The first table below looks at the demand for SharePoint 2010 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SharePoint 2010 over the 3 months to 20 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 Suffolk 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SharePoint 2010
Rank 22 36 31
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -5
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 2010 7 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 4.430% 1.953% 1.143%
As % of the Application Platforms category 35.00% 9.091% 4.167%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
Average daily rate £475 £425 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.76% +21.42%
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £350 £365
% change year-on-year
-1.42% -4.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £17.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -44.44%
All Application Platforms
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
20 55 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 12.66% 21.48% 27.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 33 19
Average daily rate £413 £325 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.92% +6.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £257 £233 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £435 £380
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 2
Average hourly rate £10.50 £17.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-38.23% +25.92%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
SharePoint 2010
East of England

SharePoint 2010
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SharePoint 2010 across the Suffolk region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Suffolk SharePoint 2010 Jobs Demand Trend

SharePoint 2010
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SharePoint 2010 across the Suffolk region.

Suffolk SharePoint 2010 Daily Rate Trend

SharePoint 2010
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SharePoint 2010 across the Suffolk region.

Suffolk SharePoint 2010 Hourly Rate Trend

SharePoint 2010
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint 2010 within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 20 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
Ipswich +8 4 - -
SharePoint 2010
East of England

SharePoint 2010
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk region citing SharePoint 2010 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 2010.

1 9 (100.00%) C#
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 9 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 9 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 6 (66.67%) WCF
2 6 (66.67%) LINQ
2 6 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 5 (55.56%) Windows
3 5 (55.56%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (55.56%) Silverlight
3 5 (55.56%) Technical Architecture
3 5 (55.56%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 5 (55.56%) Windows 7
3 5 (55.56%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (44.44%) Validation
4 4 (44.44%) Hibernate
4 4 (44.44%) SQL
5 3 (33.33%) VB
6 2 (22.22%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (22.22%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
6 2 (22.22%) NHibernate
6 2 (22.22%) WPF

SharePoint 2010
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk region citing SharePoint 2010 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 2010. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 6 (66.67%) WCF
2 6 (66.67%) LINQ
3 5 (55.56%) Silverlight
4 4 (44.44%) Hibernate
5 2 (22.22%) NHibernate
5 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
5 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (22.22%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 2 (22.22%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 9 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (22.22%) MSMQ
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (55.56%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Architect
3 4 (44.44%) C# Developer
4 3 (33.33%) .NET Developer
4 3 (33.33%) Technical Architect
4 3 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (22.22%) Lead Developer
6 1 (11.11%) Technical Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
1 5 (55.56%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (55.56%) Windows Server 2008
1 5 (55.56%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Technical Architecture
2 4 (44.44%) Validation
3 2 (22.22%) CRM
3 2 (22.22%) SOA
3 2 (22.22%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) VB
4 2 (22.22%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft