The first table below looks at the demand for SharePoint skills in IT contracts advertised for the Norfolk region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SharePoint over the 3 months to 17 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 Norfolk 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SharePoint
Rank 26 17 18
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +1
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 6 20 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norfolk 3.371% 7.905% 6.716%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.91% 42.55% 31.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 9
Average daily rate £400 £400 £400
90% offered a daily rate of more than £355 £310 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £517 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £350 £341
% change year-on-year
-1.42% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
Average hourly rate - £22.38 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -10.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £21.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year
-4.59% -3.33%
All Application Platforms
Norfolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
55 47 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norfolk 30.90% 18.58% 21.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 25 17
Average daily rate £284 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.92% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £233 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £502 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 6
Average hourly rate £23.50 £22.38 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.02% -18.63%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
SharePoint
East of England

SharePoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Norfolk 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 Norfolk region.

Norfolk 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 Norfolk region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Norfolk 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 Norfolk region.

Norfolk 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 Norfolk region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
King's Lynn +5 3 £475 +11.76%
SharePoint
East of England

SharePoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 7 (46.67%) Publishing
1 7 (46.67%) Drupal
1 7 (46.67%) jQuery
1 7 (46.67%) Unit Testing
1 7 (46.67%) HTML
1 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
1 7 (46.67%) PHP
1 7 (46.67%) Photoshop
1 7 (46.67%) CSS
1 7 (46.67%) XHTML
1 7 (46.67%) Code Coverage
2 6 (40.00%) .NET
2 6 (40.00%) C#
3 5 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 5 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 5 (33.33%) VB.NET
4 4 (26.67%) Web Development
4 4 (26.67%) QA
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (13.33%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (6.667%) Validation
6 1 (6.667%) Migration
6 1 (6.667%) Identity Management
6 1 (6.667%) Metastorm
6 1 (6.667%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (6.667%) TDD
6 1 (6.667%) Data Migration
6 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server

SharePoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 7 (46.67%) HTML
1 7 (46.67%) CSS
1 7 (46.67%) XHTML
1 7 (46.67%) jQuery
2 6 (40.00%) .NET
3 5 (33.33%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 7 (46.67%) Drupal
2 5 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (13.33%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (6.667%) Lync
Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (46.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Software Developer
2 7 (46.67%) PHP Developer
3 5 (33.33%) SharePoint Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Data Migration Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Data Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Architect
4 1 (6.667%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Technical Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Code Coverage
1 7 (46.67%) Unit Testing
2 4 (26.67%) Web Development
3 1 (6.667%) Data Migration
3 1 (6.667%) Data Transformation
3 1 (6.667%) CRM
3 1 (6.667%) E-Commerce
3 1 (6.667%) Identity Management
3 1 (6.667%) Validation
3 1 (6.667%) Migration
3 1 (6.667%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
1 7 (46.67%) PHP
2 6 (40.00%) C#
3 5 (33.33%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.667%) Metastorm