Microsoft Exchange Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Exchange Server
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Microsoft Exchange skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 119 72
Rank change year-on-year -5 -47 +28
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 50 65 123
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.25% 1.87% 3.64%
As % of the Application Platforms category 27.62% 22.57% 27.52%
Number of salaries quoted 41 49 94
10th Percentile - £28,150 £32,375
25th Percentile £32,750 £32,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £37,500 £42,920
Median % change year-on-year +10.67% -12.63% +32.06%
75th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £54,688
90th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £58,258
South East median annual salary £41,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +3.75% -5.88% +13.33%

All Application Platform Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 181 288 447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.54% 8.29% 13.22%
Number of salaries quoted 122 154 284
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +7.32% +18.84%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £62,625
90th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £81,775
South East median annual salary £45,000 £52,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -13.46% +15.56% -10.00%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Microsoft Exchange job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Exchange
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Microsoft Exchange.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Exchange
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Exchange
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Exchange within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +3 24 £43,750 +16.67% 6
Oxfordshire +26 22 £35,000 -7.89% 5
Buckinghamshire -16 4 £70,000 +86.67% 3
Microsoft Exchange
South East

Microsoft Exchange
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 13 (26.00%) SharePoint
2 10 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2013
3 3 (6.00%) Skype for Business
4 2 (4.00%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 42 (84.00%) Microsoft 365
2 28 (56.00%) Azure
3 23 (46.00%) Entra ID
4 8 (16.00%) AWS
5 3 (6.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 12 (24.00%) Firewall
2 8 (16.00%) SAN
3 7 (14.00%) VLAN
3 7 (14.00%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (10.00%) LAN
4 5 (10.00%) WAN
5 3 (6.00%) iSCSI
5 3 (6.00%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (4.00%) DHCP
6 2 (4.00%) DNS
6 2 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.00%) Data Mining
2 3 (6.00%) MySQL
2 3 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 20 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (8.00%) Finance
4 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.00%) Electronics
5 2 (4.00%) Marketing
5 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (36.00%) IT Support
2 11 (22.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 10 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 9 (18.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 9 (18.00%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (18.00%) Support Engineer
5 8 (16.00%) Project Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) 2nd Line Support
6 6 (12.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Support Specialist
7 5 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Technician
7 5 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (10.00%) IT Support Specialist
7 5 (10.00%) Senior
7 5 (10.00%) Support Technician
8 3 (6.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.00%) Onboarding
2 5 (10.00%) Replication
3 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 23 (46.00%) Windows
2 12 (24.00%) Windows Server
3 11 (22.00%) Windows 10
4 8 (16.00%) Linux
4 8 (16.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (10.00%) Windows 7
5 5 (10.00%) Windows 8
6 3 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (2.00%) Android
8 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (50.00%) ITIL
2 13 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (12.00%) Agile
3 6 (12.00%) Incident Management
3 6 (12.00%) Service Delivery
4 5 (10.00%) Business Continuity
4 5 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (10.00%) Email Management
4 5 (10.00%) Information Security
4 5 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 5 (10.00%) Migration
5 4 (8.00%) ITSM
6 3 (6.00%) Customer Service
6 3 (6.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 3 (6.00%) People Management
6 3 (6.00%) Service Management
6 3 (6.00%) Time Management
7 2 (4.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.00%) Bash
2 3 (6.00%) Korn
3 1 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.00%) Degree
2 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) DBS Check
4 2 (4.00%) MCP
4 2 (4.00%) MCSA
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (48.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (22.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (16.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (6.00%) Docker
4 3 (6.00%) vSphere
5 2 (4.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (52.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (36.00%) SCCM
3 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.00%) SCOM
4 2 (4.00%) SCSM
4 2 (4.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 43 (86.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (30.00%) VMware
3 5 (10.00%) arcserve
4 3 (6.00%) Cisco
4 3 (6.00%) Dell
4 3 (6.00%) Juniper
4 3 (6.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.00%) Splunk
4 3 (6.00%) Trend Micro
4 3 (6.00%) Veeam
5 2 (4.00%) SAP
6 1 (2.00%) Citrix