SharePoint Contracts in the South West

Microsoft SharePoint
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for SharePoint skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SharePoint over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 61 58
Rank change year-on-year +16 -3 +23
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 125 131 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.93% 3.62% 3.73%
As % of the Application Platforms category 42.37% 29.64% 31.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 98 104
10th Percentile £300 £275 £263
25th Percentile £414 £393 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £488 £473
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% +3.17% +18.13%
75th Percentile £538 £590 £575
90th Percentile £601 £650 £636
England median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £16.63 -
25th Percentile £27.26 £17.19 -
Median hourly rate £27.52 £19.00 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year +44.82% -72.48% +352.79%
75th Percentile £27.77 £20.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.16 £22.63 £25.00
% change year-on-year +33.27% -9.48% +33.33%

All Application Platform Skills
South West

SharePoint is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 295 442 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.28% 12.20% 11.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 348 306
10th Percentile £217 £250 £208
25th Percentile £363 £384 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £481
Median % change year-on-year - +3.90% +6.94%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £713 £647
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 24 9
10th Percentile - £17.50 £13.87
25th Percentile - £53.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £71.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.06% +33.64% +145.98%
75th Percentile £68.00 £80.56 £69.05
90th Percentile £74.44 £86.66 -
England median hourly rate £25.50 £35.00 £20.89
% change year-on-year -27.14% +67.54% +4.45%

SharePoint
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing SharePoint as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for SharePoint in the South West

SharePoint
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SharePoint in the South West.

Daily rate trend for SharePoint in the South West

SharePoint
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SharePoint in the South West over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SharePoint in the South West

SharePoint
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SharePoint in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for SharePoint in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint within the South West region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wiltshire +14 65 £490 -10.91% 15
Gloucestershire +9 25 £425 +6.25% 14
Bristol +8 22 £475 +15.85% 14
Somerset +5 8 £500 -16.67% 10
Devon -8 2 £318 +27.24% 2
SharePoint
England

SharePoint
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 38 (30.40%) Confluence
2 36 (28.80%) SharePoint Server
3 13 (10.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.40%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.60%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 74 (59.20%) Azure
2 38 (30.40%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (27.20%) Azure Stack
4 24 (19.20%) Power Platform
5 18 (14.40%) Power Automate
6 11 (8.80%) PowerApps
7 10 (8.00%) OneDrive
8 9 (7.20%) Entra ID
9 8 (6.40%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (6.40%) Azure Storage
10 6 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.80%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 40 (32.00%) Firewall
2 35 (28.00%) BGP
3 13 (10.40%) Intranet
4 7 (5.60%) Skype
5 4 (3.20%) DNS
5 4 (3.20%) LAN
5 4 (3.20%) WAN
6 3 (2.40%) DHCP
6 3 (2.40%) SAN
7 2 (1.60%) NAS
7 2 (1.60%) SMTP
7 2 (1.60%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.80%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.60%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 44 (35.20%) JIRA
General
1 59 (47.20%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.00%) Organisational Skills
3 13 (10.40%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.60%) Military
5 4 (3.20%) Banking
6 3 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.60%) Advertising
7 2 (1.60%) Finance
7 2 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.80%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 27 (21.60%) Developer
2 23 (18.40%) Analyst
3 18 (14.40%) SharePoint Developer
4 17 (13.60%) Microsoft Engineer
5 15 (12.00%) Architect
6 13 (10.40%) SharePoint Architect
7 8 (6.40%) Power Platform Developer
8 7 (5.60%) Support Officer
9 6 (4.80%) Applications Developer
9 6 (4.80%) Service Analyst
10 5 (4.00%) Consultant
10 5 (4.00%) IT Support
10 5 (4.00%) SC Cleared SharePoint Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Service Management Analyst
10 5 (4.00%) SharePoint Support
10 5 (4.00%) Wintel Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 4 (3.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
11 4 (3.20%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.40%) SPFx
2 6 (4.80%) .NET
3 5 (4.00%) CSS
3 5 (4.00%) REST
4 4 (3.20%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 35 (28.00%) Private Cloud
2 8 (6.40%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.80%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.00%) PKI
5 4 (3.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.60%) Clustering
7 2 (1.60%) Fat Client
7 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.60%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.80%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (36.80%) Windows
2 7 (5.60%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.00%) Windows 10
4 4 (3.20%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.60%) Linux
7 1 (0.80%) Android
7 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.80%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (33.60%) ITIL
2 41 (32.80%) Service Management
3 34 (27.20%) Capacity Management
3 34 (27.20%) Network Management
3 34 (27.20%) Security Monitoring
4 32 (25.60%) ITSM
5 26 (20.80%) Agile
6 19 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (13.60%) Project Management
8 11 (8.80%) Backlog Management
8 11 (8.80%) Knowledge Transfer
9 10 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (7.20%) DevOps
10 9 (7.20%) Roadmaps
11 8 (6.40%) Change Management
12 7 (5.60%) Configuration Management
12 7 (5.60%) Information Management
12 7 (5.60%) Migration
12 7 (5.60%) Programme Delivery
12 7 (5.60%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (12.80%) PowerShell
2 14 (11.20%) C#
3 13 (10.40%) JavaScript
4 6 (4.80%) C
5 5 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (71.20%) Security Cleared
2 60 (48.00%) DV Cleared
3 34 (27.20%) SC Cleared
4 11 (8.80%) Degree
5 5 (4.00%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.40%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.60%) MCP
8 1 (0.80%) CCNA
8 1 (0.80%) CCNP
8 1 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.80%) MCSE
8 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (28.00%) Government Security Classifications
2 11 (8.80%) PMO
3 5 (4.00%) SLA
4 4 (3.20%) QA
5 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.80%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (11.20%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.20%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (2.40%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.60%) vSphere
6 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.80%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (21.60%) SCOM
2 7 (5.60%) SCCM
3 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.60%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 2 (1.60%) OPNET
6 1 (0.80%) WSUS
Vendors
1 72 (57.60%) Microsoft
2 36 (28.80%) Atlassian
3 8 (6.40%) VMware
4 4 (3.20%) CyberArk
5 3 (2.40%) Cisco
5 3 (2.40%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.60%) Citrix
6 2 (1.60%) Remedy
7 1 (0.80%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.80%) Sparx
7 1 (0.80%) Veeam