Microsoft Exchange Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Exchange Server
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Microsoft Exchange skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 85 61
Rank change year-on-year -33 -24 +25
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 20 25 55
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.87% 1.51% 3.03%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.80% 16.34% 38.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 19 33
10th Percentile - £160 £192
25th Percentile £163 £192 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £260 £375
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -30.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £547 £400 £431
90th Percentile £583 £495 £553
England median daily rate £475 £415 £375
% change year-on-year +14.46% +10.67% +5.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £17.50
25th Percentile - £31.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +75.68% +23.46%
75th Percentile - £33.75 £19.25
90th Percentile - - £19.50
England median hourly rate £61.50 £23.80 £18.53
% change year-on-year +158.40% +28.44% +27.79%

All Application Platform Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 345 153 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.08% 9.25% 7.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 92 97
10th Percentile £318 £210 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% +11.76% -14.14%
75th Percentile £538 £556 £600
90th Percentile £588 £636 £677
England median daily rate £500 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% +0.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 8
10th Percentile £18.69 £16.55 £17.39
25th Percentile - £16.88 £17.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £18.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.17% -1.37% +14.28%
75th Percentile - £20.24 £19.25
90th Percentile £57.38 £25.64 £19.40
England median hourly rate £27.21 £41.91 £24.00
% change year-on-year -35.08% +74.63% +33.33%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Exchange relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Microsoft Exchange job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Microsoft Exchange.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the West Midlands

Microsoft Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Microsoft Exchange.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Exchange
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
Warwickshire -6 7 £175 -56.25% 1
Coventry -8 6 £538 - 5
Birmingham -15 4 £358 +50.68% 7
Shropshire -44 1 £425 +102.38% 5
Microsoft Exchange
England

Microsoft Exchange
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (70.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 18 (90.00%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (45.00%) OneDrive
3 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Storage
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (10.00%) DNS
3 1 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Legal
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Architect
2 7 (35.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 5 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Desktop Support
3 5 (25.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (25.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Administrator
4 2 (10.00%) Exchange Administrator
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Governance Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Exchange Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Exchange Migration Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Messaging Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Migration Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) PKI
2 1 (5.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Windows
2 6 (30.00%) Windows 10
3 5 (25.00%) Android
3 5 (25.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Migration
2 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (30.00%) Service Management
4 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (10.00%) Architectural Design
5 2 (10.00%) Business Strategy
5 2 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (10.00%) IT Strategy
5 2 (10.00%) ITIL
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (5.00%) Budget Management
6 1 (5.00%) CI/CD
6 1 (5.00%) Incident Response
6 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (5.00%) RBAC
6 1 (5.00%) Release Train
6 1 (5.00%) Roadmaps
6 1 (5.00%) Runbook
6 1 (5.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) Workday