Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for SharePoint skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SharePoint over the 3 months to 18 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the West Yorkshire region.

 Microsoft SharePoint
Location
3 months to
18 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank161136
Rank change year-on-year
Down-5Up+25
Matching contract IT job ads919662
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire8.675 %11.01 %3.397 %
As % of the Application Platforms category45.96 %47.06 %26.72 %
Daily rates quoted462316
Average daily rate£300£340£288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76 %+18.26 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£231£275£163
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£373£447£438
UK excluding London average daily rate£310£350£400
% change year-on-year
-11.42 %-12.50 %
Hourly rates quoted332
Average hourly rate£17.50£32.50£21.58
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.15 %+50.60 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£17.10£30.50£16.32
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£20.70£33.30£26.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.10£30.00£30.00
% change year-on-year
-23.00 %-
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryAll Application Platforms
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
198204232
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire18.88 %23.39 %12.71 %
Daily rates quoted883949
Average daily rate£300£340£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76 %+13.33 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£145£225£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£376£458£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£345£375
% change year-on-year
-5.790 %-8.000 %
Hourly rates quoted131428
Average hourly rate£17.00£17.50£12.67
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.850 %+38.17 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£9.00£8.50£12.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£24.00£32.70£17.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£22.50£20.00
% change year-on-year
-22.22 %+12.50 %
SharePoint YorkshireSharePoint
Yorkshire

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.

SharePoint
Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire SharePoint Demand Trend

SharePoint
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire SharePoint Daily Rate Trend

SharePoint
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SharePoint across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 18 March 2010.

West Yorkshire SharePoint Daily Rate Histogram

SharePoint
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire SharePoint Hourly Rate Trend

SharePoint
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 18 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
LeedsDown-161£322-11.47 %
BradfordUp+24£225-
HalifaxDown-182£350+7.69 %
SharePoint YorkshireSharePoint
Yorkshire

SharePoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

166 (50.77 %).NET
258 (44.62 %)ASP.NET
355 (42.31 %)SQL Server
453 (40.77 %)Microsoft
544 (33.85 %)NHS
639 (30.00 %)SharePoint Server 2007
735 (26.92 %)SQL Server 2005
735 (26.92 %)Windows
828 (21.54 %)C#
924 (18.46 %)SharePoint Portal Server
1023 (17.69 %)MS Office
1023 (17.69 %)Active Directory
1122 (16.92 %)CSS
1122 (16.92 %).NET Framework
1221 (16.15 %)Exchange Server 2007
1221 (16.15 %)SQL
1221 (16.15 %)MS Exchange
1320 (15.38 %)TCP/IP
1320 (15.38 %)Windows Server 2003
1320 (15.38 %)Health
1320 (15.38 %)VMware
1320 (15.38 %)VMware Infrastructure
1419 (14.62 %)Knowledge Management
1419 (14.62 %)HTML
1419 (14.62 %)Visual Studio
1419 (14.62 %)MS Excel
1518 (13.85 %)Windows XP
1616 (12.31 %)LAN
1616 (12.31 %)WAN
1616 (12.31 %)XML

SharePoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
166 (50.77 %).NET
258 (44.62 %)ASP.NET
322 (16.92 %)CSS
322 (16.92 %).NET Framework
419 (14.62 %)HTML
516 (12.31 %)XML
614 (10.77 %)XSLT
711 (8.462 %)Web Services
89 (6.923 %)Windows SharePoint Services
98 (6.154 %)WCF
107 (5.385 %)XHTML
107 (5.385 %)CAML
107 (5.385 %)AJAX
115 (3.846 %)RESTful
122 (1.538 %)ASP.NET 2.0
122 (1.538 %)XSL
131 (0.769 %)XSD
131 (0.769 %)Flash
131 (0.769 %)ASP
131 (0.769 %)NHibernate
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
139 (30.00 %)SharePoint Server 2007
224 (18.46 %)SharePoint Portal Server
321 (16.15 %)Exchange Server 2007
321 (16.15 %)MS Exchange
411 (8.462 %)IIS
54 (3.077 %)Lotus Notes
62 (1.538 %)Commerce Server 2007
62 (1.538 %)BizTalk Server
62 (1.538 %)Commerce Server
62 (1.538 %)CMS
71 (0.769 %)Content Management Server
71 (0.769 %)EPiServer
71 (0.769 %)Immediacy CMS
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
123 (17.69 %)MS Office
219 (14.62 %)MS Excel
312 (9.231 %)InfoPath
46 (4.615 %)MS Project
55 (3.846 %)MS Visio
62 (1.538 %)MS PowerPoint
71 (0.769 %)Photoshop
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
15 (3.846 %)Microsoft CRM
21 (0.769 %)Dynamics CRM
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
120 (15.38 %)TCP/IP
216 (12.31 %)LAN
216 (12.31 %)WAN
314 (10.77 %)DNS
412 (9.231 %)SAN
511 (8.462 %)NAS
610 (7.692 %)Firewall
72 (1.538 %)Internet
72 (1.538 %)Extranet
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
155 (42.31 %)SQL Server
235 (26.92 %)SQL Server 2005
33 (2.308 %)SQL Server 2008
42 (1.538 %)Oracle 8/8i
51 (0.769 %)SQL Server 2000
51 (0.769 %)PerformancePoint
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
119 (14.62 %)Visual Studio
26 (4.615 %)Team Foundation Server
31 (0.769 %)NUnit
31 (0.769 %)Dreamweaver
31 (0.769 %)Visual Studio Team System
31 (0.769 %)Subversion
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
120 (15.38 %)Health
27 (5.385 %)Government
36 (4.615 %)Finance
45 (3.846 %)Banking
54 (3.077 %)Publishing
62 (1.538 %)Retail
71 (0.769 %)Legal
71 (0.769 %)Construction
71 (0.769 %)Multimedia
71 (0.769 %)Retail Banking
71 (0.769 %)Animation
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
148 (36.92 %)Developer
229 (22.31 %)SharePoint Developer
315 (11.54 %)Analyst
413 (10.00 %)3rd Line Support
511 (8.462 %)Applications Engineer
511 (8.462 %)Server Support
610 (7.692 %)Project Manager
610 (7.692 %).NET Developer
78 (6.154 %)Desktop Support
87 (5.385 %)Administrator
87 (5.385 %)Business Analyst
87 (5.385 %)Architect
87 (5.385 %)Infrastructure Manager
96 (4.615 %)Database Manager
96 (4.615 %)Applications Manager
96 (4.615 %)PMO Analyst
105 (3.846 %)Technical Architect
105 (3.846 %)Consultant
105 (3.846 %)Applications Developer
105 (3.846 %)Technical Analyst
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
144 (33.85 %)NHS
214 (10.77 %)Client/Server
34 (3.077 %)PDA
41 (0.769 %)Data Protection Act
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
135 (26.92 %)Windows
220 (15.38 %)Windows Server 2003
318 (13.85 %)Windows XP
44 (3.077 %)Windows Mobile
52 (1.538 %)Windows 2000 Server
52 (1.538 %)Windows Server 2008
61 (0.769 %)NetWare
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
119 (14.62 %)Knowledge Management
215 (11.54 %)Project Management
312 (9.231 %)Agile Software Development
411 (8.462 %)Kanban
411 (8.462 %)PRINCE2
510 (7.692 %)ITIL
69 (6.923 %)CRM
69 (6.923 %)Web Accessibility
78 (6.154 %)Fault Management
87 (5.385 %)Release Management
96 (4.615 %)Web Design
105 (3.846 %)Stakeholder Management
105 (3.846 %)MVC
105 (3.846 %)UML
105 (3.846 %)Requirements Analysis
114 (3.077 %)Business Analysis
114 (3.077 %)Supplier Management
123 (2.308 %)Change Management
123 (2.308 %)Disaster Recovery
123 (2.308 %)Workflow
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
128 (21.54 %)C#
221 (16.15 %)SQL
311 (8.462 %)JavaScript
47 (5.385 %)VB.NET
55 (3.846 %)C
55 (3.846 %)T-SQL
61 (0.769 %)VB
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
15 (3.846 %)Degree
23 (2.308 %)Microsoft Certification
32 (1.538 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
32 (1.538 %)ISEB
41 (0.769 %)MCSE
41 (0.769 %)MCPD
41 (0.769 %)Security Cleared
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
12 (1.538 %)ISO9001
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
123 (17.69 %)Active Directory
220 (15.38 %)VMware Infrastructure
36 (4.615 %)ISA Server
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
110 (7.692 %)ZENworks
29 (6.923 %)OpenView
34 (3.077 %)OVSD
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
153 (40.77 %)Microsoft
220 (15.38 %)VMware
315 (11.54 %)NetApp
49 (6.923 %)HP
58 (6.154 %)Oracle
64 (3.077 %)Lotus
73 (2.308 %)Novell
82 (1.538 %)Remedy
91 (0.769 %)RedDot
91 (0.769 %)Adobe
91 (0.769 %)Ektron