Microsoft Exchange Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Exchange Server
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Microsoft Exchange skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft Exchange over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 117 94
Rank change year-on-year -9 -23 +14
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 75 96 195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.33% 1.69% 2.54%
As % of the Application Platforms category 20.44% 16.41% 20.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 69 130
10th Percentile £193 £159 £149
25th Percentile £264 £213 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £310 £225
Median % change year-on-year +49.99% +37.78% -35.71%
75th Percentile £608 £475 £436
90th Percentile - £533 £550
England median daily rate £400 £425 £325
% change year-on-year -5.88% +30.77% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 12
10th Percentile £17.40 - £12.50
25th Percentile £19.50 £61.50 £12.97
Median hourly rate £23.00 £63.00 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -63.49% +261.65% +24.61%
75th Percentile £26.50 £64.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £28.60 - -
England median hourly rate £23.80 £20.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year +19.00% +25.00% +13.84%

All Application Platform Skills
South East

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 367 585 932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 6.50% 10.32% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 423 611
10th Percentile £251 £250 £185
25th Percentile £325 £350 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £560 £611 £585
90th Percentile £608 £694 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 30 34
10th Percentile £16.15 £22.16 £12.69
25th Percentile £22.61 £46.25 £17.42
Median hourly rate £32.91 £57.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.76% +187.50% -64.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £43.69
90th Percentile £74.50 £75.42 £51.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £46.25 £20.57
% change year-on-year -35.14% +124.90% +4.15%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Microsoft Exchange as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Exchange in the South East

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the South East

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the South East

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the South East

Microsoft Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the South East

Microsoft Exchange
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Exchange within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +20 46 £472 +40.00% 23
Berkshire +1 25 £605 +42.35% 7
Buckinghamshire +20 16 £421 +29.60% 6
Hampshire -7 15 £538 -6.52% 11
Surrey +6 10 £267 -13.79% 10
Oxfordshire +5 5 £145 -42.00% 10
Kent +4 3 £205 +46.43% 16
West Sussex - 1 £375 - 2
Microsoft Exchange
England

Microsoft Exchange
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (14.67%) Confluence
2 8 (10.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.67%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (1.33%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.33%) nginx
4 1 (1.33%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
2 34 (45.33%) Azure
3 21 (28.00%) Entra ID
4 20 (26.67%) Azure Monitor
4 20 (26.67%) Azure Storage
5 5 (6.67%) AWS
6 3 (4.00%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.33%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.33%) GitHub
7 1 (1.33%) NuGet
7 1 (1.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (54.67%) DHCP
1 41 (54.67%) DNS
2 32 (42.67%) Firewall
3 13 (17.33%) VLAN
4 10 (13.33%) TCP/IP
5 9 (12.00%) VPN
6 6 (8.00%) Wireless
7 5 (6.67%) WebEx
8 4 (5.33%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (5.33%) iSCSI
8 4 (5.33%) NAS
8 4 (5.33%) SAN
8 4 (5.33%) SSL
8 4 (5.33%) VoIP
9 3 (4.00%) LAN
9 3 (4.00%) WAN
9 3 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (2.67%) Skype
11 1 (1.33%) Unified Communications
11 1 (1.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (17.33%) JIRA
2 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.33%) GitLab
General
1 37 (49.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (12.00%) Military
4 6 (8.00%) Finance
5 4 (5.33%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.67%) Banking
6 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Legal
7 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (29.33%) Active Directory Support
2 18 (24.00%) Support Engineer
3 14 (18.67%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (18.67%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (18.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (18.67%) Support Specialist
4 10 (13.33%) Active Directory Engineer
5 9 (12.00%) IT Engineer
5 9 (12.00%) Test Engineer
6 8 (10.67%) 2nd Line Support
6 8 (10.67%) Active Directory Support Engineer
6 8 (10.67%) Integration Engineer
6 8 (10.67%) Test and Integration Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Desktop Support
8 5 (6.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) IT Support
9 4 (5.33%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (26.67%) ARM Templates
2 4 (5.33%) XMPP
3 1 (1.33%) .NET
3 1 (1.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.33%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (52.00%) PKI
2 22 (29.33%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.33%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (2.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.33%) Clustering
5 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 51 (68.00%) Windows
2 33 (44.00%) Windows Server
3 27 (36.00%) Linux
4 24 (32.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 22 (29.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (16.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (12.00%) Windows 10
8 4 (5.33%) Unix
9 2 (2.67%) Apple iOS
9 2 (2.67%) Windows 7
10 1 (1.33%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.33%) Mac OS X
10 1 (1.33%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (50.67%) Agile
2 30 (40.00%) ITIL
3 24 (32.00%) Release Management
4 21 (28.00%) Analytics
4 21 (28.00%) CI/CD
4 21 (28.00%) DevOps
4 21 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (28.00%) Service Management
5 20 (26.67%) Identity Management
5 20 (26.67%) Log Analytics
5 20 (26.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 20 (26.67%) Privileged Identity Management
5 20 (26.67%) RBAC
6 14 (18.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (16.00%) Customer Service
8 9 (12.00%) Critical Thinking
8 9 (12.00%) Regression Testing
8 9 (12.00%) Test Scripting
9 8 (10.67%) Incident Management
10 7 (9.33%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (37.33%) PowerShell
2 20 (26.67%) Bicep
2 20 (26.67%) C#
2 20 (26.67%) VB
2 20 (26.67%) VBScript
3 10 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (50.67%) Security Cleared
2 36 (48.00%) SC Cleared
3 34 (45.33%) Degree
4 24 (32.00%) DV Cleared
5 20 (26.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 15 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (17.33%) MCSE
7 13 (17.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 9 (12.00%) MCSA
9 4 (5.33%) CCNA
9 4 (5.33%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.00%) SLA
2 1 (1.33%) COBIT
2 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 62 (82.67%) Active Directory
2 24 (32.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (28.00%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (26.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (14.67%) vSphere
6 5 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (5.33%) Firmware
8 2 (2.67%) Hyper-V
9 1 (1.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (42.67%) SCCM
2 26 (34.67%) WSUS
3 22 (29.33%) Kubernetes
4 21 (28.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (26.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 20 (26.67%) SCOM
6 7 (9.33%) Nessus
7 3 (4.00%) Ansible
7 3 (4.00%) AppManager
8 2 (2.67%) Terraform
9 1 (1.33%) AirWatch
9 1 (1.33%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (1.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 64 (85.33%) Microsoft
2 24 (32.00%) VMware
3 6 (8.00%) Qualys
4 5 (6.67%) Cisco
5 4 (5.33%) Avaya
6 3 (4.00%) Apple
6 3 (4.00%) Ivanti
7 2 (2.67%) Bloomberg
7 2 (2.67%) Citrix
7 2 (2.67%) Genesys
7 2 (2.67%) Reuters
8 1 (1.33%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.33%) Dell
8 1 (1.33%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.33%) HP
8 1 (1.33%) Remedy
8 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.33%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.33%) Splunk
8 1 (1.33%) Veeam