The first table below looks at the demand for SharePoint 2013 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SharePoint 2013 over the 3 months to 24 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 Edinburgh 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SharePoint 2013
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 2013 7 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.840% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.698% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £313 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
149 153 163
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 17.89% 14.08% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 60 58
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £184 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £430 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 4
Average hourly rate £20.00 £13.75 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+45.45% -21.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.40 £11.75 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £14.00 £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
SharePoint 2013
Scotland

SharePoint 2013
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SharePoint 2013 across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Edinburgh SharePoint 2013 Jobs Demand Trend

SharePoint 2013
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SharePoint 2013 across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh SharePoint 2013 Daily Rate Trend

SharePoint 2013
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing SharePoint 2013 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 2013.

1 16 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 12 (75.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 11 (68.75%) .NET
4 10 (62.50%) C#
4 10 (62.50%) SQL Server
4 10 (62.50%) SQL Server 2012
5 9 (56.25%) Windows
6 8 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
7 4 (25.00%) SQL
8 3 (18.75%) Migration
9 2 (12.50%) Data Management
9 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (12.50%) Data Mining
9 2 (12.50%) ETL
9 2 (12.50%) Trillium
9 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (12.50%) Informatica
9 2 (12.50%) T-SQL
9 2 (12.50%) HTML
9 2 (12.50%) OLAP
9 2 (12.50%) Business Objects
9 2 (12.50%) Oracle
9 2 (12.50%) CSS
9 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (12.50%) DTS
9 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
9 2 (12.50%) Master Data Management
9 2 (12.50%) Metadata Management
9 2 (12.50%) Finance
9 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005

SharePoint 2013
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing SharePoint 2013 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 2013. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (68.75%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) HTML
2 2 (12.50%) CSS
2 2 (12.50%) MDX
3 1 (6.250%) XML
3 1 (6.250%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 16 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 12 (75.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (6.250%) Lync
3 1 (6.250%) Documentum
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) Intranet
1 1 (6.250%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) SQL Server
1 10 (62.50%) SQL Server 2012
2 8 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (12.50%) Data Mining
3 2 (12.50%) OLAP
3 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (12.50%) DTS
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle OLAP
3 2 (12.50%) QlikView
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
1 2 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (6.250%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Developer
1 12 (75.00%) SharePoint Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Data Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) SharePoint Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (6.250%) SharePoint Administrator
3 1 (6.250%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Mathematics
1 2 (12.50%) Data Conversion
1 2 (12.50%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Windows
2 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Migration
2 2 (12.50%) Data Management
2 2 (12.50%) ETL
2 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
2 2 (12.50%) Master Data Management
2 2 (12.50%) Metadata Management
2 2 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (12.50%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) C#
2 4 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 1 (6.250%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Trillium
1 2 (12.50%) Informatica
1 2 (12.50%) Business Objects
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle
1 2 (12.50%) DataFlux
2 1 (6.250%) Microsoft