The first table below looks at the demand for SharePoint skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warrington region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SharePoint 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 Warrington 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
Rank 16 11 10
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -1
Contract jobs citing SharePoint 5 7 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 4.000% 7.143% 8.235%
As % of the Application Platforms category 27.78% 22.58% 23.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
Average daily rate £406 £455 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% +40.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £351 £455 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £461 £455 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £350 £340
% change year-on-year
-1.42% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £21.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year
-4.59% -3.33%
All Application Platforms
Warrington
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
18 31 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 14.40% 31.63% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 13
Average daily rate £475 £355 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.80% +5.18%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £12.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
SharePoint
Cheshire

SharePoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warrington 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 Warrington region.

Warrington 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 Warrington region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Warrington 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 Warrington region.

Warrington SharePoint Hourly Rate Trend

SharePoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
3 4 (66.67%) C#
3 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (50.00%) SQL
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle
4 3 (50.00%) SAP
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
4 3 (50.00%) Windows
5 2 (33.33%) RUP
5 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (33.33%) IBM
5 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
5 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
5 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
5 2 (33.33%) Java
5 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (33.33%) Workflow
5 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
5 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (33.33%) Feature Driven Development
5 2 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (33.33%) WCF
5 2 (33.33%) WPF
5 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (33.33%) Scrum
5 2 (33.33%) Maximo
5 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development

SharePoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (33.33%) Windows SharePoint Services
2 2 (33.33%) WebSphere
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 2 (33.33%) Java EE
2 2 (33.33%) WCF
2 2 (33.33%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
2 1 (16.67%) CMS
2 1 (16.67%) LiveLink
2 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 2 (33.33%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
1 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) RUP
1 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Workflow
1 2 (33.33%) Scrum
1 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 2 (33.33%) Data Management
1 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (33.33%) Feature Driven Development
1 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (16.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (16.67%) XenApp
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) SAP
3 2 (33.33%) IBM
4 1 (16.67%) EMC
4 1 (16.67%) Citrix
4 1 (16.67%) Hitachi
4 1 (16.67%) NetApp
4 1 (16.67%) VMware