Exchange Server 2003 Contracts

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 557 676
Rank change year-on-year +14 +119 +181
Contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 7 17 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.022% 0.039% 0.005%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.20% 0.38% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 2
10th Percentile £515 £340 £159
25th Percentile £544 £350 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £380 £308
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% +23.58% +86.36%
75th Percentile - £480 £399
90th Percentile - £488 £454
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £505 £125
% change year-on-year +18.81% +304.00% -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,531 4,454 5,978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.10% 10.28% 10.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,290 3,097 4,125
10th Percentile £289 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £371 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £644
90th Percentile £718 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 157 163
10th Percentile £17.45 £13.51 £16.32
25th Percentile £26.35 £16.50 £21.13
Median hourly rate £51.25 £32.12 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.58% -38.83% +128.26%
75th Percentile £66.00 £51.91 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £74.18 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £33.56 £46.75
% change year-on-year +56.45% -28.22% +133.75%

Exchange Server 2003
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Exchange Server 2003 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Exchange Server 2003 in the UK

Exchange Server 2003
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Exchange Server 2003.

Daily rate trend for Exchange Server 2003 in the UK

Exchange Server 2003
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Exchange Server 2003.

Hourly rate trend for Exchange Server 2003 in the UK

Exchange Server 2003
Top 3 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 July 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
UK excluding London +45 7 £600 +18.81% 5
England +44 7 £600 +57.89% 3
South East - 7 £600 - 3

Exchange Server 2003
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 7 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 7 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (100.00%) Office Communications Server
1 7 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 7 (100.00%) SharePoint Server
1 7 (100.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) DDNS
1 7 (100.00%) DHCP
1 7 (100.00%) DNS
1 7 (100.00%) SAN
1 7 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Exchange Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) Exchange Support
1 7 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) 3rd Line Support
2 5 (71.43%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 7 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Content Management
1 7 (100.00%) Enterprise Content Management
1 7 (100.00%) Enterprise Search
1 7 (100.00%) High Availability
1 7 (100.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (100.00%) Brightmail
1 7 (100.00%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft