Birmingham SharePoint Server 2007 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) skills within the Birmingham 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 Server 2007 over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Ascot Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Derbyshire Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Halifax Hampshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport North East North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Surbiton Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	63
Rank change on same period last year	+35
Matching contract IT job ads	33	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.042 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	23.91 %	0.613 %
Daily rates quoted	13	0
Average minimum daily rate	£438	-
Average daily rate	£448	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£457	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£442	£369
% change on same period last year	+19.80 %
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	£49.05	£17.50
% change on same period last year	+180.28 %
Application Platforms Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	138	163
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.177 %	0.183 %
Daily rates quoted	32	32
Average minimum daily rate	£372	£316
Average daily rate	£385	£338
% change on same period last year	+13.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£398	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£354
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.53	£14.53
Average hourly rate	£13.60	£16.78
% change on same period last year	-18.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.67	£19.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.66	£22.76
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
SharePoint Server 2007 West Midlands

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 Server 2007
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing SharePoint Server 2007 across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

SharePoint Server 2007
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing SharePoint Server 2007 across the Birmingham region.

SharePoint Server 2007
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SharePoint Server 2007 across the Birmingham region over the past 3 months.

SharePoint Server 2007
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing SharePoint Server 2007 also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing SharePoint Server 2007.

1 28 (73.68 %) SharePoint 2 25 (65.79 %) Microsoft 3 21 (55.26 %) .NET 4 14 (36.84 %) SQL Server 5 12 (31.58 %) Windows SharePoint Services 5 12 (31.58 %) InfoPath 6 10 (26.32 %) Workflow 7 9 (23.68 %) Active Directory 7 9 (23.68 %) Internet 7 9 (23.68 %) MS Office 7 9 (23.68 %) Windows 7 9 (23.68 %) SQL Server 2005 8 8 (21.05 %) WF 8 8 (21.05 %) Office Project Server 8 8 (21.05 %) SQL

9 7 (18.42 %) ASP.NET 9 7 (18.42 %) MS Exchange 10 6 (15.79 %) SQL Server 7 11 5 (13.16 %) MS Excel 12 4 (10.53 %) MAPI 12 4 (10.53 %) HTML 12 4 (10.53 %) Visual Studio 13 3 (7.895 %) C# 13 3 (7.895 %) SharePoint Portal Server 13 3 (7.895 %) XAML 14 2 (5.263 %) Migration 15 1 (2.632 %) Validation 15 1 (2.632 %) Live Communications Server 15 1 (2.632 %) Exchange Server 2003 15 1 (2.632 %) Caml Language

SharePoint Server 2007
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing SharePoint Server 2007 also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing SharePoint Server 2007. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 21 (55.26 %) .NET 2 12 (31.58 %) Windows SharePoint Services 3 8 (21.05 %) WF 4 7 (18.42 %) ASP.NET 5 4 (10.53 %) MAPI 5 4 (10.53 %) HTML 6 1 (2.632 %) WCF 6 1 (2.632 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 28 (73.68 %) SharePoint 2 8 (21.05 %) Office Project Server 3 7 (18.42 %) MS Exchange 4 3 (7.895 %) SharePoint Portal Server 5 1 (2.632 %) IIS 5 1 (2.632 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 1 (2.632 %) Live Communications Server 5 1 (2.632 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 12 (31.58 %) InfoPath 2 9 (23.68 %) MS Office 3 5 (13.16 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 9 (23.68 %) Internet 2 1 (2.632 %) Extranet 2 1 (2.632 %) IPsec 2 1 (2.632 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (36.84 %) SQL Server 2 9 (23.68 %) SQL Server 2005 3 6 (15.79 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 4 (10.53 %) Visual Studio
Job Titles 1 23 (60.53 %) Developer 2 18 (47.37 %) SharePoint Developer 3 10 (26.32 %) Architect 3 10 (26.32 %) Solutions Architect 4 3 (7.895 %) Sharepoint Specialist 5 2 (5.263 %) Consultant 6 1 (2.632 %) Senior Developer 6 1 (2.632 %) Technical Consultant 6 1 (2.632 %) Senior Business Analyst 6 1 (2.632 %) Senior Analyst 6 1 (2.632 %) .NET Developer 6 1 (2.632 %) C# Developer 6 1 (2.632 %) VB.NET Developer 6 1 (2.632 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 1 (2.632 %) Microsoft Infrastructure Consultant 6 1 (2.632 %) Infrastructure Consultant 6 1 (2.632 %) SharePoint Consultant 6 1 (2.632 %) Microsoft Consultant 6 1 (2.632 %) Business Analyst 6 1 (2.632 %) Analyst	Operating Systems 1 9 (23.68 %) Windows 2 1 (2.632 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (26.32 %) Workflow 2 2 (5.263 %) Migration 3 1 (2.632 %) Data Security 3 1 (2.632 %) Validation	Programming Languages 1 8 (21.05 %) SQL 2 3 (7.895 %) XAML 2 3 (7.895 %) C# 3 1 (2.632 %) Caml Language 3 1 (2.632 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 1 (2.632 %) MCSE 1 1 (2.632 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 9 (23.68 %) Active Directory 2 1 (2.632 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 1 (2.632 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (2.632 %) MIIS	Vendors 1 25 (65.79 %) Microsoft 2 1 (2.632 %) Citrix