Microsoft Exchange Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Exchange Server
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 80 95
Rank change year-on-year -16 +15 -22
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 63 84 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.91% 2.48% 2.05%
As % of the Application Platforms category 21.07% 21.88% 18.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 59 59
10th Percentile £154 £161 £125
25th Percentile £215 £350 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £490 £325
Median % change year-on-year -10.36% +50.77% -3.70%
75th Percentile £556 £588 £497
90th Percentile £600 £600 £538
England median daily rate £400 £425 £325
% change year-on-year -5.88% +30.77% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £14.61 £13.87
Median hourly rate £40.00 £15.03 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year +166.22% -4.54% -14.92%
75th Percentile - £15.44 £17.61
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 299 384 408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.06% 11.33% 11.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 281 304
10th Percentile £220 £263 £209
25th Percentile £363 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £590 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £719 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 25 3
10th Percentile - £17.50 -
25th Percentile - £53.75 £13.87
Median hourly rate £40.00 £66.00 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% +319.31% -55.03%
75th Percentile £72.50 £78.00 £17.81
90th Percentile £74.44 £86.60 £17.92
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Exchange in the South West

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the South West

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Exchange in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Exchange in the South West

Microsoft Exchange
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Exchange in the South West

Microsoft Exchange
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Devon +4 15 £550 +303.67% 5
Wiltshire -15 15 £538 -2.27% 16
Bristol +7 14 £347 +63.29% 9
Somerset +6 9 £195 -67.50% 8
Gloucestershire -13 8 £425 -29.17% 7
Microsoft Exchange
England

Microsoft Exchange
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 18 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 9 (14.29%) Confluence
3 2 (3.17%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (1.59%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (17.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (50.79%) Azure
2 30 (47.62%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (26.98%) Entra ID
4 15 (23.81%) Power Platform
5 14 (22.22%) OneDrive
6 8 (12.70%) Microsoft Purview
7 7 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
7 7 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (7.94%) PowerApps
9 4 (6.35%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (6.35%) OpenShift
9 4 (6.35%) Power Automate
10 2 (3.17%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (3.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (30.16%) DNS
2 18 (28.57%) DHCP
3 14 (22.22%) Firewall
4 13 (20.63%) SAN
5 10 (15.87%) LAN
5 10 (15.87%) WAN
6 9 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (12.70%) MPLS
8 5 (7.94%) Skype
9 1 (1.59%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (1.59%) FTP
9 1 (1.59%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (1.59%) SMTP
9 1 (1.59%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.59%) Unified Communications
9 1 (1.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.46%) Power BI
2 10 (15.87%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.94%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 13 (20.63%) JIRA
General
1 32 (50.79%) Social Skills
2 19 (30.16%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (15.87%) Military
4 8 (12.70%) Aerospace
5 4 (6.35%) Local Government
5 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (30.16%) Analyst
2 13 (20.63%) IT Analyst
3 9 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 8 (12.70%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (12.70%) Integration Engineer
4 8 (12.70%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (12.70%) Test and Integration Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 6 (9.52%) Technical Support
7 5 (7.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Support Analyst
7 5 (7.94%) Technical Analyst
7 5 (7.94%) Technical Support Analyst
8 4 (6.35%) Administrator
8 4 (6.35%) Architect
8 4 (6.35%) Consultant
8 4 (6.35%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
8 4 (6.35%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.05%) PKI
2 8 (12.70%) Client/Server
2 8 (12.70%) Clustering
2 8 (12.70%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.17%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.59%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 42 (66.67%) Windows
2 19 (30.16%) Windows Server
3 13 (20.63%) Windows Server 2012
4 12 (19.05%) Windows 10
5 8 (12.70%) Unix
6 7 (11.11%) VMS
7 6 (9.52%) Linux
8 5 (7.94%) Android
8 5 (7.94%) Mac OS
9 2 (3.17%) CentOS
9 2 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (3.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.98%) Migration
2 13 (20.63%) ITIL
3 11 (17.46%) Agile
3 11 (17.46%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (17.46%) Containerisation
3 11 (17.46%) Critical Thinking
4 10 (15.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 9 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 9 (14.29%) Regression Testing
5 9 (14.29%) Test Scripting
6 8 (12.70%) Application Packaging
6 8 (12.70%) Asset Management
6 8 (12.70%) Business Transformation
6 8 (12.70%) Capacity Management
6 8 (12.70%) Capacity Planning
6 8 (12.70%) Data Migration
6 8 (12.70%) Network Management
6 8 (12.70%) Server Management
7 7 (11.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (31.75%) SQL
2 18 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 23 (36.51%) SC Cleared
3 14 (22.22%) Degree
4 11 (17.46%) MCSE
4 11 (17.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (14.29%) MCSA
5 9 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.59%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) SLA
2 1 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 54 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 25 (39.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (12.70%) VMware Workstation
5 5 (7.94%) Hyper-V
6 4 (6.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (6.35%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (6.35%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.59%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 13 (20.63%) Microsoft Intune
1 13 (20.63%) SCCM
2 8 (12.70%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (12.70%) Nagios
2 8 (12.70%) NetBackup
3 7 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (6.35%) Ansible
4 4 (6.35%) Kubernetes
4 4 (6.35%) WSUS
5 2 (3.17%) SCDPM
5 2 (3.17%) SCVMM
6 1 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.59%) Backup Exec
6 1 (1.59%) HP SIM
6 1 (1.59%) OPNET
6 1 (1.59%) SCOM
6 1 (1.59%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 39 (61.90%) Microsoft
2 26 (41.27%) VMware
3 8 (12.70%) Hitachi
3 8 (12.70%) NetApp
4 7 (11.11%) CA
4 7 (11.11%) Citrix
5 4 (6.35%) CyberArk
6 2 (3.17%) Cisco
6 2 (3.17%) Oracle
6 2 (3.17%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.59%) Apple
7 1 (1.59%) Commvault
7 1 (1.59%) HP
7 1 (1.59%) Okta
7 1 (1.59%) Remedy
7 1 (1.59%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.59%) Symantec
7 1 (1.59%) Veritas