Cambridgeshire SharePoint Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SharePoint skills within the Cambridgeshire 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 14 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside 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 Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Rugby Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 14 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	60
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching contract IT job ads	20	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	16.95 %	11.56 %
Daily rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£400
Average daily rate	£349	£425
% change on same period last year	-17.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£361
% change on same period last year	-3.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.75	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£22.50	£34.00
% change on same period last year	-33.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.25	£38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.68	£27.26
% change on same period last year	+8.85 %
Application Platforms Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	118	147
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.170 %	0.150 %
Daily rates quoted	28	32
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£303
Average daily rate	£328	£313
% change on same period last year	+4.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£322
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£338
% change on same period last year	+3.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.38	£25.25
Average hourly rate	£16.74	£27.21
% change on same period last year	-38.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.10	£29.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.71	£23.86
% change on same period last year	+3.57 %
SharePoint East of England

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SharePoint across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 14 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SharePoint across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 14 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 14 October 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
Cambridge	+12	16	£335	-
Peterborough	+7	2	£400	-5.88 %

SharePoint East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 14 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 30 (49.18 %) Windows 2 27 (44.26 %) MS Exchange 3 26 (42.62 %) Microsoft 4 22 (36.07 %) Active Directory 5 20 (32.79 %) SQL 6 19 (31.15 %) SQL Server 6 19 (31.15 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 15 (24.59 %) .NET 8 14 (22.95 %) Windows Server 2003 9 13 (21.31 %) VMware 10 12 (19.67 %) SQL Server Integration Services 10 12 (19.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 12 (19.67 %) ETL 10 12 (19.67 %) Datawarehouse 11 11 (18.03 %) Cisco

11 11 (18.03 %) MSI 11 11 (18.03 %) InstallShield 12 10 (16.39 %) SQL Server 2005 12 10 (16.39 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 12 10 (16.39 %) Microsoft Certification 12 10 (16.39 %) MCSE 12 10 (16.39 %) ASP.NET 12 10 (16.39 %) OLAP 12 10 (16.39 %) Transact-SQL 13 8 (13.11 %) XML 13 8 (13.11 %) MS Office 13 8 (13.11 %) DTS 13 8 (13.11 %) DNS 13 8 (13.11 %) Insurance 13 8 (13.11 %) ProClarity

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 14 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 15 (24.59 %) .NET 2 10 (16.39 %) ASP.NET 3 8 (13.11 %) XML 4 6 (9.836 %) COM+ 5 5 (8.197 %) XSD 6 4 (6.557 %) WCF 6 4 (6.557 %) WF 6 4 (6.557 %) WebServices 7 3 (4.918 %) HTML 8 1 (1.639 %) XML Schema	Application Platforms 1 27 (44.26 %) MS Exchange 2 19 (31.15 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 12 (19.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 3 (4.918 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 2 (3.279 %) Office Project Server 6 1 (1.639 %) Office Communications Server
Applications 1 8 (13.11 %) MS Office 2 2 (3.279 %) MS Excel 2 2 (3.279 %) MS PowerPoint 2 2 (3.279 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 1 (1.639 %) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking 1 8 (13.11 %) DNS 2 5 (8.197 %) MPLS 2 5 (8.197 %) TCP/IP 2 5 (8.197 %) VPN 3 4 (6.557 %) LAN 3 4 (6.557 %) WAN 4 3 (4.918 %) Firewall 4 3 (4.918 %) SAN 5 2 (3.279 %) IPsec	Database & Business Intelligence 1 19 (31.15 %) SQL Server 2 12 (19.67 %) Datawarehouse 2 12 (19.67 %) ETL 2 12 (19.67 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 10 (16.39 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 3 10 (16.39 %) SQL Server 2005 3 10 (16.39 %) OLAP 4 8 (13.11 %) DTS 4 8 (13.11 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 5 6 (9.836 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 3 (4.918 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 11 (18.03 %) MSI 1 11 (18.03 %) InstallShield 2 2 (3.279 %) Ant	General 1 8 (13.11 %) Insurance 2 5 (8.197 %) Telecoms 3 4 (6.557 %) Finance 4 3 (4.918 %) Manufacturing 4 3 (4.918 %) Electronics
Job Titles 1 15 (24.59 %) Developer 2 11 (18.03 %) 2nd Line Support 3 10 (16.39 %) Support Analyst 3 10 (16.39 %) Analyst 4 7 (11.48 %) ETL Developer 4 7 (11.48 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 5 6 (9.836 %) Applications Packager 5 6 (9.836 %) Support Engineer 5 6 (9.836 %) Desktop Support 5 6 (9.836 %) 3rd Line Support 6 5 (8.197 %) Installations Engineer 7 3 (4.918 %) Server Engineer 7 3 (4.918 %) SharePoint Developer 7 3 (4.918 %) Administrator 7 3 (4.918 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 8 2 (3.279 %) Wintel Engineer 8 2 (3.279 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 8 2 (3.279 %) Systems Administrator 8 2 (3.279 %) Desktop Analyst 8 2 (3.279 %) Windows Systems Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.918 %) Blackberry 2 2 (3.279 %) German Language 3 1 (1.639 %) Fat Client 3 1 (1.639 %) Thin Client
Operating Systems 1 30 (49.18 %) Windows 2 14 (22.95 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (6.557 %) Linux 3 4 (6.557 %) Windows XP 4 3 (4.918 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 2 (3.279 %) Windows Mobile 6 1 (1.639 %) Red Hat Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (9.836 %) Dimensional Modelling 2 4 (6.557 %) CRM 2 4 (6.557 %) ERP 2 4 (6.557 %) Business Intelligence 3 3 (4.918 %) Workflow 3 3 (4.918 %) Web Design 4 2 (3.279 %) ITIL 4 2 (3.279 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (1.639 %) Operations Management
Programming Languages 1 20 (32.79 %) SQL 2 10 (16.39 %) Transact-SQL 3 4 (6.557 %) VBA 4 3 (4.918 %) PowerShell 5 2 (3.279 %) C# 5 2 (3.279 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 10 (16.39 %) MCSE 1 10 (16.39 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (4.918 %) CCNA 2 3 (4.918 %) Cisco Certification 3 2 (3.279 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.279 %) SLA	System Software 1 22 (36.07 %) Active Directory 2 3 (4.918 %) VMware ESX 2 3 (4.918 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 2 (3.279 %) Samba
Systems Management 1 3 (4.918 %) MOM 2 1 (1.639 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 26 (42.62 %) Microsoft 2 13 (21.31 %) VMware 3 11 (18.03 %) Cisco 4 8 (13.11 %) ProClarity 5 3 (4.918 %) Citrix 5 3 (4.918 %) Oracle 6 2 (3.279 %) HP 7 1 (1.639 %) Red Hat