Microsoft Exchange Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Exchange Server
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Microsoft Exchange skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 85 111
Rank change year-on-year -13 +26 +14
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 119 74 221
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.55% 2.67% 2.24%
As % of the Application Platforms category 38.64% 24.26% 25.03%
Number of salaries quoted 51 64 187
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,750 £29,600
25th Percentile £27,250 £29,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £31,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -21.25% +8.11%
75th Percentile £38,750 £34,188 £51,875
90th Percentile £43,750 £48,750 £57,000
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 308 305 883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.01% 11.02% 8.94%
Number of salaries quoted 193 214 697
10th Percentile £26,050 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £45,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% -8.16% +3.16%
75th Percentile £53,750 £58,571 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,100 £70,000 £66,250
England median annual salary £52,246 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.01% +10.00% -10.71%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Microsoft Exchange job vacancy trend in the South West

Microsoft Exchange
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Microsoft Exchange
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the South West over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the South West

Microsoft Exchange
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Somerset +3 35 £32,500 -27.78% 2
Wiltshire +15 33 £32,500 - 2
Bristol -12 23 £37,500 -18.92% 8
Gloucestershire -22 10 £42,500 +44.07% 10
Cornwall -4 6 £30,000 -2.44%
Dorset -22 6 £35,000 +16.67% 1
Devon -33 6 £27,250 -13.49% 3
Microsoft Exchange
England

Microsoft Exchange
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 36 (30.25%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.68%) Confluence
2 2 (1.68%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (8.40%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.52%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.68%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 112 (94.12%) Microsoft 365
2 101 (84.87%) Azure
3 31 (26.05%) Entra ID
4 9 (7.56%) OneDrive
5 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (3.36%) AWS
6 4 (3.36%) IaaS
6 4 (3.36%) PaaS
7 2 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (1.68%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.68%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.68%) GitHub
7 2 (1.68%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.68%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.68%) Serverless
7 2 (1.68%) Stripe
8 1 (0.84%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 78 (65.55%) DNS
2 72 (60.50%) DHCP
3 26 (21.85%) Firewall
4 23 (19.33%) VPN
5 14 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
6 13 (10.92%) LAN
7 12 (10.08%) WAN
8 9 (7.56%) TCP/IP
9 7 (5.88%) VLAN
9 7 (5.88%) WLAN
10 5 (4.20%) VoIP
11 1 (0.84%) DKIM
11 1 (0.84%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (47.06%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Git
General
1 76 (63.87%) Social Skills
2 58 (48.74%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (10.08%) Advertising
4 6 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.20%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.68%) Law
6 2 (1.68%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.84%) Local Government
7 1 (0.84%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 56 (47.06%) Systems Engineer
2 32 (26.89%) IT Support
3 26 (21.85%) Support Engineer
4 24 (20.17%) IT Engineer
5 22 (18.49%) IT Support Engineer
6 13 (10.92%) IT Technician
7 9 (7.56%) Analyst
7 9 (7.56%) Support Technician
8 8 (6.72%) 2nd Line Support
9 7 (5.88%) Senior
9 7 (5.88%) Support Analyst
10 6 (5.04%) IT Support Technician
11 5 (4.20%) 1st Line Support
11 5 (4.20%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) IT Analyst
11 5 (4.20%) IT Support Analyst
12 4 (3.36%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 3 (2.52%) ICT Support
Miscellaneous
1 56 (47.06%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (13.45%) Driving Licence
3 6 (5.04%) Public Cloud
4 5 (4.20%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.36%) Digital Signage
5 4 (3.36%) Educational Technology
5 4 (3.36%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.36%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (2.52%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.68%) Podcast
7 2 (1.68%) Replication
7 2 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 94 (78.99%) Windows
2 80 (67.23%) Windows Server
3 65 (54.62%) Linux
4 56 (47.06%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (10.92%) Mac OS
6 12 (10.08%) Android
7 11 (9.24%) Windows 10
8 9 (7.56%) Apple iOS
9 3 (2.52%) VMS
10 2 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (66.39%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (63.87%) Customer Service
3 60 (50.42%) Customer Experience
3 60 (50.42%) Email Filtering
3 60 (50.42%) Kalman Filter
3 60 (50.42%) Web Filtering
4 58 (48.74%) Migration
5 56 (47.06%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 56 (47.06%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 13 (10.92%) Cloud Security
6 13 (10.92%) ITIL
7 9 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (6.72%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 8 (6.72%) Server Management
9 7 (5.88%) AI
9 7 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (5.04%) Identity Management
10 6 (5.04%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.08%) PowerShell
2 4 (3.36%) SQL
3 2 (1.68%) Bash
3 2 (1.68%) Bicep
3 2 (1.68%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 59 (49.58%) SC Cleared
1 59 (49.58%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.45%) Degree
3 13 (10.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (2.52%) A+ Certification
5 3 (2.52%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (52.94%) Cyber Essentials
2 56 (47.06%) PCI DSS
3 5 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.52%) GDPR
5 2 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.84%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.84%) QA
6 1 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 100 (84.03%) Active Directory
2 69 (57.98%) Hyper-V
3 56 (47.06%) Terminal Server
4 19 (15.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.68%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.68%) vSphere
6 1 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (20.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.68%) FortiGate
2 2 (1.68%) Terraform
3 1 (0.84%) Autotask
Vendors
1 117 (98.32%) Microsoft
2 75 (63.03%) VMware
3 66 (55.46%) Veeam
4 56 (47.06%) Brocade
4 56 (47.06%) Nimble Storage
4 56 (47.06%) SolarWinds
4 56 (47.06%) Splunk
4 56 (47.06%) Tanium
5 10 (8.40%) Apple
6 5 (4.20%) Cisco
6 5 (4.20%) Ubiquiti
7 4 (3.36%) Fortinet
7 4 (3.36%) Meraki
8 3 (2.52%) Adobe
8 3 (2.52%) Aruba
8 3 (2.52%) Citrix
8 3 (2.52%) ConnectWise
8 3 (2.52%) Datto
8 3 (2.52%) Draytek
8 3 (2.52%) Progress