East Midlands SharePoint Portal Server Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) skills within the East Midlands 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 Portal Server over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server (SPS)
Location Berkshire Buckinghamshire City of London Dartford Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England England Essex Kent Leeds London Manchester Midlands North East North West Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Reading South East South West Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey UK Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
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Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
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% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average daily rate	£269	£400
% change on same period last year	-32.76 %
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	£45.00	£25.00
% change on same period last year	+80.00 %
Application Platforms East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	255	291
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.363 %	0.301 %
Daily rates quoted	69	44
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£348
Average daily rate	£345	£368
% change on same period last year	-6.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£388
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£337
% change on same period last year	+3.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	56
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.08	£18.13
Average hourly rate	£22.07	£18.94
% change on same period last year	+16.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.06	£19.74
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.76	£23.84
% change on same period last year	+3.86 %
SharePoint Portal Server 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.

SharePoint Portal Server
Demand Trend

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

SharePoint Portal Server
Daily Rate Trend

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