Gloucestershire SharePoint Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SharePoint skills within the Gloucestershire 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 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Altrincham Ascot Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Fife Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hampshire Harrow Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Moreton-in-Marsh Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	46	49
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	7	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	11.11 %	7.317 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£350
Average daily rate	£330	£375
% change on same period last year	-12.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£372	£354
% change on same period last year	+5.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.00	-
Average hourly rate	£34.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.44	£27.36
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Application Platforms Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	63	41
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.084 %	0.041 %
Daily rates quoted	20	11
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£304
Average daily rate	£334	£330
% change on same period last year	+1.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£356	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£349
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.17	£13.29
Average hourly rate	£25.08	£13.71
% change on same period last year	+82.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.00	£14.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
SharePoint South West

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
Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Gloucester	+6	6	£330	-12.00 %
Moreton-in-Marsh	-	1	-	-

SharePoint South West

SharePoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 6 (54.55 %) ASP.NET 1 6 (54.55 %) .NET 2 5 (45.45 %) C# 2 5 (45.45 %) Microsoft 3 4 (36.36 %) SQL 3 4 (36.36 %) AJAX 4 3 (27.27 %) Silverlight 4 3 (27.27 %) WebServices 5 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 5 2 (18.18 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 2 (18.18 %) InfoPath 5 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2005 6 1 (9.091 %) MCPD 6 1 (9.091 %) Business Development 6 1 (9.091 %) .NET Framework

6 1 (9.091 %) MCTS 6 1 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 1 (9.091 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (9.091 %) DHTML 6 1 (9.091 %) HTML 6 1 (9.091 %) JavaScript 6 1 (9.091 %) XML 6 1 (9.091 %) MCP 6 1 (9.091 %) MCAD 6 1 (9.091 %) MCSD 6 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (9.091 %) LDAP 6 1 (9.091 %) SOA 6 1 (9.091 %) Finance 6 1 (9.091 %) Web Design

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 6 (54.55 %) .NET 1 6 (54.55 %) ASP.NET 2 4 (36.36 %) AJAX 3 3 (27.27 %) Silverlight 3 3 (27.27 %) WebServices 4 1 (9.091 %) XML 4 1 (9.091 %) CSS 4 1 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 2.0 4 1 (9.091 %) .NET Framework 4 1 (9.091 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 2 (18.18 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (9.091 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 2 (18.18 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) LDAP 1 1 (9.091 %) Intranet 1 1 (9.091 %) Internet 1 1 (9.091 %) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 1 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 7 2 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 1 (9.091 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 7 (63.64 %) Developer 2 4 (36.36 %) .NET Developer 2 4 (36.36 %) ASP.NET Developer 3 3 (27.27 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 3 3 (27.27 %) C# Developer 4 2 (18.18 %) Programme Office Manager 4 2 (18.18 %) Web Developer 4 2 (18.18 %) Consultant 4 2 (18.18 %) Programme Manager 4 2 (18.18 %) SharePoint Consultant 5 1 (9.091 %) SharePoint Developer	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 1 1 (9.091 %) SOA 1 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE 1 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 1 1 (9.091 %) Web Design 1 1 (9.091 %) Business Development
Programming Languages 1 5 (45.45 %) C# 2 4 (36.36 %) SQL 3 1 (9.091 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (9.091 %) DHTML 3 1 (9.091 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 1 (9.091 %) MCP 1 1 (9.091 %) MCAD 1 1 (9.091 %) MCSD 1 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (9.091 %) MCTS 1 1 (9.091 %) MCPD
System Software 1 1 (9.091 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 5 (45.45 %) Microsoft