Microsoft Exchange Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Exchange Server
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Microsoft Exchange skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Exchange over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 122 94
Rank change year-on-year -3 -28 +12
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 75 94 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.30% 1.66% 2.51%
As % of the Application Platforms category 19.53% 16.07% 20.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 69 126
10th Percentile £196 £159 £150
25th Percentile £267 £213 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £310 £225
Median % change year-on-year +49.99% +37.78% -33.82%
75th Percentile £608 £475 £438
90th Percentile - £545 £552
England median daily rate £400 £425 £325
% change year-on-year -5.88% +30.77% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 12
10th Percentile - - £12.50
25th Percentile - £61.50 £12.97
Median hourly rate £16.00 £63.00 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -74.60% +261.65% +24.61%
75th Percentile - £64.50 £20.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £31.90 £20.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year +59.50% +25.00% +6.28%

All Application Platform Skills
South East

Microsoft Exchange falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 384 585 921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 6.67% 10.33% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 421 607
10th Percentile £254 £244 £187
25th Percentile £325 £345 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £491 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.07% +3.28% +5.56%
75th Percentile £560 £613 £588
90th Percentile £608 £694 £669
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 30 34
10th Percentile £16.15 £22.35 £12.69
25th Percentile £22.61 £46.25 £17.42
Median hourly rate £36.75 £57.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.09% +187.50% -63.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £43.69
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.42 £51.75
England median hourly rate £30.16 £48.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -37.81% +120.45% +12.14%

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 13 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
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 13 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 +6 46 £480 +42.22% 24
Berkshire 0 26 £605 +42.35% 7
Buckinghamshire +14 15 £421 +20.34% 8
Hampshire -12 15 £538 +13.16% 15
Surrey +7 10 £267 -13.79% 9
Oxfordshire +2 5 £145 -42.00% 9
Kent +7 3 £205 +46.43% 17
West Sussex - 1 £375 - 3
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 1 (1.33%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (1.33%) nginx
3 1 (1.33%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (48.00%) Microsoft 365
2 35 (46.67%) Azure
3 22 (29.33%) Entra ID
4 21 (28.00%) Azure Monitor
4 21 (28.00%) 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 42 (56.00%) DHCP
1 42 (56.00%) DNS
2 33 (44.00%) 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 38 (50.67%) 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%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.33%) Banking
7 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Legal
7 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (30.67%) Active Directory Support
2 19 (25.33%) 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 11 (14.67%) Active Directory Engineer
5 9 (12.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 9 (12.00%) IT Engineer
5 9 (12.00%) Test Engineer
6 8 (10.67%) 2nd Line Support
6 8 (10.67%) Integration Engineer
6 8 (10.67%) Test and Integration Engineer
7 7 (9.33%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (8.00%) Desktop Support
9 5 (6.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) IT Support
10 4 (5.33%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (28.00%) 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 40 (53.33%) PKI
2 23 (30.67%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (2.67%) Public Cloud
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 34 (45.33%) Windows Server
3 28 (37.33%) Linux
4 25 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 23 (30.67%) 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
10 1 (1.33%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.33%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.33%) Windows 7
10 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (52.00%) Agile
2 30 (40.00%) ITIL
3 25 (33.33%) Release Management
4 22 (29.33%) Analytics
4 22 (29.33%) CI/CD
4 22 (29.33%) DevOps
4 22 (29.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (29.33%) Service Management
5 21 (28.00%) Identity Management
5 21 (28.00%) Log Analytics
5 21 (28.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 21 (28.00%) Privileged Identity Management
5 21 (28.00%) RBAC
6 14 (18.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (14.67%) 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-Solving
Programming Languages
1 29 (38.67%) PowerShell
2 21 (28.00%) Bicep
2 21 (28.00%) C#
2 21 (28.00%) VB
2 21 (28.00%) VBScript
3 10 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 37 (49.33%) SC Cleared
3 35 (46.67%) Degree
4 25 (33.33%) DV Cleared
5 21 (28.00%) 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 2 (2.67%) SLA
2 1 (1.33%) COBIT
2 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 63 (84.00%) Active Directory
2 24 (32.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (29.33%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (28.00%) 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 33 (44.00%) SCCM
2 27 (36.00%) WSUS
3 23 (30.67%) Kubernetes
4 22 (29.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (28.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (28.00%) 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%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (1.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 65 (86.67%) Microsoft
2 24 (32.00%) VMware
3 6 (8.00%) Qualys
4 4 (5.33%) Avaya
4 4 (5.33%) Cisco
5 3 (4.00%) Ivanti
6 2 (2.67%) Apple
6 2 (2.67%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.67%) Citrix
6 2 (2.67%) Genesys
6 2 (2.67%) Reuters
7 1 (1.33%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.33%) Dell
7 1 (1.33%) Netskope
7 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.33%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.33%) Splunk
7 1 (1.33%) Veeam
7 1 (1.33%) Workday