The first table below looks at the demand for SharePoint 2013 skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SharePoint 2013 over the 3 months to 23 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 South East 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SharePoint 2013
Rank 196 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 2013 27 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.347% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.882% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 18 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1435 1584 1800
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 18.44% 15.58% 17.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 754 771 760
Average daily rate £348 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.92% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £205 £216
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £451
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 81 159
Average hourly rate £18.00 £19.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -7.31%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.35 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £40.00 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
SharePoint 2013
England

SharePoint 2013
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SharePoint 2013 across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

South East SharePoint 2013 Jobs Demand Trend

SharePoint 2013
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SharePoint 2013 across the South East region.

South East SharePoint 2013 Daily Rate Trend

SharePoint 2013
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint 2013 within the South East region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hampshire - 7 £323 -
Berkshire - 6 £425 -
Buckinghamshire - 6 £390 -
Surrey - 5 £350 -
East Sussex - 2 - -
West Sussex - 1 £425 -
SharePoint 2013
England

SharePoint 2013
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing SharePoint 2013 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 2013.

1 31 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 26 (83.87%) SharePoint 2010
3 18 (58.06%) SQL Server
4 16 (51.61%) .NET
5 15 (48.39%) C#
6 14 (45.16%) Windows
7 12 (38.71%) SQL Server 2008
8 11 (35.48%) CSS
8 11 (35.48%) HTML
8 11 (35.48%) JavaScript
8 11 (35.48%) Microsoft
9 10 (32.26%) ASP.NET
9 10 (32.26%) jQuery
10 9 (29.03%) MS Excel
10 9 (29.03%) Workflow
10 9 (29.03%) Migration
11 8 (25.81%) .NET Framework
11 8 (25.81%) WCF
11 8 (25.81%) WF
12 7 (22.58%) Security Cleared
13 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared
13 6 (19.35%) QA
13 6 (19.35%) Systems Analysis
13 6 (19.35%) InfoPath
13 6 (19.35%) XHTML
13 6 (19.35%) XML
14 4 (12.90%) SQL
15 3 (9.677%) MS Office
15 3 (9.677%) Lotus Notes
15 3 (9.677%) Finance

SharePoint 2013
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing SharePoint 2013 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 2013. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (51.61%) .NET
2 11 (35.48%) CSS
2 11 (35.48%) HTML
3 10 (32.26%) ASP.NET
3 10 (32.26%) jQuery
4 8 (25.81%) .NET Framework
4 8 (25.81%) WCF
4 8 (25.81%) WF
5 6 (19.35%) XHTML
5 6 (19.35%) XML
6 2 (6.452%) Web Services
7 1 (3.226%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 31 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 26 (83.87%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (9.677%) Lotus Notes
3 3 (9.677%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (29.03%) MS Excel
2 6 (19.35%) InfoPath
3 3 (9.677%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.452%) HTTP
1 2 (6.452%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (58.06%) SQL Server
2 12 (38.71%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (6.452%) SQL Server 2012
3 2 (6.452%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (3.226%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (9.677%) Finance
Job Titles
1 21 (67.74%) SharePoint Developer
1 21 (67.74%) Developer
2 8 (25.81%) Consultant
2 8 (25.81%) SharePoint Consultant
3 3 (9.677%) .NET Developer
3 3 (9.677%) C# Developer
3 3 (9.677%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (6.452%) Programmer
4 2 (6.452%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.226%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.226%) Analyst
5 1 (3.226%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (3.226%) SharePoint Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.452%) Computer Science
2 1 (3.226%) Taxonomies
2 1 (3.226%) Wiki
2 1 (3.226%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 14 (45.16%) Windows
2 3 (9.677%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (3.226%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (3.226%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) Workflow
1 9 (29.03%) Migration
2 6 (19.35%) Systems Analysis
3 2 (6.452%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (6.452%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (6.452%) Scrum
4 1 (3.226%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (3.226%) Content Management
4 1 (3.226%) Software Deployment
4 1 (3.226%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) C#
2 11 (35.48%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.90%) SQL
4 3 (9.677%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.452%) VB.NET
6 1 (3.226%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) QA
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.677%) Lotus
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