South West SharePoint Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SharePoint skills within the South West 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 over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chertsey Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hampshire Harrow Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	50	115
Rank change on same period last year	+65
Matching contract IT job ads	106	55
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.140 %	0.055 %
As % of the category below	18.66 %	9.769 %
Daily rates quoted	30	3
Average minimum daily rate	£390	£263
Average daily rate	£412	£273
% change on same period last year	+50.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£434	£283
UK excluding London average daily rate	£364	£346
% change on same period last year	+5.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.00	£28.96
Average hourly rate	£27.61	£31.37
% change on same period last year	-12.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.21	£33.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.16	£27.95
% change on same period last year	+4.33 %
Application Platforms South West
Matching contract IT job ads	568	563
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.750 %	0.561 %
Daily rates quoted	159	118
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£285
Average daily rate	£342	£305
% change on same period last year	+12.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£347
% change on same period last year	+1.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	58	77
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.99	£23.51
Average hourly rate	£27.83	£25.57
% change on same period last year	+8.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.67	£27.62
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.10	£24.95
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
SharePoint England

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SharePoint across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SharePoint across the South West region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SharePoint across the South West region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SharePoint across the South West region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint within the South West region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Wiltshire	+30	35	£469	-
Bristol	+21	16	£370	-
Devon	+11	16	£337	+43.27 %
Dorset	+2	11	£461	-
Gloucestershire	-	8	£330	-
Somerset	+8	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing SharePoint 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.

1 72 (37.70 %) .NET 2 60 (31.41 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 58 (30.37 %) Microsoft 4 42 (21.99 %) SQL 5 32 (16.75 %) C# 5 32 (16.75 %) SQL Server 6 27 (14.14 %) MS Office 6 27 (14.14 %) ASP.NET 7 26 (13.61 %) Intranet 8 24 (12.57 %) InfoPath 9 22 (11.52 %) Active Directory 9 22 (11.52 %) PRINCE2 10 21 (10.99 %) Windows 10 21 (10.99 %) Windows SharePoint Services 11 20 (10.47 %) Oracle

11 20 (10.47 %) Security Cleared 12 19 (9.948 %) BizTalk Server 12 19 (9.948 %) Extranet 12 19 (9.948 %) UNIX 12 19 (9.948 %) XML 13 18 (9.424 %) MS Exchange 13 18 (9.424 %) Workflow 13 18 (9.424 %) Finance 13 18 (9.424 %) Government 13 18 (9.424 %) VMware 14 17 (8.901 %) Cisco 14 17 (8.901 %) Citrix 14 17 (8.901 %) SC Cleared 15 16 (8.377 %) Content Management 16 14 (7.330 %) Document Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing SharePoint 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 72 (37.70 %) .NET 2 27 (14.14 %) ASP.NET 3 21 (10.99 %) Windows SharePoint Services 4 19 (9.948 %) XML 5 13 (6.806 %) WebServices 6 12 (6.283 %) J2EE 7 9 (4.712 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 9 (4.712 %) XSLT 8 8 (4.188 %) HTML 9 7 (3.665 %) AJAX 9 7 (3.665 %) ADO.NET 10 6 (3.141 %) CSS 10 6 (3.141 %) .NET Framework 11 4 (2.094 %) CORBA 11 4 (2.094 %) XHTML 12 3 (1.571 %) Silverlight 12 3 (1.571 %) ASP 13 2 (1.047 %) WCF 13 2 (1.047 %) WinForms 14 1 (0.524 %) WF	Application Platforms 1 60 (31.41 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 19 (9.948 %) BizTalk Server 3 18 (9.424 %) MS Exchange 4 12 (6.283 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 9 (4.712 %) IIS 6 4 (2.094 %) SharePoint Portal Server 6 4 (2.094 %) CMS 7 3 (1.571 %) Content Management Server 8 2 (1.047 %) Morello 8 2 (1.047 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 1 (0.524 %) Apache 9 1 (0.524 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications 1 27 (14.14 %) MS Office 2 24 (12.57 %) InfoPath 3 8 (4.188 %) MS Project 4 7 (3.665 %) MS Excel 5 3 (1.571 %) MS PowerPoint 6 1 (0.524 %) Spreadsheet 6 1 (0.524 %) CA Clarity 6 1 (0.524 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 5 (2.618 %) Oracle EBS 2 1 (0.524 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 26 (13.61 %) Intranet 2 19 (9.948 %) Extranet 3 12 (6.283 %) Internet 3 12 (6.283 %) Firewall 4 11 (5.759 %) SAN 5 10 (5.236 %) DNS 6 7 (3.665 %) LAN 6 7 (3.665 %) WAN 7 6 (3.141 %) DHCP 7 6 (3.141 %) VLAN 8 4 (2.094 %) MPLS 8 4 (2.094 %) VoIP 8 4 (2.094 %) VPN 8 4 (2.094 %) ATM 8 4 (2.094 %) Frame Relay 9 3 (1.571 %) Network Security 9 3 (1.571 %) TCP/IP 10 2 (1.047 %) iSCSI 11 1 (0.524 %) IP Telephony 11 1 (0.524 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 32 (16.75 %) SQL Server 2 13 (6.806 %) SQL Server 2005 3 10 (5.236 %) EDRMS 3 10 (5.236 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (1.047 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 1 (0.524 %) SQL Server 2008 5 1 (0.524 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 1 (0.524 %) DTS 5 1 (0.524 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 11 (5.759 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (1.571 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 2 (1.047 %) Flash 4 1 (0.524 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 18 (9.424 %) Finance 1 18 (9.424 %) Government 2 10 (5.236 %) Banking 3 8 (4.188 %) Telecoms 4 5 (2.618 %) Back Office 5 4 (2.094 %) Retail Banking 5 4 (2.094 %) Marketing 5 4 (2.094 %) Retail 5 4 (2.094 %) Law 6 1 (0.524 %) Health 6 1 (0.524 %) Investment Banking 6 1 (0.524 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 69 (36.13 %) Developer 2 39 (20.42 %) SharePoint Developer 3 29 (15.18 %) Consultant 4 20 (10.47 %) Project Manager 5 19 (9.948 %) Analyst 6 12 (6.283 %) Technical Consultant 6 12 (6.283 %) SharePoint Consultant 6 12 (6.283 %) .NET Developer 7 11 (5.759 %) C# Developer 8 9 (4.712 %) Sharepoint Specialist 9 8 (4.188 %) ASP.NET Developer 10 7 (3.665 %) Technical Analyst 10 7 (3.665 %) Administrator 10 7 (3.665 %) Web Developer 10 7 (3.665 %) Architect 11 6 (3.141 %) Implementation Consultant 12 5 (2.618 %) Delivery Manager 12 5 (2.618 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 12 5 (2.618 %) Systems Administrator 13 4 (2.094 %) Programme Manager	Miscellaneous 1 11 (5.759 %) Clustering 2 6 (3.141 %) Device Driver 3 3 (1.571 %) Freedom of Information 4 2 (1.047 %) NHS 4 2 (1.047 %) Client/Server 4 2 (1.047 %) Streaming Video 5 1 (0.524 %) Management Information System 5 1 (0.524 %) Replication 5 1 (0.524 %) PACS 5 1 (0.524 %) SecurID 5 1 (0.524 %) N-Tier 5 1 (0.524 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 21 (10.99 %) Windows 2 19 (9.948 %) UNIX 3 7 (3.665 %) Windows Server 2003 3 7 (3.665 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 4 (2.094 %) Windows XP 5 3 (1.571 %) Linux 6 2 (1.047 %) SUSE 7 1 (0.524 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (0.524 %) Windows NT 7 1 (0.524 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (11.52 %) PRINCE2 2 20 (10.47 %) Security Cleared 3 18 (9.424 %) Workflow 4 17 (8.901 %) SC Cleared 5 16 (8.377 %) Content Management 6 14 (7.330 %) Document Management 7 12 (6.283 %) Project Management 7 12 (6.283 %) ITSM 8 9 (4.712 %) Migration 9 8 (4.188 %) Business Intelligence 10 7 (3.665 %) Web Development 11 6 (3.141 %) UML 11 6 (3.141 %) ITIL 12 5 (2.618 %) Load Balancing 12 5 (2.618 %) Technical Architecture 13 4 (2.094 %) Project Planning 13 4 (2.094 %) Enterprise Architecture 13 4 (2.094 %) Information Management 13 4 (2.094 %) Change Management 13 4 (2.094 %) Business Continuity
Programming Languages 1 42 (21.99 %) SQL 2 32 (16.75 %) C# 3 12 (6.283 %) JavaScript 4 10 (5.236 %) VB.NET 5 4 (2.094 %) Java 5 4 (2.094 %) C 5 4 (2.094 %) VB 6 3 (1.571 %) VBA 6 3 (1.571 %) VBScript 6 3 (1.571 %) C++ 7 2 (1.047 %) ActionScript 7 2 (1.047 %) VB6 8 1 (0.524 %) DHTML 8 1 (0.524 %) PL/SQL 8 1 (0.524 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 13 (6.806 %) Cisco Certification 1 13 (6.806 %) CCNA 2 7 (3.665 %) Microsoft Certification 3 6 (3.141 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 6 (3.141 %) MCSE 4 4 (2.094 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 3 (1.571 %) MCSA 6 1 (0.524 %) MCTS 6 1 (0.524 %) MCPD 6 1 (0.524 %) Degree 6 1 (0.524 %) MCP 6 1 (0.524 %) MCAD 6 1 (0.524 %) MCSD
System Software 1 22 (11.52 %) Active Directory 2 11 (5.759 %) VMware Server 3 5 (2.618 %) Backup Exec 4 2 (1.047 %) NFS	Systems Management 1 12 (6.283 %) OVPI 2 4 (2.094 %) MOM 2 4 (2.094 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 4 (2.094 %) SCOM 3 3 (1.571 %) SCCM 4 1 (0.524 %) Unicenter
Vendors 1 58 (30.37 %) Microsoft 2 20 (10.47 %) Oracle 3 18 (9.424 %) VMware 4 17 (8.901 %) Cisco 4 17 (8.901 %) Citrix 5 7 (3.665 %) Meridio 5 7 (3.665 %) PeopleSoft 6 4 (2.094 %) SAP 7 3 (1.571 %) Juniper 7 3 (1.571 %) Sun 8 2 (1.047 %) NetApp 8 2 (1.047 %) Mediasurface 9 1 (0.524 %) Fujitsu 9 1 (0.524 %) Symantec 9 1 (0.524 %) CA 9 1 (0.524 %) Avaya 9 1 (0.524 %) Nortel