Exchange Engineer Contracts

Exchange Engineer
UK

The median Exchange Engineer daily rate in the UK is £464 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 547 663 801
Rank change year-on-year +116 +138 -106
Contract jobs requiring an Exchange Engineer 32 21 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.074% 0.037% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.039% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 28
10th Percentile £294 £331 £164
25th Percentile £328 £354 £176
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £438 £375
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +16.67% -1.96%
75th Percentile £597 £502 £489
90th Percentile £637 £559 £493
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £469 £188
% change year-on-year -3.47% +150.00% -46.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Exchange Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Exchange Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Exchange Engineer in the UK

Exchange Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Exchange Engineer in the UK

Exchange Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Exchange Engineer in the UK

Exchange Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Exchange Engineer in the UK

Exchange Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exchange Engineer within the UK 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
UK excluding London +62 24 £453 -3.47% 2
Scotland +55 16 £575 +64.29%
England +98 15 £450 -4.00% 1
Work from Home +113 14 £376 -16.39%
London +101 6 £544 +20.83%
North of England +28 4 £353 -29.50% 1
North West - 4 £353 - 1
Midlands +27 3 £298 -38.87%
West Midlands +16 2 £298 -38.87%
East Midlands - 1 £450 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

Exchange Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Exchange Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Exchange Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (87.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (59.38%) Security Cleared
3 17 (53.13%) SC Cleared
3 17 (53.13%) PowerShell
3 17 (53.13%) Active Directory
4 16 (50.00%) Degree
5 13 (40.63%) Windows
6 12 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (34.38%) Public Sector
7 11 (34.38%) Microsoft
7 11 (34.38%) Agile
7 11 (34.38%) Problem Management
7 11 (34.38%) Atlassian
8 10 (31.25%) JIRA
8 10 (31.25%) Confluence
9 9 (28.13%) Identity Management
9 9 (28.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (28.13%) Roadmaps
10 8 (25.00%) High Availability
11 7 (21.88%) Capacity Management
11 7 (21.88%) Migration
12 6 (18.75%) VMware
12 6 (18.75%) Security Patching
13 5 (15.63%) Data Protection
13 5 (15.63%) Linux
14 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
14 4 (12.50%) SharePoint
14 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
15 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
15 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering

Exchange Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 28 (87.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (31.25%) Confluence
3 4 (12.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.13%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (3.13%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (3.13%) IIS
4 1 (3.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.13%) InfoPath
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (3.13%) AWS
3 1 (3.13%) Mimecast
3 1 (3.13%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) DHCP
2 1 (3.13%) DNS
2 1 (3.13%) FTP
2 1 (3.13%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 10 (31.25%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Artifactory
2 1 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (3.13%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) Travis CI
General
1 11 (34.38%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Electronics
4 1 (3.13%) Finance
4 1 (3.13%) Local Government
4 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.13%) Marketing
4 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) COM
1 1 (3.13%) HTML
1 1 (3.13%) HTML5
1 1 (3.13%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.13%) Blackberry
2 1 (3.13%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 13 (40.63%) Windows
2 5 (15.63%) Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Unix
3 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.13%) Windows 7
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Agile
1 11 (34.38%) Problem Management
2 9 (28.13%) Identity Management
2 9 (28.13%) Roadmaps
3 8 (25.00%) High Availability
4 7 (21.88%) Capacity Management
4 7 (21.88%) Migration
5 6 (18.75%) Security Patching
6 5 (15.63%) Data Protection
7 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (6.25%) Customer Service
8 2 (6.25%) Decision-Making
8 2 (6.25%) Email Migration
8 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (6.25%) Time Management
9 1 (3.13%) CI/CD
9 1 (3.13%) Collaborative Working
9 1 (3.13%) Kanban
9 1 (3.13%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.13%) Python
2 1 (3.13%) Ruby
2 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (59.38%) Security Cleared
2 17 (53.13%) SC Cleared
3 16 (50.00%) Degree
4 3 (9.38%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.13%) MCSA
5 1 (3.13%) MCSE
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (53.13%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.13%) Docker
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.25%) vCenter Server
3 1 (3.13%) Ansible
3 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.13%) Puppet
3 1 (3.13%) Salt
3 1 (3.13%) SCOM
3 1 (3.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) Atlassian
1 11 (34.38%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) VMware
3 2 (6.25%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco
4 1 (3.13%) Citrix
4 1 (3.13%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.13%) IronPort
4 1 (3.13%) SAP