Oxfordshire SharePoint Server 2007 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) skills within the Oxfordshire 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Ascot Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Derbyshire Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Halifax Hampshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport North East North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Surbiton Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	47	49
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	7	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	7.000 %	1.961 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£417	£275
Average daily rate	£442	£313
% change on same period last year	+41.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£467	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£442	£369
% change on same period last year	+19.80 %
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	£49.05	£17.50
% change on same period last year	+180.28 %
Application Platforms Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	100	102
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.128 %	0.115 %
Daily rates quoted	19	15
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£321
Average daily rate	£349	£339
% change on same period last year	+2.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£354
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.26	£25.86
Average hourly rate	£23.22	£27.56
% change on same period last year	-15.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.19	£29.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.66	£22.76
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
SharePoint Server 2007 South East

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing SharePoint Server 2007 across the Oxfordshire 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 contract IT jobs ads citing SharePoint Server 2007 across the Oxfordshire region.

SharePoint Server 2007
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing SharePoint Server 2007 across the Oxfordshire region.

SharePoint Server 2007
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint Server 2007 within the Oxfordshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Oxford	+3	6	£413	+32.00 %

SharePoint Server 2007 South East

SharePoint Server 2007
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing SharePoint Server 2007 also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing SharePoint Server 2007.

1 23 (95.83 %) SharePoint 2 20 (83.33 %) .NET 3 18 (75.00 %) C# 4 14 (58.33 %) BizTalk Server 4 14 (58.33 %) Windows SharePoint Services 5 13 (54.17 %) Microsoft CRM 5 13 (54.17 %) Axapta 5 13 (54.17 %) CRM 6 5 (20.83 %) ASP.NET 7 4 (16.67 %) Microsoft 8 2 (8.333 %) WebSphere 8 2 (8.333 %) ESB 8 2 (8.333 %) WebSphere Message Broker 8 2 (8.333 %) Middleware 8 2 (8.333 %) BPEL

8 2 (8.333 %) RequisitePro 8 2 (8.333 %) WebServices 8 2 (8.333 %) Visual Studio 8 2 (8.333 %) Java 8 2 (8.333 %) Data Modelling 8 2 (8.333 %) JMS 8 2 (8.333 %) UML 9 1 (4.167 %) MCSE 9 1 (4.167 %) MCSA 9 1 (4.167 %) MCT 9 1 (4.167 %) MS Excel 9 1 (4.167 %) MS Exchange 9 1 (4.167 %) VB.NET 9 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 9 1 (4.167 %) MS Office

SharePoint Server 2007
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing SharePoint Server 2007 also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing SharePoint Server 2007. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 20 (83.33 %) .NET 2 14 (58.33 %) Windows SharePoint Services 3 5 (20.83 %) ASP.NET 4 2 (8.333 %) WebServices 4 2 (8.333 %) JMS 4 2 (8.333 %) Middleware 4 2 (8.333 %) WebSphere 5 1 (4.167 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 23 (95.83 %) SharePoint 2 14 (58.33 %) BizTalk Server 3 2 (8.333 %) ESB 3 2 (8.333 %) WebSphere Message Broker 4 1 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (4.167 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) MS Office 1 1 (4.167 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 13 (54.17 %) Microsoft CRM 1 13 (54.17 %) Axapta
Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.167 %) Intranet 1 1 (4.167 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 1 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 7 1 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (8.333 %) RequisitePro	Job Titles 1 18 (75.00 %) Consultant 2 16 (66.67 %) SharePoint Consultant 3 4 (16.67 %) Developer 3 4 (16.67 %) SharePoint Developer 4 2 (8.333 %) Analyst 4 2 (8.333 %) Technical Analyst 5 1 (4.167 %) Trainer 5 1 (4.167 %) Exchange Consultant 5 1 (4.167 %) IT Trainer
Operating Systems 1 1 (4.167 %) Windows 1 1 (4.167 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (54.17 %) CRM 2 2 (8.333 %) Data Modelling 2 2 (8.333 %) BPEL 2 2 (8.333 %) UML
Programming Languages 1 18 (75.00 %) C# 2 2 (8.333 %) Java 3 1 (4.167 %) VB.NET 3 1 (4.167 %) C	Qualifications 1 1 (4.167 %) MCSE 1 1 (4.167 %) MCSA 1 1 (4.167 %) MCT 1 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (4.167 %) MCTS
System Software 1 1 (4.167 %) Active Directory 1 1 (4.167 %) ISA Server	Vendors 1 4 (16.67 %) Microsoft