Scotland SharePoint Server 2007 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) skills within the Scotland 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	70	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	34	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	8.115 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£333	-
Average daily rate	£345	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£357	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£444	£369
% change on same period last year	+20.42 %
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 Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	419	441
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.538 %	0.495 %
Daily rates quoted	53	67
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£294
Average daily rate	£309	£310
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£326
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	51
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.24	£17.38
Average hourly rate	£18.62	£18.64
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.00	£19.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
SharePoint Server 2007 UK

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 Scotland 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 Scotland 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 Scotland region over the past 3 months.

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 Scotland 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	Glasgow	-	14	£345	-
2	Aberdeen	-	9	-	-
3	Edinburgh	-	1	-	-

SharePoint Server 2007 UK

SharePoint Server 2007
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Scotland 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 28 (70.00 %) SharePoint 2 25 (62.50 %) .NET 3 20 (50.00 %) C# 4 18 (45.00 %) ASP.NET 5 14 (35.00 %) SQL Server 6 13 (32.50 %) CSS 7 12 (30.00 %) SQL Server 2005 8 11 (27.50 %) HTML 8 11 (27.50 %) XML 9 10 (25.00 %) WebServices 10 9 (22.50 %) Microsoft 10 9 (22.50 %) AJAX 11 8 (20.00 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 7 (17.50 %) Windows 12 7 (17.50 %) JavaScript

13 6 (15.00 %) Web Design 13 6 (15.00 %) Active Directory 14 5 (12.50 %) W3C 14 5 (12.50 %) BizTalk Server 14 5 (12.50 %) OO 14 5 (12.50 %) SQL 14 5 (12.50 %) SQL Server 7 15 4 (10.00 %) SharePoint Portal Server 15 4 (10.00 %) Web Development 15 4 (10.00 %) SQL Server 2000 15 4 (10.00 %) XSL 15 4 (10.00 %) DHTML 16 3 (7.500 %) Transact-SQL 16 3 (7.500 %) IIS 16 3 (7.500 %) MS Project

SharePoint Server 2007
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Scotland 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 25 (62.50 %) .NET 2 18 (45.00 %) ASP.NET 3 13 (32.50 %) CSS 4 11 (27.50 %) XML 4 11 (27.50 %) HTML 5 10 (25.00 %) WebServices 6 9 (22.50 %) AJAX 7 8 (20.00 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 4 (10.00 %) XSL 9 3 (7.500 %) Windows SharePoint Services 10 2 (5.000 %) ADO.NET 11 1 (2.500 %) .NET Framework 11 1 (2.500 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 28 (70.00 %) SharePoint 2 5 (12.50 %) BizTalk Server 3 4 (10.00 %) SharePoint Portal Server 4 3 (7.500 %) Office Project Server 4 3 (7.500 %) IIS
Applications 1 3 (7.500 %) MS Project 2 2 (5.000 %) MS Office 2 2 (5.000 %) InfoPath 3 1 (2.500 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 3 (7.500 %) LDAP 2 1 (2.500 %) Intranet 2 1 (2.500 %) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (35.00 %) SQL Server 2 12 (30.00 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (12.50 %) SQL Server 7 4 4 (10.00 %) SQL Server 2000 5 3 (7.500 %) Datawarehouse 6 2 (5.000 %) BusinessObjects XI 6 2 (5.000 %) BusinessObjects 7 1 (2.500 %) ETL 7 1 (2.500 %) GIS	Development Applications 1 1 (2.500 %) Visual Studio
General 1 2 (5.000 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 22 (55.00 %) Developer 2 7 (17.50 %) Senior Developer 3 6 (15.00 %) .NET Developer 4 5 (12.50 %) Administrator 4 5 (12.50 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 5 (12.50 %) Architect 4 5 (12.50 %) Consultant 4 5 (12.50 %) SharePoint Consultant 4 5 (12.50 %) SharePoint Administrator 4 5 (12.50 %) Sharepoint Architect 5 3 (7.500 %) Senior ASP.NET Developer 5 3 (7.500 %) SharePoint Developer 5 3 (7.500 %) Senior .NET Developer 6 2 (5.000 %) Analyst 6 2 (5.000 %) Applications Support 7 1 (2.500 %) 2nd Line Support 7 1 (2.500 %) Database Specialist 7 1 (2.500 %) Support Analyst 7 1 (2.500 %) Applications Support Analyst 7 1 (2.500 %) Datawarehouse Developer
Miscellaneous 1 5 (12.50 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 7 (17.50 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (15.00 %) Web Design 2 5 (12.50 %) OO 3 4 (10.00 %) Web Development 4 3 (7.500 %) OOD 4 3 (7.500 %) Content Management 5 2 (5.000 %) Business Analysis 5 2 (5.000 %) Unit Testing 5 2 (5.000 %) Continuous Integration 6 1 (2.500 %) Data Migration 6 1 (2.500 %) Change Management 6 1 (2.500 %) Workflow 6 1 (2.500 %) Migration 6 1 (2.500 %) Systems Analysis	Programming Languages 1 20 (50.00 %) C# 2 7 (17.50 %) JavaScript 3 5 (12.50 %) SQL 4 4 (10.00 %) DHTML 5 3 (7.500 %) Transact-SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (5.000 %) MCAD 1 2 (5.000 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 6 (15.00 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 9 (22.50 %) Microsoft 2 2 (5.000 %) Oracle 2 2 (5.000 %) Business Objects