The first table below looks at the demand for SharePoint skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SharePoint over the 3 months to 17 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 Kent 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SharePoint
Rank 12 14 39
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +25
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 29 22 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 9.477% 8.302% 1.881%
As % of the Application Platforms category 43.28% 47.83% 9.375%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 15 5
Average daily rate £295 £325 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.23% +12.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £290 £266
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £483 £312
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £350 £341
% change year-on-year
-1.42% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £22.69 £22.25 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.97% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £21.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year
-4.59% -3.33%
All Application Platforms
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
67 46 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 21.90% 17.36% 20.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 27 44
Average daily rate £295 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.66% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £235 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £368 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
Average hourly rate £14.75 £17.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.23% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
SharePoint
South East

SharePoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent SharePoint Hourly Rate Trend

SharePoint
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint within the Kent region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Maidstone +2 8 £273 -16.15%
Tunbridge Wells - 3 £338 -
Tonbridge - 1 £475 -
SharePoint
South East

SharePoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 35 (52.24%) SharePoint 2010
2 30 (44.78%) Windows
3 19 (28.36%) Microsoft
4 18 (26.87%) .NET
5 17 (25.37%) DNS
6 16 (23.88%) DHCP
6 16 (23.88%) HP
6 16 (23.88%) SQL Server
7 14 (20.90%) ASP.NET
7 14 (20.90%) Active Directory
7 14 (20.90%) VMware
7 14 (20.90%) Windows Server 2008
8 13 (19.40%) TCP/IP
9 12 (17.91%) CSS
9 12 (17.91%) SQL
9 12 (17.91%) SQL Server 2008
9 12 (17.91%) PowerShell
10 11 (16.42%) Firewall
10 11 (16.42%) Finance
10 11 (16.42%) LAN
10 11 (16.42%) Windows Server 2003
11 10 (14.93%) Citrix
11 10 (14.93%) SLA
12 9 (13.43%) VPN
12 9 (13.43%) WAN
12 9 (13.43%) Juniper
12 9 (13.43%) Migration
12 9 (13.43%) IPsec
12 9 (13.43%) Service Delivery
12 9 (13.43%) VMware Infrastructure

SharePoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 18 (26.87%) .NET
2 14 (20.90%) ASP.NET
3 12 (17.91%) CSS
4 4 (5.970%) Windows SharePoint Services
4 4 (5.970%) HTML
5 1 (1.493%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.493%) WCF
5 1 (1.493%) WPF
5 1 (1.493%) XML
5 1 (1.493%) COM
Application Platforms
1 35 (52.24%) SharePoint 2010
2 8 (11.94%) Exchange Server 2010
2 8 (11.94%) MS Exchange
3 7 (10.45%) Lync
4 3 (4.478%) IIS
4 3 (4.478%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (2.985%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (2.985%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (2.985%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 6 (8.955%) MS Excel
2 4 (5.970%) MS Office
3 1 (1.493%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.493%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (1.493%) InfoPath
3 1 (1.493%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 17 (25.37%) DNS
2 16 (23.88%) DHCP
3 13 (19.40%) TCP/IP
4 11 (16.42%) LAN
4 11 (16.42%) Firewall
5 9 (13.43%) IPsec
5 9 (13.43%) WAN
5 9 (13.43%) VPN
6 8 (11.94%) WLAN
7 7 (10.45%) HTTP
8 6 (8.955%) IPv6
9 4 (5.970%) Broadband
10 3 (4.478%) Internet
10 3 (4.478%) SAN
11 2 (2.985%) Intranet
11 2 (2.985%) IP Telephony
11 2 (2.985%) SMTP
11 2 (2.985%) iSCSI
12 1 (1.493%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.88%) SQL Server
2 12 (17.91%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (2.985%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (2.985%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (2.985%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.493%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.493%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (1.493%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 1 (1.493%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (16.42%) Finance
2 7 (10.45%) Local Government
3 5 (7.463%) Publishing
4 3 (4.478%) Banking
5 2 (2.985%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.493%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 26 (38.81%) Developer
2 20 (29.85%) SharePoint Developer
3 12 (17.91%) SharePoint Administrator
3 12 (17.91%) Administrator
4 9 (13.43%) Desktop Engineer
4 9 (13.43%) Server Engineer
5 6 (8.955%) Analyst
5 6 (8.955%) Consultant
5 6 (8.955%) SharePoint Consultant
6 5 (7.463%) Desktop Support
6 5 (7.463%) Support Engineer
6 5 (7.463%) Server Support
6 5 (7.463%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 4 (5.970%) Project Engineer
7 4 (5.970%) Server Support Engineer
7 4 (5.970%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.970%) IT Support
8 3 (4.478%) SharePoint Architect
8 3 (4.478%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 3 (4.478%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.94%) Management Information System
2 6 (8.955%) PKI
3 4 (5.970%) Taxonomies
3 4 (5.970%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (4.478%) NHS
4 3 (4.478%) Clustering
5 2 (2.985%) Mathematics
6 1 (1.493%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 30 (44.78%) Windows
2 14 (20.90%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (16.42%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (13.43%) Windows 2000 Server
5 5 (7.463%) UNIX
6 1 (1.493%) Windows Vista
6 1 (1.493%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (13.43%) Service Delivery
1 9 (13.43%) Migration
2 7 (10.45%) CRM
3 6 (8.955%) Systems Analysis
3 6 (8.955%) Release Management
3 6 (8.955%) Time Management
4 5 (7.463%) Workflow
5 4 (5.970%) Data Protection
5 4 (5.970%) ITIL
6 3 (4.478%) Data Migration
7 2 (2.985%) Capacity Management
7 2 (2.985%) ERP
7 2 (2.985%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (2.985%) Resource Management
7 2 (2.985%) Document Management
8 1 (1.493%) Technical Architecture
8 1 (1.493%) Wealth Management
8 1 (1.493%) Investment Management
8 1 (1.493%) Project Management
8 1 (1.493%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.91%) SQL
1 12 (17.91%) PowerShell
2 6 (8.955%) VBScript
3 4 (5.970%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.478%) C#
5 2 (2.985%) C
5 2 (2.985%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.493%) VBA
6 1 (1.493%) XAML
6 1 (1.493%) VB
6 1 (1.493%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (5.970%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.478%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (4.478%) MCSA
3 1 (1.493%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.93%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (20.90%) Active Directory
2 9 (13.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (10.45%) Terminal Services
4 3 (4.478%) Terminal Server
5 2 (2.985%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.985%) Forefront TMG
6 1 (1.493%) vSphere
6 1 (1.493%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 8 (11.94%) SCOM
2 1 (1.493%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 19 (28.36%) Microsoft
2 16 (23.88%) HP
3 14 (20.90%) VMware
4 10 (14.93%) Citrix
5 9 (13.43%) Juniper
6 8 (11.94%) Dell
7 5 (7.463%) EMC
8 2 (2.985%) NetApp
8 2 (2.985%) WatchGuard
8 2 (2.985%) Cisco
9 1 (1.493%) Symantec
Maidstone, Kent
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