Microsoft Exchange Job Trends in England

Microsoft Exchange Server
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Microsoft Exchange skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 140 81
Rank change year-on-year -11 -59 +52
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 818 1,018 1,608
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.55% 2.11% 3.26%
As % of the Application Platforms category 27.80% 23.01% 30.07%
Number of salaries quoted 582 678 1,213
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £30,406 £32,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +1.54%
75th Percentile £59,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +0.59%

All Application Platform Skills
England

Microsoft Exchange falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring application platform skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,942 4,424 5,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.57% 9.19% 10.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,122 2,607 4,152
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,331
25th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,750 £57,001 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.97% +8.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £50,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -4.55%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft Exchange relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Microsoft Exchange job vacancy trend in England

Microsoft Exchange
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microsoft Exchange.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Exchange
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Exchange in England

Microsoft Exchange
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Exchange within the England region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -29 216 £50,000 -16.67% 49
South West +67 170 £33,000 +1.54% 14
North of England -9 146 £32,500 -23.53% 50
South East -7 120 £41,500 +3.75% 57
Midlands -2 81 £45,000 +12.50% 27
East of England -24 74 £42,000 +19.15% 24
Yorkshire -7 71 £30,000 -20.00% 25
North West +7 59 £40,500 -4.71% 20
East Midlands -1 44 £35,000 +20.69% 15
West Midlands -10 37 £57,500 +27.78% 12
North East +11 16 £29,000 -40.51% 8
Microsoft Exchange
UK

Microsoft Exchange
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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
1 311 (38.02%) SharePoint
2 26 (3.18%) Exchange Server 2003
3 18 (2.20%) Skype for Business
4 14 (1.71%) Exchange Server 2013
5 8 (0.98%) IIS
6 4 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2007
7 3 (0.37%) govService
8 2 (0.24%) Confluence
9 1 (0.12%) Apache
9 1 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 96 (11.74%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.61%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.37%) Simulink
6 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.12%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 19 (2.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.86%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.37%) Visualfiles
4 2 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 660 (80.68%) Microsoft 365
2 496 (60.64%) Azure
3 284 (34.72%) Entra ID
4 116 (14.18%) OneDrive
5 46 (5.62%) Power Platform
6 39 (4.77%) AWS
6 39 (4.77%) Azure Logic Apps
7 27 (3.30%) PowerApps
8 26 (3.18%) Microsoft Purview
9 24 (2.93%) SaaS
10 23 (2.81%) IaaS
11 21 (2.57%) Google Workspace
12 17 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
13 16 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
14 15 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
14 15 (1.83%) Mimecast
15 14 (1.71%) Power Automate
16 13 (1.59%) GCP
16 13 (1.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 322 (39.36%) DNS
2 305 (37.29%) DHCP
3 226 (27.63%) Firewall
4 154 (18.83%) VPN
5 138 (16.87%) TCP/IP
6 104 (12.71%) WAN
7 97 (11.86%) LAN
8 93 (11.37%) VLAN
9 71 (8.68%) Wi-Fi
10 68 (8.31%) VoIP
11 38 (4.65%) SAN
12 29 (3.55%) Wireless
13 24 (2.93%) SD-WAN
14 19 (2.32%) Remote Desktop
15 16 (1.96%) Network Security
15 16 (1.96%) Skype
16 14 (1.71%) SMTP
17 13 (1.59%) WebEx
18 12 (1.47%) DMARC
19 11 (1.34%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (12.22%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (4.52%) SQL Server
3 26 (3.18%) Oracle Database
3 26 (3.18%) Oracle Database 10g
4 12 (1.47%) Power BI
5 8 (0.98%) DTS
6 7 (0.86%) MySQL
7 3 (0.37%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.37%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.24%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.12%) EDMS
9 1 (0.12%) GIS
9 1 (0.12%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (1.10%) JIRA
2 4 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (0.37%) GitLab
4 1 (0.12%) Git
4 1 (0.12%) MSBuild
4 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 417 (50.98%) Social Skills
2 128 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
3 87 (10.64%) Finance
4 43 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 30 (3.67%) Legal
6 26 (3.18%) Law
7 24 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
8 18 (2.20%) Advertising
9 17 (2.08%) Retail
10 16 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (1.83%) Aerospace
11 15 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.47%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.86%) Marketing
14 6 (0.73%) Back Office
15 5 (0.61%) Games
16 4 (0.49%) Banking
16 4 (0.49%) Billing
16 4 (0.49%) German Language
16 4 (0.49%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 204 (24.94%) IT Support
2 185 (22.62%) Support Engineer
3 113 (13.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 111 (13.57%) Systems Engineer
5 100 (12.22%) IT Engineer
6 81 (9.90%) 2nd Line Support
6 81 (9.90%) IT Support Engineer
7 78 (9.54%) Analyst
8 69 (8.44%) 3rd Line Support
9 68 (8.31%) Senior
10 64 (7.82%) Support Analyst
11 57 (6.97%) Support Technician
12 53 (6.48%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
13 49 (5.99%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 44 (5.38%) Azure Engineer
15 37 (4.52%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 36 (4.40%) Systems Support
17 33 (4.03%) Desktop Support
17 33 (4.03%) Technical Support
18 32 (3.91%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.83%) .NET
2 5 (0.61%) FreeMarker
2 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Graph
3 4 (0.49%) CSS
3 4 (0.49%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (0.49%) HTML
3 4 (0.49%) Middleware
4 1 (0.12%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.12%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.12%) CSS3
4 1 (0.12%) EDI
4 1 (0.12%) HTML5
4 1 (0.12%) React
4 1 (0.12%) REST
4 1 (0.12%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.12%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 92 (11.25%) Driving Licence
2 89 (10.88%) Legacy Systems
3 68 (8.31%) Onboarding
4 28 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (2.81%) Data Centre
7 22 (2.69%) Replication
8 21 (2.57%) Management Information System
9 18 (2.20%) Video Conferencing
10 16 (1.96%) Clustering
10 16 (1.96%) Hedge funds
11 15 (1.83%) CMDB
11 15 (1.83%) PKI
12 14 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
13 13 (1.59%) iPad
14 12 (1.47%) Client/Server
15 7 (0.86%) iPhone
16 6 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
17 5 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
17 5 (0.61%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 600 (73.35%) Windows
2 407 (49.76%) Windows Server
3 151 (18.46%) Windows 10
4 146 (17.85%) Linux
5 128 (15.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 61 (7.46%) Mac OS
7 38 (4.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 36 (4.40%) Windows 7
9 35 (4.28%) Apple iOS
9 35 (4.28%) Unix
9 35 (4.28%) Windows Server 2008
10 30 (3.67%) Windows Server 2012
11 27 (3.30%) Solaris
12 26 (3.18%) Android
12 26 (3.18%) Windows Server 2003
13 25 (3.06%) HPUX
14 10 (1.22%) Windows 8
15 4 (0.49%) Mac OS X
15 4 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 3 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (38.39%) Problem-Solving
2 234 (28.61%) Customer Service
3 166 (20.29%) ITIL
4 142 (17.36%) Migration
5 132 (16.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 93 (11.37%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 91 (11.12%) Kalman Filter
8 88 (10.76%) Email Filtering
8 88 (10.76%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 87 (10.64%) Web Filtering
10 84 (10.27%) Customer Experience
11 81 (9.90%) Service Delivery
12 80 (9.78%) Disaster Recovery
13 75 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
14 63 (7.70%) Cybersecurity
15 53 (6.48%) Incident Management
16 51 (6.23%) Roadmaps
17 40 (4.89%) Remote Monitoring and Management
18 39 (4.77%) Technology Roadmap
19 38 (4.65%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 172 (21.03%) PowerShell
2 37 (4.52%) SQL
3 23 (2.81%) Perl
4 19 (2.32%) Python
5 11 (1.34%) JavaScript
6 6 (0.73%) Bicep
7 5 (0.61%) Bash
7 5 (0.61%) MATLAB
7 5 (0.61%) VBA
8 4 (0.49%) C#
9 3 (0.37%) Assembly Language
9 3 (0.37%) C
9 3 (0.37%) C++
9 3 (0.37%) Java
9 3 (0.37%) Objective-C
9 3 (0.37%) Swift
10 2 (0.24%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.12%) PHP
11 1 (0.12%) VB
11 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 154 (18.83%) Security Cleared
2 146 (17.85%) SC Cleared
3 91 (11.12%) Degree
4 65 (7.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 34 (4.16%) DV Cleared
6 23 (2.81%) MCP
7 22 (2.69%) Azure Certification
8 21 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (2.57%) Cisco Certification
9 20 (2.44%) DBS Check
10 19 (2.32%) ITIL Certification
11 15 (1.83%) CCNA
12 12 (1.47%) CCNP
13 10 (1.22%) MCSA
14 9 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 9 (1.10%) MCSE
15 8 (0.98%) A+ Certification
16 6 (0.73%) AWS Certification
17 5 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 4 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (13.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 88 (10.76%) PCI DSS
3 44 (5.38%) SLA
4 31 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 16 (1.96%) GDPR
7 8 (0.98%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.73%) QA
9 5 (0.61%) NIST
9 5 (0.61%) PMO
10 2 (0.24%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.24%) GRC
10 2 (0.24%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.24%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.12%) FINRA
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 637 (77.87%) Active Directory
2 211 (25.79%) Hyper-V
3 147 (17.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 84 (10.27%) Terminal Server
5 21 (2.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (2.08%) vSphere
7 9 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (1.10%) XenApp
8 7 (0.86%) Docker
9 6 (0.73%) XenDesktop
10 5 (0.61%) Firmware
11 4 (0.49%) Postfix
11 4 (0.49%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.37%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.37%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.24%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.24%) pfSense
13 2 (0.24%) Squid
13 2 (0.24%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 249 (30.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 52 (6.36%) SCCM
3 26 (3.18%) FortiGate
4 21 (2.57%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (2.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 17 (2.08%) Autotask
7 14 (1.71%) Jamf Pro
7 14 (1.71%) Terraform
8 11 (1.34%) SCOM
8 11 (1.34%) WSUS
9 9 (1.10%) Ansible
10 8 (0.98%) Kubernetes
10 8 (0.98%) Nagios
10 8 (0.98%) ZABBIX
11 7 (0.86%) Failover Clustering
12 4 (0.49%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.49%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.49%) VxRail
13 3 (0.37%) Nessus
13 3 (0.37%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 734 (89.73%) Microsoft
2 304 (37.16%) VMware
3 133 (16.26%) Veeam
4 103 (12.59%) SolarWinds
5 92 (11.25%) Tanium
6 88 (10.76%) Splunk
7 84 (10.27%) Brocade
7 84 (10.27%) Nimble Storage
8 64 (7.82%) Cisco
9 55 (6.72%) Apple
10 46 (5.62%) Citrix
11 35 (4.28%) Oracle
12 30 (3.67%) HP
13 28 (3.42%) Google
14 27 (3.30%) Meraki
15 24 (2.93%) Bloomberg
16 23 (2.81%) Dell
16 23 (2.81%) SonicWALL
17 22 (2.69%) Sophos
18 20 (2.44%) ServiceNow