The first table below looks at the demand for SharePoint Foundation skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SharePoint Foundation over the 3 months to 23 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 Birmingham 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation (WSS 4.0)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing SharePoint Foundation 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - - -
As % of the Application Platforms category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £358
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -16.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
59 114 116
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 13.50% 18.21% 22.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 57 66
Average daily rate £310 £313 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.80% -3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £208 £183 £202
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 4
Average hourly rate £13.25 £30.00 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-55.83% +150.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.05 £8.25 £11.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.45 £33.00 £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
SharePoint Foundation
West Midlands

SharePoint Foundation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing SharePoint Foundation 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 Foundation.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) RUP
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Process
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) InfoPath
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint Server

SharePoint Foundation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing SharePoint Foundation 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 Foundation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
1 1 (100.00%) WF
1 1 (100.00%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint Server
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) InfoPath
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Team System
1 1 (100.00%) MSBuild
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) RUP
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Process
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) MSF
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft