 (1.16%) Hudson
3 1 (0.39%) GitLab
General
1 74 (28.68%) Social Skills
2 35 (13.57%) Public Sector
3 26 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.20%) Finance
5 15 (5.81%) Telecoms
6 14 (5.43%) Legal
7 7 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.71%) Military
8 6 (2.33%) Banking
8 6 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.16%) Electronics
9 3 (1.16%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.16%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.16%) Local Government
9 3 (1.16%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.16%) Marketing
10 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Publishing
11 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 72 (27.91%) Support Engineer
2 40 (15.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 29 (11.24%) Desktop Engineer
4 28 (10.85%) Analyst
4 28 (10.85%) Desktop Support
5 27 (10.47%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 27 (10.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (7.36%) Exchange Engineer
7 16 (6.20%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 16 (6.20%) 2nd Line Support
8 15 (5.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 14 (5.43%) 3rd Line Support
10 13 (5.04%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 13 (5.04%) Senior
11 12 (4.65%) 1st Line Support
11 12 (4.65%) IT Engineer
12 11 (4.26%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 11 (4.26%) Architect
13 10 (3.88%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (3.88%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.94%) LDAP
2 3 (1.16%) .NET
3 1 (0.39%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.39%) ISPF
3 1 (0.39%) Software Packaging
3 1 (0.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.47%) PKI
2 14 (5.43%) Blackberry
2 14 (5.43%) Data Centre
3 8 (3.10%) Clustering
4 6 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (1.94%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.55%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.55%) Handset
6 4 (1.55%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (1.16%) IVR
7 3 (1.16%) Replication
7 3 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.78%) Smartcard
8 2 (0.78%) YubiKey
9 1 (0.39%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.39%) iPhone
9 1 (0.39%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 152 (58.91%) Windows
2 74 (28.68%) Windows Server
3 59 (22.87%) Windows 10
4 28 (10.85%) Linux
5 20 (7.75%) Windows Server 2016
6 16 (6.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (5.81%) Android
7 15 (5.81%) Windows Server 2012
8 10 (3.88%) VMS
9 8 (3.10%) Windows 7
10 7 (2.71%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (2.33%) Mac OS
12 5 (1.94%) Apple iOS
12 5 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (1.55%) Ubuntu
13 4 (1.55%) Unix
14 2 (0.78%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.39%) Windows Vista
15 1 (0.39%) Windows XP
15 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (27.13%) ITIL
2 60 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (18.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 46 (17.83%) Customer Service
5 41 (15.89%) ITSM
6 36 (13.95%) Migration
7 29 (11.24%) Agile
8 26 (10.08%) Collaborative Working
9 25 (9.69%) DevOps
10 24 (9.30%) Service Management
11 23 (8.91%) Change Management
12 18 (6.98%) Data Loss Prevention
12 18 (6.98%) Information Security
13 17 (6.59%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 17 (6.59%) Service Delivery
14 16 (6.20%) Cybersecurity
14 16 (6.20%) High Availability
15 15 (5.81%) Problem Management
16 14 (5.43%) Disaster Recovery
17 13 (5.04%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 58 (22.48%) PowerShell
2 16 (6.20%) SQL
3 7 (2.71%) VB
3 7 (2.71%) VBScript
4 1 (0.39%) Bicep
4 1 (0.39%) C#
4 1 (0.39%) JCL
4 1 (0.39%) Python
Qualifications
1 64 (24.81%) Security Cleared
2 57 (22.09%) Degree
3 44 (17.05%) SC Cleared
4 31 (12.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 29 (11.24%) DV Cleared
6 15 (5.81%) MCSE
7 11 (4.26%) Azure Certification
7 11 (4.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 7 (2.71%) MCSA
9 6 (2.33%) MCP
9 6 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (1.94%) A+ Certification
10 5 (1.94%) CCNA
10 5 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.39%) HNC
11 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.39%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.39%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.88%) SLA
2 9 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.33%) QA
4 3 (1.16%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.78%) NCSC
6 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.39%) NIST
6 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 191 (74.03%) Active Directory
2 54 (20.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (6.59%) Hyper-V
4 16 (6.20%) BitLocker
4 16 (6.20%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (6.20%) vSphere
5 10 (3.88%) Microsoft App-V
6 9 (3.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 9 (3.49%) Terminal Services
6 9 (3.49%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (3.49%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (3.10%) Docker
8 7 (2.71%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (1.16%) Brightmail
9 3 (1.16%) ISA Server
10 2 (0.78%) XenApp
11 1 (0.39%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.39%) Xen
Systems Management
1 82 (31.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 34 (13.18%) SCCM
3 29 (11.24%) WSUS
4 14 (5.43%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (5.04%) vCenter Server
6 10 (3.88%) AppManager
7 9 (3.49%) Ansible
7 9 (3.49%) Kubernetes
8 8 (3.10%) Nagios
8 8 (3.10%) Puppet
8 8 (3.10%) vMotion
9 7 (2.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.16%) AirWatch
10 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (1.16%) PingFederate
10 3 (1.16%) SCOM
11 2 (0.78%) Nessus
11 2 (0.78%) OPNET
12 1 (0.39%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.39%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 205 (79.46%) Microsoft
2 75 (29.07%) VMware
3 35 (13.57%) Citrix
4 21 (8.14%) ServiceNow
5 15 (5.81%) Cisco
6 11 (4.26%) HP
7 10 (3.88%) Google
7 10 (3.88%) Ivanti
7 10 (3.88%) Symantec
8 9 (3.49%) Veeam
9 8 (3.10%) NetApp
9 8 (3.10%) Red Hat
10 7 (2.71%) Apple
11 5 (1.94%) Bomgar
11 5 (1.94%) Meraki
11 5 (1.94%) Proofpoint
11 5 (1.94%) Wyse
12 4 (1.55%) iManage
12 4 (1.55%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.55%) Ribbon