Hybrid/Remote Microsoft Exchange Job Trends

Microsoft Exchange Server
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Microsoft Exchange skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 205 182
Rank change year-on-year +25 -23 -59
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 347 242 400
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.38% 1.46% 1.91%
As % of the Application Platforms category 22.93% 16.71% 15.84%
Number of salaries quoted 294 177 289
10th Percentile £30,150 £29,150 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +8.24% -10.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £69,817 £77,500 £69,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,513 1,448 2,525
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.03% 8.76% 12.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,117 975 1,746
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £88,750 £114,375
90th Percentile £85,000 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% +4.55%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft Exchange and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft Exchange job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Microsoft Exchange
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Microsoft Exchange.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Exchange
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Microsoft Exchange over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Microsoft Exchange salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Microsoft Exchange
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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
1 235 (67.72%) SharePoint
2 14 (4.03%) IIS
3 4 (1.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.15%) NetSuite
1 4 (1.15%) Shopify
2 2 (0.58%) Carpe Diem
2 2 (0.58%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.29%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 308 (88.76%) Microsoft 365
2 239 (68.88%) Azure
3 225 (64.84%) Entra ID
4 88 (25.36%) OneDrive
5 45 (12.97%) SaaS
6 34 (9.80%) Mimecast
7 30 (8.65%) Power Platform
8 28 (8.07%) Microsoft Copilot
9 22 (6.34%) Serverless
10 17 (4.90%) GitHub
10 17 (4.90%) IaaS
11 16 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (4.61%) Azure Functions
11 16 (4.61%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (4.61%) Microsoft Purview
11 16 (4.61%) PaaS
11 16 (4.61%) Power Automate
12 15 (4.32%) Azure Key Vault
13 13 (3.75%) AWS
14 12 (3.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 104 (29.97%) DNS
2 95 (27.38%) DHCP
3 91 (26.22%) Firewall
4 78 (22.48%) VPN
5 45 (12.97%) Wi-Fi
6 42 (12.10%) TCP/IP
7 39 (11.24%) VLAN
8 32 (9.22%) LAN
8 32 (9.22%) WAN
9 25 (7.20%) VoIP
10 21 (6.05%) Network Security
11 19 (5.48%) Wireless
12 11 (3.17%) SAN
13 8 (2.31%) Remote Desktop
14 5 (1.44%) Internet
14 5 (1.44%) SSL
14 5 (1.44%) WLAN
15 4 (1.15%) SD-WAN
15 4 (1.15%) SMS
16 3 (0.86%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.05%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (0.58%) Metadata
5 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.29%) Power BI
5 1 (0.29%) Redis
5 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (10.09%) JIRA
2 12 (3.46%) Git
3 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 175 (50.43%) Social Skills
2 51 (14.70%) Legal
3 29 (8.36%) Finance
4 25 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.92%) Law
6 23 (6.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (4.03%) Public Sector
8 13 (3.75%) Retail
9 11 (3.17%) Marketing
10 10 (2.88%) Advertising
11 8 (2.31%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.73%) Games
13 5 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.86%) Banking
14 3 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.86%) Police
15 2 (0.58%) Local Government
15 2 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 118 (34.01%) IT Support
2 103 (29.68%) Support Engineer
3 98 (28.24%) IT Engineer
4 82 (23.63%) IT Support Engineer
5 61 (17.58%) Analyst
6 52 (14.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 52 (14.99%) Senior
7 32 (9.22%) Support Analyst
8 30 (8.65%) 3rd Line Support
9 26 (7.49%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 26 (7.49%) Consultant
9 26 (7.49%) IT Analyst
10 24 (6.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 23 (6.63%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 20 (5.76%) Infrastructure Support
12 20 (5.76%) IT Support Analyst
13 18 (5.19%) Administrator
13 18 (5.19%) Infrastructure Analyst
14 17 (4.90%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 16 (4.61%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.61%) Terraform
2 12 (3.46%) Microsoft Graph
3 7 (2.02%) HTML
4 5 (1.44%) REST
4 5 (1.44%) SAML
5 4 (1.15%) CSS
5 4 (1.15%) OAuth
6 3 (0.86%) OpenID
6 3 (0.86%) Web Services
7 2 (0.58%) JSON
7 2 (0.58%) JWT
7 2 (0.58%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.58%) OpenAPI
7 2 (0.58%) Swagger
7 2 (0.58%) XML
8 1 (0.29%) LDAP
8 1 (0.29%) Middleware
8 1 (0.29%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.37%) Onboarding
2 29 (8.36%) Driving Licence
3 20 (5.76%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (4.90%) Security Posture
5 16 (4.61%) Replication
6 13 (3.75%) Management Information System
7 12 (3.46%) Podcast
7 12 (3.46%) Public Cloud
8 11 (3.17%) Clustering
9 10 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (2.88%) Video Conferencing
10 8 (2.31%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.44%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.86%) CCTV
13 3 (0.86%) CMDB
13 3 (0.86%) Smartphone
14 2 (0.58%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 238 (68.59%) Windows
2 133 (38.33%) Windows Server
3 36 (10.37%) macOS
4 24 (6.92%) Windows 10
5 17 (4.90%) Android
6 16 (4.61%) Apple iOS
7 15 (4.32%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (3.75%) Linux
9 12 (3.46%) VMS
9 12 (3.46%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (32.85%) Problem-Solving
2 96 (27.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 90 (25.94%) Continuous Improvement
3 90 (25.94%) Cybersecurity
4 65 (18.73%) Customer Service
5 51 (14.70%) ITIL
6 48 (13.83%) Change Management
6 48 (13.83%) Disaster Recovery
7 45 (12.97%) Service Delivery
8 40 (11.53%) Root Cause Analysis
9 39 (11.24%) Incident Management
10 36 (10.37%) Identity Management
10 36 (10.37%) Technical Leadership
11 34 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
12 33 (9.51%) AI
12 33 (9.51%) Workflow
13 32 (9.22%) Migration
13 32 (9.22%) Project Delivery
14 31 (8.93%) Mentoring
14 31 (8.93%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 87 (25.07%) PowerShell
2 29 (8.36%) SQL
3 26 (7.49%) R
4 16 (4.61%) Bicep
5 14 (4.03%) Bash
5 14 (4.03%) Kusto Query Language
6 9 (2.59%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.15%) VBA
7 4 (1.15%) VBScript
8 3 (0.86%) PHP
9 2 (0.58%) Python
Qualifications
1 58 (16.71%) Degree
2 49 (14.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 33 (9.51%) Azure Certification
4 9 (2.59%) CCNA
4 9 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.31%) A+ Certification
6 7 (2.02%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (1.44%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.44%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.44%) Security Cleared
8 3 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.58%) CEH
9 2 (0.58%) MCSA
10 1 (0.29%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.29%) CISSP
10 1 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.29%) NVQ Level 3
10 1 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.80%) Cyber Essentials
1 34 (9.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (6.92%) SLA
3 6 (1.73%) GDPR
4 2 (0.58%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 243 (70.03%) Active Directory
2 70 (20.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 63 (18.16%) Hyper-V
4 32 (9.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (5.48%) vSphere
6 7 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.73%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.15%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.58%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.58%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.29%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 162 (46.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (5.48%) SCCM
3 10 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (2.59%) Jamf Pro
5 8 (2.31%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (1.15%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.15%) Grafana
7 3 (0.86%) Norton AntiVirus
8 2 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.58%) Autotask
8 2 (0.58%) N-central
8 2 (0.58%) WhatsUp Gold
8 2 (0.58%) WMI
8 2 (0.58%) WSUS
9 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 316 (91.07%) Microsoft
2 80 (23.05%) VMware
3 47 (13.54%) Veeam
4 27 (7.78%) CrowdStrike
5 24 (6.92%) Apple
6 17 (4.90%) Cisco
7 15 (4.32%) Zscaler
8 14 (4.03%) Fortinet
8 14 (4.03%) SonicWALL
9 13 (3.75%) ServiceNow
10 12 (3.46%) ScienceLogic
11 11 (3.17%) Meraki
11 11 (3.17%) Palo Alto
12 10 (2.88%) WatchGuard
13 9 (2.59%) N-able
14 8 (2.31%) Citrix
14 8 (2.31%) iManage
14 8 (2.31%) Sage
15 7 (2.02%) Ubiquiti
16 5 (1.44%) Okta