Microsoft Exchange Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Exchange Server
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Microsoft Exchange skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 140 111
Rank change year-on-year -21 -29 +25
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 168 129 396
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.98% 1.89% 2.40%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.97% 21.11% 28.13%
Number of salaries quoted 145 116 336
10th Percentile £25,875 £28,500 £24,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £34,250 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -2.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £43,750
90th Percentile £68,666 £60,250 £52,500
England median annual salary £42,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -1.18% +6.25% -5.82%

All Application Platform Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 623 611 1,408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.62% 8.95% 8.54%
Number of salaries quoted 496 428 1,172
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,446 £77,500 £76,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.34%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Microsoft Exchange job vacancy trend in the North of England

Microsoft Exchange
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Microsoft Exchange.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Exchange
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the North of England

Microsoft Exchange
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 17 April 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
North West +13 95 £43,000 +1.18% 22
Yorkshire -48 68 £30,000 - 10
North East -42 5 £35,750 +11.72% 4
Microsoft Exchange
England

Microsoft Exchange
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 83 (49.40%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.38%) Confluence
3 1 (0.60%) IIS
3 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (15.48%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.95%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.38%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 127 (75.60%) Microsoft 365
2 97 (57.74%) Azure
3 53 (31.55%) Entra ID
4 26 (15.48%) OneDrive
5 25 (14.88%) Power Platform
6 13 (7.74%) Google Workspace
7 12 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (6.55%) GitHub
9 10 (5.95%) AWS
9 10 (5.95%) Boomi
9 10 (5.95%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (5.36%) Power Automate
11 7 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (4.17%) PowerApps
12 6 (3.57%) Mimecast
13 5 (2.98%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (2.98%) SaaS
14 4 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (2.38%) Dropbox
14 4 (2.38%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 59 (35.12%) DNS
1 59 (35.12%) Firewall
2 53 (31.55%) DHCP
3 49 (29.17%) WAN
4 38 (22.62%) LAN
5 31 (18.45%) VLAN
6 30 (17.86%) VPN
7 20 (11.90%) TCP/IP
8 16 (9.52%) VoIP
9 13 (7.74%) SD-WAN
9 13 (7.74%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (5.95%) SAN
11 6 (3.57%) Network Security
12 4 (2.38%) Remote Desktop
12 4 (2.38%) Structured Cabling
13 2 (1.19%) Cisco IOS
13 2 (1.19%) Wireless
13 2 (1.19%) Wireshark
13 2 (1.19%) WLAN
13 2 (1.19%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.50%) Power BI
2 14 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.60%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (5.95%) JIRA
2 3 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (1.19%) GitLab
General
1 81 (48.21%) Social Skills
2 32 (19.05%) Organisational Skills
3 23 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 11 (6.55%) Finance
6 10 (5.95%) Retail
7 9 (5.36%) Law
8 8 (4.76%) Advertising
9 6 (3.57%) Marketing
10 4 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.38%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.79%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.79%) Automotive
11 3 (1.79%) Tech for Good
12 2 (1.19%) Social Housing
13 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.60%) Legal
Job Titles
1 68 (40.48%) IT Support
2 36 (21.43%) Support Engineer
3 31 (18.45%) IT Engineer
4 29 (17.26%) Support Technician
5 26 (15.48%) IT Support Technician
5 26 (15.48%) IT Technician
6 25 (14.88%) IT Support Engineer
7 21 (12.50%) Analyst
7 21 (12.50%) Senior
8 16 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support
8 16 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (8.33%) IT Analyst
10 13 (7.74%) 1st Line Support
10 13 (7.74%) Support Analyst
11 12 (7.14%) IT Support Analyst
12 11 (6.55%) 1st Line Engineer
13 10 (5.95%) 1st Line Support Engineer
13 10 (5.95%) 3rd Line Support
14 9 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
14 9 (5.36%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.14%) Middleware
2 10 (5.95%) REST
3 6 (3.57%) EDI
3 6 (3.57%) JSON
3 6 (3.57%) SOAP
3 6 (3.57%) XML
4 3 (1.79%) .NET
5 1 (0.60%) HTML
5 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.60%) OAuth
5 1 (0.60%) OpenID
5 1 (0.60%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (19.05%) Driving Licence
2 20 (11.90%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (5.95%) Enterprise Cloud
4 9 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.17%) iPad
6 6 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.57%) Replication
7 5 (2.98%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.38%) CCTV
8 4 (2.38%) iPhone
8 4 (2.38%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.38%) Social Media
9 3 (1.79%) CMDB
10 2 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.19%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.60%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.60%) Derivative
11 1 (0.60%) Equities
11 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.60%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 114 (67.86%) Windows
2 76 (45.24%) Windows Server
3 49 (29.17%) Windows 10
4 17 (10.12%) Android
5 14 (8.33%) Mac OS
5 14 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (5.95%) Windows 7
6 10 (5.95%) Windows 8
7 8 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (3.57%) Apple iOS
9 5 (2.98%) Linux
10 3 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (1.19%) Debian
11 2 (1.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (38.10%) Customer Service
3 62 (36.90%) ITIL
4 27 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (14.29%) Time Management
6 22 (13.10%) Disaster Recovery
6 22 (13.10%) ERP
7 20 (11.90%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 19 (11.31%) Service Management
9 18 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (10.12%) DevOps
11 15 (8.93%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (8.93%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (8.93%) Migration
12 14 (8.33%) Service Delivery
13 13 (7.74%) CRM
13 13 (7.74%) Patch Management
14 12 (7.14%) Mentoring
15 11 (6.55%) Roadmaps
16 10 (5.95%) Proactive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 22 (13.10%) PowerShell
2 19 (11.31%) SQL
3 3 (1.79%) Bicep
4 2 (1.19%) Python
5 1 (0.60%) PHP
5 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (10.12%) Degree
2 13 (7.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (2.98%) Azure Certification
3 5 (2.98%) DBS Check
3 5 (2.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (2.38%) CCNA
4 4 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (2.38%) MCSA
4 4 (2.38%) NVQ Level 3
5 3 (1.79%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.79%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.60%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.60%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.95%) TickIT
2 7 (4.17%) SLA
3 4 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.38%) PMO
4 2 (1.19%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.60%) FINRA
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 118 (70.24%) Active Directory
2 41 (24.40%) Hyper-V
3 40 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (5.95%) VMware Workstation
5 6 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.98%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.19%) vSphere
9 1 (0.60%) Docker
9 1 (0.60%) Firmware
9 1 (0.60%) XenApp
9 1 (0.60%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 40 (23.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (8.33%) FortiGate
2 14 (8.33%) SCCM
3 10 (5.95%) Autotask
4 7 (4.17%) Terraform
5 6 (3.57%) Ansible
5 6 (3.57%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (2.38%) Kubernetes
7 3 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.60%) Plesk
8 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 137 (81.55%) Microsoft
2 49 (29.17%) VMware
3 15 (8.93%) Apple
4 13 (7.74%) Google
5 10 (5.95%) Cisco
5 10 (5.95%) ESET
5 10 (5.95%) Veeam
6 8 (4.76%) SonicWALL
7 7 (4.17%) Citrix
8 6 (3.57%) Meraki
9 5 (2.98%) Datto
9 5 (2.98%) Oracle
9 5 (2.98%) WatchGuard
10 4 (2.38%) Fortinet
10 4 (2.38%) HP
10 4 (2.38%) IFS
10 4 (2.38%) Sophos
10 4 (2.38%) Ubiquiti
11 3 (1.79%) Freshdesk
11 3 (1.79%) ServiceNow