The first table below looks at the demand for SharePoint skills in IT contracts advertised for the Crawley region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SharePoint over the 3 months to 23 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 Crawley 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SharePoint
Rank 23 27 25
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -2
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 2 8 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 1.389% 2.888% 1.613%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.00% 38.10% 6.897%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
Average daily rate - £406 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +16.07%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £341
% change year-on-year
- +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £21.75 £23.00
% change year-on-year
-5.74% -5.43%
All Application Platforms
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
20 21 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 13.89% 7.581% 23.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 5
Average daily rate £348 £450 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.77% +28.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £375 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £418 £500 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
Average hourly rate £18.50 - £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
SharePoint
West Sussex

SharePoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crawley SharePoint Jobs Demand Trend

SharePoint
Daily Rate Trend

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

Crawley SharePoint Daily Rate Trend

SharePoint
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Crawley SharePoint Hourly Rate Trend

SharePoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 7 (77.78%) SQL
3 6 (66.67%) Business Objects
3 6 (66.67%) Data Architecture
4 5 (55.56%) BusinessObjects
4 5 (55.56%) SOA
4 5 (55.56%) MS Office
4 5 (55.56%) SAP
5 4 (44.44%) MS Excel
5 4 (44.44%) MS Visio
5 4 (44.44%) MS PowerPoint
6 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (33.33%) Smart Meter
6 3 (33.33%) Windows
6 3 (33.33%) Oracle
6 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
6 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (22.22%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 2 (22.22%) Firewall
7 2 (22.22%) IPsec
7 2 (22.22%) Finance
7 2 (22.22%) VMware
7 2 (22.22%) DHCP
7 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
7 2 (22.22%) VPN
7 2 (22.22%) DNS
7 2 (22.22%) Cisco
7 2 (22.22%) Citrix
7 2 (22.22%) UNIX
7 2 (22.22%) AIX

SharePoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
1 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (11.11%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 5 (55.56%) MS Office
2 4 (44.44%) MS Excel
2 4 (44.44%) MS Visio
2 4 (44.44%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
1 2 (22.22%) IPsec
1 2 (22.22%) DHCP
1 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
1 2 (22.22%) VPN
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Architect
1 6 (66.67%) Systems Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Team Leader
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Support Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Support Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Support Team Leader
2 2 (22.22%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Smart Meter
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
2 1 (11.11%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (22.22%) UNIX
2 2 (22.22%) AIX
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Windows XP
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 5 (55.56%) SOA
3 2 (22.22%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) XenApp
1 2 (22.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 6 (66.67%) Business Objects
3 5 (55.56%) SAP
4 3 (33.33%) Oracle
5 2 (22.22%) VMware
5 2 (22.22%) Cisco
5 2 (22.22%) Citrix
5 2 (22.22%) CheckPoint
6 1 (11.11%) Lotus