The first table below looks at the demand for SharePoint skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SharePoint 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 South West 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
Rank 24 28 35
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +7
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 132 191 113
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 6.445% 5.763% 4.034%
As % of the Application Platforms category 35.48% 33.28% 26.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 117 66
Average daily rate £365 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.14% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £203 £225 £181
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £350 £341
% change year-on-year
-1.42% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 3
Average hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 £20.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% +23.45%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £21.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year
-4.59% -3.33%
All Application Platforms
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
372 574 429
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 18.16% 17.32% 15.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 342 219
Average daily rate £350 £358 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.09% +15.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £441 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 34 25
Average hourly rate £19.00 £25.00 £20.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.00% +24.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.05 £16.45 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £41.50 £40.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
SharePoint
England

SharePoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West SharePoint Jobs Demand Trend

SharePoint
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West SharePoint Daily Rate Trend

SharePoint
Daily Rate Histogram

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

South West SharePoint Daily Rate Histogram

SharePoint
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West SharePoint Hourly Rate Trend

SharePoint
Contract Locations

The table below 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 17 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
Bristol +7 39 £325 +4.83%
Dorset 0 22 £400 +14.28%
Wiltshire +9 20 £313 +19.04%
Gloucestershire +23 19 £413 +17.85%
Devon -2 13 £375 +13.63%
Somerset -9 13 £413 +17.85%
SharePoint
England

SharePoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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.

1 124 (50.82%) .NET
2 113 (46.31%) Microsoft
3 110 (45.08%) C#
4 90 (36.89%) SQL
4 90 (36.89%) SharePoint 2010
5 83 (34.02%) ASP.NET
6 77 (31.56%) SQL Server
7 66 (27.05%) HTML
8 60 (24.59%) JavaScript
9 55 (22.54%) XML
10 54 (22.13%) .NET Framework
11 52 (21.31%) Security Cleared
12 49 (20.08%) UML
13 44 (18.03%) MS Excel
14 43 (17.62%) Finance
15 42 (17.21%) ITIL
15 42 (17.21%) ASP
15 42 (17.21%) Oracle
16 41 (16.80%) VB
17 39 (15.98%) Java
17 39 (15.98%) IIS
18 34 (13.93%) C++
19 33 (13.52%) CSS
20 31 (12.70%) VB.NET
20 31 (12.70%) MVC
20 31 (12.70%) SC Cleared
21 30 (12.30%) UNIX
21 30 (12.30%) Windows
21 30 (12.30%) Microsoft Certification
22 29 (11.89%) Ingres

SharePoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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
1 124 (50.82%) .NET
2 83 (34.02%) ASP.NET
3 66 (27.05%) HTML
4 55 (22.54%) XML
5 54 (22.13%) .NET Framework
6 42 (17.21%) ASP
7 33 (13.52%) CSS
8 17 (6.967%) WCF
9 16 (6.557%) jQuery
9 16 (6.557%) ASP.NET MVC
10 14 (5.738%) Web Services
11 7 (2.869%) Silverlight
12 6 (2.459%) LINQ
12 6 (2.459%) MDX
13 5 (2.049%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 5 (2.049%) XSL
13 5 (2.049%) Middleware
14 4 (1.639%) Ajax
14 4 (1.639%) J2EE
14 4 (1.639%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 90 (36.89%) SharePoint 2010
2 39 (15.98%) IIS
3 25 (10.25%) OpenROAD
4 16 (6.557%) SharePoint Server
5 14 (5.738%) SharePoint 2013
6 8 (3.279%) MS Project Server
7 6 (2.459%) CMS
7 6 (2.459%) MS Exchange
8 5 (2.049%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (1.639%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (1.639%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 4 (1.639%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (1.230%) Exchange Server 2010
10 3 (1.230%) Drupal
10 3 (1.230%) Apache Solr
10 3 (1.230%) SAS
10 3 (1.230%) TeamSite
10 3 (1.230%) Apache
11 2 (0.820%) Windows Azure
12 1 (0.410%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 44 (18.03%) MS Excel
2 19 (7.787%) MS Project
3 17 (6.967%) MS Office
4 12 (4.918%) MS PowerPoint
5 11 (4.508%) InfoPath
6 8 (3.279%) Office 365
7 3 (1.230%) PowerPivot
7 3 (1.230%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.410%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (4.918%) Visualfiles
2 7 (2.869%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.869%) SAP R/3
3 4 (1.639%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (1.639%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (1.230%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.410%) Maximo
5 1 (0.410%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.410%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.410%) assyst
5 1 (0.410%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.967%) Intranet
2 7 (2.869%) Internet
3 5 (2.049%) LAN
3 5 (2.049%) VoIP
3 5 (2.049%) VPN
4 4 (1.639%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.639%) Firewall
4 4 (1.639%) Wireless
5 2 (0.820%) Cisco PIX
5 2 (0.820%) Extranet
5 2 (0.820%) SAN
5 2 (0.820%) DHCP
5 2 (0.820%) DNS
6 1 (0.410%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.410%) WAN
6 1 (0.410%) PBX
6 1 (0.410%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (31.56%) SQL Server
2 29 (11.89%) Ingres
3 28 (11.48%) SQL Server 2008
4 23 (9.426%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 17 (6.967%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 15 (6.148%) SQLPlus
7 10 (4.098%) SQL Server 2005
8 8 (3.279%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (2.049%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 5 (2.049%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.639%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.639%) PerformancePoint
10 4 (1.639%) MySQL
10 4 (1.639%) Oracle BI EE
11 3 (1.230%) OLAP
12 2 (0.820%) Base SAS
13 1 (0.410%) Redis
13 1 (0.410%) Crystal Reports
13 1 (0.410%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 27 (11.07%) Visual Studio
2 26 (10.66%) Subversion
3 23 (9.426%) Team Foundation Server
4 21 (8.607%) NUnit
5 20 (8.197%) MSTest
6 16 (6.557%) Jenkins
7 15 (6.148%) TeamCity
8 14 (5.738%) CruiseControl
8 14 (5.738%) VSS/SourceSafe
9 7 (2.869%) Dreamweaver
10 4 (1.639%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (1.230%) Git (software)
12 1 (0.410%) FrontPage
12 1 (0.410%) Selenium
12 1 (0.410%) Rhino Mocks
12 1 (0.410%) MSBuild
12 1 (0.410%) WebDriver
General
1 43 (17.62%) Finance
2 13 (5.328%) Legal
2 13 (5.328%) Banking
3 5 (2.049%) Publishing
3 5 (2.049%) Telecoms
4 3 (1.230%) Military
5 2 (0.820%) Manufacturing
5 2 (0.820%) Law
5 2 (0.820%) Retail
6 1 (0.410%) Multimedia
6 1 (0.410%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.410%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.410%) Marketing
6 1 (0.410%) Electronics
6 1 (0.410%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 140 (57.38%) Developer
2 54 (22.13%) SharePoint Developer
3 48 (19.67%) Analyst
4 29 (11.89%) .NET Developer
5 25 (10.25%) C# Developer
6 24 (9.836%) Analyst Developer
7 21 (8.607%) C# .NET Developer
8 18 (7.377%) Senior Developer
9 17 (6.967%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (6.148%) Project Manager
11 14 (5.738%) Consultant
11 14 (5.738%) Senior Analyst Developer
12 12 (4.918%) Support Analyst
13 11 (4.508%) Architect
13 11 (4.508%) ASP.NET Developer
13 11 (4.508%) C# ASP.NET Developer
14 8 (3.279%) SharePoint Consultant
14 8 (3.279%) Senior Support Analyst
14 8 (3.279%) Delivery Manager
15 7 (2.869%) Project Support Officer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.738%) Management Information System
2 5 (2.049%) Blackberry
2 5 (2.049%) Animation
3 4 (1.639%) Handset
4 3 (1.230%) Fat Client
4 3 (1.230%) Open Source
4 3 (1.230%) Digital Media
4 3 (1.230%) Thin Client
5 2 (0.820%) SWIFT
5 2 (0.820%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.820%) Blog
5 2 (0.820%) Clustering
6 1 (0.410%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.410%) Replication
6 1 (0.410%) DTV
6 1 (0.410%) NHS
6 1 (0.410%) W3C
6 1 (0.410%) Social Network
6 1 (0.410%) Wiki
6 1 (0.410%) RMADS
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.30%) UNIX
1 30 (12.30%) Windows
2 14 (5.738%) Windows Server 2003
3 11 (4.508%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (2.869%) Windows 7
5 6 (2.459%) Windows XP
6 3 (1.230%) Linux
7 2 (0.820%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (20.08%) UML
2 42 (17.21%) ITIL
3 31 (12.70%) MVC
4 24 (9.836%) Unit Testing
5 22 (9.016%) Service Delivery
6 21 (8.607%) Continuous Integration
7 20 (8.197%) Project Management
8 19 (7.787%) Workflow
9 17 (6.967%) PRINCE2
10 16 (6.557%) Service Management
11 15 (6.148%) ITSM
12 13 (5.328%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (4.918%) Data Security
13 12 (4.918%) Business Analysis
14 11 (4.508%) Web Development
14 11 (4.508%) CRM
15 10 (4.098%) Change Management
15 10 (4.098%) Scrum
16 8 (3.279%) Programme Management
16 8 (3.279%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 110 (45.08%) C#
2 90 (36.89%) SQL
3 60 (24.59%) JavaScript
4 41 (16.80%) VB
5 39 (15.98%) Java
6 34 (13.93%) C++
7 31 (12.70%) VB.NET
8 10 (4.098%) VBScript
8 10 (4.098%) C
9 9 (3.689%) PHP
10 7 (2.869%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.049%) VBA
11 5 (2.049%) VB6
12 4 (1.639%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.230%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.410%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 52 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 31 (12.70%) SC Cleared
3 30 (12.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 28 (11.48%) ISEB
5 19 (7.787%) MCTS
6 14 (5.738%) MCP
7 13 (5.328%) MCPD
7 13 (5.328%) Degree
8 9 (3.689%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.869%) MCSE
10 4 (1.639%) MCSD
10 4 (1.639%) ISEB Practitioner
10 4 (1.639%) MCDST
10 4 (1.639%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 3 (1.230%) CISM
11 3 (1.230%) CISSP
11 3 (1.230%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.230%) OCP
11 3 (1.230%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.820%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.689%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.049%) ISO 9000
3 4 (1.639%) TickIT
4 3 (1.230%) SLA
4 3 (1.230%) COBIT
4 3 (1.230%) QA
5 1 (0.410%) BS25999
System Software
1 19 (7.787%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.639%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.820%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.820%) XenApp
4 1 (0.410%) vSphere
4 1 (0.410%) Terminal Server
4 1 (0.410%) VMware ESX
4 1 (0.410%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.410%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 2 (0.820%) SCCM
1 2 (0.820%) SCOM
2 1 (0.410%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.410%) HP SIM
2 1 (0.410%) ZENworks
2 1 (0.410%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (0.410%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 113 (46.31%) Microsoft
2 42 (17.21%) Oracle
3 10 (4.098%) Cisco
4 9 (3.689%) Citrix
5 8 (3.279%) SAP
6 6 (2.459%) HP
6 6 (2.459%) VMware
7 4 (1.639%) Avaya
8 3 (1.230%) Hyperion
8 3 (1.230%) Stellent
9 2 (0.820%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.410%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.410%) Symantec
10 1 (0.410%) McAfee
10 1 (0.410%) Sophos
10 1 (0.410%) Wyse
10 1 (0.410%) Novell
10 1 (0.410%) Lotus
10 1 (0.410%) Sage
10 1 (0.410%) Dell
Bristol, South West
As a SharePoint developer you will be required to change accessibility and structure coding alongside the development team... A secure portal You will also migrate from SharePoint 2007...
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Poole, Dorset
My client operates Sharepoint 2010 in a non-ERP Development hosted SQL 2008 environment ... Key is your Sharepoint 2010, non-ERP Development environment & tool plus your SQL 2008...
Reflex Computer Recruitment
Rate: £225 - £300 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 17 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
The SharePoint Integration Engineer will be part of a project team of Microsoft Engineers working on simultaneous systems integration projects including Exchange, Active Directory and SharePoint Server... Strong...
Randstad Technologies
Rate: £350 - £380 per day
Posted: 13 May 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
c) ASP.net 2.0-4.0... e) HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Jquery, Web services, IIS... b) Advanced C# .Net development. c) MS SQL (2005, 2008) - Interfacing, Query writing,...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Posted: 16 May 2013
Christchurch, Dorset
c) ASP.net 2.0-4.0... e) HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Jquery, Web services, IIS... b) Advanced C# .Net development. c) MS SQL (2005, 2008) - Interfacing, Query writing,...
EasyWebRecruitment.com
Rate: £300 a day inclusive of VAT
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bath, Avon
The client currently has a website created through SharePoint Services 3 Designer and requires some changes to be made to the site. The site requires the use of...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 17 May 2013
Taunton, South West
Skills/ Experience Required Essential Skills The post-holder must have: *Have demonstrable working knowledge of the following programming languages:- oC# oASP.net oSQL *Have demonstrable working knowledge of...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 14 May 2013
Bristol, South West
They will be accountable to the Information Manager for the production of SharePoint dashboards, InfoPath Forms and knowledge transfer to the Information and Knowledge Management (IKM) team... * Transferring...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 22 April 2013
Swindon, Wiltshire
Essential Requirements: o Multi-Site Active Directory / DNS / DHCP o Windows Server 2003 / 2008 o VMware (ESX / vSphere) o Microsoft SQL Server (2005 / 2008 / Reporting) o Citrix XenApp...
GCS IT Recruitment Specialists
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 13 May 2013
Devon
My client is urgently looking to recruit a Business Analyst to work on a large scale systems implementation programme.
Sanderson
Rate: £200 - £250 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013