North Yorkshire SharePoint Server 2007 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) skills within the North Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SharePoint Server 2007 over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)
Location Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Coventry Crewe Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leeds Leek Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Midlands Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough South Coast South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	48
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	2	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	4.167 %	1.220 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£320
Average daily rate	-	£320
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£368	£388
% change on same period last year	-5.12 %
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	£28.80	£42.08
% change on same period last year	-31.56 %
Application Platforms North Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	48	82
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.068 %	0.083 %
Daily rates quoted	3	33
Average minimum daily rate	£262	£344
Average daily rate	£266	£351
% change on same period last year	-24.27 %
Average maximum daily rate	£270	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£338
% change on same period last year	+3.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.22	£32.00
Average hourly rate	£21.50	£35.63
% change on same period last year	-39.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.78	£39.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.69	£24.06
% change on same period last year	+2.63 %
SharePoint Server 2007 Yorkshire

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.

SharePoint Server 2007
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SharePoint Server 2007 across the North Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

SharePoint Server 2007
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SharePoint Server 2007 across the North Yorkshire region.

SharePoint Server 2007
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint Server 2007 within the North Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
York	+16	1	-	-

SharePoint Server 2007 Yorkshire

SharePoint Server 2007
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire region citing SharePoint Server 2007 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 Server 2007.

1 4 (57.14 %) .NET 1 4 (57.14 %) ASP.NET 1 4 (57.14 %) SharePoint 2 3 (42.86 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (42.86 %) IIS 2 3 (42.86 %) BizTalk Server 2 3 (42.86 %) Windows Server 2003 2 3 (42.86 %) XML 2 3 (42.86 %) Windows 2 3 (42.86 %) Active Directory 2 3 (42.86 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server 3 2 (28.57 %) C# 3 2 (28.57 %) SQL

3 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 4 1 (14.29 %) MS Office 4 1 (14.29 %) XML Messaging 4 1 (14.29 %) VB.NET 4 1 (14.29 %) Business Objects 4 1 (14.29 %) UML 4 1 (14.29 %) WCF 4 1 (14.29 %) LINQ 4 1 (14.29 %) BusinessObjects 4 1 (14.29 %) Document Management

SharePoint Server 2007
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire region citing SharePoint Server 2007 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 Server 2007. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (57.14 %) .NET 1 4 (57.14 %) ASP.NET 2 3 (42.86 %) XML 3 1 (14.29 %) XML Messaging 3 1 (14.29 %) WCF 3 1 (14.29 %) LINQ	Application Platforms 1 4 (57.14 %) SharePoint 2 3 (42.86 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (42.86 %) BizTalk Server 2 3 (42.86 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (42.86 %) IIS
Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Office	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server 1 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (14.29 %) BusinessObjects
Job Titles 1 3 (42.86 %) Developer 1 3 (42.86 %) Server Engineer 2 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft Developer 2 1 (14.29 %) SharePoint Developer 2 1 (14.29 %) .NET Developer	Operating Systems 1 3 (42.86 %) Windows 1 3 (42.86 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (14.29 %) UML 1 1 (14.29 %) Document Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (28.57 %) C# 1 2 (28.57 %) SQL 2 1 (14.29 %) VB.NET
System Software 1 3 (42.86 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 2 1 (14.29 %) Business Objects