Reading SharePoint Server 2007 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) skills within the Reading 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 15 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 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	61
Rank change on same period last year	+35
Matching contract IT job ads	46	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.059 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	26.90 %	4.511 %
Daily rates quoted	20	2
Average minimum daily rate	£470	£400
Average daily rate	£483	£438
% change on same period last year	+10.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£497	£475
UK excluding London average daily rate	£444	£369
% change on same period last year	+20.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£48.00	-
Average hourly rate	£49.40	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£50.80	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£49.05	£17.50
% change on same period last year	+180.28 %
Application Platforms Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	171	133
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.219 %	0.149 %
Daily rates quoted	57	26
Average minimum daily rate	£376	£329
Average daily rate	£397	£355
% change on same period last year	+11.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.62	£17.46
Average hourly rate	£36.48	£18.63
% change on same period last year	+95.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.34	£19.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
SharePoint Server 2007 Berkshire

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 Reading 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 Reading 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 Reading region over the past 3 months.

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 Reading region.

SharePoint Server 2007
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SharePoint Server 2007 across the Reading region over the past 3 months.

SharePoint Server 2007
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Reading 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 73 (84.88 %) SharePoint 2 58 (67.44 %) .NET 3 47 (54.65 %) C# 4 45 (52.33 %) Microsoft 5 38 (44.19 %) ASP.NET 6 28 (32.56 %) Windows 7 24 (27.91 %) SQL Server 8 21 (24.42 %) Windows SharePoint Services 9 16 (18.60 %) BizTalk Server 10 15 (17.44 %) SharePoint Portal Server 11 14 (16.28 %) WebServices 12 12 (13.95 %) MS Office 12 12 (13.95 %) SQL 12 12 (13.95 %) SQL Server 2005 13 11 (12.79 %) Content Management

14 9 (10.47 %) Microsoft Certification 14 9 (10.47 %) IIS 14 9 (10.47 %) XML 15 8 (9.302 %) .NET Framework 15 8 (9.302 %) VB 15 8 (9.302 %) HTML 15 8 (9.302 %) SQL Server 7 16 7 (8.140 %) HTTP 16 7 (8.140 %) DNS 16 7 (8.140 %) Transact-SQL 16 7 (8.140 %) Network Load Balancing 16 7 (8.140 %) CAML 16 7 (8.140 %) Migration 17 6 (6.977 %) Workflow 17 6 (6.977 %) Finance

SharePoint Server 2007
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Reading 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 58 (67.44 %) .NET 2 38 (44.19 %) ASP.NET 3 21 (24.42 %) Windows SharePoint Services 4 14 (16.28 %) WebServices 5 9 (10.47 %) XML 6 8 (9.302 %) HTML 6 8 (9.302 %) .NET Framework 7 7 (8.140 %) CAML 8 6 (6.977 %) XSLT 9 5 (5.814 %) XHTML 9 5 (5.814 %) WF 10 4 (4.651 %) XSD 10 4 (4.651 %) CSS 11 2 (2.326 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 1 (1.163 %) ASP 12 1 (1.163 %) XML Schema 12 1 (1.163 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 73 (84.88 %) SharePoint 2 16 (18.60 %) BizTalk Server 3 15 (17.44 %) SharePoint Portal Server 4 9 (10.47 %) IIS 5 2 (2.326 %) Office Project Server 5 2 (2.326 %) Commerce Server 2007 5 2 (2.326 %) Commerce Server 5 2 (2.326 %) Content Management Server 6 1 (1.163 %) CMS
Applications 1 12 (13.95 %) MS Office 2 6 (6.977 %) MS Excel 3 2 (2.326 %) MS Project 4 1 (1.163 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 6 (6.977 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 7 (8.140 %) HTTP 1 7 (8.140 %) DNS 2 5 (5.814 %) Intranet 3 2 (2.326 %) Internet 3 2 (2.326 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 24 (27.91 %) SQL Server 2 12 (13.95 %) SQL Server 2005 3 8 (9.302 %) SQL Server 7 4 6 (6.977 %) SQL Server 2000 5 5 (5.814 %) MSDE 6 2 (2.326 %) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 3 (3.488 %) Visual Studio 1 3 (3.488 %) FrontPage 2 1 (1.163 %) WinRunner	General 1 6 (6.977 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 41 (47.67 %) Developer 2 38 (44.19 %) Consultant 3 30 (34.88 %) SharePoint Developer 4 22 (25.58 %) SharePoint Consultant 5 11 (12.79 %) Architect 6 9 (10.47 %) Sharepoint Architect 7 6 (6.977 %) Technical Architect 8 5 (5.814 %) Programmer 9 3 (3.488 %) Server Support 9 3 (3.488 %) .NET Developer 10 2 (2.326 %) C# Developer 10 2 (2.326 %) Team Leader 10 2 (2.326 %) Infrastructure Consultant 10 2 (2.326 %) Server Engineer 10 2 (2.326 %) Infrastructure Engineer 10 2 (2.326 %) Technical Advisor 11 1 (1.163 %) Data Consultant 11 1 (1.163 %) BizTalk Developer 11 1 (1.163 %) Functional Tester 11 1 (1.163 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (6.977 %) N-Tier 2 5 (5.814 %) Taxonomies 3 2 (2.326 %) French Language 3 2 (2.326 %) Clustering 3 2 (2.326 %) Web 2.0 4 1 (1.163 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 28 (32.56 %) Windows 2 5 (5.814 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (2.326 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (12.79 %) Content Management 2 7 (8.140 %) Migration 2 7 (8.140 %) Network Load Balancing 3 6 (6.977 %) CRM 3 6 (6.977 %) Workflow 4 4 (4.651 %) Project Management 4 4 (4.651 %) OO 5 3 (3.488 %) Requirements Analysis 6 2 (2.326 %) Load Balancing 6 2 (2.326 %) Integration Testing 6 2 (2.326 %) Data Migration 6 2 (2.326 %) Agile Software Development 6 2 (2.326 %) ITIL 6 2 (2.326 %) Disaster Recovery 6 2 (2.326 %) MOF 7 1 (1.163 %) BPM 7 1 (1.163 %) EAI 7 1 (1.163 %) Document Management
Programming Languages 1 47 (54.65 %) C# 2 12 (13.95 %) SQL 3 8 (9.302 %) VB 4 7 (8.140 %) Transact-SQL 5 6 (6.977 %) JavaScript 6 5 (5.814 %) Java 7 3 (3.488 %) C 8 1 (1.163 %) DHTML 8 1 (1.163 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 9 (10.47 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (2.326 %) MCSE
System Software 1 4 (4.651 %) Active Directory 2 2 (2.326 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 3 (3.488 %) SCOM 2 2 (2.326 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 2 (2.326 %) WSUS
Vendors 1 45 (52.33 %) Microsoft