Berkshire SharePoint Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SharePoint skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SharePoint over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SharePoint
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chertsey Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Flintshire Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hampshire Harrow Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	64	84
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	69	89
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.091 %	0.089 %
As % of the category below	14.11 %	10.40 %
Daily rates quoted	24	21
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£355
Average daily rate	£390	£388
% change on same period last year	+0.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£418	£422
UK excluding London average daily rate	£362	£346
% change on same period last year	+4.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£45.00	£35.75
Average hourly rate	£45.00	£38.13
% change on same period last year	+18.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.68	£27.95
% change on same period last year	+6.18 %
Application Platforms Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	489	856
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.645 %	0.853 %
Daily rates quoted	136	227
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£362
Average daily rate	£375	£392
% change on same period last year	-4.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£404	£421
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£347
% change on same period last year	+1.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	45	76
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.72	£25.43
Average hourly rate	£34.08	£27.26
% change on same period last year	+25.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.44	£29.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.22	£24.95
% change on same period last year	+1.07 %
SharePoint South East

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.

SharePoint
Demand Trend

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

SharePoint
Daily Rate Trend

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

SharePoint
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SharePoint across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

SharePoint
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SharePoint across the Berkshire region.

SharePoint
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	-14	27	£385	+2.51 %
Slough	+3	6	£319	-
Bracknell	+17	2	-	-
Maidenhead	-	1	£500	-
Wokingham	-	1	-	-

SharePoint South East

SharePoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing SharePoint 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.

1 96 (56.47 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 79 (46.47 %) .NET 3 75 (44.12 %) C# 4 60 (35.29 %) Microsoft 5 55 (32.35 %) SQL Server 6 47 (27.65 %) ASP.NET 7 39 (22.94 %) SQL 8 35 (20.59 %) Windows 9 27 (15.88 %) MS Office 10 24 (14.12 %) SQL Server 2005 11 20 (11.76 %) Windows Server 2003 12 18 (10.59 %) BizTalk Server 13 17 (10.00 %) IIS 14 14 (8.235 %) SharePoint Portal Server 14 14 (8.235 %) WebServices

14 14 (8.235 %) MS Excel 14 14 (8.235 %) Windows XP 14 14 (8.235 %) Workflow 15 13 (7.647 %) SQL Server 2000 15 13 (7.647 %) Microsoft Certification 15 13 (7.647 %) VB 15 13 (7.647 %) Java 15 13 (7.647 %) Windows SharePoint Services 16 11 (6.471 %) Security Cleared 16 11 (6.471 %) Transact-SQL 16 11 (6.471 %) Oracle 16 11 (6.471 %) XML 16 11 (6.471 %) Windows 2000 16 11 (6.471 %) Government 16 11 (6.471 %) Disaster Recovery

SharePoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing SharePoint 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 79 (46.47 %) .NET 2 47 (27.65 %) ASP.NET 3 14 (8.235 %) WebServices 4 13 (7.647 %) Windows SharePoint Services 5 11 (6.471 %) XML 6 10 (5.882 %) ASP 7 7 (4.118 %) HTML 8 5 (2.941 %) .NET Framework 8 5 (2.941 %) CSS 9 3 (1.765 %) WinForms 9 3 (1.765 %) XSLT 10 2 (1.176 %) CAML 10 2 (1.176 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 1 (0.588 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 11 1 (0.588 %) AJAX 11 1 (0.588 %) WF 11 1 (0.588 %) Silverlight 11 1 (0.588 %) SVG 11 1 (0.588 %) XHTML 11 1 (0.588 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 96 (56.47 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 18 (10.59 %) BizTalk Server 3 17 (10.00 %) IIS 4 14 (8.235 %) SharePoint Portal Server 5 10 (5.882 %) Office Communications Server 6 8 (4.706 %) Content Management Server 7 5 (2.941 %) MS Exchange 8 4 (2.353 %) Documentum 8 4 (2.353 %) CMS 9 3 (1.765 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 3 (1.765 %) Live Communications Server 10 1 (0.588 %) eRoom 10 1 (0.588 %) Commerce Server 2007 10 1 (0.588 %) Exchange Server 2007 10 1 (0.588 %) Commerce Server 10 1 (0.588 %) Apache
Applications 1 27 (15.88 %) MS Office 2 14 (8.235 %) MS Excel 3 2 (1.176 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 3 (1.765 %) Microsoft CRM 2 2 (1.176 %) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking 1 10 (5.882 %) DNS 2 9 (5.294 %) Intranet 3 5 (2.941 %) HTTP 4 4 (2.353 %) VPN 4 4 (2.353 %) SSL 4 4 (2.353 %) SAN 4 4 (2.353 %) Internet 5 3 (1.765 %) Firewall 5 3 (1.765 %) LAN 5 3 (1.765 %) WAN 6 2 (1.176 %) SMS 6 2 (1.176 %) DMZ 7 1 (0.588 %) Extranet 7 1 (0.588 %) DHCP 7 1 (0.588 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 55 (32.35 %) SQL Server 2 24 (14.12 %) SQL Server 2005 3 13 (7.647 %) SQL Server 2000 4 5 (2.941 %) MSDE 5 3 (1.765 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 3 (1.765 %) IDOL 6 1 (0.588 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 1 (0.588 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 6 1 (0.588 %) OLAP
Development Applications 1 4 (2.353 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (1.765 %) LoadRunner 3 2 (1.176 %) FrontPage 4 1 (0.588 %) TestDirector 4 1 (0.588 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 11 (6.471 %) Government 2 4 (2.353 %) Health 3 3 (1.765 %) Publishing 3 3 (1.765 %) Pharmaceutical 4 2 (1.176 %) Finance 4 2 (1.176 %) Construction 4 2 (1.176 %) Retail 5 1 (0.588 %) Insurance 5 1 (0.588 %) Graphic Design 5 1 (0.588 %) Education 5 1 (0.588 %) Advertising 5 1 (0.588 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 81 (47.65 %) Developer 2 47 (27.65 %) SharePoint Developer 3 29 (17.06 %) Consultant 4 18 (10.59 %) C# Developer 5 15 (8.824 %) SharePoint Consultant 6 13 (7.647 %) .NET Developer 7 9 (5.294 %) Administrator 8 7 (4.118 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 7 (4.118 %) SharePoint Administrator 8 7 (4.118 %) Programmer 8 7 (4.118 %) Architect 9 6 (3.529 %) Server Engineer 10 5 (2.941 %) Sharepoint Architect 10 5 (2.941 %) Analyst 11 4 (2.353 %) Database Specialist 11 4 (2.353 %) Support Specialist 11 4 (2.353 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 11 4 (2.353 %) Windows Server Engineer 11 4 (2.353 %) Web Designer 12 3 (1.765 %) Performance Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 9 (5.294 %) N-Tier 2 8 (4.706 %) Replication 2 8 (4.706 %) Clustering 3 6 (3.529 %) NHS 4 4 (2.353 %) Taxonomies 5 3 (1.765 %) PKI 6 2 (1.176 %) Client/Server 7 1 (0.588 %) Web 2.0 7 1 (0.588 %) PDA 7 1 (0.588 %) Mathematics 7 1 (0.588 %) Blog 7 1 (0.588 %) PMI
Operating Systems 1 35 (20.59 %) Windows 2 20 (11.76 %) Windows Server 2003 3 14 (8.235 %) Windows XP 4 11 (6.471 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (1.765 %) UNIX 5 3 (1.765 %) Windows NT 6 2 (1.176 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (8.235 %) Workflow 2 11 (6.471 %) Security Cleared 2 11 (6.471 %) Disaster Recovery 3 9 (5.294 %) Load Balancing 4 8 (4.706 %) Content Management 5 7 (4.118 %) Migration 6 6 (3.529 %) CRM 7 5 (2.941 %) Network Load Balancing 8 4 (2.353 %) Data Migration 8 4 (2.353 %) SC Cleared 8 4 (2.353 %) Requirements Analysis 8 4 (2.353 %) Document Management 9 3 (1.765 %) Web Development 9 3 (1.765 %) ITIL 10 2 (1.176 %) Business Intelligence 10 2 (1.176 %) Change Management 10 2 (1.176 %) Test Scripting 10 2 (1.176 %) Web Design 10 2 (1.176 %) Agile Software Development 11 1 (0.588 %) Asset Management
Programming Languages 1 75 (44.12 %) C# 2 39 (22.94 %) SQL 3 13 (7.647 %) VB 3 13 (7.647 %) Java 4 11 (6.471 %) Transact-SQL 5 9 (5.294 %) JavaScript 5 9 (5.294 %) COBOL 6 6 (3.529 %) C 6 6 (3.529 %) VB6 7 4 (2.353 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 13 (7.647 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (1.765 %) MCSE 2 3 (1.765 %) MCSD 3 2 (1.176 %) MCSA 3 2 (1.176 %) MCTS 3 2 (1.176 %) Degree 4 1 (0.588 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 1 (0.588 %) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.176 %) ISO9000	System Software 1 10 (5.882 %) Active Directory 2 6 (3.529 %) ISA Server 3 1 (0.588 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 3 (1.765 %) Netcool 1 3 (1.765 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 2 (1.176 %) WSUS 3 1 (0.588 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 60 (35.29 %) Microsoft 2 11 (6.471 %) Oracle 3 8 (4.706 %) VMware 4 3 (1.765 %) Meridio 4 3 (1.765 %) EMC 5 2 (1.176 %) Cisco 5 2 (1.176 %) Symantec 6 1 (0.588 %) VERITAS 6 1 (0.588 %) Sage 6 1 (0.588 %) IBM 6 1 (0.588 %) Adobe 6 1 (0.588 %) Citrix 6 1 (0.588 %) Cognos