Oxford SharePoint Server 2007 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) skills within the Oxford 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Altrincham Ascot Barnsley Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Coventry Dartford Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Hampshire Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hull Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	23
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching contract IT job ads	6	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	6.742 %	18.42 %
Daily rates quoted	2	9
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£283
Average daily rate	£400	£322
% change on same period last year	+24.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£413	£359
% change on same period last year	+15.08 %
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	£36.21	£20.00
% change on same period last year	+81.07 %
Application Platforms Oxford
Matching contract IT job ads	89	76
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.119 %	0.077 %
Daily rates quoted	19	22
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£302
Average daily rate	£363	£336
% change on same period last year	+7.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£389	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£349
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.33	£14.46
Average hourly rate	£22.67	£16.08
% change on same period last year	+40.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.01	£17.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
SharePoint Server 2007 Oxfordshire

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 Oxford 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 Oxford region.

SharePoint Server 2007
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SharePoint Server 2007 across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SharePoint Server 2007
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 14 (93.33 %) SharePoint 2 13 (86.67 %) .NET 3 12 (80.00 %) C# 4 8 (53.33 %) ASP.NET 5 7 (46.67 %) Windows SharePoint Services 6 5 (33.33 %) CRM 6 5 (33.33 %) Microsoft 6 5 (33.33 %) Microsoft CRM 6 5 (33.33 %) Axapta 6 5 (33.33 %) BizTalk Server 7 4 (26.67 %) Commerce Server 7 4 (26.67 %) MS Office 7 4 (26.67 %) Commerce Server 2007 8 3 (20.00 %) SQL Server 8 3 (20.00 %) WebServices

9 2 (13.33 %) XML 9 2 (13.33 %) DHCP 9 2 (13.33 %) DNS 9 2 (13.33 %) IIS 9 2 (13.33 %) HTML 9 2 (13.33 %) Intranet 9 2 (13.33 %) Internet 9 2 (13.33 %) SQL Server 7 9 2 (13.33 %) Firewall 9 2 (13.33 %) SQL Server 2005 10 1 (6.667 %) BPEL 10 1 (6.667 %) WebSphere Message Broker 10 1 (6.667 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 1 (6.667 %) WebSphere 10 1 (6.667 %) ESB

SharePoint Server 2007
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 13 (86.67 %) .NET 2 8 (53.33 %) ASP.NET 3 7 (46.67 %) Windows SharePoint Services 4 3 (20.00 %) WebServices 5 2 (13.33 %) XML 5 2 (13.33 %) HTML 6 1 (6.667 %) JMS 6 1 (6.667 %) Middleware 6 1 (6.667 %) WebSphere 6 1 (6.667 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 1 (6.667 %) ADO.NET	Application Platforms 1 14 (93.33 %) SharePoint 2 5 (33.33 %) BizTalk Server 3 4 (26.67 %) Commerce Server 3 4 (26.67 %) Commerce Server 2007 4 2 (13.33 %) IIS 5 1 (6.667 %) WebSphere Message Broker 5 1 (6.667 %) ESB
Applications 1 4 (26.67 %) MS Office 2 1 (6.667 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 5 (33.33 %) Microsoft CRM 1 5 (33.33 %) Axapta
Communications & Networking 1 2 (13.33 %) DHCP 1 2 (13.33 %) DNS 1 2 (13.33 %) Intranet 1 2 (13.33 %) Internet 1 2 (13.33 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (20.00 %) SQL Server 2 2 (13.33 %) SQL Server 7 2 2 (13.33 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 1 (6.667 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (6.667 %) RequisitePro	Job Titles 1 9 (60.00 %) Consultant 2 7 (46.67 %) SharePoint Consultant 3 5 (33.33 %) Developer 4 2 (13.33 %) .NET Developer 4 2 (13.33 %) Business Developer 4 2 (13.33 %) Systems Developer 5 1 (6.667 %) SharePoint Developer 5 1 (6.667 %) Technical Analyst 5 1 (6.667 %) Analyst
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (33.33 %) CRM 2 1 (6.667 %) Data Modelling 2 1 (6.667 %) BPEL 2 1 (6.667 %) UML	Programming Languages 1 12 (80.00 %) C# 2 1 (6.667 %) Java 2 1 (6.667 %) SQL
Vendors 1 5 (33.33 %) Microsoft