Surrey Windows SharePoint Services Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) skills within the Surrey region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows SharePoint Services over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Windows SharePoint Services (WSS)
Location Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire City of London Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England England Essex Hampshire Leeds London M4 Corridor Manchester Newcastle North East North West Poole Reading Scotland Slough South East South West Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	82	111
Rank change on same period last year	+29
Matching contract IT job ads	12	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	2.344 %	0.845 %
Daily rates quoted	6	0
Average minimum daily rate	£400	-
Average daily rate	£444	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£488	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£363	£386
% change on same period last year	-5.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£60.00
Average hourly rate	-	£60.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£45.00	£37.70
% change on same period last year	+19.36 %
Application Development Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	512	710
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.715 %	0.713 %
Daily rates quoted	167	220
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£306
Average daily rate	£316	£327
% change on same period last year	-3.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£333
% change on same period last year	-0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	77
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.93	£28.16
Average hourly rate	£36.08	£30.24
% change on same period last year	+19.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.24	£32.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.32	£32.24
% change on same period last year	-2.87 %
Windows SharePoint Services South East

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.

Windows SharePoint Services
Demand Trend

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

Windows SharePoint Services
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows SharePoint Services
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows SharePoint Services across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

Windows SharePoint Services
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows SharePoint Services
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows SharePoint Services within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 6 October 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
Woking	-	5	£416	-

Windows SharePoint Services South East

Windows SharePoint Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Windows SharePoint Services 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 Windows SharePoint Services.

1 14 (100.00 %) SharePoint 1 14 (100.00 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 10 (71.43 %) Intranet 2 10 (71.43 %) C# 2 10 (71.43 %) .NET 2 10 (71.43 %) Visual Studio 2 10 (71.43 %) ASP.NET 2 10 (71.43 %) ASP.NET 2.0 3 4 (28.57 %) Internet 3 4 (28.57 %) Windows 4 3 (21.43 %) SQL Server 4 3 (21.43 %) Publishing 4 3 (21.43 %) Content Management 4 3 (21.43 %) SQL Server 2005 5 2 (14.29 %) Firewall

5 2 (14.29 %) IIS 5 2 (14.29 %) SQL 5 2 (14.29 %) SOAP 5 2 (14.29 %) SSL 5 2 (14.29 %) Active Directory 5 2 (14.29 %) Windows Server 2003 6 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft 6 1 (7.143 %) Windows XP 6 1 (7.143 %) DHCP 6 1 (7.143 %) TCP/IP 6 1 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (7.143 %) Education 6 1 (7.143 %) Windows Vista 6 1 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2000 6 1 (7.143 %) LANDesk

Windows SharePoint Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Windows SharePoint Services 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 Windows SharePoint Services. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 10 (71.43 %) .NET 1 10 (71.43 %) ASP.NET 1 10 (71.43 %) ASP.NET 2.0 2 2 (14.29 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 14 (100.00 %) SharePoint 1 14 (100.00 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 2 (14.29 %) IIS
Communications & Networking 1 10 (71.43 %) Intranet 2 4 (28.57 %) Internet 3 2 (14.29 %) Firewall 3 2 (14.29 %) SSL 4 1 (7.143 %) DHCP 4 1 (7.143 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (21.43 %) SQL Server 1 3 (21.43 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 10 (71.43 %) Visual Studio	General 1 3 (21.43 %) Publishing 2 1 (7.143 %) Education
Job Titles 1 11 (78.57 %) Developer 2 7 (50.00 %) Intranet Developer 3 3 (21.43 %) SharePoint Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) Implementation Engineer 4 1 (7.143 %) SharePoint Consultant 4 1 (7.143 %) Consultant 4 1 (7.143 %) Field Engineer 4 1 (7.143 %) Internet Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) Implementation Consultant 4 1 (7.143 %) Installations Engineer	Operating Systems 1 4 (28.57 %) Windows 2 2 (14.29 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (7.143 %) Windows Vista 3 1 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (7.143 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (21.43 %) Content Management	Programming Languages 1 10 (71.43 %) C# 2 2 (14.29 %) SQL
System Software 1 2 (14.29 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft 1 1 (7.143 %) LANDesk