Microsoft Exchange Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Exchange Server
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 10 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 152 218
Rank change year-on-year -6 +66 -58
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Exchange 192 382 553
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.30% 1.60% 1.26%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.50% 14.38% 10.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 288 446
10th Percentile £183 £181 £179
25th Percentile £314 £363 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £423
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +18.34% +5.63%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £500
90th Percentile £608 £745 £588
UK median daily rate £400 £425 £350
% change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 23
10th Percentile - £15.98 £13.01
25th Percentile £13.25 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £14.50 £54.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.15% +184.21% -15.56%
75th Percentile £15.75 £65.25 £54.00
90th Percentile - £66.00 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £23.25 £16.32
% change year-on-year +2.37% +42.51% +4.05%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,670 2,656 5,463
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.30% 11.13% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,226 1,874 3,985
10th Percentile £300 £325 £324
25th Percentile £400 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £522
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.57% +9.89%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £625
90th Percentile £850 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.06% -1.83% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 71 87
10th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £15.77
25th Percentile £22.61 £22.16 £20.75
Median hourly rate £31.14 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.39% +10.00% +92.31%
75th Percentile £45.41 £66.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £30.83 £52.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -41.29% +128.26% +15.00%

Microsoft Exchange
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microsoft Exchange as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft Exchange trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microsoft Exchange.

Microsoft Exchange daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Exchange
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Microsoft Exchange over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Microsoft Exchange daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Exchange
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microsoft Exchange.

Microsoft Exchange hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Exchange
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 38 (19.79%) SharePoint
2 14 (7.29%) Exchange Server 2010
3 12 (6.25%) Exchange Server 2007
4 11 (5.73%) Exchange Server 2003
4 11 (5.73%) Exchange Server 2013
4 11 (5.73%) Skype for Business
5 10 (5.21%) Confluence
6 7 (3.65%) IIS
7 1 (0.52%) IBM Notes
7 1 (0.52%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 16 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) assyst
1 1 (0.52%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 126 (65.63%) Microsoft 365
2 80 (41.67%) Azure
3 47 (24.48%) Entra ID
4 29 (15.10%) OneDrive
5 21 (10.94%) Azure Monitor
6 20 (10.42%) Azure Storage
7 12 (6.25%) Power Platform
8 9 (4.69%) Mimecast
9 7 (3.65%) AWS
9 7 (3.65%) IaaS
10 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (2.60%) PaaS
11 5 (2.60%) PowerApps
12 4 (2.08%) OpenShift
13 3 (1.56%) SaaS
14 2 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
14 2 (1.04%) WhatsApp
15 1 (0.52%) Power Automate
15 1 (0.52%) ShareGate
15 1 (0.52%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 47 (24.48%) Firewall
2 38 (19.79%) DHCP
3 37 (19.27%) DNS
4 18 (9.38%) SAN
5 13 (6.77%) Skype
6 10 (5.21%) VPN
7 5 (2.60%) NAS
8 4 (2.08%) VLAN
8 4 (2.08%) VoIP
9 3 (1.56%) LAN
9 3 (1.56%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.56%) WAN
9 3 (1.56%) WebEx
10 2 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (1.04%) Wireless
11 1 (0.52%) Broadband
11 1 (0.52%) FTP
11 1 (0.52%) MGCP
11 1 (0.52%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.08%) Big Data
3 3 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.56%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.04%) Data Mart
4 2 (1.04%) Power BI
5 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (8.85%) JIRA
2 1 (0.52%) Maven
General
1 63 (32.81%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.63%) Public Sector
3 26 (13.54%) Finance
4 13 (6.77%) Banking
5 11 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.08%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.56%) Military
8 2 (1.04%) French Language
8 2 (1.04%) Front Office
8 2 (1.04%) German Language
8 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Arabic Language
9 1 (0.52%) Back Office
9 1 (0.52%) Law
9 1 (0.52%) Local Government
9 1 (0.52%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (11.98%) Analyst
2 22 (11.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 20 (10.42%) Active Directory Support
4 18 (9.38%) Support Engineer
5 14 (7.29%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (7.29%) Architect
5 14 (7.29%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (7.29%) Support Specialist
6 13 (6.77%) Exchange Engineer
7 12 (6.25%) Service Analyst
7 12 (6.25%) Service Desk Analyst
8 11 (5.73%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 11 (5.73%) Senior
9 10 (5.21%) Active Directory Engineer
10 9 (4.69%) Consultant
11 8 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (4.17%) Migration Engineer
11 8 (4.17%) Wintel Engineer
12 7 (3.65%) 2nd Line Support
12 7 (3.65%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.42%) ARM Templates
2 4 (2.08%) REST
3 2 (1.04%) .NET
3 2 (1.04%) .NET Core
3 2 (1.04%) ADSI
3 2 (1.04%) Murex MxML
4 1 (0.52%) XMPP
4 1 (0.52%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.19%) PKI
2 23 (11.98%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (7.81%) Video Conferencing
4 14 (7.29%) Data Centre
5 8 (4.17%) Clustering
6 4 (2.08%) Blackberry
7 3 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.04%) Derivative
8 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.04%) Equities
8 2 (1.04%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.52%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 124 (64.58%) Windows
2 64 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 47 (24.48%) Windows Server 2016
4 33 (17.19%) Windows Server 2012
5 32 (16.67%) Windows 10
6 29 (15.10%) Linux
6 29 (15.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (7.29%) Windows Server 2003
8 13 (6.77%) Windows Server 2008
9 10 (5.21%) VMS
10 6 (3.13%) Apple iOS
11 5 (2.60%) Android
12 4 (2.08%) Windows 7
13 2 (1.04%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.52%) CentOS
14 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (24.48%) Migration
2 45 (23.44%) ITIL
3 39 (20.31%) Agile
4 32 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 28 (14.58%) DevOps
6 27 (14.06%) Identity Management
7 25 (13.02%) CI/CD
8 24 (12.50%) Release Management
9 23 (11.98%) Service Management
10 22 (11.46%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (11.46%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 22 (11.46%) Problem Management
11 21 (10.94%) Analytics
12 20 (10.42%) Log Analytics
12 20 (10.42%) Privileged Identity Management
12 20 (10.42%) RBAC
13 15 (7.81%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (7.29%) Customer Service
15 9 (4.69%) Business Continuity
15 9 (4.69%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 72 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 21 (10.94%) VB
3 20 (10.42%) Bicep
3 20 (10.42%) C#
3 20 (10.42%) SQL
3 20 (10.42%) VBScript
4 1 (0.52%) Java
4 1 (0.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 68 (35.42%) Security Cleared
2 67 (34.90%) SC Cleared
3 48 (25.00%) Degree
4 24 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 20 (10.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 17 (8.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (3.13%) MCSA
7 6 (3.13%) MCSE
8 5 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.08%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.04%) CCNA
11 2 (1.04%) CCNP
11 2 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.04%) MCITP
12 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.52%) CISSP
12 1 (0.52%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.17%) SLA
2 5 (2.60%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.04%) NIST
4 1 (0.52%) GDPR
4 1 (0.52%) GLBA
4 1 (0.52%) ISAE 3402
4 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 152 (79.17%) Active Directory
2 25 (13.02%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (11.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (5.21%) Hyper-V
6 8 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (3.65%) vSphere
8 4 (2.08%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.56%) Terminal Services
9 3 (1.56%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.52%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.52%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 1 (0.52%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 46 (23.96%) SCCM
2 38 (19.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 28 (14.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 25 (13.02%) Kubernetes
4 25 (13.02%) SCOM
5 24 (12.50%) WSUS
6 6 (3.13%) Ansible
7 3 (1.56%) Nessus
8 2 (1.04%) CASB
8 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (1.04%) Terraform
9 1 (0.52%) Backup Exec
9 1 (0.52%) HP SIM
9 1 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.52%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.52%) SCDPM
9 1 (0.52%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.52%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 119 (61.98%) Microsoft
2 32 (16.67%) VMware
3 22 (11.46%) Citrix
4 15 (7.81%) HP
5 14 (7.29%) Cisco
6 12 (6.25%) Avaya
7 9 (4.69%) CheckPoint
7 9 (4.69%) EMC
8 6 (3.13%) Atlassian
8 6 (3.13%) CyberArk
9 4 (2.08%) Oracle
10 3 (1.56%) Apple
10 3 (1.56%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.56%) Trend Micro
11 2 (1.04%) Google
11 2 (1.04%) IronPort
11 2 (1.04%) Ivanti
11 2 (1.04%) Proofpoint
11 2 (1.04%) Qualys
11 2 (1.04%) Veeam