Microsoft Exchange Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Exchange Server
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Microsoft Exchange skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 134 76
Rank change year-on-year +6 -58 +21
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 89 111 168
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.14% 1.66% 3.34%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.80% 24.56% 37.17%
Number of salaries quoted 66 61 149
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £37,338 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% -12.15% +21.17%
75th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £63,575 £53,300 £62,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +1.19%

All Application Platform Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 345 452 452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.43% 6.77% 8.97%
Number of salaries quoted 256 277 397
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Microsoft Exchange job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Microsoft Exchange
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Microsoft Exchange.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Exchange
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the Midlands

Microsoft Exchange
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Exchange within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands -4 48 £34,000 +17.24% 30
West Midlands -7 41 £52,500 +20.00% 39
Microsoft Exchange
England

Microsoft Exchange
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 47 (52.81%) SharePoint
2 9 (10.11%) Skype for Business
3 2 (2.25%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (2.25%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (2.25%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 17 (19.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (16.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 86 (96.63%) Microsoft 365
2 51 (57.30%) Azure
3 32 (35.96%) Entra ID
4 15 (16.85%) OneDrive
5 13 (14.61%) AWS
6 10 (11.24%) SaaS
7 9 (10.11%) Azure Sentinel
7 9 (10.11%) GCP
8 7 (7.87%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (6.74%) iPaaS
10 4 (4.49%) Power Platform
11 3 (3.37%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (2.25%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (2.25%) Nutanix
12 2 (2.25%) Serverless
12 2 (2.25%) ShareGate
13 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
13 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
13 1 (1.12%) Power Automate
13 1 (1.12%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (29.21%) DHCP
1 26 (29.21%) DNS
2 20 (22.47%) Firewall
3 14 (15.73%) WAN
4 12 (13.48%) LAN
5 11 (12.36%) VPN
6 10 (11.24%) TCP/IP
6 10 (11.24%) VLAN
7 9 (10.11%) Skype
8 8 (8.99%) SAN
9 6 (6.74%) SD-WAN
10 4 (4.49%) MPLS
10 4 (4.49%) WLAN
11 3 (3.37%) SMS
11 3 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (2.25%) FTP
12 2 (2.25%) HTTP
12 2 (2.25%) Network Security
12 2 (2.25%) SNMP
12 2 (2.25%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.11%) DTS
2 3 (3.37%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.25%) Power BI
4 1 (1.12%) QlikView
General
1 36 (40.45%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.73%) Manufacturing
3 9 (10.11%) Retail
4 6 (6.74%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (6.74%) Finance
4 6 (6.74%) Law
5 5 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.49%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.37%) Games
7 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.37%) Marketing
8 2 (2.25%) Back Office
8 2 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Legal
Job Titles
1 39 (43.82%) Support Engineer
2 33 (37.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 25 (28.09%) IT Support
4 23 (25.84%) IT Engineer
5 19 (21.35%) Infrastructure Support
5 19 (21.35%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 19 (21.35%) IT Support Engineer
6 9 (10.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (8.99%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) Analyst
8 7 (7.87%) IT Manager
8 7 (7.87%) Support Analyst
9 6 (6.74%) Senior
10 5 (5.62%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) Applications Support
10 5 (5.62%) Applications Support Analyst
10 5 (5.62%) Applications Support Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 5 (5.62%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
10 5 (5.62%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.85%) Onboarding
2 10 (11.24%) Driving Licence
3 9 (10.11%) CMDB
3 9 (10.11%) Video Conferencing
4 7 (7.87%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (6.74%) Clustering
6 4 (4.49%) Data Centre
6 4 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.37%) Operational Technology
7 3 (3.37%) Replication
8 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.25%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (1.12%) BYOD
9 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 46 (51.69%) Windows
2 34 (38.20%) Windows Server
3 10 (11.24%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (11.24%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (8.99%) Windows 10
5 7 (7.87%) Mac OS
6 6 (6.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.25%) Apple iOS
7 2 (2.25%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.12%) Android
8 1 (1.12%) Linux
8 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (40.45%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (39.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 21 (23.60%) CRM
4 20 (22.47%) Customer Service
4 20 (22.47%) ITIL
5 19 (21.35%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (14.61%) Server Management
7 11 (12.36%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (11.24%) Problem Management
9 9 (10.11%) Infrastructure Management
9 9 (10.11%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (8.99%) Risk Management
11 7 (7.87%) Business Continuity
11 7 (7.87%) Incident Management
12 6 (6.74%) Agile
12 6 (6.74%) Migration
12 6 (6.74%) Project Delivery
12 6 (6.74%) Service Delivery
12 6 (6.74%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (25.84%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.37%) SQL
3 1 (1.12%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (15.73%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (12.36%) Degree
3 5 (5.62%) MCP
4 4 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.37%) DBS Check
5 3 (3.37%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.25%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.36%) Cyber Essentials
1 11 (12.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 7 (7.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.74%) GDPR
4 1 (1.12%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 64 (71.91%) Active Directory
2 21 (23.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (11.24%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (8.99%) Hyper-V
5 4 (4.49%) XenApp
6 2 (2.25%) Firmware
6 2 (2.25%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.25%) vSphere
7 1 (1.12%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 22 (24.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (10.11%) Nagios
2 9 (10.11%) ZABBIX
3 6 (6.74%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (3.37%) Terraform
5 2 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 74 (83.15%) Microsoft
2 24 (26.97%) VMware
3 15 (16.85%) Citrix
4 11 (12.36%) Darktrace
5 10 (11.24%) Cisco
5 10 (11.24%) Veeam
6 9 (10.11%) BMC
6 9 (10.11%) Google
6 9 (10.11%) HubSpot
6 9 (10.11%) Meraki
6 9 (10.11%) Proofpoint
6 9 (10.11%) Red Hat
6 9 (10.11%) Salesforce
6 9 (10.11%) SolarWinds
6 9 (10.11%) Tanium
6 9 (10.11%) Trend Micro
6 9 (10.11%) Zoho
7 4 (4.49%) CheckPoint
7 4 (4.49%) IBM
7 4 (4.49%) SonicWALL