The first table below looks at the demand for SharePoint skills in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SharePoint over the 3 months to 24 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 Midlands 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SharePoint
Rank 20 18 27
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +9
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 6 10 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 3.488% 3.759% 2.624%
As % of the Application Platforms category 33.33% 47.62% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
Average daily rate £363 £353 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.83% +8.46%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £340
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Average hourly rate - - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £21.75 £23.00
% change year-on-year
-4.59% -5.43%
All Application Platforms
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
18 21 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 10.47% 7.895% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 10
Average daily rate £325 £350 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -17.64%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 13
Average hourly rate - - £21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
SharePoint
England

SharePoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands 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 Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands SharePoint Hourly Rate Trend

SharePoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 9 (56.25%) MS Exchange
1 9 (56.25%) Active Directory
1 9 (56.25%) Exchange Server 2003
1 9 (56.25%) SCOM
2 7 (43.75%) Exchange Server 2007
2 7 (43.75%) Degree
2 7 (43.75%) Service Delivery
2 7 (43.75%) HP
2 7 (43.75%) ITIL
2 7 (43.75%) NetApp
2 7 (43.75%) Cisco
2 7 (43.75%) IBM
2 7 (43.75%) VMware
3 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
3 5 (31.25%) SharePoint 2010
4 3 (18.75%) Visual Studio
4 3 (18.75%) C#
4 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 3 (18.75%) .NET
4 3 (18.75%) QA
4 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (12.50%) V-Model
5 2 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (12.50%) XenApp
5 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (12.50%) Change Control
5 2 (12.50%) VCP5
5 2 (12.50%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (12.50%) Office Communications Server
5 2 (12.50%) PowerShell

SharePoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 (18.75%) .NET
2 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET
2 1 (6.250%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 9 (56.25%) MS Exchange
1 9 (56.25%) Exchange Server 2003
2 7 (43.75%) Exchange Server 2007
3 5 (31.25%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (12.50%) Office Communications Server
Business Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DHCP
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
1 2 (12.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Visual Studio
2 2 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (6.250%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Technical Architect
1 6 (37.50%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Lead Technical Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Lead Architect
3 2 (12.50%) SharePoint Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Team Leader
3 2 (12.50%) Server Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Test Team Leader
4 1 (6.250%) Head of Architecture
4 1 (6.250%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.250%) .NET Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Test Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Development Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Technical Development Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Service Delivery
1 7 (43.75%) ITIL
2 2 (12.50%) V-Model
2 2 (12.50%) Change Control
2 2 (12.50%) Migration
2 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
2 2 (12.50%) Business Continuity
3 1 (6.250%) RUP
3 1 (6.250%) CRM
3 1 (6.250%) WFM
3 1 (6.250%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (6.250%) Change Management
3 1 (6.250%) Data Migration
3 1 (6.250%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) C#
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
System Software
1 9 (56.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) XenApp
2 2 (12.50%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) SCOM
2 2 (12.50%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) HP
1 7 (43.75%) NetApp
1 7 (43.75%) Cisco
1 7 (43.75%) IBM
1 7 (43.75%) VMware
2 2 (12.50%) Altiris
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Veritas
2 2 (12.50%) EMC
2 2 (12.50%) Citrix