The first table below looks at the demand for Windows SharePoint Services skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows SharePoint Services over the 3 months to 24 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 Development category.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows SharePoint Services (WSS)
Rank 500 545 505
Rank change year-on-year
+45 -40
Contract jobs citing Windows SharePoint Services 29 39 79
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.063% 0.067% 0.129%
As % of the Application Development category 0.229% 0.263% 0.470%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 21 52
Average daily rate £420 £335 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.37% -16.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £400 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
+41.79% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12670 14829 16814
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.31% 25.43% 27.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7931 8681 9832
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 364 388 570
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

Windows SharePoint Services
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows SharePoint Services within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Windows SharePoint Services Jobs Demand Trend

Windows SharePoint Services
Daily Rate Trend

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

Windows SharePoint Services Daily Rate Trend

Windows SharePoint Services
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows SharePoint Services within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Windows SharePoint Services Daily Rate Histogram

Windows SharePoint Services
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Windows SharePoint Services Hourly Rate Trend

Windows SharePoint Services
Top 17 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 UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England +37 28 £420 +21.29%
South East +29 16 £488 -
Berkshire +24 11 - -
London +32 7 £200 -43.46%
Reading +18 6 - -
Kent - 4 £488 -
North West +16 3 - -
Cheshire +2 3 - -
Warrington - 3 - -
South West +13 1 £365 +2.09%
West Midlands - 1 - -
Thames Valley - 1 - -
Shropshire - 1 - -
Gloucestershire - 1 £365 -
Gloucester - 1 £365 -
Tonbridge - 1 £475 -
Telford - 1 - -

Windows SharePoint Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 55 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 51 (92.73%) Windows
3 42 (76.36%) SQL Server
4 41 (74.55%) .NET
5 39 (70.91%) C#
6 38 (69.09%) SQL
6 38 (69.09%) Microsoft
7 30 (54.55%) ASP.NET
8 28 (50.91%) SharePoint Server
9 27 (49.09%) SQL Server 2005
10 26 (47.27%) Visual Studio
11 25 (45.45%) MS Office
12 23 (41.82%) .NET Framework
13 19 (34.55%) XML
13 19 (34.55%) OLAP
13 19 (34.55%) Windows Server 2003
14 18 (32.73%) T-SQL
15 16 (29.09%) MS Excel
16 15 (27.27%) Web Services
16 15 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
16 15 (27.27%) SharePoint 2010
17 14 (25.45%) DTS
18 13 (23.64%) SQL Server 2008
18 13 (23.64%) Security Cleared
19 12 (21.82%) InfoPath
20 11 (20.00%) LDAP
20 11 (20.00%) IIS
21 10 (18.18%) HTML
21 10 (18.18%) WCF
22 9 (16.36%) SC Cleared

Windows SharePoint Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 41 (74.55%) .NET
2 30 (54.55%) ASP.NET
3 23 (41.82%) .NET Framework
4 19 (34.55%) XML
5 15 (27.27%) Web Services
6 10 (18.18%) HTML
6 10 (18.18%) WCF
7 7 (12.73%) CSS
8 5 (9.091%) MDX
8 5 (9.091%) WPF
9 3 (5.455%) Java EE
9 3 (5.455%) WebSphere
9 3 (5.455%) Hibernate
9 3 (5.455%) JDBC
9 3 (5.455%) JSP
9 3 (5.455%) Servlets
9 3 (5.455%) J2EE
9 3 (5.455%) JMS
9 3 (5.455%) ASP
9 3 (5.455%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 55 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 28 (50.91%) SharePoint Server
3 15 (27.27%) SharePoint 2010
4 11 (20.00%) IIS
5 7 (12.73%) SharePoint 2013
6 6 (10.91%) BizTalk Server
7 5 (9.091%) MS Project Server
8 4 (7.273%) CM System
9 3 (5.455%) SharePoint Foundation
9 3 (5.455%) JCAPS
10 2 (3.636%) CMS
11 1 (1.818%) ESB
11 1 (1.818%) WordPress
11 1 (1.818%) Joomla!
11 1 (1.818%) DotNetNuke
11 1 (1.818%) Lync
11 1 (1.818%) Kentico
11 1 (1.818%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (1.818%) Apache
11 1 (1.818%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (45.45%) MS Office
2 16 (29.09%) MS Excel
3 12 (21.82%) InfoPath
4 4 (7.273%) MS Project
5 3 (5.455%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.455%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 11 (20.00%) LDAP
2 3 (5.455%) SMTP
2 3 (5.455%) Intranet
3 2 (3.636%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.636%) HTTP
4 1 (1.818%) VLAN
4 1 (1.818%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.818%) Cisco PIX
4 1 (1.818%) Network Security
4 1 (1.818%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.818%) NAS
4 1 (1.818%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.818%) LAN
4 1 (1.818%) WAN
4 1 (1.818%) Internet
4 1 (1.818%) SAN
4 1 (1.818%) Firewall
4 1 (1.818%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (76.36%) SQL Server
2 27 (49.09%) SQL Server 2005
3 19 (34.55%) OLAP
4 14 (25.45%) DTS
5 13 (23.64%) SQL Server 2008
6 9 (16.36%) IDOL
7 8 (14.55%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (14.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (12.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (10.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (9.091%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 3 (5.455%) Oracle 8/8i
12 2 (3.636%) Oracle 9i
13 1 (1.818%) Pentaho
13 1 (1.818%) MySQL
13 1 (1.818%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 26 (47.27%) Visual Studio
2 4 (7.273%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 3 (5.455%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (5.455%) PVCS
3 3 (5.455%) NetBeans
4 2 (3.636%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (1.818%) CruiseControl
5 1 (1.818%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (1.818%) Talend Open Studio
5 1 (1.818%) MSBuild
5 1 (1.818%) ClearCase
5 1 (1.818%) ClearQuest
5 1 (1.818%) NUnit
General
1 5 (9.091%) Finance
2 2 (3.636%) Marketing
3 1 (1.818%) Investment Banking
3 1 (1.818%) Swedish Language
3 1 (1.818%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.818%) Publishing
3 1 (1.818%) Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (50.91%) Developer
2 17 (30.91%) SharePoint Developer
3 10 (18.18%) Architect
4 6 (10.91%) SharePoint Architect
5 5 (9.091%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 5 (9.091%) Software Engineer
5 5 (9.091%) Team Leader
6 4 (7.273%) SQL Developer
6 4 (7.273%) Consultant
6 4 (7.273%) Administrator
6 4 (7.273%) SharePoint Consultant
7 3 (5.455%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.455%) Software Architect
7 3 (5.455%) Development Team Leader
8 2 (3.636%) C# Developer
8 2 (3.636%) Applications Support Analyst
8 2 (3.636%) C# Software Engineer
8 2 (3.636%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.636%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (3.636%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Computer Science
2 5 (9.091%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.455%) NHS
3 3 (5.455%) Replication
3 3 (5.455%) Clustering
4 2 (3.636%) SWIFT
4 2 (3.636%) Data Extraction
5 1 (1.818%) Economics
5 1 (1.818%) Data Integration
5 1 (1.818%) Wiki
5 1 (1.818%) Open Source
5 1 (1.818%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 51 (92.73%) Windows
2 19 (34.55%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (10.91%) Linux
3 6 (10.91%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (3.636%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.818%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.818%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (14.55%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (12.73%) Web Development
3 7 (12.73%) Workflow
3 7 (12.73%) Scrum
4 6 (10.91%) Content Management
5 5 (9.091%) Document Management
5 5 (9.091%) Test Automation
5 5 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (7.273%) Unified Process
6 4 (7.273%) UML
6 4 (7.273%) OO
6 4 (7.273%) ETL
6 4 (7.273%) Capacity Management
6 4 (7.273%) Release Management
6 4 (7.273%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (5.455%) Asset Management
7 3 (5.455%) Data Management
7 3 (5.455%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (5.455%) Feature Driven Development
Programming Languages
1 39 (70.91%) C#
2 38 (69.09%) SQL
3 18 (32.73%) T-SQL
4 6 (10.91%) Java
5 4 (7.273%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.455%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.455%) VB.NET
7 2 (3.636%) PHP
7 2 (3.636%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.818%) VB
8 1 (1.818%) C++
8 1 (1.818%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (23.64%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.36%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (12.73%) MCSD
5 3 (5.455%) Degree
6 1 (1.818%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.818%) MCP
6 1 (1.818%) MCSE
6 1 (1.818%) CCNA
6 1 (1.818%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.455%) HL7
2 2 (3.636%) QA
System Software
1 6 (10.91%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.455%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.455%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.818%) UAG
3 1 (1.818%) vSphere
3 1 (1.818%) ISA Server
3 1 (1.818%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 3 (5.455%) Data Guard
2 2 (3.636%) SCOM
3 1 (1.818%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (1.818%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 38 (69.09%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.36%) Meridio
3 8 (14.55%) Oracle
4 4 (7.273%) VMware
4 4 (7.273%) IBM
5 3 (5.455%) SAP
6 2 (3.636%) Adobe
7 1 (1.818%) Google
7 1 (1.818%) LANDesk
7 1 (1.818%) Talend
7 1 (1.818%) Ektron
7 1 (1.818%) Sybase
7 1 (1.818%) HP
7 1 (1.818%) Cisco
7 1 (1.818%) McAfee
7 1 (1.818%) Veritas
7 1 (1.818%) 3Com
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