Microsoft Exchange Jobs

Microsoft Exchange Server
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Microsoft Exchange skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Exchange over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 111 144
Rank change year-on-year -68 +33 +35
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 889 2,341 2,567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.70% 2.38% 2.47%
As % of the Application Platforms category 20.00% 21.82% 21.48%
Number of salaries quoted 751 1,881 2,025
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,599 £29,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £42,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.33% +5.63%
75th Percentile £59,625 £53,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,250 £68,750 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £37,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +1.35% -1.33% +7.14%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,444 10,730 11,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.52% 10.91% 11.49%
Number of salaries quoted 3,060 7,087 7,898
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +1.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £106,500 £92,295 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,628 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.36% -10.53% +5.56%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microsoft Exchange as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Exchange in the UK

Microsoft Exchange
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Exchange.

Salary trend for Microsoft Exchange in the UK

Microsoft Exchange
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the UK

Microsoft Exchange
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Exchange within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England -63 838 £42,500 +6.25% 395
UK excluding London -74 521 £37,500 +1.35% 286
Work from Home +12 345 £42,500 -5.56% 167
London -39 333 £58,000 +10.48% 124
North of England -79 123 £34,250 -2.14% 66
Midlands -35 121 £38,500 +6.94% 46
South East -68 115 £40,000 +8.11% 92
East of England -26 84 £37,500 +13.64% 30
West Midlands -45 62 £50,000 +38.89% 32
North West -53 62 £42,500 +6.25% 33
East Midlands +16 59 £35,000 -4.11% 14
South West +1 56 £31,500 -25.88% 45
Yorkshire -5 51 £30,000 -7.34% 22
Scotland +82 16 £50,000 +36.99% 10
North East -14 10 £32,000 -8.57% 12
Wales +14 3 £32,500 -14.47% 5
Northern Ireland +30 2 £48,750 +40.78% 2
Isle of Man +13 2 £23,500 -36.49%

Microsoft Exchange
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 320 (36.00%) SharePoint
2 22 (2.47%) IIS
3 20 (2.25%) Exchange Server 2013
4 19 (2.14%) Skype for Business
5 11 (1.24%) Exchange Server 2010
6 8 (0.90%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 7 (0.79%) IBM Domino
8 6 (0.67%) WordPress
9 2 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.22%) Confluence
9 2 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
9 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2003
10 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.11%) nginx
10 1 (0.11%) Office Communications Server
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 133 (14.96%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (4.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.46%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.34%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.11%) 1Password
6 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.35%) Fidessa
2 9 (1.01%) Sage 50
3 8 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.67%) Sage 200
5 5 (0.56%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.22%) Carpe Diem
6 2 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.22%) Endur
6 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.11%) Eikon
7 1 (0.11%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 652 (73.34%) Microsoft 365
2 501 (56.36%) Azure
3 248 (27.90%) Entra ID
4 172 (19.35%) OneDrive
5 70 (7.87%) AWS
6 62 (6.97%) SaaS
7 51 (5.74%) Power Platform
8 47 (5.29%) Mimecast
9 35 (3.94%) Microsoft Purview
10 33 (3.71%) Cloud Computing
10 33 (3.71%) Power Automate
11 32 (3.60%) IaaS
12 30 (3.37%) Microsoft Copilot
13 28 (3.15%) PowerApps
14 24 (2.70%) PaaS
15 18 (2.02%) GCP
16 15 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
17 11 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
18 10 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
19 9 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 259 (29.13%) Firewall
2 241 (27.11%) DNS
3 186 (20.92%) DHCP
4 130 (14.62%) LAN
5 123 (13.84%) WAN
6 109 (12.26%) VPN
7 90 (10.12%) TCP/IP
8 66 (7.42%) VLAN
9 61 (6.86%) SAN
10 49 (5.51%) VoIP
11 44 (4.95%) Wi-Fi
12 42 (4.72%) Remote Desktop
13 38 (4.27%) Network Security
13 38 (4.27%) SMTP
14 29 (3.26%) Internet
15 27 (3.04%) Wireless
16 19 (2.14%) IPv4
16 19 (2.14%) NAS
17 18 (2.02%) DKIM
17 18 (2.02%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (9.45%) SQL Server
2 22 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (2.36%) Power BI
4 12 (1.35%) Data Hub
4 12 (1.35%) SQL CLR
4 12 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (0.90%) Metadata
5 8 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 5 (0.56%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.34%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.22%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.22%) EDMS
8 2 (0.22%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.22%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.11%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.11%) HBase
9 1 (0.11%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 13 (1.46%) JIRA
2 12 (1.35%) Git
3 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.22%) Selenium
4 1 (0.11%) Hudson
4 1 (0.11%) InstallShield
4 1 (0.11%) MSI
4 1 (0.11%) Postman
4 1 (0.11%) Subversion
4 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.11%) WiX
General
1 291 (32.73%) Social Skills
2 148 (16.65%) Finance
3 71 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (7.76%) Law
5 64 (7.20%) Legal
6 48 (5.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (3.60%) Retail
8 31 (3.49%) Manufacturing
9 30 (3.37%) Banking
10 22 (2.47%) German Language
11 17 (1.91%) Telecoms
12 16 (1.80%) Back Office
13 14 (1.57%) Advertising
13 14 (1.57%) Games
14 13 (1.46%) Public Sector
15 12 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (1.24%) Automotive
17 10 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (1.12%) Marketing
17 10 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 179 (20.13%) IT Support
2 162 (18.22%) Support Engineer
3 156 (17.55%) Analyst
4 128 (14.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 108 (12.15%) 2nd Line Support
6 105 (11.81%) Support Analyst
7 99 (11.14%) Senior
8 92 (10.35%) IT Engineer
9 59 (6.64%) 3rd Line Support
9 59 (6.64%) IT Support Engineer
10 57 (6.41%) IT Analyst
11 53 (5.96%) IT Support Analyst
12 47 (5.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 44 (4.95%) Cloud Engineer
14 41 (4.61%) Desktop Support
14 41 (4.61%) Infrastructure Support
15 40 (4.50%) Support Technician
16 37 (4.16%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
17 36 (4.05%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 33 (3.71%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.47%) SailPoint
2 13 (1.46%) FIX Protocol
3 9 (1.01%) .NET
4 8 (0.90%) SAML
5 6 (0.67%) .NET Framework
6 5 (0.56%) React
7 4 (0.45%) .NET Core
7 4 (0.45%) Dapper ORM
7 4 (0.45%) Entity Framework
7 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (0.34%) 802.1X
8 3 (0.34%) REST
9 2 (0.22%) AWS Amplify
9 2 (0.22%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.22%) Django
9 2 (0.22%) EDI
9 2 (0.22%) Jest
9 2 (0.22%) SPFx
10 1 (0.11%) CSS
10 1 (0.11%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 63 (7.09%) Onboarding
2 62 (6.97%) Management Information System
3 30 (3.37%) Driving Licence
3 30 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (2.59%) Clustering
4 23 (2.59%) Virtual Team
5 22 (2.47%) Private Cloud
6 21 (2.36%) Data Centre
7 18 (2.02%) Cyber Threat
8 17 (1.91%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.35%) FMCG
10 12 (1.35%) iPhone
11 11 (1.24%) Eurex
11 11 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.24%) PKI
11 11 (1.24%) Replication
11 11 (1.24%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.12%) Cloud Native
13 8 (0.90%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 596 (67.04%) Windows
2 343 (38.58%) Windows Server
3 149 (16.76%) Windows 10
4 78 (8.77%) Linux
5 73 (8.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 72 (8.10%) Windows Server 2016
7 62 (6.97%) Mac OS
8 51 (5.74%) Android
8 51 (5.74%) Windows Server 2012
9 25 (2.81%) Apple iOS
10 24 (2.70%) Unix
11 19 (2.14%) Windows Server 2008
12 17 (1.91%) Windows 7
13 15 (1.69%) CentOS
14 6 (0.67%) Mac OS X
14 6 (0.67%) Rocky
14 6 (0.67%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.56%) VMS
15 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2003
16 3 (0.34%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
2 173 (19.46%) Customer Service
3 157 (17.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 153 (17.21%) ITIL
5 98 (11.02%) Cybersecurity
6 83 (9.34%) Migration
7 82 (9.22%) Disaster Recovery
8 60 (6.75%) ITSM
9 58 (6.52%) Mentoring
10 57 (6.41%) Identity Management
11 55 (6.19%) High Availability
12 54 (6.07%) Change Management
13 53 (5.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 53 (5.96%) Mobile Device Management
13 53 (5.96%) Project Management
14 48 (5.40%) Incident Management
15 47 (5.29%) Information Security
16 41 (4.61%) Service Delivery
17 40 (4.50%) Collaborative Working
18 39 (4.39%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 248 (27.90%) PowerShell
2 83 (9.34%) SQL
3 44 (4.95%) Python
4 17 (1.91%) Bash
5 11 (1.24%) C#
6 10 (1.12%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.12%) Perl
7 9 (1.01%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.56%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.56%) VB
9 3 (0.34%) Java
9 3 (0.34%) Ruby
10 2 (0.22%) C++
10 2 (0.22%) Go
10 2 (0.22%) PHP
10 2 (0.22%) Progress 4GL
10 2 (0.22%) VBScript
11 1 (0.11%) ABAP
11 1 (0.11%) C
11 1 (0.11%) RPG
Qualifications
1 169 (19.01%) Degree
2 75 (8.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 56 (6.30%) Security Cleared
4 40 (4.50%) Azure Certification
5 35 (3.94%) Cisco Certification
6 31 (3.49%) DV Cleared
7 29 (3.26%) CCNA
8 25 (2.81%) Network+ Certification
8 25 (2.81%) SC Cleared
9 22 (2.47%) MCP
9 22 (2.47%) MCSA
10 19 (2.14%) A+ Certification
11 15 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 15 (1.69%) MCITP
12 12 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (1.24%) MCSE
14 10 (1.12%) CCNP
14 10 (1.12%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.79%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (6.64%) SLA
2 27 (3.04%) GDPR
3 21 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (0.67%) NIST
7 5 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.45%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.45%) QA
9 3 (0.34%) COBIT
9 3 (0.34%) PMO
10 2 (0.22%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.22%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.11%) NCSC
11 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 633 (71.20%) Active Directory
2 220 (24.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 145 (16.31%) Hyper-V
4 43 (4.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 39 (4.39%) Virtual Machines
6 31 (3.49%) VMware ESXi
6 31 (3.49%) vSphere
7 23 (2.59%) XenApp
8 22 (2.47%) Terminal Services
9 13 (1.46%) Docker
10 11 (1.24%) BitLocker
11 9 (1.01%) Microsoft App-V
12 8 (0.90%) XenDesktop
13 6 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.34%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.34%) Firmware
15 3 (0.34%) Postfix
15 3 (0.34%) Terminal Server
15 3 (0.34%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 264 (29.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 74 (8.32%) SCCM
3 35 (3.94%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (2.36%) Terraform
5 19 (2.14%) Kubernetes
5 19 (2.14%) WSUS
6 17 (1.91%) vCenter Server
7 14 (1.57%) Ansible
8 11 (1.24%) Failover Clustering
9 10 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 10 (1.12%) SCOM
10 9 (1.01%) NetBackup
11 8 (0.90%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.90%) Grafana
11 8 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.90%) Puppet
12 7 (0.79%) Backup Exec
12 7 (0.79%) vMotion
13 6 (0.67%) Nagios
14 5 (0.56%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 624 (70.19%) Microsoft
2 293 (32.96%) VMware
3 120 (13.50%) Cisco
4 108 (12.15%) Citrix
5 58 (6.52%) Meraki
6 57 (6.41%) Apple
7 40 (4.50%) Veeam
8 38 (4.27%) Okta
9 35 (3.94%) HP
10 30 (3.37%) CheckPoint
10 30 (3.37%) Dell
11 26 (2.92%) Google
11 26 (2.92%) ServiceNow
11 26 (2.92%) SonicWALL
12 25 (2.81%) Salesforce
13 21 (2.36%) Bloomberg
13 21 (2.36%) iManage
13 21 (2.36%) NetApp
13 21 (2.36%) Sage
14 17 (1.91%) Zscaler