Leeds SharePoint Server 2007 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) skills within the Leeds 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 Server 2007 over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Ascot Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Derbyshire Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Halifax Hampshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport North East North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Surbiton Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	61	68
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	11	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	6.790 %	1.325 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£420	-
Average daily rate	£420	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£420	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£442	£369
% change on same period last year	+19.80 %
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	£49.05	£17.50
% change on same period last year	+180.28 %
Application Platforms Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	162	151
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.208 %	0.170 %
Daily rates quoted	32	28
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£284
Average daily rate	£312	£299
% change on same period last year	+4.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£314
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£354
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.64	£15.54
Average hourly rate	£19.25	£16.62
% change on same period last year	+15.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.86	£17.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.66	£22.76
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
SharePoint Server 2007 West Yorkshire

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing SharePoint Server 2007 across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

SharePoint Server 2007
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing SharePoint Server 2007 across the Leeds region.

SharePoint Server 2007
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SharePoint Server 2007 across the Leeds region over the past 3 months.

SharePoint Server 2007
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing SharePoint Server 2007 across the Leeds region.

SharePoint Server 2007
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Leeds region citing SharePoint Server 2007 also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing SharePoint Server 2007.

1 12 (85.71 %) SharePoint 2 11 (78.57 %) C# 3 10 (71.43 %) .NET 3 10 (71.43 %) SQL Server 4 9 (64.29 %) ASP.NET 5 7 (50.00 %) SQL Server 7 6 5 (35.71 %) SQL 7 4 (28.57 %) Windows 7 4 (28.57 %) Microsoft 8 3 (21.43 %) IIS 8 3 (21.43 %) SQL Server 2005 8 3 (21.43 %) Internet 9 2 (14.29 %) Firewall 9 2 (14.29 %) OO 9 2 (14.29 %) DNS

9 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 9 2 (14.29 %) VB.NET 9 2 (14.29 %) Windows Server 2003 10 1 (7.143 %) SVG 10 1 (7.143 %) MS Exchange 10 1 (7.143 %) WAN 10 1 (7.143 %) Adobe 10 1 (7.143 %) Active Directory 10 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft Certification 10 1 (7.143 %) W3C 10 1 (7.143 %) XHTML 10 1 (7.143 %) MS Excel 10 1 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 10 1 (7.143 %) OOP 10 1 (7.143 %) CSS

SharePoint Server 2007
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Leeds region citing SharePoint Server 2007 also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing SharePoint Server 2007. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 10 (71.43 %) .NET 2 9 (64.29 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (7.143 %) CSS 3 1 (7.143 %) SOAP 3 1 (7.143 %) XML 3 1 (7.143 %) XHTML 3 1 (7.143 %) SVG 3 1 (7.143 %) Windows SharePoint Services 3 1 (7.143 %) Silverlight 3 1 (7.143 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 12 (85.71 %) SharePoint 2 3 (21.43 %) IIS 3 1 (7.143 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (7.143 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (7.143 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (7.143 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Office 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Excel 1 1 (7.143 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 3 (21.43 %) Internet 2 2 (14.29 %) Firewall 2 2 (14.29 %) DNS 3 1 (7.143 %) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (71.43 %) SQL Server 2 7 (50.00 %) SQL Server 7 3 3 (21.43 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) Visual Studio
General 1 1 (7.143 %) Government 1 1 (7.143 %) Graphic Design	Job Titles 1 8 (57.14 %) Developer 2 3 (21.43 %) Systems Engineer 2 3 (21.43 %) .NET Developer 2 3 (21.43 %) SharePoint Developer 3 2 (14.29 %) ASP.NET Developer 3 2 (14.29 %) Web Developer 3 2 (14.29 %) Consultant 4 1 (7.143 %) Analyst 4 1 (7.143 %) Analyst Programmer 4 1 (7.143 %) Programmer 4 1 (7.143 %) Senior Systems Engineer 4 1 (7.143 %) Infrastructure Engineer 4 1 (7.143 %) Services Delivery Manager 4 1 (7.143 %) Service Manager 4 1 (7.143 %) SQL Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) Senior Infrastructure Engineer 4 1 (7.143 %) Delivery Manager 4 1 (7.143 %) Developer Analyst 4 1 (7.143 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 4 1 (7.143 %) .NET Programmer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.143 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 4 (28.57 %) Windows 2 2 (14.29 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (7.143 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (14.29 %) OO 2 1 (7.143 %) Service Delivery 2 1 (7.143 %) OOP	Programming Languages 1 11 (78.57 %) C# 2 5 (35.71 %) SQL 3 2 (14.29 %) VB.NET 4 1 (7.143 %) VBScript 4 1 (7.143 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 1 (7.143 %) MCAD 1 1 (7.143 %) MCSD 1 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (7.143 %) Degree	System Software 1 1 (7.143 %) Active Directory 1 1 (7.143 %) Novell eDirectory
Vendors 1 4 (28.57 %) Microsoft 2 1 (7.143 %) Adobe