The first table below looks at the demand for SharePoint skills in IT jobs advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SharePoint 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 Platforms category for the Suffolk region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SharePoint
Rank 32 18 41
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +23
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint 51 52 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 7.317% 9.336% 4.328%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.56% 36.62% 13.40%
Number of salaries quoted 44 40 27
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £35,000 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £55,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Application Platforms
Suffolk
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
192 142 209
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 27.55% 25.49% 32.30%
Number of salaries quoted 184 128 191
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +26.98%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £32,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £52,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -
SharePoint
East of England

SharePoint
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk SharePoint Jobs Demand Trend

SharePoint
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SharePoint across the Suffolk region.

Suffolk SharePoint Salary Trend

SharePoint
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SharePoint across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Suffolk SharePoint Salary Histogram

SharePoint
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint within the Suffolk region 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Ipswich -5 29 £40,000 -5.88%
Bury St Edmunds -6 17 £42,500 -5.55%
SharePoint
East of England

SharePoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SharePoint.

1 86 (86.87%) Microsoft
2 66 (66.67%) .NET
3 42 (42.42%) SharePoint 2010
4 35 (35.35%) C#
5 33 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 31 (31.31%) Agile Software Development
7 28 (28.28%) SQL Server
8 25 (25.25%) Windows
8 25 (25.25%) DNS
8 25 (25.25%) Degree
9 24 (24.24%) Active Directory
10 23 (23.23%) Firewall
11 22 (22.22%) SharePoint Server
11 22 (22.22%) MS Excel
11 22 (22.22%) IIS
12 21 (21.21%) ASP.NET
13 20 (20.20%) Computer Science
14 19 (19.19%) Wireshark
14 19 (19.19%) Load Balancing
14 19 (19.19%) BizTalk Server
15 17 (17.17%) SQL
16 15 (15.15%) Finance
17 13 (13.13%) Risk Management
17 13 (13.13%) Business Intelligence
18 12 (12.12%) HTML
18 12 (12.12%) JavaScript
18 12 (12.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 12 (12.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 11 (11.11%) UML
19 11 (11.11%) Web Services

SharePoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SharePoint. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 66 (66.67%) .NET
2 21 (21.21%) ASP.NET
3 12 (12.12%) HTML
4 11 (11.11%) Web Services
5 9 (9.091%) Silverlight
5 9 (9.091%) WCF
5 9 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC
6 8 (8.081%) WSH
6 8 (8.081%) CSS
6 8 (8.081%) jQuery
7 5 (5.051%) XML
8 3 (3.030%) .NET Framework
9 1 (1.010%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 1 (1.010%) NHibernate
9 1 (1.010%) WPF
9 1 (1.010%) LINQ
9 1 (1.010%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 42 (42.42%) SharePoint 2010
2 22 (22.22%) SharePoint Server
2 22 (22.22%) IIS
3 19 (19.19%) BizTalk Server
4 8 (8.081%) MS Exchange
5 4 (4.040%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (1.010%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (1.010%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (1.010%) MSMQ
Applications
1 22 (22.22%) MS Excel
2 8 (8.081%) PowerPivot
3 5 (5.051%) MS Project
4 2 (2.020%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 7 (7.071%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (6.061%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (3.030%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 25 (25.25%) DNS
2 23 (23.23%) Firewall
3 19 (19.19%) Wireshark
4 8 (8.081%) Kerberos
5 6 (6.061%) SAN
6 4 (4.040%) LAN
6 4 (4.040%) WAN
7 3 (3.030%) SMTP
7 3 (3.030%) TCP/IP
7 3 (3.030%) VPN
7 3 (3.030%) SSL
7 3 (3.030%) MPLS
7 3 (3.030%) VoIP
8 1 (1.010%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (1.010%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.010%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 28 (28.28%) SQL Server
3 12 (12.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 12 (12.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (10.10%) SQL Server 2008
5 8 (8.081%) SQL Server 2005
5 8 (8.081%) PerformancePoint
6 4 (4.040%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (3.030%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (2.020%) MorphX
General
1 15 (15.15%) Finance
2 4 (4.040%) Banking
3 2 (2.020%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 29 (29.29%) Developer
2 28 (28.28%) Consultant
3 25 (25.25%) SharePoint Consultant
4 20 (20.20%) Administrator
5 19 (19.19%) SharePoint Administrator
6 12 (12.12%) .NET Developer
7 11 (11.11%) SharePoint Developer
8 7 (7.071%) Architect
9 6 (6.061%) Analyst
10 5 (5.051%) Graduate
11 4 (4.040%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (4.040%) Functional Analyst
12 3 (3.030%) C# .NET Developer
12 3 (3.030%) Implementation Consultant
12 3 (3.030%) C# Developer
12 3 (3.030%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (3.030%) Systems Engineer
12 3 (3.030%) Applications Developer
12 3 (3.030%) Senior Developer
12 3 (3.030%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.20%) Computer Science
2 11 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.010%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.010%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 25 (25.25%) Windows
2 7 (7.071%) Windows 7
3 6 (6.061%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (6.061%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (1.010%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.31%) Agile Software Development
2 19 (19.19%) Load Balancing
3 13 (13.13%) Risk Management
3 13 (13.13%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (11.11%) UML
5 9 (9.091%) MVC
5 9 (9.091%) CRM
6 6 (6.061%) ERP
6 6 (6.061%) ITIL
6 6 (6.061%) Migration
6 6 (6.061%) Resource Management
7 5 (5.051%) Problem Management
8 4 (4.040%) OO
8 4 (4.040%) SOA
8 4 (4.040%) Test Scripting
8 4 (4.040%) Data Migration
8 4 (4.040%) Web Development
8 4 (4.040%) Systems Analysis
9 3 (3.030%) Technical Architecture
9 3 (3.030%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 35 (35.35%) C#
2 17 (17.17%) SQL
3 12 (12.12%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.040%) Java
5 3 (3.030%) X++
6 2 (2.020%) VB
7 1 (1.010%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.010%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (25.25%) Degree
2 9 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.030%) VCAP
3 3 (3.030%) CCA
3 3 (3.030%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.081%) QA
2 3 (3.030%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (24.24%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.040%) Terminal Services
3 3 (3.030%) XenApp
3 3 (3.030%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.020%) VMware ESX
5 1 (1.010%) vSphere
5 1 (1.010%) XenServer
5 1 (1.010%) XenDesktop
5 1 (1.010%) VMFS
5 1 (1.010%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 86 (86.87%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.071%) VMware
2 7 (7.071%) Citrix
3 6 (6.061%) Cisco
4 3 (3.030%) Infor
4 3 (3.030%) Epicor
4 3 (3.030%) JD Edwards
4 3 (3.030%) Oracle
4 3 (3.030%) SAP
5 2 (2.020%) NetApp
6 1 (1.010%) Progress