Microsoft Exchange Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Exchange Server
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 129 103 97
Rank change year-on-year -26 -6 -2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 350 555 855
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.68% 2.42% 2.80%
As % of the Application Platforms category 19.64% 22.10% 22.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 405 638
10th Percentile £150 £145 £145
25th Percentile £213 £185 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £282
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +33.21% -12.44%
75th Percentile £568 £500 £438
90th Percentile £608 £600 £513
UK median daily rate £400 £425 £350
% change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 73
10th Percentile £13.92 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £15.99 £17.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.97% +6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £40.00 £22.00 £18.75
90th Percentile - £26.48 £20.00
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £22.50 £16.23
% change year-on-year +5.78% +38.63% +6.43%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,782 2,511 3,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.55% 10.96% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,212 1,767 2,684
10th Percentile £213 £200 £185
25th Percentile £325 £339 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.70%
75th Percentile £575 £576 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 101 138
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.50 £13.36
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.00 £14.45
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +116.22% -2.63%
75th Percentile £51.91 £64.50 £44.03
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £30.08 £51.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year -41.31% +127.78% +9.76%

Microsoft Exchange
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft Exchange as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Exchange in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Exchange
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East -9 75 £465 +49.99% 77
South West -7 63 £439 -10.13% 51
North of England -15 61 £363 +7.41% 103
Midlands -10 58 £350 +7.69% 58
West Midlands +9 44 £375 - 38
Scotland +28 43 £250 +19.05% 18
East of England +9 38 £550 +24.65% 42
North West -8 30 £375 -11.76% 54
Yorkshire -4 28 £350 +27.27% 43
East Midlands -14 14 £150 -17.24% 20
Wales -18 11 £139 -73.51% 6
North East +11 3 £195 +41.82% 6
Northern Ireland -6 1 - - 3
Microsoft Exchange
UK

Microsoft Exchange
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 100 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 30 (8.57%) Confluence
3 9 (2.57%) IIS
4 8 (2.29%) Exchange Server 2013
5 6 (1.71%) Exchange Server 2007
6 5 (1.43%) Exchange Server 2010
7 4 (1.14%) Exchange Server 2000
7 4 (1.14%) Exchange Server 2003
8 3 (0.86%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.57%) nginx
9 2 (0.57%) WordPress
10 1 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 37 (10.57%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.29%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.29%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.29%) assyst
2 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.29%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 208 (59.43%) Microsoft 365
2 130 (37.14%) Azure
3 68 (19.43%) Entra ID
4 57 (16.29%) OneDrive
5 29 (8.29%) Azure Monitor
6 24 (6.86%) Power Platform
7 20 (5.71%) Azure Storage
8 14 (4.00%) PowerApps
9 13 (3.71%) Power Automate
10 9 (2.57%) AWS
11 7 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.71%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.14%) OpenShift
14 2 (0.57%) Azure Sentinel
14 2 (0.57%) Azure Stack
14 2 (0.57%) Google Workspace
14 2 (0.57%) Mimecast
14 2 (0.57%) PaaS
14 2 (0.57%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 84 (24.00%) DNS
2 74 (21.14%) DHCP
3 70 (20.00%) Firewall
4 26 (7.43%) VPN
5 24 (6.86%) SAN
6 21 (6.00%) SMTP
7 17 (4.86%) LAN
8 16 (4.57%) VLAN
8 16 (4.57%) WAN
9 15 (4.29%) TCP/IP
10 13 (3.71%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (2.86%) NAS
11 10 (2.86%) Skype
11 10 (2.86%) Wireless
12 9 (2.57%) Unified Communications
13 8 (2.29%) MPLS
14 7 (2.00%) Fibre Channel
14 7 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
15 6 (1.71%) iSCSI
15 6 (1.71%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.86%) Power BI
2 14 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.14%) Big Data
6 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 36 (10.29%) JIRA
2 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.29%) GitLab
2 1 (0.29%) Hudson
General
1 142 (40.57%) Social Skills
2 43 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (10.57%) Public Sector
4 20 (5.71%) Military
5 14 (4.00%) Finance
6 10 (2.86%) Manufacturing
7 9 (2.57%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.43%) Legal
8 5 (1.43%) Local Government
8 5 (1.43%) Marketing
9 4 (1.14%) Automotive
9 4 (1.14%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.86%) Advertising
10 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.57%) Banking
11 2 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.29%) Electronics
12 1 (0.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (16.86%) Analyst
2 46 (13.14%) Support Engineer
3 42 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 38 (10.86%) IT Support
5 29 (8.29%) IT Engineer
6 26 (7.43%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 25 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
8 24 (6.86%) Exchange Engineer
9 23 (6.57%) Service Analyst
9 23 (6.57%) Service Desk Analyst
10 22 (6.29%) Active Directory Support
11 19 (5.43%) IT Analyst
11 19 (5.43%) Senior
12 18 (5.14%) IT Support Engineer
12 18 (5.14%) Test Engineer
13 17 (4.86%) Messaging Engineer
14 16 (4.57%) Integration Engineer
14 16 (4.57%) Support Analyst
14 16 (4.57%) Test and Integration Engineer
15 15 (4.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.71%) ARM Templates
2 5 (1.43%) LDAP
3 4 (1.14%) REST
3 4 (1.14%) XMPP
4 2 (0.57%) .NET
4 2 (0.57%) ADSI
4 2 (0.57%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.57%) LAMP
5 1 (0.29%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.29%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.29%) COM
5 1 (0.29%) HTML
5 1 (0.29%) HTML5
5 1 (0.29%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (18.00%) PKI
2 26 (7.43%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (5.14%) Clustering
4 16 (4.57%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.29%) Client/Server
6 6 (1.71%) Digital Signage
6 6 (1.71%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.43%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (0.86%) NHS
9 3 (0.86%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.57%) Blackberry
10 2 (0.57%) BYOD
10 2 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.57%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.57%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.57%) Replication
10 2 (0.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 241 (68.86%) Windows
2 124 (35.43%) Windows Server
3 67 (19.14%) Windows 10
4 51 (14.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 44 (12.57%) Linux
5 44 (12.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 31 (8.86%) Windows Server 2012
7 15 (4.29%) VMS
8 12 (3.43%) Apple iOS
8 12 (3.43%) Unix
9 10 (2.86%) Mac OS
10 9 (2.57%) Android
11 7 (2.00%) Windows 7
11 7 (2.00%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (1.14%) Ubuntu
12 4 (1.14%) Windows 2000
12 4 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.57%) CentOS
14 1 (0.29%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (23.43%) ITIL
2 61 (17.43%) Agile
3 53 (15.14%) Customer Service
4 48 (13.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 44 (12.57%) Migration
6 35 (10.00%) Identity Management
7 32 (9.14%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (8.86%) Service Management
9 30 (8.57%) DevOps
10 29 (8.29%) CI/CD
10 29 (8.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 25 (7.14%) Problem Management
12 24 (6.86%) Analytics
12 24 (6.86%) Release Management
13 21 (6.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 20 (5.71%) Business Intelligence
14 20 (5.71%) Change Management
14 20 (5.71%) Critical Thinking
14 20 (5.71%) Privileged Identity Management
14 20 (5.71%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 99 (28.29%) PowerShell
2 40 (11.43%) SQL
3 20 (5.71%) Bicep
3 20 (5.71%) C#
3 20 (5.71%) VB
3 20 (5.71%) VBScript
4 1 (0.29%) Bash
4 1 (0.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 106 (30.29%) Security Cleared
2 88 (25.14%) Degree
3 85 (24.29%) SC Cleared
4 47 (13.43%) DV Cleared
5 35 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (8.00%) MCSE
7 24 (6.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 22 (6.29%) MCSA
8 22 (6.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 15 (4.29%) CCNA
9 15 (4.29%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (3.71%) MCP
11 4 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.14%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.86%) APMG
12 3 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.86%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 2 (0.57%) MCITP
14 1 (0.29%) HNC
14 1 (0.29%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.29%) SLA
2 6 (1.71%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.29%) COBIT
4 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 272 (77.71%) Active Directory
2 62 (17.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (9.14%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (8.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 21 (6.00%) Hyper-V
6 19 (5.43%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (4.00%) vSphere
8 10 (2.86%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (2.29%) VMware Workstation
10 6 (1.71%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (1.43%) BitLocker
11 5 (1.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 5 (1.43%) Terminal Services
11 5 (1.43%) VMware NSX
11 5 (1.43%) XenApp
11 5 (1.43%) XenDesktop
12 4 (1.14%) Firmware
13 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.29%) Citrix Presentation Server
14 1 (0.29%) NFS
Systems Management
1 86 (24.57%) SCCM
2 73 (20.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 34 (9.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 34 (9.71%) WSUS
4 26 (7.43%) Kubernetes
5 25 (7.14%) SCOM
6 15 (4.29%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (4.00%) MAILsweeper
8 11 (3.14%) vCenter Server
9 9 (2.57%) Microsoft Clustering
10 8 (2.29%) Nagios
10 8 (2.29%) NetBackup
11 7 (2.00%) Ansible
11 7 (2.00%) Nessus
12 6 (1.71%) Terraform
13 4 (1.14%) vMotion
14 3 (0.86%) AppManager
15 2 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
15 2 (0.57%) OPNET
15 2 (0.57%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 228 (65.14%) Microsoft
2 87 (24.86%) VMware
3 31 (8.86%) Citrix
4 17 (4.86%) Sophos
5 14 (4.00%) Cisco
5 14 (4.00%) NetApp
5 14 (4.00%) Trend Micro
6 11 (3.14%) Atlassian
7 8 (2.29%) Hitachi
7 8 (2.29%) Oracle
8 7 (2.00%) CA
9 6 (1.71%) HP
9 6 (1.71%) Qualys
10 5 (1.43%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.43%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.43%) Veeam
11 4 (1.14%) Avaya
11 4 (1.14%) Infoblox
11 4 (1.14%) Ivanti
11 4 (1.14%) SolarWinds