The first table below looks at the demand for SharePoint skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SharePoint over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Merseyside 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SharePoint
Rank 22 13 23
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +10
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 5 23 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 2.646% 9.350% 4.676%
As % of the Application Platforms category 16.67% 32.86% 26.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 11
Average daily rate £300 £263 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £16.13 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.25 £23.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-13.82% +9.30%
All Application Platforms
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
30 70 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 15.87% 28.46% 17.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 35 30
Average daily rate £300 £275 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -21.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £203 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £350 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 7
Average hourly rate £14.00 £16.50 £21.80
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.15% -24.31%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £15.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £30.00 £21.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
SharePoint
North West

SharePoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Liverpool -3 3 £500 +90.47% 3
SharePoint
North West

SharePoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 5 (62.50%) C#
1 5 (62.50%) .NET
2 4 (50.00%) SharePoint 2013
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 3 (37.50%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (25.00%) Infor
4 2 (25.00%) Degree
4 2 (25.00%) Resource Management
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) ERP
4 2 (25.00%) Baan
4 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (12.50%) Scrum
5 1 (12.50%) VMware
5 1 (12.50%) Finance
5 1 (12.50%) Intranet
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (12.50%) Middleware
5 1 (12.50%) SQL
5 1 (12.50%) HTML
5 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
5 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
5 1 (12.50%) CSS
5 1 (12.50%) Web Services

SharePoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 (62.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) WCF
2 1 (12.50%) jQuery
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC 2
Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) SharePoint 2013
2 3 (37.50%) SharePoint 2010
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst Programmer
2 2 (25.00%) Programmer
2 2 (25.00%) SharePoint Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Applications Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Resource Management
1 2 (25.00%) ERP
1 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
1 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) Scrum
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
2 1 (12.50%) Database Security
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Infor
1 2 (25.00%) Baan
2 1 (12.50%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
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