West Yorkshire SharePoint Server 2007 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) skills within the West Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SharePoint Server 2007 over the last 3 months to 21 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Ascot Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Coventry Derbyshire Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Halifax Hampshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surbiton Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 21 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	68	90
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching contract IT job ads	23	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	8.127 %	1.379 %
Daily rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum daily rate	£398	£250
Average daily rate	£406	£250
% change on same period last year	+62.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£415	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£439	£360
% change on same period last year	+22.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£48.83	£17.50
% change on same period last year	+179.04 %
Application Platforms West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	283	290
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.367 %	0.320 %
Daily rates quoted	49	44
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£278
Average daily rate	£322	£294
% change on same period last year	+9.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£311
UK excluding London average daily rate	£362	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	45	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.01	£15.98
Average hourly rate	£18.18	£16.93
% change on same period last year	+7.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.34	£17.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.43	£22.95
% change on same period last year	-2.27 %
SharePoint Server 2007 Yorkshire

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 Server 2007
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing SharePoint Server 2007 across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

SharePoint Server 2007
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing SharePoint Server 2007 across the West Yorkshire region.

SharePoint Server 2007
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SharePoint Server 2007 across the West Yorkshire region over the past 3 months.

SharePoint Server 2007
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing SharePoint Server 2007 across the West Yorkshire region.

SharePoint Server 2007
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint Server 2007 within the West Yorkshire region over the past 3 months.

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
Leeds	+8	11	£420	-
Halifax	-	2	-	-

SharePoint Server 2007 Yorkshire

SharePoint Server 2007
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing SharePoint Server 2007 also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing SharePoint Server 2007.

1 26 (92.86 %) SharePoint 2 19 (67.86 %) .NET 3 17 (60.71 %) SQL Server 4 16 (57.14 %) C# 5 12 (42.86 %) ASP.NET 6 10 (35.71 %) Microsoft 6 10 (35.71 %) SQL Server 7 7 7 (25.00 %) Windows 8 6 (21.43 %) SQL 9 5 (17.86 %) MS Office 10 4 (14.29 %) IIS 10 4 (14.29 %) DNS 10 4 (14.29 %) VB.NET 10 4 (14.29 %) Internet 10 4 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005

11 3 (10.71 %) Firewall 11 3 (10.71 %) Windows Server 2003 11 3 (10.71 %) XHTML 11 3 (10.71 %) HTML 11 3 (10.71 %) Visual Studio 11 3 (10.71 %) Windows SharePoint Services 12 2 (7.143 %) InfoPath 12 2 (7.143 %) Graphic Design 12 2 (7.143 %) XML 12 2 (7.143 %) VBScript 12 2 (7.143 %) MS Excel 12 2 (7.143 %) OO 12 2 (7.143 %) Microsoft Certification 12 2 (7.143 %) Finance 12 2 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2000

SharePoint Server 2007
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing SharePoint Server 2007 also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing SharePoint Server 2007. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 19 (67.86 %) .NET 2 12 (42.86 %) ASP.NET 3 3 (10.71 %) HTML 3 3 (10.71 %) XHTML 3 3 (10.71 %) Windows SharePoint Services 4 2 (7.143 %) XML 5 1 (3.571 %) SVG 5 1 (3.571 %) CSS 5 1 (3.571 %) SOAP 5 1 (3.571 %) Silverlight	Application Platforms 1 26 (92.86 %) SharePoint 2 4 (14.29 %) IIS 3 1 (3.571 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (3.571 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (3.571 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (3.571 %) SharePoint Portal Server 3 1 (3.571 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 5 (17.86 %) MS Office 2 2 (7.143 %) MS Excel 2 2 (7.143 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 4 (14.29 %) DNS 1 4 (14.29 %) Internet 2 3 (10.71 %) Firewall 3 1 (3.571 %) WAN 3 1 (3.571 %) DHCP 3 1 (3.571 %) WINS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (60.71 %) SQL Server 2 10 (35.71 %) SQL Server 7 3 4 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 3 (10.71 %) Visual Studio
General 1 2 (7.143 %) Finance 1 2 (7.143 %) Graphic Design 2 1 (3.571 %) Government 2 1 (3.571 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 15 (53.57 %) Developer 2 7 (25.00 %) SharePoint Developer 3 6 (21.43 %) Consultant 4 5 (17.86 %) Systems Engineer 5 4 (14.29 %) .NET Developer 5 4 (14.29 %) SharePoint Consultant 5 4 (14.29 %) Web Developer 6 3 (10.71 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 2 (7.143 %) Infrastructure Engineer 7 2 (7.143 %) Senior Infrastructure Engineer 7 2 (7.143 %) Senior Systems Engineer 7 2 (7.143 %) Microsoft Consultant 8 1 (3.571 %) .NET Programmer 8 1 (3.571 %) SharePoint Administrator 8 1 (3.571 %) Senior Sharepoint Developer 8 1 (3.571 %) 3rd Line Support 8 1 (3.571 %) Administrator 8 1 (3.571 %) Analyst 8 1 (3.571 %) Senior Developer 8 1 (3.571 %) Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.571 %) W3C 1 1 (3.571 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 7 (25.00 %) Windows 2 3 (10.71 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (3.571 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (3.571 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (7.143 %) OO 2 1 (3.571 %) Service Delivery 2 1 (3.571 %) Requirements Analysis 2 1 (3.571 %) OOP	Programming Languages 1 16 (57.14 %) C# 2 6 (21.43 %) SQL 3 4 (14.29 %) VB.NET 4 2 (7.143 %) VBScript 5 1 (3.571 %) JavaScript 5 1 (3.571 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 2 (7.143 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (3.571 %) Degree 2 1 (3.571 %) MCAD 2 1 (3.571 %) MCSD 2 1 (3.571 %) MCSE	System Software 1 1 (3.571 %) Active Directory 1 1 (3.571 %) Novell eDirectory
Vendors 1 10 (35.71 %) Microsoft 2 1 (3.571 %) Adobe