The first table below looks at the demand for SharePoint skills in IT contracts advertised for the Macclesfield region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SharePoint over the 3 months to 21 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 Macclesfield 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SharePoint
Rank 4 - 18
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 7 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Macclesfield 17.95% - 4.615%
As % of the Application Platforms category 70.00% - 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
Average daily rate £313 - £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £350 £344
% change year-on-year
-1.42% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £21.81 £23.00
% change year-on-year
-4.83% -5.19%
All Application Platforms
Macclesfield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
10 3 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Macclesfield 25.64% 6.122% 16.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 9
Average daily rate £350 £300 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
SharePoint
Cheshire

SharePoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Macclesfield 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 Macclesfield region.

Macclesfield SharePoint Daily Rate Trend

SharePoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Macclesfield 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%) C#
1 3 (42.86%) HTML
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
1 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET
1 3 (42.86%) CSS
1 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2
1 3 (42.86%) Project Management
1 3 (42.86%) MVC
1 3 (42.86%) CMS
1 3 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (42.86%) jQuery
1 3 (42.86%) Umbraco
1 3 (42.86%) EPiServer
1 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET MVC
1 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET MVC 3
1 3 (42.86%) Razor View Engine
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Web Application Development
3 1 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (14.29%) Ajax
3 1 (14.29%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) Resource Management
3 1 (14.29%) eRoom
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Extranet

SharePoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Macclesfield 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%) HTML
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
1 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET
1 3 (42.86%) CSS
1 3 (42.86%) jQuery
1 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET MVC
1 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET MVC 3
1 3 (42.86%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (14.29%) Ajax
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) CMS
1 3 (42.86%) Umbraco
2 1 (14.29%) eRoom
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
1 1 (14.29%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
1 1 (14.29%) MS Project
1 1 (14.29%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Project Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead .NET Developer
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2
1 3 (42.86%) Project Management
1 3 (42.86%) MVC
1 3 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Web Application Development
3 1 (14.29%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C#
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) EPiServer
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft