Bedfordshire Windows SharePoint Services Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) skills within the Bedfordshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows SharePoint Services over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Windows SharePoint Services (WSS)
Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire City of London Devon Dorset East of England England Exeter Hampshire Hertford Hertfordshire Leeds London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Newcastle North East North West North Yorkshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Reading Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South West Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Tyne and Wear UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	33
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.053 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£391	£440
% change on same period last year	-11.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.13	£43.17
% change on same period last year	-30.21 %
Application Development Bedfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	37	95
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.049 %	0.096 %
Daily rates quoted	7	15
Average minimum daily rate	£260	£263
Average daily rate	£275	£279
% change on same period last year	-1.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£289	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.00	£31.94
Average hourly rate	£28.40	£33.14
% change on same period last year	-14.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.80	£34.34
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
Windows SharePoint Services East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Windows SharePoint Services
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows SharePoint Services across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.