Microsoft Exchange Contracts in England

Microsoft Exchange Server
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 162 151 161
Rank change year-on-year -11 +10 -13
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 557 848 1,270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.51% 1.78% 1.80%
As % of the Application Platforms category 15.50% 16.72% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 650 950
10th Percentile £181 £155 £152
25th Percentile £250 £235 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £325
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +30.77% -7.14%
75th Percentile £569 £580 £488
90th Percentile £649 £725 £575
UK median daily rate £400 £425 £350
% change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 22 79
10th Percentile - £14.25 £13.35
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.83 £14.13
Median hourly rate £23.80 £20.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.00% +25.00% +13.84%
75th Percentile £40.00 £25.63 £19.13
90th Percentile - £26.48 £20.55
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £22.50 £16.23
% change year-on-year +5.78% +38.63% +6.43%

All Application Platform Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,594 5,072 8,830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.73% 10.62% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,584 3,619 6,156
10th Percentile £258 £263 £263
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +7.37%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £788 £764 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 132 186
10th Percentile £13.05 £16.14 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.48 £21.00 £15.44
Median hourly rate £30.00 £46.25 £20.57
Median % change year-on-year -35.14% +124.90% +4.15%
75th Percentile £46.18 £65.81 £52.93
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.07 £76.58
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Exchange in England

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in England.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in England

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in England

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in England.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in England

Microsoft Exchange
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in England

Microsoft Exchange
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London +10 250 £380 -24.00% 85
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
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
North East +11 3 £195 +41.82% 6
Microsoft Exchange
UK

Microsoft Exchange
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 163 (29.26%) SharePoint
2 36 (6.46%) Exchange Server 2010
3 33 (5.92%) Exchange Server 2013
4 23 (4.13%) Skype for Business
5 22 (3.95%) Exchange Server 2007
6 21 (3.77%) Confluence
7 16 (2.87%) Exchange Server 2003
8 14 (2.51%) IIS
9 5 (0.90%) CMS
10 4 (0.72%) Exchange Server 2000
11 3 (0.54%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.36%) Exchange Server 5.5
12 2 (0.36%) nginx
12 2 (0.36%) WordPress
13 1 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.18%) IBM Notes
13 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
13 1 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 63 (11.31%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.18%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 5 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.36%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.36%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.36%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 332 (59.61%) Microsoft 365
2 217 (38.96%) Azure
3 108 (19.39%) Entra ID
4 86 (15.44%) OneDrive
5 39 (7.00%) Power Platform
6 30 (5.39%) Azure Monitor
7 24 (4.31%) Mimecast
8 21 (3.77%) Azure Storage
9 19 (3.41%) AWS
10 18 (3.23%) Power Automate
11 16 (2.87%) PowerApps
12 13 (2.33%) IaaS
12 13 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
13 12 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (1.62%) PaaS
15 7 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
16 6 (1.08%) WhatsApp
17 5 (0.90%) SaaS
17 5 (0.90%) Tricentis Tosca
18 4 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 126 (22.62%) DNS
2 101 (18.13%) Firewall
3 88 (15.80%) DHCP
4 47 (8.44%) SAN
5 41 (7.36%) VPN
6 31 (5.57%) Skype
7 26 (4.67%) LAN
8 25 (4.49%) WAN
9 21 (3.77%) TCP/IP
10 19 (3.41%) SMTP
10 19 (3.41%) Wi-Fi
11 18 (3.23%) NAS
12 16 (2.87%) VLAN
13 15 (2.69%) Wireless
14 14 (2.51%) MPLS
15 12 (2.15%) VoIP
16 11 (1.97%) Unified Communications
17 8 (1.44%) Internet
18 7 (1.26%) Cisco IOS
18 7 (1.26%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.85%) SQL Server
2 21 (3.77%) Power BI
3 6 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.72%) Big Data
4 4 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.54%) Data Mart
5 3 (0.54%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.18%) MySQL
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 30 (5.39%) JIRA
2 5 (0.90%) Hudson
2 5 (0.90%) LoadRunner
2 5 (0.90%) NeoLoad
3 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.36%) Selenium
4 1 (0.18%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.18%) Gatling
4 1 (0.18%) GitLab
4 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.18%) JMeter
4 1 (0.18%) Maven
4 1 (0.18%) Postman
4 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 205 (36.80%) Social Skills
2 77 (13.82%) Finance
3 64 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (7.36%) Public Sector
5 40 (7.18%) Banking
6 21 (3.77%) Military
7 19 (3.41%) Legal
8 13 (2.33%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (1.97%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.62%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.62%) Law
12 8 (1.44%) French Language
12 8 (1.44%) Marketing
12 8 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.26%) Local Government
13 7 (1.26%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.90%) Advertising
14 5 (0.90%) Front Office
14 5 (0.90%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (14.00%) Support Engineer
2 66 (11.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 63 (11.31%) Analyst
4 40 (7.18%) IT Support
5 36 (6.46%) Architect
6 32 (5.75%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 31 (5.57%) Senior
8 30 (5.39%) IT Engineer
8 30 (5.39%) Service Analyst
8 30 (5.39%) Service Desk Analyst
9 29 (5.21%) 2nd Line Support
9 29 (5.21%) Desktop Support
10 25 (4.49%) Administrator
11 22 (3.95%) Active Directory Support
11 22 (3.95%) Desktop Engineer
12 21 (3.77%) IT Support Engineer
13 20 (3.59%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 19 (3.41%) Integration Engineer
15 18 (3.23%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 18 (3.23%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.59%) ARM Templates
2 6 (1.08%) SailPoint
2 6 (1.08%) XMPP
3 5 (0.90%) .NET
3 5 (0.90%) LDAP
4 4 (0.72%) .NET Framework
4 4 (0.72%) REST
5 3 (0.54%) Murex MxML
5 3 (0.54%) Software Packaging
6 2 (0.36%) ADSI
6 2 (0.36%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.36%) JSON
6 2 (0.36%) LAMP
6 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.36%) YAML
7 1 (0.18%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.18%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.18%) Playwright
7 1 (0.18%) React
7 1 (0.18%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 80 (14.36%) PKI
2 33 (5.92%) Self-Motivation
3 32 (5.75%) Data Centre
4 24 (4.31%) Management Information System
4 24 (4.31%) Video Conferencing
5 18 (3.23%) Clustering
6 13 (2.33%) Smartphone
7 11 (1.97%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.80%) Blackberry
9 9 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.44%) Client/Server
11 7 (1.26%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.08%) Digital Signage
13 5 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.90%) Hedge funds
13 5 (0.90%) iPhone
14 4 (0.72%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.72%) Replication
14 4 (0.72%) Virtual Team
15 3 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 367 (65.89%) Windows
2 179 (32.14%) Windows Server
3 87 (15.62%) Windows 10
4 69 (12.39%) Windows Server 2012
5 60 (10.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 51 (9.16%) Linux
7 45 (8.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 29 (5.21%) Windows Server 2008
9 27 (4.85%) Windows 7
10 22 (3.95%) Android
11 19 (3.41%) VMS
11 19 (3.41%) Windows Server 2003
12 17 (3.05%) Unix
13 14 (2.51%) Apple iOS
14 11 (1.97%) Mac OS
15 8 (1.44%) Mac OS X
16 4 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 4 (0.72%) Ubuntu
16 4 (0.72%) Windows 2000
17 3 (0.54%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (21.01%) ITIL
2 96 (17.24%) Customer Service
3 95 (17.06%) Migration
4 82 (14.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 76 (13.64%) Agile
6 60 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (7.54%) Service Management
8 39 (7.00%) Change Management
9 36 (6.46%) DevOps
9 36 (6.46%) Project Management
10 34 (6.10%) Identity Management
10 34 (6.10%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 31 (5.57%) CI/CD
12 29 (5.21%) Analytics
12 29 (5.21%) Release Management
13 28 (5.03%) Project Delivery
14 27 (4.85%) Business Intelligence
14 27 (4.85%) Data Protection
14 27 (4.85%) RBAC
14 27 (4.85%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 128 (22.98%) PowerShell
2 55 (9.87%) SQL
3 21 (3.77%) C#
4 20 (3.59%) Bicep
4 20 (3.59%) VB
4 20 (3.59%) VBScript
5 3 (0.54%) Java
5 3 (0.54%) Python
6 2 (0.36%) Bash
6 2 (0.36%) VBA
7 1 (0.18%) C++
7 1 (0.18%) Perl
7 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 127 (22.80%) Security Cleared
2 103 (18.49%) Degree
3 93 (16.70%) SC Cleared
4 54 (9.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 47 (8.44%) DV Cleared
6 30 (5.39%) MCSE
7 26 (4.67%) MCSA
8 22 (3.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 20 (3.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 18 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (3.05%) CCNA
12 14 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (2.33%) MCP
14 12 (2.15%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.72%) Azure Certification
16 3 (0.54%) APMG
16 3 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
16 3 (0.54%) CCNP
16 3 (0.54%) Master's Degree
16 3 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.10%) SLA
2 9 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.08%) QA
4 3 (0.54%) COBIT
4 3 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.54%) GDPR
4 3 (0.54%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.36%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.36%) NCSC
5 2 (0.36%) PMO
6 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.18%) GLBA
6 1 (0.18%) ISAE 3402
6 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.18%) NIST
6 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 414 (74.33%) Active Directory
2 94 (16.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (6.28%) Virtual Desktop
3 35 (6.28%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (4.31%) Hyper-V
4 24 (4.31%) vSphere
5 18 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (2.33%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (1.44%) VMware Workstation
8 7 (1.26%) XenApp
9 6 (1.08%) XenDesktop
10 5 (0.90%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 5 (0.90%) Firmware
10 5 (0.90%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.72%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.72%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.54%) KVM
12 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 2 (0.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 119 (21.36%) SCCM
2 109 (19.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 40 (7.18%) SCOM
4 36 (6.46%) WSUS
5 31 (5.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 30 (5.39%) Kubernetes
7 18 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (2.51%) MAILsweeper
9 12 (2.15%) NetBackup
10 11 (1.97%) Microsoft Clustering
11 9 (1.62%) Nessus
11 9 (1.62%) Terraform
12 8 (1.44%) Ansible
12 8 (1.44%) Nagios
12 8 (1.44%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.90%) CASB
13 5 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.90%) PingFederate
13 5 (0.90%) SCVMM
14 3 (0.54%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 348 (62.48%) Microsoft
2 130 (23.34%) VMware
3 68 (12.21%) Citrix
4 40 (7.18%) Cisco
5 27 (4.85%) HP
6 23 (4.13%) Avaya
7 18 (3.23%) Dell
7 18 (3.23%) EMC
7 18 (3.23%) ServiceNow
8 17 (3.05%) NetApp
8 17 (3.05%) Sophos
8 17 (3.05%) Trend Micro
9 15 (2.69%) Apple
9 15 (2.69%) Oracle
10 12 (2.15%) CheckPoint
11 11 (1.97%) SolarWinds
12 10 (1.80%) Veeam
13 8 (1.44%) Hitachi
13 8 (1.44%) Mitel
14 7 (1.26%) CA