Microsoft Exchange Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Exchange Server
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Microsoft Exchange skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 155 111
Rank change year-on-year -5 -44 -7
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 146 100 413
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.03% 1.46% 2.56%
As % of the Application Platforms category 31.13% 20.12% 28.33%
Number of salaries quoted 129 81 352
10th Percentile £28,450 £28,500 £24,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -3.21%
75th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £59,500 £58,750 £58,750
England median annual salary £42,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -1.18% +6.25% -5.88%

All Application Platform Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 469 497 1,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.30% 7.24% 9.04%
Number of salaries quoted 364 295 1,076
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,938 £36,250 £32,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +23.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -10.71%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Microsoft Exchange job vacancy trend in the South East

Microsoft Exchange
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Exchange.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Exchange
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the South East over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the South East

Microsoft Exchange
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Exchange within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 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
Thames Valley +5 46 £36,500 +5.80% 12
Surrey -9 42 £42,500 +6.25% 4
Hampshire -18 31 £39,000 -29.09% 11
Kent -18 23 £47,500 -
Berkshire -1 16 £42,500 +25.00% 1
Buckinghamshire -16 16 £42,500 +13.33% 8
Oxfordshire +3 14 £35,000 - 3
West Sussex -18 3 £32,000 -26.01% 3
East Sussex -20 1 £50,000 +72.41%
Microsoft Exchange
England

Microsoft Exchange
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 69 (47.26%) SharePoint
2 14 (9.59%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (2.05%) Apache
3 3 (2.05%) govService
4 1 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.68%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.05%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 113 (77.40%) Microsoft 365
2 87 (59.59%) Azure
3 65 (44.52%) Entra ID
4 31 (21.23%) SaaS
5 20 (13.70%) OneDrive
6 17 (11.64%) Mimecast
7 14 (9.59%) AWS
8 8 (5.48%) Power Platform
9 5 (3.42%) GCP
10 2 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.68%) IaaS
11 1 (0.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (24.66%) DHCP
1 36 (24.66%) DNS
2 30 (20.55%) Firewall
3 25 (17.12%) VPN
4 16 (10.96%) Wi-Fi
5 15 (10.27%) VLAN
6 11 (7.53%) VoIP
7 9 (6.16%) Remote Desktop
7 9 (6.16%) SAN
8 7 (4.79%) iSCSI
8 7 (4.79%) WAN
8 7 (4.79%) Wireless
9 6 (4.11%) LAN
9 6 (4.11%) TCP/IP
10 4 (2.74%) BGP
10 4 (2.74%) IPsec
11 2 (1.37%) NetScaler
11 2 (1.37%) Network Security
11 2 (1.37%) PBX
11 2 (1.37%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.01%) SQL Server
2 15 (10.27%) MySQL
2 15 (10.27%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (9.59%) Oracle Database
3 14 (9.59%) Oracle Database 10g
4 9 (6.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (5.48%) Power BI
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.68%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 17 (11.64%) JIRA
General
1 42 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (13.01%) Organisational Skills
4 17 (11.64%) Legal
5 11 (7.53%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (5.48%) Finance
7 5 (3.42%) Retail
7 5 (3.42%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.05%) Local Government
9 2 (1.37%) German Language
9 2 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 46 (31.51%) IT Support
2 42 (28.77%) 3rd Line Support
3 36 (24.66%) Support Engineer
4 24 (16.44%) Analyst
5 22 (15.07%) 2nd Line Support
6 21 (14.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 21 (14.38%) Infrastructure Support
7 20 (13.70%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 20 (13.70%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 17 (11.64%) IT Engineer
8 17 (11.64%) Support Analyst
9 16 (10.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (10.96%) IT Support Engineer
9 16 (10.96%) Systems Support
10 12 (8.22%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (8.22%) Senior
11 11 (7.53%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 10 (6.85%) Support Technician
13 9 (6.16%) IT Support Technician
13 9 (6.16%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.48%) JSON
1 8 (5.48%) XML
2 3 (2.05%) CSS
2 3 (2.05%) HTML
3 1 (0.68%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.33%) Onboarding
2 11 (7.53%) Driving Licence
3 10 (6.85%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.48%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.11%) Replication
6 5 (3.42%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.74%) Wiki
8 3 (2.05%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.37%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.37%) Clustering
10 1 (0.68%) CMDB
10 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.68%) PKI
10 1 (0.68%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.68%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 72 (49.32%) Windows
2 46 (31.51%) Windows Server
3 16 (10.96%) Linux
4 14 (9.59%) HPUX
4 14 (9.59%) Solaris
4 14 (9.59%) Unix
4 14 (9.59%) Windows 7
4 14 (9.59%) Windows Server 2003
4 14 (9.59%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (6.16%) Windows 10
6 8 (5.48%) Android
6 8 (5.48%) Apple iOS
7 7 (4.79%) Mac OS
7 7 (4.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (4.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (2.74%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.37%) CentOS
10 2 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.68%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (26.71%) ITIL
2 31 (21.23%) Incident Management
3 29 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (18.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 18 (12.33%) Change Management
5 18 (12.33%) Identity Management
6 17 (11.64%) Collaborative Working
6 17 (11.64%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (11.64%) Technical Leadership
6 17 (11.64%) Workflow
7 11 (7.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (7.53%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (7.53%) Service Delivery
8 8 (5.48%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (5.48%) Data Modelling
8 8 (5.48%) Data Validation
8 8 (5.48%) Task Automation
8 8 (5.48%) Validation
9 7 (4.79%) Customer Service
9 7 (4.79%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (28.77%) PowerShell
2 16 (10.96%) R
3 13 (8.90%) Perl
4 12 (8.22%) SQL
5 8 (5.48%) Python
5 8 (5.48%) T-SQL
6 7 (4.79%) Bash
7 5 (3.42%) Korn
8 2 (1.37%) C
9 1 (0.68%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 20 (13.70%) DV Cleared
1 20 (13.70%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.27%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.85%) Degree
4 9 (6.16%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (6.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (5.48%) CCNA
6 5 (3.42%) HNC
6 5 (3.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.37%) MCSA
7 2 (1.37%) MCSE
7 2 (1.37%) RHCE
7 2 (1.37%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.68%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (18.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (10.27%) SLA
3 8 (5.48%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.05%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.05%) QA
5 2 (1.37%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.68%) GDPR
6 1 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 114 (78.08%) Active Directory
2 24 (16.44%) Hyper-V
3 17 (11.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.48%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (4.79%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 7 (4.79%) Docker
5 7 (4.79%) VMware NSX
5 7 (4.79%) vSphere
6 5 (3.42%) XenApp
7 3 (2.05%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.37%) Samba
Systems Management
1 58 (39.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (6.85%) SCCM
3 9 (6.16%) Backup Exec
4 8 (5.48%) vCenter Server
5 7 (4.79%) Kubernetes
6 6 (4.11%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (3.42%) vRealize
8 4 (2.74%) ZABBIX
9 3 (2.05%) Terraform
10 2 (1.37%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (1.37%) VxRail
11 1 (0.68%) Autotask
11 1 (0.68%) CASB
11 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.68%) SCOM
11 1 (0.68%) SCSM
11 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 123 (84.25%) Microsoft
2 40 (27.40%) VMware
3 20 (13.70%) Veeam
4 16 (10.96%) CrowdStrike
5 14 (9.59%) Oracle
6 11 (7.53%) Dell
7 10 (6.85%) Citrix
8 9 (6.16%) Apple
9 7 (4.79%) Cisco
9 7 (4.79%) Red Hat
10 6 (4.11%) TP-LINK
10 6 (4.11%) Ubiquiti
11 5 (3.42%) Google
11 5 (3.42%) Meraki
11 5 (3.42%) SolarWinds
12 3 (2.05%) Granicus
13 2 (1.37%) Datto
13 2 (1.37%) Fortinet
13 2 (1.37%) Sophos
13 2 (1.37%) WatchGuard