The first table below looks at the demand for SharePoint skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SharePoint over the 3 months to 17 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 Essex 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SharePoint
Rank 29 29 19
Rank change year-on-year
0 -10
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 17 15 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 4.177% 3.659% 8.354%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.00% 27.78% 41.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 12
Average daily rate £350 £450 £283
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.22% +59.01%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £187 £400 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £350 £341
% change year-on-year
-1.42% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 7
Average hourly rate - £29.00 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +20.83%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £21.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year
-4.59% -3.33%
All Application Platforms
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
68 54 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 16.71% 13.17% 20.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 29 35
Average daily rate £270 £420 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-35.71% +8.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £149 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 21
Average hourly rate £25.00 £29.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.79% +107.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £17.59 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.42 £32.61 £28.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
SharePoint
East of England

SharePoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex SharePoint Daily Rate Trend

SharePoint
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SharePoint across the Essex region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Essex SharePoint Daily Rate Histogram

SharePoint
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Essex SharePoint Hourly Rate Trend

SharePoint
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 Essex region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Colchester - 5 £190 -
Chelmsford -2 2 £400 -15.78%
Brentwood - 1 £450 -
SharePoint
East of England

SharePoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 23 (62.16%) .NET
2 16 (43.24%) ASP.NET
3 15 (40.54%) Microsoft
4 14 (37.84%) SQL Server
5 13 (35.14%) C#
6 12 (32.43%) SharePoint 2010
7 11 (29.73%) Windows
8 10 (27.03%) SQL
9 8 (21.62%) Workflow
10 7 (18.92%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (18.92%) Windows Server 2003
10 7 (18.92%) Internet
10 7 (18.92%) Oracle
10 7 (18.92%) Web Services
10 7 (18.92%) TCP/IP
10 7 (18.92%) WCF
10 7 (18.92%) Windows Server 2008
11 6 (16.22%) SaaS
11 6 (16.22%) HTTP
11 6 (16.22%) CRM
11 6 (16.22%) IIS
11 6 (16.22%) Intranet
11 6 (16.22%) GIS
12 5 (13.51%) Migration
12 5 (13.51%) CTI
12 5 (13.51%) Project Management
12 5 (13.51%) MS Office
12 5 (13.51%) VB.NET
12 5 (13.51%) XML
12 5 (13.51%) Data Migration

SharePoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 23 (62.16%) .NET
2 16 (43.24%) ASP.NET
3 7 (18.92%) Web Services
3 7 (18.92%) WCF
4 5 (13.51%) XML
5 3 (8.108%) HTML
5 3 (8.108%) .NET Framework
6 2 (5.405%) LINQ
6 2 (5.405%) XSLT
6 2 (5.405%) Windows SharePoint Services
6 2 (5.405%) ASP
7 1 (2.703%) COM
7 1 (2.703%) CSS
7 1 (2.703%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 12 (32.43%) SharePoint 2010
2 6 (16.22%) IIS
3 5 (13.51%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (8.108%) CMS
5 2 (5.405%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (5.405%) MS Project Server
5 2 (5.405%) MS Exchange
5 2 (5.405%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (2.703%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (2.703%) Content Management Server
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) MS Office
2 4 (10.81%) InfoPath
3 3 (8.108%) MS Excel
4 2 (5.405%) PowerPivot
4 2 (5.405%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (2.703%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.92%) TCP/IP
1 7 (18.92%) Internet
2 6 (16.22%) Intranet
2 6 (16.22%) HTTP
3 5 (13.51%) CTI
4 2 (5.405%) DHCP
4 2 (5.405%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (37.84%) SQL Server
2 6 (16.22%) GIS
3 4 (10.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (5.405%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (5.405%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (5.405%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 2 (5.405%) Oracle 9i
4 2 (5.405%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (2.703%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.703%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Visual Studio
2 2 (5.405%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (2.703%) Talend Open Studio
3 1 (2.703%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (5.405%) Finance
1 2 (5.405%) Publishing
2 1 (2.703%) Law
Job Titles
1 22 (59.46%) Developer
2 18 (48.65%) SharePoint Developer
3 5 (13.51%) Analyst
4 3 (8.108%) Server Support
4 3 (8.108%) Support Engineer
4 3 (8.108%) Applications Support
4 3 (8.108%) Web Support Engineer
4 3 (8.108%) Web Analyst
4 3 (8.108%) Web Engineer
5 2 (5.405%) Web Support Analyst
5 2 (5.405%) Support Analyst
5 2 (5.405%) Server Analyst
5 2 (5.405%) SharePoint Architect
5 2 (5.405%) SharePoint Administrator
5 2 (5.405%) Server Support Analyst
5 2 (5.405%) Server Engineer
5 2 (5.405%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (5.405%) SharePoint Consultant
5 2 (5.405%) Lead Developer
5 2 (5.405%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) SaaS
2 5 (13.51%) IVR
3 2 (5.405%) Data Extraction
3 2 (5.405%) iPhone
3 2 (5.405%) iPad
3 2 (5.405%) SWIFT
4 1 (2.703%) Smartphone
4 1 (2.703%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 11 (29.73%) Windows
2 7 (18.92%) Windows Server 2003
2 7 (18.92%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (5.405%) Windows 7
3 2 (5.405%) Windows XP
4 1 (2.703%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.62%) Workflow
2 7 (18.92%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (16.22%) CRM
4 5 (13.51%) Project Management
4 5 (13.51%) Migration
4 5 (13.51%) Network Load Balancing
4 5 (13.51%) Data Migration
5 4 (10.81%) Service Delivery
5 4 (10.81%) Content Management
6 3 (8.108%) Configuration Management
6 3 (8.108%) ITIL
6 3 (8.108%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (8.108%) Capacity Management
7 2 (5.405%) Data Cleansing
7 2 (5.405%) RUP
7 2 (5.405%) DSDM
7 2 (5.405%) E-Commerce
7 2 (5.405%) ETL
7 2 (5.405%) Document Management
7 2 (5.405%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (35.14%) C#
2 10 (27.03%) SQL
3 5 (13.51%) VB.NET
4 4 (10.81%) PL/SQL
5 3 (8.108%) T-SQL
6 2 (5.405%) VBScript
6 2 (5.405%) VB
6 2 (5.405%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.703%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.703%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.405%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.405%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (40.54%) Microsoft
2 7 (18.92%) Oracle
3 2 (5.405%) VMware
4 1 (2.703%) Talend
4 1 (2.703%) Citrix
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