Microsoft Exchange Server
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Microsoft Exchange skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft Exchange over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 148 183
Rank change year-on-year +26 +35 -61
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 2,292 2,446 3,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.31% 2.41% 2.22%
As % of the Application Platforms category 21.34% 21.12% 15.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,854 1,976 2,880
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,347 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.54% +5.87% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £59,406 £55,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £69,315
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -1.33% +7.14% -2.78%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Microsoft Exchange is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 10,738 11,581 21,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.83% 11.40% 13.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7,108 7,728 11,655
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.92% +3.81%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £96,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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 +35 2,152 £40,000 -5.88% 445
UK excluding London +8 1,593 £37,000 -1.33% 341
Work from Home -1 711 £45,000 -10.00% 142
London +53 656 £52,500 -0.28% 114
South East -8 404 £36,000 -10.00% 85
North of England +24 384 £35,000 -7.28% 74
Midlands +24 280 £35,000 +2.94% 54
East of England +19 212 £35,000 -7.28% 62
South West +21 208 £41,500 +13.70% 53
West Midlands +16 182 £35,000 +2.19% 36
North West -41 151 £40,000 -5.88% 35
Yorkshire +69 150 £32,500 +0.93% 34
East Midlands +17 94 £36,500 +12.31% 18
North East +40 83 £32,750 -6.43% 5
Scotland -72 62 £36,500 +21.67% 9
Wales +7 31 £38,000 -5.00% 9
Northern Ireland +20 8 £34,628 +4.14% 5
Isle of Man - 4 £37,000 -

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
1 768 (33.51%) SharePoint
2 63 (2.75%) Exchange Server 2010
3 58 (2.53%) Exchange Server 2013
4 52 (2.27%) IIS
5 22 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2007
6 20 (0.87%) Skype for Business
7 13 (0.57%) CMS
8 12 (0.52%) WordPress
9 10 (0.44%) SharePoint 2010
10 9 (0.39%) SharePoint 2013
11 7 (0.31%) Confluence
11 7 (0.31%) SAS
12 6 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2000
13 5 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
14 4 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2003
15 2 (0.087%) BizTalk Server
16 1 (0.044%) Apache
16 1 (0.044%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
16 1 (0.044%) nginx
16 1 (0.044%) WebSphere
Applications
1 425 (18.54%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.17%) Trello
6 3 (0.13%) InfoPath
6 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.13%) SPSS
7 2 (0.087%) CATIA
7 2 (0.087%) NASTRAN
7 2 (0.087%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.044%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.044%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.044%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 44 (1.92%) Endur
2 28 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.65%) Fidessa
4 8 (0.35%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 7 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
6 6 (0.26%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.17%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.17%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.13%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.13%) Eikon
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.087%) Teamcenter
10 1 (0.044%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 1,752 (76.44%) Microsoft 365
2 1,074 (46.86%) Azure
3 504 (21.99%) Entra ID
4 261 (11.39%) OneDrive
5 171 (7.46%) AWS
6 113 (4.93%) Power Platform
7 83 (3.62%) Mimecast
8 63 (2.75%) SaaS
9 60 (2.62%) PowerApps
10 58 (2.53%) GCP
11 53 (2.31%) Power Automate
12 50 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
13 46 (2.01%) Azure Monitor
14 41 (1.79%) IaaS
15 32 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
16 29 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
17 28 (1.22%) PaaS
18 26 (1.13%) Google Workspace
18 26 (1.13%) Microsoft Purview
19 25 (1.09%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 547 (23.87%) Firewall
2 505 (22.03%) DNS
3 374 (16.32%) DHCP
4 355 (15.49%) WAN
5 241 (10.51%) VPN
6 231 (10.08%) Wireless
7 225 (9.82%) LAN
8 182 (7.94%) TCP/IP
9 169 (7.37%) SAN
10 135 (5.89%) SD-WAN
11 120 (5.24%) Wi-Fi
12 108 (4.71%) VLAN
13 107 (4.67%) VoIP
14 106 (4.62%) Cisco IOS
15 102 (4.45%) WebEx
16 78 (3.40%) Network Security
17 71 (3.10%) Remote Desktop
18 49 (2.14%) NAS
19 46 (2.01%) Internet
20 45 (1.96%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (9.60%) SQL Server
2 61 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
3 58 (2.53%) Relational Database
4 53 (2.31%) Power BI
5 51 (2.23%) RDBMS
6 15 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (0.65%) MySQL
7 12 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (0.39%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.31%) Redis
10 5 (0.22%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.13%) Big Data
12 3 (0.13%) EDRMS
13 2 (0.087%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.087%) Metadata
13 2 (0.087%) Metadata Repository
13 2 (0.087%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 37 (1.61%) JIRA
2 21 (0.92%) Git
3 7 (0.31%) Moq
4 2 (0.087%) Hudson
4 2 (0.087%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.087%) MSBuild
4 2 (0.087%) NeoLoad
4 2 (0.087%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.044%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.044%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.044%) Chocolatey
5 1 (0.044%) Jenkins
General
1 843 (36.78%) Social Skills
2 342 (14.92%) Finance
3 183 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (5.58%) Law
5 112 (4.89%) Legal
6 101 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 88 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
8 78 (3.40%) Games
9 77 (3.36%) Manufacturing
10 74 (3.23%) Banking
11 67 (2.92%) Marketing
12 62 (2.71%) Public Sector
13 44 (1.92%) Telecoms
14 42 (1.83%) Retail
15 30 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
16 28 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
17 27 (1.18%) Back Office
18 18 (0.79%) Investment Banking
19 17 (0.74%) Local Government
20 15 (0.65%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 553 (24.13%) IT Support
2 426 (18.59%) Support Engineer
3 338 (14.75%) Analyst
4 332 (14.49%) IT Engineer
5 296 (12.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 247 (10.78%) Senior
7 229 (9.99%) IT Support Engineer
8 189 (8.25%) 2nd Line Support
9 177 (7.72%) Support Analyst
10 144 (6.28%) 3rd Line Support
11 142 (6.20%) IT Analyst
12 127 (5.54%) Consultant
13 124 (5.41%) Support Specialist
14 113 (4.93%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 104 (4.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 103 (4.49%) IT Support Specialist
17 102 (4.45%) IT Support Analyst
18 95 (4.14%) Lead
19 94 (4.10%) IT Technician
20 90 (3.93%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.09%) ARM Templates
2 24 (1.05%) HTML
3 22 (0.96%) FIX Protocol
4 20 (0.87%) .NET
5 16 (0.70%) ASP.NET
6 14 (0.61%) .NET Framework
6 14 (0.61%) AngularJS
6 14 (0.61%) ASP.NET MVC
6 14 (0.61%) Entity Framework
7 12 (0.52%) JSON
7 12 (0.52%) LAMP
8 11 (0.48%) CSS
9 10 (0.44%) HTML5
10 9 (0.39%) LDAP
10 9 (0.39%) React
11 8 (0.35%) .NET Core
12 7 (0.31%) Ajax
12 7 (0.31%) ASP.NET Web API
12 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
12 7 (0.31%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 129 (5.63%) Driving Licence
2 125 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
2 125 (5.45%) Video Conferencing
3 94 (4.10%) Wiki
4 88 (3.84%) Data Centre
5 70 (3.05%) Management Information System
6 69 (3.01%) Replication
7 58 (2.53%) Clustering
8 51 (2.23%) Public Cloud
9 44 (1.92%) Swaptions
10 39 (1.70%) Smartphone
11 35 (1.53%) iPad
12 33 (1.44%) BYOD
13 31 (1.35%) Onboarding
13 31 (1.35%) PKI
14 29 (1.27%) Blackberry
15 27 (1.18%) Virtual Team
16 25 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
17 22 (0.96%) iPhone
18 17 (0.74%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 1,561 (68.11%) Windows
2 824 (35.95%) Windows Server
3 561 (24.48%) Windows 10
4 184 (8.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 180 (7.85%) Android
6 179 (7.81%) Linux
7 136 (5.93%) Windows Server 2019
8 122 (5.32%) Windows Server 2012
9 113 (4.93%) Windows 7
10 81 (3.53%) Windows Server 2008
11 77 (3.36%) Apple iOS
12 76 (3.32%) Windows 8
13 61 (2.66%) Mac OS
14 33 (1.44%) Unix
15 31 (1.35%) VMS
16 28 (1.22%) Mac OS X
17 26 (1.13%) CentOS
18 25 (1.09%) Ubuntu
19 17 (0.74%) Windows Server 2003
20 15 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (21.68%) ITIL
2 434 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
3 345 (15.05%) Customer Service
3 345 (15.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 227 (9.90%) Cybersecurity
5 176 (7.68%) Migration
6 156 (6.81%) Disaster Recovery
7 142 (6.20%) Computer Science
8 134 (5.85%) Mobile Device Management
9 132 (5.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 131 (5.72%) Project Management
11 127 (5.54%) Agile
11 127 (5.54%) Service Management
12 119 (5.19%) ITSM
13 111 (4.84%) Business Continuity
14 109 (4.76%) Service Delivery
15 101 (4.41%) Roadmaps
16 98 (4.28%) Application Virtualisation
16 98 (4.28%) Business Continuity Planning
16 98 (4.28%) Contract Negotiation
Programming Languages
1 342 (14.92%) PowerShell
2 283 (12.35%) SQL
3 58 (2.53%) VB
4 56 (2.44%) C#
5 51 (2.23%) Java
6 47 (2.05%) JavaScript
7 30 (1.31%) Bash
7 30 (1.31%) Python
8 17 (0.74%) T-SQL
9 15 (0.65%) Bicep
9 15 (0.65%) Perl
9 15 (0.65%) Ruby
9 15 (0.65%) VBScript
10 9 (0.39%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.13%) R
11 3 (0.13%) VBA
12 2 (0.087%) PHP
13 1 (0.044%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.044%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.044%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 380 (16.58%) Degree
2 211 (9.21%) Microsoft Certification
3 127 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 110 (4.80%) Security Cleared
5 98 (4.28%) Master's Degree
6 82 (3.58%) MCSE
7 76 (3.32%) SC Cleared
8 65 (2.84%) MCSA
9 64 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
10 63 (2.75%) Azure Certification
11 60 (2.62%) CCNA
12 57 (2.49%) ITIL Certification
13 53 (2.31%) MCP
14 46 (2.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 29 (1.27%) DV Cleared
16 23 (1.00%) DBS Check
17 22 (0.96%) MCITP
18 21 (0.92%) A+ Certification
19 19 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
20 16 (0.70%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (8.86%) SLA
2 51 (2.23%) GDPR
3 33 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (0.52%) QA
6 8 (0.35%) NCSC
6 8 (0.35%) PMO
7 6 (0.26%) GRC
7 6 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.17%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.13%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.087%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.044%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.044%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.044%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.044%) ISO 9000
11 1 (0.044%) NIST
System Software
1 1,663 (72.56%) Active Directory
2 514 (22.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 437 (19.07%) Hyper-V
4 191 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
5 190 (8.29%) XenApp
6 177 (7.72%) XenDesktop
7 96 (4.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 94 (4.10%) Microsoft App-V
9 69 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
10 66 (2.88%) vSphere
11 45 (1.96%) VirtualBox
12 24 (1.05%) VMware Workstation
13 21 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
14 18 (0.79%) Terminal Services
15 16 (0.70%) Docker
16 12 (0.52%) Firmware
16 12 (0.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 9 (0.39%) Forefront TMG
18 8 (0.35%) pfSense
19 7 (0.31%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 495 (21.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 299 (13.05%) SCCM
3 93 (4.06%) AirWatch
4 76 (3.32%) WSUS
5 58 (2.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 56 (2.44%) SCOM
7 52 (2.27%) vCenter Server
8 37 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
9 34 (1.48%) Backup Exec
10 30 (1.31%) Jamf Pro
11 26 (1.13%) Kubernetes
12 25 (1.09%) FortiGate
13 23 (1.00%) Terraform
14 22 (0.96%) NetBackup
15 20 (0.87%) Microsoft Clustering
16 15 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
17 13 (0.57%) Ansible
18 11 (0.48%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
19 9 (0.39%) Puppet
20 8 (0.35%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1,681 (73.34%) Microsoft
2 730 (31.85%) VMware
3 381 (16.62%) Citrix
4 314 (13.70%) Cisco
5 142 (6.20%) Veeam
6 99 (4.32%) Apple
7 83 (3.62%) Oracle
8 82 (3.58%) ServiceNow
9 79 (3.45%) HP
10 76 (3.32%) Dell
10 76 (3.32%) Google
11 55 (2.40%) Sophos
12 54 (2.36%) Meraki
13 52 (2.27%) Sybase
14 44 (1.92%) OpenLink
14 44 (1.92%) TIBCO
15 41 (1.79%) Aruba
15 41 (1.79%) Bloomberg
16 40 (1.75%) Commvault
17 39 (1.70%) NetApp