Home Counties SharePoint Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SharePoint 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 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 Home Counties 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	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	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	£372	£354
% change on same period last year	+5.11 %
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	£28.44	£27.36
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Application Platforms Home Counties
Matching contract IT job ads	12	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.018 %
Daily rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£445
Average daily rate	£400	£449
% change on same period last year	-10.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£453
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£349
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£15.75
Average hourly rate	-	£17.25
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£18.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
SharePoint 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
Demand Trend

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

SharePoint
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 3 (42.86 %) .NET 1 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server 1 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server 2005 2 2 (28.57 %) C# 2 2 (28.57 %) InfoPath 2 2 (28.57 %) Citrix 2 2 (28.57 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (28.57 %) Disaster Recovery 2 2 (28.57 %) Firewall 2 2 (28.57 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (28.57 %) SAP 2 2 (28.57 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (28.57 %) XML 2 2 (28.57 %) Windows 2 2 (28.57 %) OO

3 1 (14.29 %) Documentum 3 1 (14.29 %) Telecoms 3 1 (14.29 %) FileNet 3 1 (14.29 %) Finance 3 1 (14.29 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (14.29 %) Stellent 3 1 (14.29 %) LiveLink 3 1 (14.29 %) Asset Management 3 1 (14.29 %) EDMS 3 1 (14.29 %) Interwoven 3 1 (14.29 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (14.29 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (14.29 %) German Language

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 3 (42.86 %) .NET 2 2 (28.57 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (28.57 %) XML 3 1 (14.29 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 1 (14.29 %) Documentum 1 1 (14.29 %) LiveLink 1 1 (14.29 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 2 (28.57 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 2 (28.57 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server 1 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (14.29 %) EDMS	Development Applications 1 2 (28.57 %) Visual Studio
General 1 1 (14.29 %) Telecoms 1 1 (14.29 %) Finance 1 1 (14.29 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 3 (42.86 %) Developer 2 2 (28.57 %) Systems Administrator 2 2 (28.57 %) Administrator 2 2 (28.57 %) C# Developer 2 2 (28.57 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) Installations Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) SharePoint Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) Change Manager 3 1 (14.29 %) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (14.29 %) German Language	Operating Systems 1 2 (28.57 %) Windows 1 2 (28.57 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (28.57 %) OO 1 2 (28.57 %) Disaster Recovery 2 1 (14.29 %) Asset Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (28.57 %) C#
Vendors 1 2 (28.57 %) SAP 1 2 (28.57 %) Citrix 2 1 (14.29 %) Interwoven 2 1 (14.29 %) FileNet 2 1 (14.29 %) Stellent