Exchange Server 2003 Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Exchange Server 2003 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 558 630
Rank change year-on-year +14 +72 +203
Contract jobs citing Exchange Server 2003 13 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.010% 0.004%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.37% 0.096% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 1
10th Percentile £533 £466 -
25th Percentile - £474 £123
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £505 £125
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% +304.00% -29.58%
75th Percentile - £544 £128
90th Percentile £630 £557 -
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 3,550 4,160 5,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.77% 10.80% 10.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,301 2,734 3,473
10th Percentile £275 £263 £256
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £521 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.39% +4.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £595 £649 £640
90th Percentile £700 £825 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 85 160
10th Percentile £17.40 £17.45 £16.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £23.80 £20.94
Median hourly rate £36.50 £38.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.19% -26.67% +144.19%
75th Percentile £65.06 £70.00 £66.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.03 £48.56 £46.18
% change year-on-year -21.68% +5.15% +143.05%

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
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Exchange Server 2003.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Exchange Server 2003

Exchange Server 2003
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Exchange Server 2003.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Exchange Server 2003

Exchange Server 2003
Top 3 Contract Job 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 19 September 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 +19 13 £600 +18.81%
England +16 13 £600 +18.81%
South East - 13 £600 -

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 13 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 13 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 13 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 13 (100.00%) Office Communications Server
1 13 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 13 (100.00%) SharePoint Server
1 13 (100.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) DDNS
1 13 (100.00%) DHCP
1 13 (100.00%) DNS
1 13 (100.00%) SAN
1 13 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Exchange Engineer
1 13 (100.00%) Exchange Support
1 13 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) 3rd Line Support
2 5 (38.46%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
1 13 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 13 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 13 (100.00%) Content Management
1 13 (100.00%) Enterprise Content Management
1 13 (100.00%) Enterprise Search
1 13 (100.00%) High Availability
1 13 (100.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (92.31%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 13 (100.00%) Brightmail
1 13 (100.00%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft