SharePoint Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the SharePoint Developer role in IT contracts across the UK compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SharePoint Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 16 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Coventry Croydon Dartford Devon Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Leeds Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Midlands Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northamptonshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Reading Rickmansworth Sandwich Scotland Shropshire Slough South Coast South East South West South Yorkshire St Albans Sunderland Surrey Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 16 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	230	343
Rank change on same period last year	+113
Matching contract IT job ads	439	357
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.626 %	0.369 %
As % of the category below	0.707 %	0.404 %
Daily rates quoted	137	71
Average minimum daily rate	£401	£354
Average daily rate	£424	£379
% change on same period last year	+11.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£446	£405
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£376
% change on same period last year	+2.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.15	£34.58
Average hourly rate	£35.42	£37.08
% change on same period last year	-4.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.69	£39.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.79	£36.36
% change on same period last year	-4.32 %
Job Titles UK
Matching contract IT job ads	62108	88291
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	88.61 %	91.33 %
Daily rates quoted	20026	26426
Average minimum daily rate	£370	£388
Average daily rate	£396	£413
% change on same period last year	-4.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£422	£438
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	5752	7808
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.68	£23.66
Average hourly rate	£24.17	£25.21
% change on same period last year	-4.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.67	£26.76
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.61	£24.97
% change on same period last year	-5.43 %

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.

SharePoint Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SharePoint Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SharePoint Developer within the UK.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SharePoint Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 16 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SharePoint Developer within the UK.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SharePoint Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 16 October 2008.

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Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 16 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
England	+124	425	£424	+10.66 %
London	+139	187	£450	+17.42 %
South East	+52	73	£388	+1.63 %
West Midlands	+12	49	£361	-9.74 %
Yorkshire	+25	35	£349	+8.98 %
West Yorkshire	+22	30	£341	-
City of London	+9	22	£436	+0.65 %
Berkshire	+29	20	£318	-23.73 %
Leeds	+11	19	£341	-
South West	+17	18	£350	-
North West	+22	18	£440	-
North East	+20	17	£258	-44.02 %
Herefordshire	+6	17	£275	-
East of England	+8	15	£397	+12.14 %
Hampshire	+28	14	£375	-
Kent	+21	11	£405	-
Scotland	+15	11	£350	+42.13 %
Surrey	+22	10	£467	-
Midlands	+8	9	£460	-
M4 Corridor	-	7	-	-
Manchester	+3	7	£294	-
Reading	-8	7	£250	-39.94 %
Hertfordshire	+16	6	£500	+42.85 %
Glasgow	+23	6	£350	-
Coventry	+3	6	£365	-2.66 %
Birmingham	+14	5	-	-
Bristol	-	5	-	-
Dartford	-	5	£421	-
Tyne and Wear	+13	5	-	-
Merseyside	+3	4	£550	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 October 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited SharePoint Developer in their job title 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 with SharePoint Developer in their job title.

1 739 (100.00 %) SharePoint 2 479 (64.82 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 469 (63.46 %) .NET 4 387 (52.37 %) C# 5 306 (41.41 %) ASP.NET 6 236 (31.94 %) SQL Server 7 211 (28.55 %) Microsoft 8 106 (14.34 %) SQL 9 105 (14.21 %) XML 10 99 (13.40 %) SQL Server 2005 11 93 (12.58 %) Intranet 12 92 (12.45 %) CSS 13 91 (12.31 %) Windows SharePoint Services 14 89 (12.04 %) MS Excel 15 81 (10.96 %) JavaScript

16 73 (9.878 %) MS Office 16 73 (9.878 %) ASP.NET 2.0 17 72 (9.743 %) Workflow 18 68 (9.202 %) Finance 19 66 (8.931 %) InfoPath 20 65 (8.796 %) Web Development 21 56 (7.578 %) Visual Studio 21 56 (7.578 %) Windows 22 54 (7.307 %) HTML 23 53 (7.172 %) .NET Framework 24 51 (6.901 %) VB.NET 24 51 (6.901 %) XHTML 25 49 (6.631 %) Banking 26 44 (5.954 %) WebServices 27 43 (5.819 %) Agile Software Development

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 October 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited SharePoint Developer in their job title 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 with SharePoint Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 469 (63.46 %) .NET 2 306 (41.41 %) ASP.NET 3 105 (14.21 %) XML 4 92 (12.45 %) CSS 5 91 (12.31 %) Windows SharePoint Services 6 73 (9.878 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 54 (7.307 %) HTML 8 53 (7.172 %) .NET Framework 9 51 (6.901 %) XHTML 10 44 (5.954 %) WebServices 11 27 (3.654 %) XSLT 12 26 (3.518 %) AJAX 13 21 (2.842 %) ASP 14 13 (1.759 %) ADO.NET 15 11 (1.488 %) SOAP 16 10 (1.353 %) WF 17 8 (1.083 %) CAML 18 7 (0.947 %) Silverlight 19 6 (0.812 %) WinForms 19 6 (0.812 %) RSS	Application Platforms 1 739 (100.00 %) SharePoint 2 479 (64.82 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 26 (3.518 %) CMS 4 22 (2.977 %) BizTalk Server 5 21 (2.842 %) SharePoint Portal Server 6 18 (2.436 %) IIS 7 11 (1.488 %) Commerce Server 7 11 (1.488 %) Commerce Server 2007 8 8 (1.083 %) Content Management Server 9 5 (0.677 %) MS Exchange 10 3 (0.406 %) TeamSite 10 3 (0.406 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 3 (0.406 %) Office Project Server 11 2 (0.271 %) Exchange Server 5.5 11 2 (0.271 %) ColdFusion 12 1 (0.135 %) Lotus Notes 12 1 (0.135 %) Lotus Domino 12 1 (0.135 %) Apache 12 1 (0.135 %) Exchange Server 2007 12 1 (0.135 %) Sitecore CMS
Applications 1 89 (12.04 %) MS Excel 2 73 (9.878 %) MS Office 3 66 (8.931 %) InfoPath 4 3 (0.406 %) MS Visio 5 1 (0.135 %) MS PowerPoint 5 1 (0.135 %) Photoshop 5 1 (0.135 %) MS Project 5 1 (0.135 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 7 (0.947 %) Dynamics CRM 2 6 (0.812 %) Microsoft CRM 3 1 (0.135 %) Navision 3 1 (0.135 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 93 (12.58 %) Intranet 2 31 (4.195 %) Internet 3 22 (2.977 %) Extranet 4 4 (0.541 %) TCP/IP 4 4 (0.541 %) DNS 4 4 (0.541 %) DHCP 5 2 (0.271 %) LDAP 5 2 (0.271 %) SSL 5 2 (0.271 %) Firewall 6 1 (0.135 %) SAN 6 1 (0.135 %) Kerberos	Database & Business Intelligence 1 236 (31.94 %) SQL Server 2 99 (13.40 %) SQL Server 2005 3 17 (2.300 %) SQL Server 2000 4 12 (1.624 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 6 (0.812 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 4 (0.541 %) MySQL 7 3 (0.406 %) EDRMS 7 3 (0.406 %) SQL Server 2008 7 3 (0.406 %) PerformancePoint 8 2 (0.271 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 2 (0.271 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 9 1 (0.135 %) OLAP 9 1 (0.135 %) MS Access 9 1 (0.135 %) Data Mining 9 1 (0.135 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 56 (7.578 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (0.541 %) Flash 2 4 (0.541 %) MSI 2 4 (0.541 %) Subversion 3 3 (0.406 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 2 (0.271 %) FrontPage 5 1 (0.135 %) NUnit 5 1 (0.135 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 68 (9.202 %) Finance 2 49 (6.631 %) Banking 3 32 (4.330 %) Investment Banking 4 13 (1.759 %) Publishing 5 12 (1.624 %) Retail 6 11 (1.488 %) Education 7 10 (1.353 %) Government 7 10 (1.353 %) Health 7 10 (1.353 %) Insurance 8 4 (0.541 %) Financial Institution 8 4 (0.541 %) Marketing 9 3 (0.406 %) Auditing 9 3 (0.406 %) Graphic Design 9 3 (0.406 %) Front Office 10 2 (0.271 %) Back Office 11 1 (0.135 %) Automotive 11 1 (0.135 %) Legal 11 1 (0.135 %) Local Government 11 1 (0.135 %) Retail Banking 11 1 (0.135 %) Corporate Banking
Miscellaneous 1 25 (3.383 %) NHS 2 7 (0.947 %) W3C 2 7 (0.947 %) E-Learning 2 7 (0.947 %) Blog 3 6 (0.812 %) Wiki 4 5 (0.677 %) German Language 5 4 (0.541 %) Taxonomies 6 2 (0.271 %) Computer Science 6 2 (0.271 %) N-Tier 6 2 (0.271 %) SCORM 6 2 (0.271 %) VLE 6 2 (0.271 %) Tandem 6 2 (0.271 %) Web 2.0 7 1 (0.135 %) Thin Client 7 1 (0.135 %) Blackberry 7 1 (0.135 %) Management Information System 7 1 (0.135 %) Fat Client	Operating Systems 1 56 (7.578 %) Windows 2 16 (2.165 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (0.406 %) Windows Server 2008 4 1 (0.135 %) Linux 4 1 (0.135 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (0.135 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 72 (9.743 %) Workflow 2 65 (8.796 %) Web Development 3 43 (5.819 %) Agile Software Development 3 43 (5.819 %) Content Management 4 30 (4.060 %) Document Management 5 20 (2.706 %) E-Commerce 6 15 (2.030 %) CRM 6 15 (2.030 %) Migration 7 11 (1.488 %) Business Intelligence 7 11 (1.488 %) OO 7 11 (1.488 %) Security Cleared 8 10 (1.353 %) B2C 8 10 (1.353 %) Web Design 9 8 (1.083 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 8 (1.083 %) RAD 10 7 (0.947 %) GAP Analysis 10 7 (0.947 %) SC Cleared 11 6 (0.812 %) Project Management 11 6 (0.812 %) UML 11 6 (0.812 %) Knowledge Management	Programming Languages 1 387 (52.37 %) C# 2 106 (14.34 %) SQL 3 81 (10.96 %) JavaScript 4 51 (6.901 %) VB.NET 5 16 (2.165 %) C 6 8 (1.083 %) DHTML 6 8 (1.083 %) VB 7 5 (0.677 %) VBScript 8 4 (0.541 %) Transact-SQL 8 4 (0.541 %) VBA 8 4 (0.541 %) PL/SQL 9 3 (0.406 %) PHP 9 3 (0.406 %) Java 10 1 (0.135 %) C++
Qualifications 1 6 (0.812 %) MCSD 1 6 (0.812 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (0.406 %) MCTS 3 2 (0.271 %) Degree 4 1 (0.135 %) MCAD 4 1 (0.135 %) MCITP 4 1 (0.135 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.135 %) WCAG
System Software 1 29 (3.924 %) Active Directory 2 8 (1.083 %) ISA Server 3 3 (0.406 %) VMware ESX 3 3 (0.406 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 1 (0.135 %) NetBackup	Vendors 1 211 (28.55 %) Microsoft 2 7 (0.947 %) VMware 3 6 (0.812 %) Mercator 4 5 (0.677 %) Google 5 4 (0.541 %) Oracle 6 3 (0.406 %) Adobe 7 1 (0.135 %) Dell 7 1 (0.135 %) VERITAS 7 1 (0.135 %) Lotus 7 1 (0.135 %) JD Edwards 7 1 (0.135 %) Business Objects 7 1 (0.135 %) SAP 7 1 (0.135 %) IBM 7 1 (0.135 %) Dundas 7 1 (0.135 %) Sitecore 7 1 (0.135 %) Meridio