The first table below looks at the demand for SharePoint 2010 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SharePoint 2010 over the 3 months to 24 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 Buckinghamshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SharePoint 2010
Rank 62 64 66
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +2
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 2010 6 11 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.741% 1.127% 1.124%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.727% 7.097% 7.895%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 7
Average daily rate £373 £304 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.63% +51.87%
UK excluding London average daily rate £349 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-0.35% -
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
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
161 155 152
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 19.88% 15.88% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 66 65
Average daily rate £330 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £146 £149 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £350 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 13
Average hourly rate £13.25 £13.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.85% -32.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.95 £13.00 £12.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.75 £17.08 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
SharePoint 2010
South East

SharePoint 2010
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Milton Keynes +2 4 £353 +17.50%
SharePoint 2010
South East

SharePoint 2010
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 7 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) MS Excel
3 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
4 2 (28.57%) Citrix
4 2 (28.57%) NetApp
4 2 (28.57%) HTTP
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) MS Access
4 2 (28.57%) .NET
4 2 (28.57%) Windows
4 2 (28.57%) MS Exchange
4 2 (28.57%) SharePoint 2013
4 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (28.57%) Clustering
4 2 (28.57%) SCCM
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
4 2 (28.57%) XenApp
5 1 (14.29%) HTML5
5 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (14.29%) Lync
5 1 (14.29%) VMware
5 1 (14.29%) VMware ESX
5 1 (14.29%) SCOM
5 1 (14.29%) SCVMM
5 1 (14.29%) Time Management

SharePoint 2010
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 (28.57%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) HTML5
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (28.57%) MS Exchange
2 2 (28.57%) SharePoint 2013
2 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (14.29%) Lync
3 1 (14.29%) Documentum
3 1 (14.29%) IIS
3 1 (14.29%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) MS Excel
2 1 (14.29%) MS Project
2 1 (14.29%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) MS Access
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Consultant
1 3 (42.86%) SharePoint Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Access Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (14.29%) SharePoint Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Time Management
2 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (14.29%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (14.29%) ETL
2 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
1 1 (14.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
1 2 (28.57%) XenApp
2 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (14.29%) VMware ESX
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) SCOM
2 1 (14.29%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Citrix
1 2 (28.57%) NetApp
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Kofax