The first table below looks at the demand for SharePoint Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SharePoint Server over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Gloucestershire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SharePoint Server (inc MOSS & SPS)
Rank 31 52 -
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -
Contract jobs citing SharePoint Server 4 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 1.606% 1.354% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 12.12% 7.865% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £367 £364 £350
% change year-on-year
+0.75% +3.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.00 £30.00 £23.88
% change year-on-year
-56.66% +25.65%
All Application Platforms
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
33 89 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 13.25% 17.21% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 56 27
Average daily rate £365 £375 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.66% +50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £303 £168
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
Average hourly rate £21.50 £20.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.87% +2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £20.00 £17.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £21.00 £20.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +2.56%
SharePoint Server
South West

SharePoint Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire SharePoint Server Jobs Demand Trend

SharePoint Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire SharePoint Server Daily Rate Trend

SharePoint Server
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing SharePoint Server 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 Server.

1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) Web Development
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (75.00%) SharePoint 2013
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Migration

SharePoint Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing SharePoint Server 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 Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (75.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (75.00%) SharePoint 2013
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Web Development
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft