The first table below looks at the demand for SharePoint 2010 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SharePoint 2010 over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the Bedfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SharePoint 2010
Rank 27 - 25
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 2010 3 0 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.596% - 5.882%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.143% - 23.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 11
Average daily rate £425 - £195
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £350 £365
% change year-on-year
-1.42% -4.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -44.44%
All Application Platforms
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
42 54 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 22.34% 19.01% 24.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 29 33
Average daily rate £325 £375 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +87.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £173 £323 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £333
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
Average hourly rate £17.50 £12.00 £10.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+45.83% +11.62%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
SharePoint 2010
East of England

SharePoint 2010
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SharePoint 2010 across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Bedfordshire SharePoint 2010 Jobs Demand Trend

SharePoint 2010
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SharePoint 2010 across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire SharePoint 2010 Daily Rate Trend

SharePoint 2010
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint 2010 within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton - 2 - -
SharePoint 2010
East of England

SharePoint 2010
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing SharePoint 2010 also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SharePoint 2010.

1 6 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Content Management
2 2 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (16.67%) Local Government
3 1 (16.67%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (16.67%) Office 365
3 1 (16.67%) Document Management
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
3 1 (16.67%) MS Access
3 1 (16.67%) MS Office
3 1 (16.67%) VBA
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management

SharePoint 2010
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing SharePoint 2010 also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SharePoint 2010. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) CSS
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
1 1 (16.67%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (16.67%) Office 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) MS Access
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1 (16.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) SharePoint Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Programmer
3 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Project Management
1 2 (33.33%) Content Management
1 2 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (16.67%) Document Management
2 1 (16.67%) Workflow
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
2 1 (16.67%) ETL
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) VBA