Home Counties SharePoint Server 2007 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) skills within the Home Counties region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited SharePoint Server 2007 over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Altrincham Ascot Barnsley Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Coventry Derbyshire Devon Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Hampshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	8.333 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£419	£369
% change on same period last year	+13.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.00	£20.00
% change on same period last year	+85.00 %
Application Platforms Home Counties
Matching contract IT job ads	12	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.018 %
Daily rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum daily rate	£458	£428
Average daily rate	£461	£437
% change on same period last year	+5.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£463	£445
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£348
% change on same period last year	+3.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.60
Average hourly rate	-	£21.80
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£23.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.67	£24.13
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
SharePoint Server 2007 South East

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 Server 2007
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SharePoint Server 2007 across the Home Counties region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

SharePoint Server 2007
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties region citing SharePoint Server 2007 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 2007.

1 1 (50.00 %) PRINCE2 1 1 (50.00 %) Windows 1 1 (50.00 %) SharePoint 1 1 (50.00 %) Windows Server 2003 1 1 (50.00 %) Configuration Management 1 1 (50.00 %) Quality Management 1 1 (50.00 %) Change Management 1 1 (50.00 %) Government 1 1 (50.00 %) Project Planning 1 1 (50.00 %) DV Cleared 1 1 (50.00 %) Security Cleared

SharePoint Server 2007
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties region citing SharePoint Server 2007 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 2007. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (50.00 %) SharePoint	General 1 1 (50.00 %) Government
Job Titles 1 1 (50.00 %) Project Manager 1 1 (50.00 %) Installations Engineer	Operating Systems 1 1 (50.00 %) Windows 1 1 (50.00 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (50.00 %) PRINCE2 1 1 (50.00 %) Configuration Management 1 1 (50.00 %) Quality Management 1 1 (50.00 %) Change Management 1 1 (50.00 %) Project Planning 1 1 (50.00 %) DV Cleared 1 1 (50.00 %) Security Cleared