City of London SharePoint Server 2007 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) skills within the City of London 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	156	184
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching contract IT job ads	63	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.081 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	5.000 %	1.297 %
Daily rates quoted	40	7
Average minimum daily rate	£435	£434
Average daily rate	£485	£441
% change on same period last year	+10.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£535	£448
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 City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	1260	771
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.617 %	0.866 %
Daily rates quoted	592	277
Average minimum daily rate	£402	£423
Average daily rate	£436	£447
% change on same period last year	-2.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£471	£471
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£354
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	91	66
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.11	£22.61
Average hourly rate	£27.38	£23.97
% change on same period last year	+14.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.66	£25.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.66	£22.76
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
SharePoint Server 2007 London

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 City of London 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 City of London 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 City of London region over the past 3 months.

SharePoint Server 2007
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SharePoint Server 2007
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the City of London 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 90 (89.11 %) SharePoint 2 63 (62.38 %) .NET 3 59 (58.42 %) C# 4 58 (57.43 %) Microsoft 5 44 (43.56 %) ASP.NET 6 41 (40.59 %) Windows 7 33 (32.67 %) Finance 8 26 (25.74 %) SQL Server 8 26 (25.74 %) Windows SharePoint Services 9 25 (24.75 %) SQL 10 21 (20.79 %) MS Office 11 20 (19.80 %) Banking 12 17 (16.83 %) SQL Server 7 13 16 (15.84 %) Active Directory 14 15 (14.85 %) Exchange Server 2007

15 14 (13.86 %) SharePoint Portal Server 15 14 (13.86 %) Investment Banking 15 14 (13.86 %) MS Exchange 15 14 (13.86 %) Windows Server 2003 16 12 (11.88 %) Visual Studio 16 12 (11.88 %) SQL Server 2005 16 12 (11.88 %) Exchange Server 2000 17 11 (10.89 %) MS Excel 18 10 (9.901 %) CRM 18 10 (9.901 %) XML 18 10 (9.901 %) Microsoft Certification 18 10 (9.901 %) Exchange Server 2003 18 10 (9.901 %) Legal 19 9 (8.911 %) Migration 20 8 (7.921 %) Content Management

SharePoint Server 2007
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the City of London 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 63 (62.38 %) .NET 2 44 (43.56 %) ASP.NET 3 26 (25.74 %) Windows SharePoint Services 4 10 (9.901 %) XML 5 8 (7.921 %) CSS 5 8 (7.921 %) WebServices 5 8 (7.921 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 5 (4.950 %) XSLT 7 4 (3.960 %) .NET Framework 7 4 (3.960 %) WinForms 8 3 (2.970 %) HTML 9 2 (1.980 %) RSS 9 2 (1.980 %) AJAX 9 2 (1.980 %) WF 10 1 (0.990 %) XHTML 10 1 (0.990 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 90 (89.11 %) SharePoint 2 15 (14.85 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 14 (13.86 %) MS Exchange 3 14 (13.86 %) SharePoint Portal Server 4 12 (11.88 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 10 (9.901 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 8 (7.921 %) BizTalk Server 6 8 (7.921 %) IIS 7 7 (6.931 %) CMS 8 6 (5.941 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 9 5 (4.950 %) Exchange Server 5.5 10 4 (3.960 %) Content Management Server 11 3 (2.970 %) Lotus Notes 12 2 (1.980 %) QuickPlace 12 2 (1.980 %) Live Communications Server 13 1 (0.990 %) MindAlign 13 1 (0.990 %) Office Project Server 13 1 (0.990 %) Commerce Server 2007 13 1 (0.990 %) Lotus Domino 13 1 (0.990 %) Commerce Server
Applications 1 21 (20.79 %) MS Office 2 11 (10.89 %) MS Excel 3 6 (5.941 %) InfoPath 4 1 (0.990 %) MS Project 4 1 (0.990 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 2 (1.980 %) Microsoft CRM 2 1 (0.990 %) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking 1 8 (7.921 %) Intranet 2 2 (1.980 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 26 (25.74 %) SQL Server 2 17 (16.83 %) SQL Server 7 3 12 (11.88 %) SQL Server 2005 4 7 (6.931 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 5 2 (1.980 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 1 (0.990 %) SQL Server 2000 6 1 (0.990 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 12 (11.88 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (1.980 %) ClearQuest	General 1 33 (32.67 %) Finance 2 20 (19.80 %) Banking 3 14 (13.86 %) Investment Banking 4 10 (9.901 %) Legal 5 2 (1.980 %) Insurance 6 1 (0.990 %) Retail 6 1 (0.990 %) Publishing 6 1 (0.990 %) Government 6 1 (0.990 %) Law 6 1 (0.990 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 53 (52.48 %) Developer 2 38 (37.62 %) SharePoint Developer 3 19 (18.81 %) Consultant 4 15 (14.85 %) SharePoint Consultant 5 10 (9.901 %) .NET Developer 5 10 (9.901 %) C# Developer 6 8 (7.921 %) Trainer 7 7 (6.931 %) Senior Developer 8 6 (5.941 %) Project Manager 9 5 (4.950 %) Infrastructure Engineer 9 5 (4.950 %) Senior Infrastructure Engineer 10 4 (3.960 %) ASP.NET Developer 10 4 (3.960 %) Messaging Engineer 10 4 (3.960 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 11 3 (2.970 %) Senior Sharepoint Developer 11 3 (2.970 %) Architect 12 2 (1.980 %) Technical Architect 12 2 (1.980 %) Systems Tester 12 2 (1.980 %) Tester 12 2 (1.980 %) Software Tester	Miscellaneous 1 6 (5.941 %) Blackberry 2 5 (4.950 %) Asset Management 3 4 (3.960 %) Computer Science 4 3 (2.970 %) Clustering 5 2 (1.980 %) Fund Management 5 2 (1.980 %) Web 2.0 6 1 (0.990 %) Wiki 6 1 (0.990 %) Blog 6 1 (0.990 %) W3C 6 1 (0.990 %) Management Information System 6 1 (0.990 %) Fixed Income
Operating Systems 1 41 (40.59 %) Windows 2 14 (13.86 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (0.990 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (9.901 %) CRM 2 9 (8.911 %) Migration 3 8 (7.921 %) Content Management 4 7 (6.931 %) Workflow 4 7 (6.931 %) Business Intelligence 5 6 (5.941 %) Change Management 6 5 (4.950 %) GAP Analysis 7 3 (2.970 %) Document Management 7 3 (2.970 %) Project Management 7 3 (2.970 %) OOD 7 3 (2.970 %) UML 8 2 (1.980 %) OO 8 2 (1.980 %) PRINCE2 8 2 (1.980 %) Disaster Recovery 8 2 (1.980 %) Project Planning 9 1 (0.990 %) Resource Management 9 1 (0.990 %) Use Case 9 1 (0.990 %) Test Scripting 9 1 (0.990 %) Investment Management 9 1 (0.990 %) Automated Testing
Programming Languages 1 59 (58.42 %) C# 2 25 (24.75 %) SQL 3 5 (4.950 %) VBScript 4 4 (3.960 %) JavaScript 5 3 (2.970 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (0.990 %) VB 6 1 (0.990 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 10 (9.901 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (7.921 %) MCSD 2 8 (7.921 %) MCSE 2 8 (7.921 %) MCDBA 2 8 (7.921 %) MCT 3 4 (3.960 %) Degree 4 1 (0.990 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (7.921 %) ISO9001 2 1 (0.990 %) SLA	System Software 1 16 (15.84 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (0.990 %) MAILsweeper	Vendors 1 58 (57.43 %) Microsoft 2 3 (2.970 %) Lotus 2 3 (2.970 %) Oracle 3 2 (1.980 %) IronPort