The first table below looks at the demand for Windows SharePoint Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows SharePoint Services over the 3 months to 23 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 Development category for the North West 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows SharePoint Services (WSS)
Rank 115 128 -
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -
Contract jobs citing Windows SharePoint Services 3 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.128% 0.032% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.469% 0.110% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
+41.79% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
640 908 760
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 27.30% 29.08% 24.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 491 434
Average daily rate £300 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 33 21
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.51 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.46% -36.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £17.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.31 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Windows SharePoint Services
England

Windows SharePoint Services
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows SharePoint Services across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

North West Windows SharePoint Services Jobs Demand Trend

Windows SharePoint Services
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Windows SharePoint Services Daily Rate Trend

Windows SharePoint Services
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows SharePoint Services across the North West region.

North West Windows SharePoint Services Hourly Rate Trend

Windows SharePoint Services
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows SharePoint Services within the North West region over the 3 months to 23 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
Cheshire +6 3 - -
Windows SharePoint Services
England

Windows SharePoint Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Windows SharePoint Services 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 Windows SharePoint Services.

1 8 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 7 (87.50%) SQL Server
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
3 6 (75.00%) .NET Framework
3 6 (75.00%) Java
3 6 (75.00%) Oracle
3 6 (75.00%) .NET
3 6 (75.00%) C#
3 6 (75.00%) Visual Studio
4 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (50.00%) NHS
4 4 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (37.50%) Content Management
5 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (37.50%) Asset Management
5 3 (37.50%) Data Management
5 3 (37.50%) Data Guard
5 3 (37.50%) JCAPS
5 3 (37.50%) Feature Driven Development
5 3 (37.50%) Java EE
5 3 (37.50%) Degree
5 3 (37.50%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (37.50%) WCF
5 3 (37.50%) WPF
5 3 (37.50%) HL7
5 3 (37.50%) WebSphere
5 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement

Windows SharePoint Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Windows SharePoint Services 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 Windows SharePoint Services. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (75.00%) .NET Framework
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) Java EE
2 3 (37.50%) WCF
2 3 (37.50%) WPF
2 3 (37.50%) WebSphere
2 3 (37.50%) JMS
2 3 (37.50%) Hibernate
2 3 (37.50%) ASP
2 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
2 3 (37.50%) JDBC
2 3 (37.50%) JSP
2 3 (37.50%) Servlets
2 3 (37.50%) Struts
2 3 (37.50%) XML
2 3 (37.50%) HTML
2 3 (37.50%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 8 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (37.50%) JCAPS
3 2 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) MS Excel
2 1 (12.50%) InfoPath
2 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Maximo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (37.50%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (37.50%) NetBeans
2 3 (37.50%) VSS/SourceSafe
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Software Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Team Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Development Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) NHS
2 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
2 3 (37.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Content Management
2 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (37.50%) Asset Management
2 3 (37.50%) Data Management
2 3 (37.50%) Feature Driven Development
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) OOP
2 3 (37.50%) OO
2 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (37.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) Java
2 6 (75.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (75.00%) Oracle
3 3 (37.50%) IBM
3 3 (37.50%) SAP