The first table below looks at the demand for SharePoint skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SharePoint 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 Guildford 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
Rank 22 18 16
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -2
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 10 4 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 4.587% 3.306% 3.759%
As % of the Application Platforms category 17.24% 17.39% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 1
Average daily rate £150 £425 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-64.70% +30.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £340
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £21.75 £23.00
% change year-on-year
-4.59% -5.43%
All Application Platforms
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
58 23 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 26.61% 19.01% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 8 6
Average daily rate £300 £375 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £163 £104 £206
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £425 £363
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
Average hourly rate £43.50 £17.50 £13.11
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+148.57% +33.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £17.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £60.00 £27.30 £14.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
SharePoint
Surrey

SharePoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford 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 Guildford region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford SharePoint Hourly Rate Trend

SharePoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 9 (52.94%) MS Office
2 7 (41.18%) Finance
3 6 (35.29%) MS PowerPoint
3 6 (35.29%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (29.41%) Primavera
4 5 (29.41%) PRINCE2
5 4 (23.53%) Windows
5 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
5 4 (23.53%) PMI
5 4 (23.53%) PMI Certification
5 4 (23.53%) Degree
5 4 (23.53%) Document Management
6 3 (17.65%) VMware
6 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (17.65%) Windows 2000 Server
6 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
6 3 (17.65%) ITIL
7 2 (11.76%) SQL
7 2 (11.76%) Law
7 2 (11.76%) SAN
7 2 (11.76%) CommVault
7 2 (11.76%) Extranet
7 2 (11.76%) ISA Server
7 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (11.76%) Forefront TMG
7 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
8 1 (5.882%) Change Control
8 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (5.882%) Project Planning
8 1 (5.882%) IP Telephony

SharePoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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.

Applications
1 9 (52.94%) MS Office
2 6 (35.29%) MS PowerPoint
2 6 (35.29%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) SAN
1 2 (11.76%) Extranet
2 1 (5.882%) IP Telephony
2 1 (5.882%) LAN
2 1 (5.882%) WAN
2 1 (5.882%) DHCP
2 1 (5.882%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.882%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.882%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (5.882%) MS Access
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
3 2 (11.76%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Support Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Coordinator
2 4 (23.53%) Project Coordinator
3 3 (17.65%) Project Officer
3 3 (17.65%) Project Support Officer
3 3 (17.65%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) IT Support
3 3 (17.65%) MI Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Project Support Coordinator
4 1 (5.882%) Junior Project Support Officer
4 1 (5.882%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Server Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Risk Manager
4 1 (5.882%) Help Desk Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Windows Server Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Project Controller
4 1 (5.882%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (17.65%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (5.882%) Linux
3 1 (5.882%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) PRINCE2
2 4 (23.53%) Document Management
3 3 (17.65%) ITIL
4 1 (5.882%) Change Control
4 1 (5.882%) Project Planning
4 1 (5.882%) Information Management
4 1 (5.882%) Business Analysis
4 1 (5.882%) Logistics
4 1 (5.882%) Project Management
4 1 (5.882%) PRINCE
4 1 (5.882%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) PMI Certification
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) ISA Server
1 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (11.76%) Forefront TMG
1 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Primavera
2 3 (17.65%) VMware
3 2 (11.76%) CommVault
4 1 (5.882%) Ericsson
4 1 (5.882%) Microsoft