The first part of the table below looks at the demand for SharePoint skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SharePoint over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 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.

Microsoft SharePoint
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank565761
Rank change year-on-year
Up+1Up+4
Matching permanent IT job ads510947043339
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK4.237 %3.836 %3.497 %
As % of the Application Platforms category20.76 %20.18 %20.23 %
Number of salaries quoted451841342782
Average salary£43,000£45,000£42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.44 %+5.88 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£29,500£28,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£70,000£67,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryAll Application Platforms
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
246122331416502
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK20.41 %19.01 %17.28 %
Number of salaries quoted213852008713741
Average salary£42,500£42,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+6.25 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£37,500£36,000
% change year-on-year
-+4.16 %

SharePoint
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SharePoint within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

SharePoint Demand Trend

SharePoint
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SharePoint within the UK.

SharePoint Salary Trend

SharePoint
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SharePoint over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

SharePoint Salary Histogram

SharePoint
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+44767£43,500-3.33 %
LondonUp+132354£50,000-
South EastUp+1860£42,500-3.40 %
City of LondonUp+20572£51,470+2.94 %
East of EnglandUp+17426£40,000-
SurreyUp+12350£45,000-5.26 %
North WestDown-19285£35,000-12.50 %
South WestUp+14221£35,250+15.57 %
West MidlandsDown-16204£38,000+1.33 %
YorkshireUp+1198£33,500-4.28 %
ScotlandUp+25188£37,500-6.25 %
BerkshireDown-17178£47,500+14.45 %
ManchesterDown-26138£35,000-22.22 %
CambridgeshireDown-4130£42,500+30.76 %
East MidlandsDown-26128£35,000-12.50 %
West YorkshireUp+19127£33,500-11.25 %
HertfordshireUp+23116£40,000-20.00 %
CambridgeDown-1109£43,500+33.84 %
ReadingDown-1106£50,000+21.95 %
LeedsUp+5100£33,500-16.25 %
HampshireDown-1793£37,500-9.09 %
CheshireUp+988£32,500-18.75 %
BuckinghamshireUp+2468£40,000+17.64 %
EdinburghUp+3964£34,500+6.15 %
BristolDown-564£35,250+13.70 %
BedfordshireUp+363£42,500-
BirminghamDown-2062£40,000-11.11 %
GloucestershireUp+2060£35,000+26.12 %
NottinghamshireDown-1156£32,500-23.52 %
NottinghamDown-1053£33,750-20.58 %

SharePoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

15542 (54.03 %).NET
25467 (53.30 %)Microsoft
34616 (45.00 %)SQL Server
44317 (42.09 %)C#
53328 (32.45 %)SQL
63010 (29.35 %)ASP.NET
72840 (27.69 %)Windows
82531 (24.68 %)SharePoint 2010
92481 (24.19 %)MS Excel
102051 (20.00 %)Finance
111752 (17.08 %)SharePoint Server
121709 (16.66 %)JavaScript
131553 (15.14 %)SQL Server 2008
141533 (14.95 %)Active Directory
151463 (14.26 %)HTML
161452 (14.16 %)CRM
171445 (14.09 %)CSS
181418 (13.82 %)XML
191226 (11.95 %)Visual Studio
201212 (11.82 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
211186 (11.56 %)Windows Server 2008
221174 (11.45 %)Degree
231171 (11.42 %)Web Services
241155 (11.26 %)MS Exchange
251124 (10.96 %)WCF
261108 (10.80 %)VMware
271104 (10.76 %)Dynamics CRM
281082 (10.55 %)SQL Server 2005
291044 (10.18 %)Business Intelligence
301020 (9.944 %)Microsoft Certification

SharePoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
15542 (54.03 %).NET
23010 (29.35 %)ASP.NET
31463 (14.26 %)HTML
41445 (14.09 %)CSS
51418 (13.82 %)XML
61171 (11.42 %)Web Services
71124 (10.96 %)WCF
8861 (8.394 %).NET Framework
9705 (6.873 %)jQuery
10698 (6.805 %)Ajax
11535 (5.216 %)Silverlight
12515 (5.021 %)WPF
13501 (4.884 %)XSLT
14394 (3.841 %)ASP.NET MVC
15384 (3.744 %)Windows SharePoint Services
16355 (3.461 %)ASP
17280 (2.730 %)NHibernate
18256 (2.496 %)XHTML
19248 (2.418 %)WF
20247 (2.408 %)LINQ
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12531 (24.68 %)SharePoint 2010
21752 (17.08 %)SharePoint Server
31155 (11.26 %)MS Exchange
4961 (9.369 %)IIS
5862 (8.404 %)BizTalk Server
6547 (5.333 %)Exchange Server 2010
7484 (4.719 %)Exchange Server 2007
8448 (4.368 %)CMS
9254 (2.476 %)Lync
10252 (2.457 %)Exchange Server 2003
11147 (1.433 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
12134 (1.306 %)Apache
13119 (1.160 %)Documentum
14118 (1.150 %)Office Communications Server
1596 (0.936 %)Lotus Notes
1689 (0.868 %)Drupal
1778 (0.760 %)Office Project Server
1875 (0.731 %)FileNet
1971 (0.692 %)LiveLink
2064 (0.624 %)Tomcat
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12481 (24.19 %)MS Excel
2996 (9.710 %)MS Office
3387 (3.773 %)MS Visio
4315 (3.071 %)InfoPath
5276 (2.691 %)MS Project
6175 (1.706 %)MS PowerPoint
7119 (1.160 %)Office 365
892 (0.897 %)Photoshop
974 (0.721 %)PowerPivot
1054 (0.526 %)Google Apps
1127 (0.263 %)Fireworks
1217 (0.166 %)DOC1
1313 (0.127 %)Adobe Illustrator
1313 (0.127 %)Acrobat
1412 (0.117 %)PrintSoft PReS
1412 (0.117 %)Spreadsheet
159 (0.088 %)Adobe Captivate
167 (0.068 %)SPSS
174 (0.039 %)Windchill
174 (0.039 %)InDesign
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11104 (10.76 %)Dynamics CRM
2347 (3.383 %)Dynamics AX
3101 (0.985 %)Dynamics NAV
464 (0.624 %)SAP ERP
543 (0.419 %)Google Analytics
631 (0.302 %)Pivotal CRM
730 (0.292 %)Agresso
827 (0.263 %)Dynamics GP
922 (0.214 %)Tridion
1013 (0.127 %)Maximo
1112 (0.117 %)Exstream
1112 (0.117 %)JDE OneWorld
1112 (0.117 %)Oracle ERP
1211 (0.107 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
1310 (0.097 %)Summit
1310 (0.097 %)SalesLogix
149 (0.088 %)JDE EnterpriseOne
149 (0.088 %)Oracle BPM
158 (0.078 %)Visualfiles
158 (0.078 %)SAP CRM
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1685 (6.678 %)Intranet
2551 (5.372 %)Internet
2551 (5.372 %)SAN
3507 (4.943 %)DNS
4468 (4.563 %)Firewall
5405 (3.949 %)TCP/IP
6364 (3.549 %)LAN
6364 (3.549 %)WAN
7301 (2.935 %)DHCP
8255 (2.486 %)VPN
9207 (2.018 %)Extranet
10130 (1.267 %)VoIP
11113 (1.102 %)NAS
12112 (1.092 %)VLAN
1394 (0.916 %)HTTP
1491 (0.887 %)Unified Communications
1562 (0.604 %)Wireless
1659 (0.575 %)MPLS
1757 (0.556 %)SSL
1853 (0.517 %)Network Security
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
14616 (45.00 %)SQL Server
21553 (15.14 %)SQL Server 2008
31212 (11.82 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
41082 (10.55 %)SQL Server 2005
5841 (8.199 %)SQL Server Integration Services
6531 (5.177 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
7469 (4.572 %)Data Warehouse
8247 (2.408 %)ETL
9193 (1.882 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
10178 (1.735 %)Crystal Reports
11174 (1.696 %)PerformancePoint
12166 (1.618 %)OLAP
13153 (1.492 %)RDBMS
14152 (1.482 %)SQL Server 2000
15139 (1.355 %)MySQL
1699 (0.965 %)Oracle 8/8i
1783 (0.809 %)QlikView
1881 (0.790 %)Data Mining
1979 (0.770 %)DTS
2078 (0.760 %)MS Access
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11226 (11.95 %)Visual Studio
2570 (5.557 %)Team Foundation Server
3236 (2.301 %)NUnit
4208 (2.028 %)Subversion
5110 (1.072 %)Rhino Mocks
688 (0.858 %)VSS/SourceSafe
761 (0.595 %)MSBuild
857 (0.556 %)JIRA
951 (0.497 %)Eclipse
1044 (0.429 %)Selenium
1142 (0.409 %)CruiseControl
1241 (0.400 %)Dreamweaver
1340 (0.390 %)Visual Studio Team System
1438 (0.370 %)JUnit
1537 (0.361 %)ClearCase
1537 (0.361 %)MSI
1537 (0.361 %)Bugzilla
1636 (0.351 %)Mercurial
1636 (0.351 %)Moq
1636 (0.351 %)GCC
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12051 (20.00 %)Finance
2405 (3.949 %)Banking
3329 (3.208 %)Marketing
4303 (2.954 %)Law
5296 (2.886 %)Advertising
6285 (2.779 %)Legal
7219 (2.135 %)Telecoms
8213 (2.077 %)Retail
9166 (1.618 %)Manufacturing
10133 (1.297 %)Investment Banking
1192 (0.897 %)Back Office
1285 (0.829 %)Financial Institution
1380 (0.780 %)Publishing
1477 (0.751 %)Pharmaceutical
1573 (0.712 %)Billing
1670 (0.682 %)Games
1757 (0.556 %)Front Office
1839 (0.380 %)Multimedia
1936 (0.351 %)Music
2034 (0.331 %)German Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
14331 (42.22 %)Developer
21450 (14.14 %)Analyst
31401 (13.66 %).NET Developer
41354 (13.20 %)SharePoint Developer
51253 (12.22 %)Consultant
6815 (7.946 %)Architect
7748 (7.293 %)C# Developer
8616 (6.006 %)C# .NET Developer
9479 (4.670 %)Senior Developer
9479 (4.670 %)Support Analyst
10465 (4.533 %)ASP.NET Developer
11463 (4.514 %)Administrator
12414 (4.036 %)SharePoint Consultant
13359 (3.500 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
14335 (3.266 %)Project Manager
15332 (3.237 %)Software Developer
16323 (3.149 %)Web Developer
17321 (3.130 %)Support Engineer
18277 (2.701 %)Solutions Architect
19263 (2.564 %)Team Leader
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1341 (3.325 %)Computer Science
2292 (2.847 %)N-Tier
3273 (2.662 %)Management Information System
4228 (2.223 %)Blackberry
5128 (1.248 %)iPhone
6127 (1.238 %)Clustering
789 (0.868 %)Client/Server
789 (0.868 %)SaaS
881 (0.790 %)Taxonomies
975 (0.731 %)Replication
1070 (0.682 %)Data Integration
1168 (0.663 %)Open Source
1266 (0.643 %)Mathematics
1266 (0.643 %)Web 2.0
1364 (0.624 %)Digital Media
1463 (0.614 %)Social Media
1558 (0.565 %)Wiki
1655 (0.536 %)RIA
1754 (0.526 %)Visualisation
1853 (0.517 %)Cloud Computing
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12840 (27.69 %)Windows
21186 (11.56 %)Windows Server 2008
3948 (9.242 %)Windows Server 2003
4456 (4.446 %)Linux
5446 (4.348 %)Windows 7
6375 (3.656 %)Windows XP
7213 (2.077 %)UNIX
8105 (1.024 %)Windows Vista
983 (0.809 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1082 (0.799 %)Windows 2000 Server
1181 (0.790 %)Android
1272 (0.702 %)AIX
1359 (0.575 %)Solaris
1458 (0.565 %)Windows 2000
1519 (0.185 %)webOS
1615 (0.146 %)Apple iOS
1615 (0.146 %)Debian
1714 (0.136 %)Windows NT
1813 (0.127 %)CentOS
1912 (0.117 %)VMS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11452 (14.16 %)CRM
21044 (10.18 %)Business Intelligence
3937 (9.135 %)Project Management
4758 (7.390 %)ITIL
5711 (6.932 %)Agile Software Development
6650 (6.337 %)Content Management
7629 (6.132 %)Scrum
8622 (6.064 %)MVC
9611 (5.957 %)ERP
10598 (5.830 %)Workflow
11556 (5.421 %)PRINCE2
12532 (5.187 %)TDD
13509 (4.962 %)Web Development
14460 (4.485 %)OO
15386 (3.763 %)Document Management
16383 (3.734 %)Migration
17305 (2.974 %)Web Application Development
18299 (2.915 %)Service Delivery
19293 (2.857 %)Disaster Recovery
20292 (2.847 %)Change Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
14317 (42.09 %)C#
23328 (32.45 %)SQL
31709 (16.66 %)JavaScript
4862 (8.404 %)VB.NET
5795 (7.751 %)T-SQL
6612 (5.967 %)Java
7393 (3.832 %)VB
8317 (3.091 %)PowerShell
9228 (2.223 %)PHP
10220 (2.145 %)VBA
11184 (1.794 %)X++
12181 (1.765 %)C++
13177 (1.726 %)VBScript
14161 (1.570 %)C
15159 (1.550 %)Perl
16102 (0.994 %)PL/SQL
1784 (0.819 %)VB6
1852 (0.507 %)Python
1945 (0.439 %)XPath
2044 (0.429 %)ActionScript
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11174 (11.45 %)Degree
21020 (9.944 %)Microsoft Certification
3405 (3.949 %)MCTS
4397 (3.871 %)MCP
5384 (3.744 %)MCSE
6308 (3.003 %)MCITP
7263 (2.564 %)Security Cleared
8241 (2.350 %)MCSD
9211 (2.057 %)Cisco Certification
10199 (1.940 %)SC Cleared
11187 (1.823 %)MCAD
12171 (1.667 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13153 (1.492 %)CCNA
14122 (1.189 %)MCSA
15102 (0.994 %)ISEB
1692 (0.897 %)ITIL Certification
1779 (0.770 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1869 (0.673 %)MCPD
1962 (0.604 %)PMI Certification
2060 (0.585 %)Citrix Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1228 (2.223 %)SLA
2227 (2.213 %)QA
364 (0.624 %)ISO 9001
444 (0.429 %)WAI
526 (0.253 %)ISO/IEC 27001
623 (0.224 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
715 (0.146 %)PCI DSS
812 (0.117 %)COBIT
96 (0.058 %)Data Quality
105 (0.049 %)ISO 14001
114 (0.039 %)WCAG
123 (0.029 %)Dublin Core
132 (0.019 %)HL7
132 (0.019 %)TickIT
141 (0.010 %)Solvency II
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11533 (14.95 %)Active Directory
2695 (6.776 %)VMware Infrastructure
3357 (3.481 %)Hyper-V
4266 (2.593 %)vSphere
5226 (2.203 %)VMware ESX
6149 (1.453 %)XenApp
7109 (1.063 %)Terminal Services
888 (0.858 %)ISA Server
973 (0.712 %)XenDesktop
1063 (0.614 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1162 (0.604 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1259 (0.575 %)UAG
1353 (0.517 %)VMware ESXi
1441 (0.400 %)Xen
1538 (0.370 %)XenServer
1633 (0.322 %)NFS
1731 (0.302 %)VMware Workstation
1828 (0.273 %)MetaFrame
1920 (0.195 %)Terminal Server
2011 (0.107 %)WebMarshal
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1220 (2.145 %)SCCM
2191 (1.862 %)SCOM
3152 (1.482 %)Backup Exec
449 (0.478 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
540 (0.390 %)WSUS
639 (0.380 %)NetBackup
729 (0.283 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
729 (0.283 %)MOM
828 (0.273 %)Tivoli
927 (0.263 %)Norton AntiVirus
1025 (0.244 %)HP Quality Center
1121 (0.205 %)Legato
1218 (0.175 %)Tivoli Identity Manager
1315 (0.146 %)Nagios
1315 (0.146 %)Opalis
1315 (0.146 %)SolarWinds Orion
1315 (0.146 %)Windows Intune
1414 (0.136 %)SCVMM
1513 (0.127 %)vCenter
1612 (0.117 %)MIMEsweeper
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
15467 (53.30 %)Microsoft
21108 (10.80 %)VMware
3802 (7.819 %)Oracle
4698 (6.805 %)Citrix
5597 (5.820 %)Cisco
6370 (3.607 %)SAP
7323 (3.149 %)HP
8176 (1.716 %)IBM
9163 (1.589 %)Business Objects
10145 (1.414 %)Google
11134 (1.306 %)EMC
12113 (1.102 %)Symantec
13110 (1.072 %)Lotus
14105 (1.024 %)Red Hat
1599 (0.965 %)Dell
1695 (0.926 %)Sitecore
1794 (0.916 %)NetApp
1887 (0.848 %)CheckPoint
1982 (0.799 %)Open Text
2077 (0.751 %)Salesforce.com