Microsoft Exchange Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Exchange Server
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 136 104 98
Rank change year-on-year -32 -6 -6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 353 529 824
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.66% 2.33% 2.71%
As % of the Application Platforms category 19.35% 21.57% 21.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 381 608
10th Percentile £150 £144 £147
25th Percentile £214 £185 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £285
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +31.46% -12.23%
75th Percentile £569 £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 22 16 71
10th Percentile £13.90 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.94
Median hourly rate £16.00 £17.53 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +9.56% +13.84%
75th Percentile £40.00 £23.00 £18.75
90th Percentile - £26.48 £20.00
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £23.25 £16.32
% change year-on-year +2.37% +42.51% +4.05%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,824 2,453 3,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.55% 10.81% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,714 2,654
10th Percentile £215 £200 £185
25th Percentile £325 £331 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +4.65%
75th Percentile £570 £576 £551
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.15% -1.73% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 99 136
10th Percentile £13.03 £16.10 £13.33
25th Percentile £15.19 £20.88 £14.25
Median hourly rate £30.41 £48.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.29% +162.16% -
75th Percentile £51.91 £65.13 £44.27
90th Percentile £74.40 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.71 £52.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -39.60% +128.26% +15.00%

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 13 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 13 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 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
South East -3 75 £465 +49.99% 82
South West -16 63 £439 -10.36% 53
Midlands -8 62 £350 +16.67% 60
North of England -20 61 £363 +15.08% 94
West Midlands +18 45 £375 - 36
Scotland +36 43 £250 -9.09% 21
East of England +9 39 £550 +22.22% 36
North West 0 33 £375 +2.74% 48
Yorkshire -11 26 £300 +20.00% 40
East Midlands -15 17 £150 -17.24% 24
Wales -15 10 £139 -73.51% 8
North East +7 2 £398 +189.09% 6
Northern Ireland -11 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 (28.33%) SharePoint
2 30 (8.50%) Confluence
3 9 (2.55%) IIS
4 7 (1.98%) Exchange Server 2013
5 4 (1.13%) Exchange Server 2000
5 4 (1.13%) Exchange Server 2003
5 4 (1.13%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (1.13%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.85%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.57%) WordPress
8 1 (0.28%) Apache
8 1 (0.28%) nginx
8 1 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 39 (11.05%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.28%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.28%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) assyst
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.28%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 208 (58.92%) Microsoft 365
2 132 (37.39%) Azure
3 71 (20.11%) Entra ID
4 58 (16.43%) OneDrive
5 30 (8.50%) Azure Monitor
6 26 (7.37%) Power Platform
7 21 (5.95%) Azure Storage
8 15 (4.25%) PowerApps
9 14 (3.97%) Power Automate
10 9 (2.55%) AWS
11 8 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (1.13%) OpenShift
14 3 (0.85%) Mimecast
15 2 (0.57%) Azure Sentinel
15 2 (0.57%) Azure Stack
15 2 (0.57%) Google Workspace
15 2 (0.57%) PaaS
15 2 (0.57%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 89 (25.21%) DNS
2 78 (22.10%) DHCP
3 70 (19.83%) Firewall
4 27 (7.65%) VPN
5 24 (6.80%) SAN
6 23 (6.52%) SMTP
7 17 (4.82%) LAN
8 16 (4.53%) TCP/IP
8 16 (4.53%) VLAN
9 15 (4.25%) WAN
10 13 (3.68%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (2.83%) NAS
11 10 (2.83%) Wireless
12 9 (2.55%) Unified Communications
13 8 (2.27%) MPLS
13 8 (2.27%) Skype
14 7 (1.98%) Fibre Channel
14 7 (1.98%) Remote Desktop
15 6 (1.70%) iSCSI
15 6 (1.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.10%) Power BI
2 15 (4.25%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.13%) Big Data
6 1 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.28%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 36 (10.20%) JIRA
2 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.28%) GitLab
2 1 (0.28%) Hudson
2 1 (0.28%) Metasploit
General
1 144 (40.79%) Social Skills
2 43 (12.18%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (11.05%) Public Sector
4 19 (5.38%) Military
5 14 (3.97%) Finance
6 10 (2.83%) Manufacturing
7 9 (2.55%) Aerospace
8 7 (1.98%) Local Government
9 5 (1.42%) Legal
9 5 (1.42%) Marketing
10 4 (1.13%) Automotive
10 4 (1.13%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.85%) Advertising
11 3 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Banking
12 1 (0.28%) Police
12 1 (0.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (15.86%) Analyst
2 46 (13.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 46 (13.03%) Support Engineer
3 39 (11.05%) IT Support
4 31 (8.78%) IT Engineer
5 27 (7.65%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 24 (6.80%) 2nd Line Support
6 24 (6.80%) Exchange Engineer
7 23 (6.52%) Active Directory Support
8 20 (5.67%) Messaging Engineer
8 20 (5.67%) Service Analyst
8 20 (5.67%) Service Desk Analyst
9 19 (5.38%) IT Analyst
9 19 (5.38%) Senior
10 18 (5.10%) IT Support Engineer
10 18 (5.10%) Test Engineer
11 16 (4.53%) Integration Engineer
11 16 (4.53%) Test and Integration Engineer
12 15 (4.25%) Microsoft Engineer
12 15 (4.25%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.95%) ARM Templates
2 6 (1.70%) LDAP
3 4 (1.13%) REST
3 4 (1.13%) XMPP
4 2 (0.57%) .NET
4 2 (0.57%) ADSI
4 2 (0.57%) LAMP
5 1 (0.28%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.28%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.28%) ADO
5 1 (0.28%) COM
5 1 (0.28%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.28%) HTML
5 1 (0.28%) HTML5
5 1 (0.28%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (17.85%) PKI
2 28 (7.93%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (5.10%) Clustering
4 15 (4.25%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.27%) Client/Server
6 7 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.70%) Digital Signage
8 5 (1.42%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.85%) NHS
10 3 (0.85%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.85%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.85%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (0.57%) BYOD
11 2 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.57%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.57%) Replication
11 2 (0.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 243 (68.84%) Windows
2 130 (36.83%) Windows Server
3 67 (18.98%) Windows 10
4 53 (15.01%) Windows Server 2016
5 46 (13.03%) Windows Server 2019
6 45 (12.75%) Linux
7 32 (9.07%) Windows Server 2012
8 15 (4.25%) VMS
9 12 (3.40%) Apple iOS
9 12 (3.40%) Unix
10 11 (3.12%) Mac OS
11 9 (2.55%) Android
12 6 (1.70%) Windows 7
12 6 (1.70%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (1.42%) Ubuntu
14 4 (1.13%) Windows 2000
15 2 (0.57%) CentOS
15 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (22.10%) ITIL
2 60 (17.00%) Agile
3 52 (14.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 50 (14.16%) Customer Service
5 47 (13.31%) Migration
6 36 (10.20%) Identity Management
7 31 (8.78%) DevOps
7 31 (8.78%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (8.78%) Service Management
8 30 (8.50%) CI/CD
8 30 (8.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 25 (7.08%) Analytics
9 25 (7.08%) Problem Management
9 25 (7.08%) Release Management
10 23 (6.52%) Infrastructure as Code
11 21 (5.95%) Business Intelligence
11 21 (5.95%) Log Analytics
11 21 (5.95%) Privileged Identity Management
11 21 (5.95%) RBAC
12 20 (5.67%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 102 (28.90%) PowerShell
2 38 (10.76%) SQL
3 21 (5.95%) Bicep
3 21 (5.95%) C#
3 21 (5.95%) VB
3 21 (5.95%) VBScript
4 1 (0.28%) Bash
4 1 (0.28%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.28%) Python
Qualifications
1 110 (31.16%) Security Cleared
2 86 (24.36%) Degree
2 86 (24.36%) SC Cleared
3 50 (14.16%) DV Cleared
4 35 (9.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 28 (7.93%) MCSE
6 25 (7.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 22 (6.23%) MCSA
7 22 (6.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 13 (3.68%) CCNA
8 13 (3.68%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (3.12%) MCP
10 4 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.13%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.85%) APMG
11 3 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.85%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 2 (0.57%) MCITP
13 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.28%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.38%) SLA
2 6 (1.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.28%) COBIT
4 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 272 (77.05%) Active Directory
2 62 (17.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (9.92%) Virtual Desktop
4 33 (9.35%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (5.67%) Hyper-V
6 18 (5.10%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (3.97%) vSphere
8 9 (2.55%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (2.27%) VMware Workstation
10 6 (1.70%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (1.70%) XenApp
10 6 (1.70%) XenDesktop
11 5 (1.42%) BitLocker
11 5 (1.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 5 (1.42%) Terminal Services
12 4 (1.13%) Firmware
12 4 (1.13%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.57%) NFS
14 1 (0.28%) Citrix Presentation Server
14 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 84 (23.80%) SCCM
2 76 (21.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 35 (9.92%) WSUS
4 34 (9.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 28 (7.93%) SCOM
6 27 (7.65%) Kubernetes
7 17 (4.82%) MAILsweeper
8 15 (4.25%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (2.83%) vCenter Server
10 9 (2.55%) Microsoft Clustering
11 8 (2.27%) Nagios
11 8 (2.27%) NetBackup
11 8 (2.27%) Terraform
12 7 (1.98%) Ansible
12 7 (1.98%) Nessus
13 4 (1.13%) vMotion
14 3 (0.85%) AppManager
14 3 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
15 2 (0.57%) SCDPM
15 2 (0.57%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 231 (65.44%) Microsoft
2 88 (24.93%) VMware
3 31 (8.78%) Citrix
4 20 (5.67%) Sophos
5 17 (4.82%) Trend Micro
6 14 (3.97%) Cisco
6 14 (3.97%) NetApp
7 11 (3.12%) Atlassian
8 8 (2.27%) Hitachi
8 8 (2.27%) Oracle
9 7 (1.98%) CA
9 7 (1.98%) Qualys
10 6 (1.70%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.42%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.42%) HP
11 5 (1.42%) Ivanti
11 5 (1.42%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.42%) Veeam
12 4 (1.13%) Avaya
12 4 (1.13%) Infoblox