Microsoft Exchange Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Exchange Server
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 117 102 75
Rank change year-on-year -15 -27 -5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 61 112 217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.29% 2.02% 3.03%
As % of the Application Platforms category 15.48% 22.90% 24.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 76 165
10th Percentile £150 £147 £155
25th Percentile £190 £180 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £338 £260
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +29.81% +23.81%
75th Percentile £500 £449 £438
90th Percentile £640 £538 £492
England median daily rate £400 £425 £325
% change year-on-year -5.88% +30.77% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 21
10th Percentile - £13.85 £15.04
25th Percentile £13.25 £15.63 £16.23
Median hourly rate £14.50 £19.31 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.91% +10.34% +2.94%
75th Percentile £15.75 £23.00 £19.25
90th Percentile - £24.80 £20.00
England median hourly rate £23.80 £20.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year +19.00% +25.00% +13.84%

All Application Platform Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 394 489 890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 8.30% 8.82% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 335 637
10th Percentile £239 £196 £169
25th Percentile £329 £318 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +2.27% +6.67%
75th Percentile £584 £549 £525
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 16 52
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £16.02
25th Percentile £13.44 £16.53 £17.00
Median hourly rate £15.23 £22.25 £24.45
Median % change year-on-year -31.55% -8.99% +39.70%
75th Percentile £45.00 £26.69 £75.00
90th Percentile £46.18 £36.88 £77.50
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Exchange in the North of England

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the North of England

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the North of England

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the North of England

Microsoft Exchange
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West -8 30 £375 -11.76% 54
Yorkshire -4 28 £350 +27.27% 43
North East +11 3 £195 +41.82% 6
Microsoft Exchange
England

Microsoft Exchange
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 19 (31.15%) SharePoint
2 6 (9.84%) IIS
3 1 (1.64%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (1.64%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (1.64%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (13.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 51 (83.61%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (37.70%) Azure
3 12 (19.67%) Entra ID
4 4 (6.56%) AWS
5 2 (3.28%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Stack
6 1 (1.64%) GCP
6 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.64%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.64%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.67%) Firewall
2 8 (13.11%) VPN
3 5 (8.20%) DNS
4 4 (6.56%) NAS
4 4 (6.56%) SAN
5 3 (4.92%) DHCP
6 2 (3.28%) VLAN
7 1 (1.64%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.64%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.64%) HTTP
7 1 (1.64%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.64%) LAN
7 1 (1.64%) SMTP
7 1 (1.64%) SNMP
7 1 (1.64%) SSH
7 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.64%) WAN
7 1 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.64%) Wireless
7 1 (1.64%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.56%) Big Data
2 2 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Hudson
General
1 23 (37.70%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.84%) Finance
3 4 (6.56%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.64%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 10 (16.39%) IT Support
2 9 (14.75%) Support Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (13.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 7 (11.48%) Senior
5 6 (9.84%) Analyst
5 6 (9.84%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) Wintel Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Migration Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) 1st Line Support
7 4 (6.56%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (6.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Data Centre Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Data Migration Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Desktop Support
7 4 (6.56%) Exchange Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Service Analyst
7 4 (6.56%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.28%) ADSI
1 2 (3.28%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.84%) Clustering
3 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.28%) PKI
3 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (65.57%) Windows
2 15 (24.59%) Windows Server
3 10 (16.39%) Windows 10
4 7 (11.48%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (11.48%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (9.84%) VMS
6 4 (6.56%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (3.28%) Linux
7 2 (3.28%) Windows 7
7 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.64%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.64%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.15%) Customer Service
2 14 (22.95%) Migration
3 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (9.84%) ITIL
4 6 (9.84%) Server Virtualisation
5 5 (8.20%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (6.56%) CI/CD
6 4 (6.56%) DevOps
6 4 (6.56%) Network Virtualisation
7 3 (4.92%) Patch Management
7 3 (4.92%) Service Management
8 2 (3.28%) Break/Fix
8 2 (3.28%) Data Migration
8 2 (3.28%) Data Protection
8 2 (3.28%) High Availability
8 2 (3.28%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (3.28%) Project Delivery
8 2 (3.28%) Project Management
8 2 (3.28%) Service Migration
9 1 (1.64%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.39%) PowerShell
2 5 (8.20%) SQL
3 1 (1.64%) Bash
3 1 (1.64%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (8.20%) Degree
2 4 (6.56%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.28%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.28%) MCITP
4 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.64%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) SLA
2 1 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.64%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 56 (91.80%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.11%) Hyper-V
3 6 (9.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.28%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.64%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.64%) NFS
5 1 (1.64%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 11 (18.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (6.56%) SCCM
2 4 (6.56%) Terraform
3 2 (3.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.64%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.64%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.64%) vMotion
Vendors
1 42 (68.85%) Microsoft
2 15 (24.59%) VMware
3 4 (6.56%) Cisco
4 2 (3.28%) Bomgar
4 2 (3.28%) Citrix
4 2 (3.28%) HP
4 2 (3.28%) iManage
4 2 (3.28%) Meraki
4 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.28%) Veeam
5 1 (1.64%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.64%) Google
5 1 (1.64%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.64%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (1.64%) Proofpoint
5 1 (1.64%) Sophos
5 1 (1.64%) Symantec
5 1 (1.64%) Ubiquiti