The first table below looks at the demand for SharePoint 2010 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SharePoint 2010 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 Reading 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 2010
Rank 58 70 72
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +2
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 2010 12 11 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.446% 1.034% 0.757%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.453% 6.790% 4.188%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 6
Average daily rate £300 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £263 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £426 £375 £338
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £350 £365
% change year-on-year
-1.42% -4.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -44.44%
All Application Platforms
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
161 162 191
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 19.40% 15.23% 18.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 62 79
Average daily rate £350 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £193 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £439 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 10
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% +5.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.70 £9.80 £10.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £37.60 £19.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
SharePoint 2010
Berkshire

SharePoint 2010
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SharePoint 2010 across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Reading SharePoint 2010 Jobs Demand Trend

SharePoint 2010
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SharePoint 2010 across the Reading region.

Reading SharePoint 2010 Daily Rate Trend

SharePoint 2010
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SharePoint 2010 across the Reading region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Reading SharePoint 2010 Daily Rate Histogram

SharePoint 2010
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SharePoint 2010 across the Reading region.

Reading SharePoint 2010 Hourly Rate Trend

SharePoint 2010
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing SharePoint 2010 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 2010.

1 20 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 16 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 10 (50.00%) Windows
4 9 (45.00%) MS Office
4 9 (45.00%) MS Exchange
4 9 (45.00%) Retail
4 9 (45.00%) Exchange Server 2007
5 8 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (40.00%) VMware
5 8 (40.00%) SQL Server
6 7 (35.00%) SQL
6 7 (35.00%) Active Directory
6 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
7 6 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
7 6 (30.00%) MS Visio
7 6 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (30.00%) Clearswift
8 5 (25.00%) MS Excel
8 5 (25.00%) SCOM
9 4 (20.00%) ISA Server
9 4 (20.00%) Project Management
10 3 (15.00%) .NET
10 3 (15.00%) C#
10 3 (15.00%) Windows XP
10 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
10 3 (15.00%) IDOL
10 3 (15.00%) System Testing
10 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared

SharePoint 2010
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing SharePoint 2010 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 2010. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (15.00%) .NET
2 2 (10.00%) Web Services
2 2 (10.00%) XML
3 1 (5.000%) XSLT
3 1 (5.000%) WCF
3 1 (5.000%) jQuery
3 1 (5.000%) HTML5
3 1 (5.000%) CSS3
3 1 (5.000%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 20 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 9 (45.00%) MS Exchange
2 9 (45.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (5.000%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (5.000%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (5.000%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (45.00%) MS Office
2 6 (30.00%) MS Visio
3 5 (25.00%) MS Excel
4 1 (5.000%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 8 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 6 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (15.00%) IDOL
General
1 9 (45.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
1 5 (25.00%) Administrator
2 4 (20.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 4 (20.00%) Coordinator
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) SharePoint Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Systems Support
5 1 (5.000%) Support Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (5.000%) Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Project Coordinator
5 1 (5.000%) Systems Support Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Server Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Senior Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (15.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (5.000%) Windows Vista
4 1 (5.000%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (5.000%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (20.00%) Project Management
2 3 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (15.00%) System Testing
3 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (10.00%) UML
3 2 (10.00%) Use Case
4 1 (5.000%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
1 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.00%) C#
3 1 (5.000%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.000%) MCP
3 1 (5.000%) MCSE
3 1 (5.000%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (35.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (20.00%) ISA Server
4 3 (15.00%) vSphere
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (5.000%) Hyper-V
6 1 (5.000%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) SCOM
2 3 (15.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (40.00%) VMware
3 6 (30.00%) Clearswift
4 2 (10.00%) HP
5 1 (5.000%) Remedy
5 1 (5.000%) Websense
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