Merseyside Windows SharePoint Services Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) skills within the Merseyside region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows SharePoint Services over the 3 months to 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Windows SharePoint Services (WSS)
Location Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Cheshire Chester City of London Devon Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Knutsford Lancashire Leeds London M4 Corridor Merseyside Newcastle North East North West Plymouth Poole Reading Salisbury Scotland South East South West South Yorkshire Surrey Tyne and Wear UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£428
% change on same period last year	-16.28 %
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	-	£57.50
% change on same period last year	-
Application Development Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	106	50
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.173 %	0.055 %
Daily rates quoted	20	6
Average minimum daily rate	£263	£300
Average daily rate	£279	£313
% change on same period last year	-10.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£294	£326
UK excluding London average daily rate	£322	£333
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.46	-
Average hourly rate	£24.09	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.72	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.64	£31.31
% change on same period last year	-8.54 %
Windows SharePoint Services North West

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.

Windows SharePoint Services
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows SharePoint Services across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Windows SharePoint Services
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows SharePoint Services across the Merseyside region.