Buckinghamshire SharePoint Server 2007 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) skills within the Buckinghamshire 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 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Barnsley Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London Coventry Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	75	90
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	7	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	4.516 %	0.966 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£350	-
Average daily rate	£400	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£450	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£397	£373
% change on same period last year	+6.22 %
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	£38.10	£29.58
% change on same period last year	+28.78 %
Application Platforms Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	155	207
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.207 %	0.207 %
Daily rates quoted	45	55
Average minimum daily rate	£316	£281
Average daily rate	£331	£297
% change on same period last year	+11.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£313
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£344
% change on same period last year	+2.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	40
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.64	£26.93
Average hourly rate	£27.41	£27.71
% change on same period last year	-1.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.18	£28.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.40	£24.75
% change on same period last year	+2.59 %
SharePoint Server 2007 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 Server 2007
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SharePoint Server 2007 across the Buckinghamshire 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 IT contract jobs citing SharePoint Server 2007 across the Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

SharePoint Server 2007
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing SharePoint Server 2007 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 Server 2007.

1 11 (100.00 %) SharePoint 2 10 (90.91 %) .NET 3 6 (54.55 %) C# 4 5 (45.45 %) SQL Server 5 4 (36.36 %) JavaScript 5 4 (36.36 %) ASP.NET 5 4 (36.36 %) Microsoft 6 3 (27.27 %) HTML 6 3 (27.27 %) MS Office 7 2 (18.18 %) Windows 7 2 (18.18 %) Pharmaceutical 7 2 (18.18 %) MS Excel 7 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2005 7 2 (18.18 %) Windows SharePoint Services 8 1 (9.091 %) Web Development

8 1 (9.091 %) Degree 8 1 (9.091 %) Computer Science 8 1 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 1 (9.091 %) InfoPath 8 1 (9.091 %) Construction 8 1 (9.091 %) C 8 1 (9.091 %) Kerberos 8 1 (9.091 %) Active Directory 8 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft Certification 8 1 (9.091 %) XHTML 8 1 (9.091 %) Oracle 8 1 (9.091 %) CSS 8 1 (9.091 %) XML 8 1 (9.091 %) MCSD 8 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2

SharePoint Server 2007
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing SharePoint Server 2007 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 Server 2007. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 10 (90.91 %) .NET 2 4 (36.36 %) ASP.NET 3 3 (27.27 %) HTML 4 2 (18.18 %) Windows SharePoint Services 5 1 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 1 (9.091 %) ASP 5 1 (9.091 %) CSS 5 1 (9.091 %) XML 5 1 (9.091 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 11 (100.00 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 3 (27.27 %) MS Office 2 2 (18.18 %) MS Excel 3 1 (9.091 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (45.45 %) SQL Server 2 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) Visual Studio
General 1 2 (18.18 %) Pharmaceutical 2 1 (9.091 %) Construction	Job Titles 1 8 (72.73 %) Developer 2 7 (63.64 %) SharePoint Developer 3 1 (9.091 %) Trainer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (9.091 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 2 (18.18 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 1 1 (9.091 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 6 (54.55 %) C# 2 4 (36.36 %) JavaScript 3 1 (9.091 %) VB.NET 3 1 (9.091 %) C
Qualifications 1 1 (9.091 %) MCSD 1 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (9.091 %) Degree	System Software 1 1 (9.091 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 4 (36.36 %) Microsoft 2 1 (9.091 %) Oracle