The first table below looks at the demand for SharePoint skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SharePoint over the 3 months to 22 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 Swindon 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SharePoint
Rank 28 34 28
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -6
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 12 7 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 4.110% 1.918% 2.848%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.09% 17.95% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 6
Average daily rate £313 £213 £344
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+47.05% -38.13%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £168 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £243 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £349 £350 £341
% change year-on-year
-0.35% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £21.38 £23.00
% change year-on-year
-4.09% -7.06%
All Application Platforms
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
46 39 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 15.75% 10.68% 8.861%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 28 17
Average daily rate £425 £415 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.40% +18.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £233 £169
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £464 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £13.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
SharePoint
Wiltshire

SharePoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon SharePoint Hourly Rate Trend

SharePoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 12 (50.00%) Finance
2 10 (41.67%) XML
2 10 (41.67%) MS Excel
3 9 (37.50%) SQL
4 8 (33.33%) .NET
4 8 (33.33%) C#
4 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 8 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
5 7 (29.17%) Windows
5 7 (29.17%) SQL Server
6 6 (25.00%) SharePoint Server
6 6 (25.00%) WCF
6 6 (25.00%) jQuery
6 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
7 5 (20.83%) LINQ
7 5 (20.83%) Silverlight
7 5 (20.83%) Subversion
8 4 (16.67%) MS PowerPoint
8 4 (16.67%) PRINCE2
8 4 (16.67%) Project Management
8 4 (16.67%) Intranet
9 3 (12.50%) Middleware
9 3 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (12.50%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (12.50%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (12.50%) MS Project
9 3 (12.50%) MS Office
9 3 (12.50%) Java
9 3 (12.50%) PL/SQL
9 3 (12.50%) J2EE

SharePoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 10 (41.67%) XML
2 8 (33.33%) .NET
3 6 (25.00%) WCF
3 6 (25.00%) jQuery
4 5 (20.83%) LINQ
4 5 (20.83%) Silverlight
5 3 (12.50%) Middleware
5 3 (12.50%) J2EE
5 3 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (4.167%) XSLT
6 1 (4.167%) ASP.NET
6 1 (4.167%) CSS
6 1 (4.167%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 8 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
2 6 (25.00%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (4.167%) Content Management Server
4 1 (4.167%) MS Exchange
4 1 (4.167%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (4.167%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 10 (41.67%) MS Excel
2 4 (16.67%) MS PowerPoint
3 3 (12.50%) MS Project
3 3 (12.50%) MS Office
4 1 (4.167%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (8.333%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (4.167%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (4.167%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Intranet
2 2 (8.333%) Internet
3 1 (4.167%) Firewall
3 1 (4.167%) SAN
3 1 (4.167%) DHCP
3 1 (4.167%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Subversion
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle Forms
General
1 12 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.333%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.167%) Banking
3 1 (4.167%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Developer
2 7 (29.17%) SharePoint Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (8.333%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (8.333%) Administrator
5 1 (4.167%) Web Developer
5 1 (4.167%) Consultant
5 1 (4.167%) Senior Manager
5 1 (4.167%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (4.167%) Author
5 1 (4.167%) Technical Author
5 1 (4.167%) Coordinator
5 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (4.167%) Project Officer
5 1 (4.167%) Project Administrator
5 1 (4.167%) Project Support Officer
5 1 (4.167%) Oracle Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.167%) W3C
1 1 (4.167%) Thin Client
1 1 (4.167%) Clustering
1 1 (4.167%) Fat Client
1 1 (4.167%) Blog
1 1 (4.167%) Social Network
1 1 (4.167%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Windows
2 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (16.67%) PRINCE2
1 4 (16.67%) Project Management
2 3 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (12.50%) CRM
2 3 (12.50%) SOA
2 3 (12.50%) Workflow
3 2 (8.333%) Content Management
3 2 (8.333%) Supplier Management
3 2 (8.333%) Release Management
3 2 (8.333%) Performance Management
3 2 (8.333%) ITIL
3 2 (8.333%) Scrum
3 2 (8.333%) Change Management
4 1 (4.167%) PRINCE
4 1 (4.167%) E-business
4 1 (4.167%) Risk Management
4 1 (4.167%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (4.167%) Web Development
4 1 (4.167%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (4.167%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) SQL
2 8 (33.33%) C#
3 3 (12.50%) Java
3 3 (12.50%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.167%) VBScript
4 1 (4.167%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.333%) OCP
3 2 (8.333%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (8.333%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (4.167%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (4.167%) VMware ESX
1 1 (4.167%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (4.167%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.167%) XenApp
1 1 (4.167%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (4.167%) ZENworks
1 1 (4.167%) NetBackup
1 1 (4.167%) SCCM
1 1 (4.167%) SCOM
1 1 (4.167%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (8.333%) Stellent
3 2 (8.333%) Hyperion
4 1 (4.167%) Novell
4 1 (4.167%) Sophos
4 1 (4.167%) Wyse
4 1 (4.167%) VMware
4 1 (4.167%) HP
4 1 (4.167%) Dell
4 1 (4.167%) EMC
4 1 (4.167%) Citrix