The first table below looks at the demand for SharePoint skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SharePoint over the 3 months to 23 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 Lancashire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SharePoint
Rank 26 31 18
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -13
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 5 14 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 2.404% 3.357% 5.957%
As % of the Application Platforms category 17.24% 18.92% 25.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 8
Average daily rate £325 £155 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+109.67% -55.71%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £341
% change year-on-year
- +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Average hourly rate £18.00 £20.00 £92.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% -78.26%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £21.75 £23.00
% change year-on-year
-5.74% -5.43%
All Application Platforms
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
29 74 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 13.94% 17.75% 23.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 37 24
Average daily rate £275 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £155 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £475 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 9
Average hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.80 £20.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £67.65 £30.00 £64.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
SharePoint
North West

SharePoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire SharePoint Daily Rate Trend

SharePoint
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Preston +14 1 - -
SharePoint
North West

SharePoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 15 (55.56%) SharePoint 2010
2 12 (44.44%) SQL
2 12 (44.44%) SQL Server
3 11 (40.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (37.04%) InfoPath
4 10 (37.04%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (37.04%) NHS
5 9 (33.33%) Windows
6 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
7 6 (22.22%) ITIL
8 5 (18.52%) MS Office
8 5 (18.52%) .NET
8 5 (18.52%) MS Exchange
8 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (18.52%) PowerPivot
9 4 (14.81%) Windows 7
9 4 (14.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (14.81%) SCCM
9 4 (14.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (14.81%) MCDST
9 4 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (14.81%) MCSE
9 4 (14.81%) HP
9 4 (14.81%) C#
9 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (11.11%) Sage
10 3 (11.11%) Workflow
10 3 (11.11%) VMware
10 3 (11.11%) Citrix
10 3 (11.11%) HTML

SharePoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 5 (18.52%) .NET
2 3 (11.11%) HTML
2 3 (11.11%) CSS
3 2 (7.407%) jQuery
3 2 (7.407%) Application Packaging
3 2 (7.407%) MDX
3 2 (7.407%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.704%) Silverlight
4 1 (3.704%) Windows SharePoint Services
Application Platforms
1 15 (55.56%) SharePoint 2010
2 5 (18.52%) MS Exchange
3 3 (11.11%) Lync
3 3 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (7.407%) SharePoint 2013
4 2 (7.407%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (3.704%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 10 (37.04%) InfoPath
2 5 (18.52%) MS Office
2 5 (18.52%) PowerPivot
3 2 (7.407%) MS Excel
4 1 (3.704%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.407%) NAS
1 2 (7.407%) Wireless
1 2 (7.407%) SAN
1 2 (7.407%) Intranet
1 2 (7.407%) Firewall
2 1 (3.704%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.704%) DNS
2 1 (3.704%) Unified Communications
2 1 (3.704%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 11 (40.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (14.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (14.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (7.407%) PerformancePoint
5 2 (7.407%) OLAP
6 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (3.704%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 2 (7.407%) MSI
2 1 (3.704%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (3.704%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Developer
2 10 (37.04%) SharePoint Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 4 (14.81%) SharePoint Administrator
4 4 (14.81%) Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Administrator
5 3 (11.11%) Support Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (11.11%) SQL Developer
5 3 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (7.407%) Operations Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) Consultant
6 2 (7.407%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.704%) Technical Consultant
7 1 (3.704%) Service Analyst
7 1 (3.704%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 1 (3.704%) Help Desk Analyst
7 1 (3.704%) PMO Analyst
7 1 (3.704%) Implementation Specialist
7 1 (3.704%) UNIX Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) NHS
2 2 (7.407%) Clustering
3 1 (3.704%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) Windows
2 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (14.81%) Windows 7
4 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (3.704%) UNIX
5 1 (3.704%) Solaris
5 1 (3.704%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (22.22%) ITIL
3 3 (11.11%) Workflow
3 3 (11.11%) PRINCE2
4 2 (7.407%) Change Control
4 2 (7.407%) Project Management
4 2 (7.407%) Migration
4 2 (7.407%) Security Management
5 1 (3.704%) Service Management
5 1 (3.704%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (3.704%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) SQL
2 4 (14.81%) C#
3 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.407%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.704%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) MCDST
1 4 (14.81%) MCSE
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (7.407%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (3.704%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.704%) MCP
3 1 (3.704%) MCSA
3 1 (3.704%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.407%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.407%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.704%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) SCCM
2 3 (11.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) HP
3 3 (11.11%) Sage
3 3 (11.11%) VMware
3 3 (11.11%) Citrix
3 3 (11.11%) Cisco
4 2 (7.407%) Dell
4 2 (7.407%) McAfee
5 1 (3.704%) Oracle
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