Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

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 9 February 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.

LinkMicrosoft SharePoint
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank636492
Rank change year-on-year
Up+1Up+28
Matching permanent IT job ads252230964466
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK3.203 %3.063 %2.210 %
As % of the Application Platforms category20.55 %19.45 %14.49 %
Salaries quoted212527153841
Average salary£42,500£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.250 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£60,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£37,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.660 %-
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryAll Application Platforms
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
122721591530824
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK15.59 %15.75 %15.25 %
Salaries quoted104441357525734
Average salary£40,000£38,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.260 %-5.000 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,500£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£60,000£62,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000

SharePoint
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 9 February 2010 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 9 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandNo change02296£41,500+3.75 %
LondonDown-6947£45,000-
South EastUp+2545£42,500+6.25 %
City of LondonUp+12286£47,500-
BerkshireUp+20217£45,000-10.00 %
YorkshireDown-3168£35,000-
East of EnglandUp+10166£35,000-2.09 %
West MidlandsUp+9142£35,000+4.47 %
South WestUp+16135£35,000+2.94 %
North WestUp+10122£32,000-8.57 %
SurreyDown-10103£42,500+13.33 %
West YorkshireUp+497£40,000+14.28 %
HertfordshireUp+2386£42,500+12.58 %
ScotlandUp+1386£35,000-6.66 %
HampshireUp+1780£37,000+5.71 %
East MidlandsDown-1774£32,500-
ManchesterUp+1372£30,000-14.28 %
BirminghamUp+1868£40,000+23.07 %
LeedsDown-665£40,000+6.66 %
CambridgeshireUp+1458£32,500-
ReadingUp+3855£45,000+5.88 %
OxfordshireDown-654£45,000-
South YorkshireNo change052£31,875-8.92 %
CambridgeUp+2449£32,500+10.16 %
GlasgowUp+641£34,000-35.23 %
BristolUp+2037£29,000-14.70 %
OxfordDown-331£45,000+1.69 %
BuckinghamshireDown-1131£40,500+1.25 %
NottinghamshireUp+2929£35,000+7.69 %
BracknellUp+429£31,250-50.00 %

SharePoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, 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.

12766 (58.70 %).NET
22241 (47.56 %)Microsoft
32011 (42.68 %)SQL Server
42008 (42.61 %)C#
51752 (37.18 %)ASP.NET
61564 (33.19 %)SharePoint Server 2007
71309 (27.78 %)SQL
81066 (22.62 %)Windows
9925 (19.63 %)MS Excel
10711 (15.09 %)SQL Server 2005
11707 (15.00 %)Finance
12681 (14.45 %)HTML
13639 (13.56 %)JavaScript
14638 (13.54 %)XML
15600 (12.73 %)Microsoft Certification
16597 (12.67 %)CRM
17543 (11.52 %)VB.NET
18517 (10.97 %)Active Directory
19511 (10.84 %)CSS
20475 (10.08 %)Web Services
21451 (9.571 %)MS Office
22444 (9.423 %)BizTalk Server
23440 (9.338 %)Windows Server 2003
24418 (8.871 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
25384 (8.149 %)Degree
26379 (8.043 %)MS Exchange
27373 (7.916 %)Oracle
28372 (7.895 %)Intranet
29358 (7.598 %)Dynamics CRM
30353 (7.492 %)Business Intelligence

SharePoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, 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
12766 (58.70 %).NET
21752 (37.18 %)ASP.NET
3681 (14.45 %)HTML
4638 (13.54 %)XML
5511 (10.84 %)CSS
6475 (10.08 %)Web Services
7340 (7.216 %).NET Framework
8287 (6.091 %)Windows SharePoint Services
8287 (6.091 %)AJAX
9256 (5.433 %)ASP
10243 (5.157 %)WCF
11209 (4.435 %)Silverlight
12197 (4.181 %)WPF
13172 (3.650 %)XHTML
14148 (3.141 %)WinForms
15141 (2.992 %)XSLT
16115 (2.441 %)WF
1794 (1.995 %)jQuery
1891 (1.931 %)MVC
1891 (1.931 %)ASP.NET 2.0
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11564 (33.19 %)SharePoint Server 2007
2444 (9.423 %)BizTalk Server
3379 (8.043 %)MS Exchange
4328 (6.961 %)IIS
5294 (6.239 %)CMS
6213 (4.520 %)Exchange Server 2003
7186 (3.947 %)Exchange Server 2007
8148 (3.141 %)SharePoint Portal Server
986 (1.825 %)EPiServer
1081 (1.719 %)Documentum
1081 (1.719 %)LiveLink
1162 (1.316 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1258 (1.231 %)Office Communications Server
1348 (1.019 %)Content Management Server
1442 (0.891 %)Commerce Server
1534 (0.722 %)Oracle Workflow
1631 (0.658 %)Apache
1631 (0.658 %)Lotus Notes
1728 (0.594 %)Alfresco
1826 (0.552 %)Immediacy CMS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1925 (19.63 %)MS Excel
2451 (9.571 %)MS Office
3224 (4.754 %)InfoPath
497 (2.059 %)MS Project
582 (1.740 %)MS Visio
678 (1.655 %)Photoshop
736 (0.764 %)Fireworks
736 (0.764 %)MS PowerPoint
811 (0.233 %)Paint Shop Pro
99 (0.191 %)Spreadsheet
99 (0.191 %)Acrobat
108 (0.170 %)CA Clarity
112 (0.042 %)Adobe Illustrator
121 (0.021 %)PrintSoft PReS
121 (0.021 %)DOC1
121 (0.021 %)SPSS
121 (0.021 %)InDesign
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1358 (7.598 %)Dynamics CRM
2251 (5.327 %)Microsoft CRM
3194 (4.117 %)Dynamics AX
4129 (2.738 %)Axapta
550 (1.061 %)Navision
647 (0.997 %)Dynamics NAV
726 (0.552 %)Dynamics GP
814 (0.297 %)Great Plains
910 (0.212 %)Line 50
109 (0.191 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
118 (0.170 %)WebTrends
118 (0.170 %)Pivotal CRM
126 (0.127 %)GoldMine
135 (0.106 %)Cerner Millennium
144 (0.085 %)Oracle EBS
153 (0.064 %)Google Analytics
153 (0.064 %)SalesLogix
153 (0.064 %)Applix TM1
153 (0.064 %)PeopleSoft HRMS
153 (0.064 %)Maximo
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1372 (7.895 %)Intranet
2246 (5.221 %)Internet
3151 (3.205 %)Firewall
4140 (2.971 %)DNS
5115 (2.441 %)SAN
6113 (2.398 %)TCP/IP
7110 (2.334 %)Extranet
889 (1.889 %)DHCP
889 (1.889 %)WAN
985 (1.804 %)LAN
1066 (1.401 %)VPN
1152 (1.104 %)VoIP
1223 (0.488 %)Wireless
1322 (0.467 %)Network Security
1416 (0.340 %)Kerberos
1416 (0.340 %)NAS
1515 (0.318 %)VLAN
1614 (0.297 %)SNMP
1713 (0.276 %)SSL
1812 (0.255 %)LDAP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12011 (42.68 %)SQL Server
2711 (15.09 %)SQL Server 2005
3418 (8.871 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
4324 (6.876 %)SQL Server Integration Services
5314 (6.664 %)SQL Server 2008
6261 (5.539 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
7215 (4.563 %)SQL Server 2000
8210 (4.457 %)Datawarehouse
9125 (2.653 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
10110 (2.334 %)BusinessObjects
11109 (2.313 %)PerformancePoint
1269 (1.464 %)ETL
1366 (1.401 %)Crystal Reports
1458 (1.231 %)MySQL
1557 (1.210 %)OLAP
1655 (1.167 %)Oracle 8/8i
1740 (0.849 %)MS Access
1839 (0.828 %)RDBMS
1927 (0.573 %)Oracle 10g
2026 (0.552 %)EDRMS
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1341 (7.237 %)Visual Studio
269 (1.464 %)Team Foundation Server
337 (0.785 %)NUnit
337 (0.785 %)VSS/SourceSafe
436 (0.764 %)Subversion
520 (0.424 %)Dreamweaver
617 (0.361 %)MorphX
711 (0.233 %)Oracle Forms
89 (0.191 %)WatiN
98 (0.170 %)JIRA
107 (0.149 %)ReSharper
107 (0.149 %)QuickTest Pro
107 (0.149 %)ClearQuest
115 (0.106 %)Oracle APEX
124 (0.085 %)ClearCase
133 (0.064 %)Zend Studio
133 (0.064 %)TestNG
142 (0.042 %)InterDev
142 (0.042 %)Eclipse
142 (0.042 %)FrontPage
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1707 (15.00 %)Finance
2167 (3.544 %)Pensions
3155 (3.289 %)Insurance
4136 (2.886 %)Health
5135 (2.865 %)Marketing
6129 (2.738 %)Banking
7113 (2.398 %)Publishing
8102 (2.165 %)Education
977 (1.634 %)Government
1069 (1.464 %)Manufacturing
1165 (1.379 %)Retail
1249 (1.040 %)Law
1342 (0.891 %)Telecoms
1435 (0.743 %)Legal
1533 (0.700 %)Billing
1629 (0.615 %)Games
1629 (0.615 %)Investment Banking
1727 (0.573 %)Back Office
1820 (0.424 %)Music
1919 (0.403 %)Advertising
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12051 (43.53 %)Developer
2760 (16.13 %).NET Developer
3691 (14.66 %)SharePoint Developer
4624 (13.24 %)Consultant
5552 (11.71 %)Analyst
6395 (8.383 %)Architect
7350 (7.428 %)C# Developer
8275 (5.836 %)ASP.NET Developer
9261 (5.539 %)Senior Developer
10246 (5.221 %)Web Developer
11227 (4.817 %)SharePoint Consultant
12195 (4.138 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
13184 (3.905 %)Administrator
14164 (3.480 %)SharePoint Architect
15144 (3.056 %)Support Analyst
16129 (2.738 %)Project Manager
17126 (2.674 %)Applications Developer
18114 (2.419 %)Team Leader
19112 (2.377 %)Senior .NET Developer
20109 (2.313 %)Business Analyst
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
197 (2.059 %)Computer Science
295 (2.016 %)Blackberry
356 (1.188 %)Clustering
443 (0.913 %)NHS
443 (0.913 %)Management Information System
537 (0.785 %)Social Network
633 (0.700 %)Replication
731 (0.658 %)Thin Client
731 (0.658 %)Tandem
731 (0.658 %)Fat Client
830 (0.637 %)Client/Server
927 (0.573 %)Taxonomies
927 (0.573 %)Open Source
1024 (0.509 %)N-Tier
1120 (0.424 %)W3C
1120 (0.424 %)Mathematics
1218 (0.382 %)AS400
1316 (0.340 %)French Language
1414 (0.297 %)German Language
1512 (0.255 %)Web 2.0
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11066 (22.62 %)Windows
2440 (9.338 %)Windows Server 2003
3204 (4.329 %)Windows Server 2008
4143 (3.035 %)Windows XP
5112 (2.377 %)Linux
682 (1.740 %)Windows Vista
773 (1.549 %)UNIX
850 (1.061 %)Windows 2000 Server
949 (1.040 %)Windows 2000
1035 (0.743 %)Windows 7
1131 (0.658 %)Red Hat Linux
1218 (0.382 %)Solaris
1311 (0.233 %)AIX
149 (0.191 %)OS/400
157 (0.149 %)Windows Mobile
157 (0.149 %)Mac OS X
166 (0.127 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
174 (0.085 %)Windows NT
183 (0.064 %)Ubuntu
192 (0.042 %)HPUX
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1597 (12.67 %)CRM
2353 (7.492 %)Business Intelligence
3298 (6.324 %)Workflow
4289 (6.133 %)OO
5258 (5.475 %)Project Management
6247 (5.242 %)Agile Software Development
7229 (4.860 %)Content Management
8221 (4.690 %)Web Development
9220 (4.669 %)ERP
10193 (4.096 %)ITIL
11156 (3.311 %)E-Commerce
12136 (2.886 %)Migration
13135 (2.865 %)PRINCE2
14132 (2.801 %)Scrum
15127 (2.695 %)Business Analysis
16126 (2.674 %)UML
17108 (2.292 %)Document Management
18100 (2.122 %)Requirements Analysis
1980 (1.698 %)SOA
2070 (1.486 %)Information Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12008 (42.61 %)C#
21309 (27.78 %)SQL
3639 (13.56 %)JavaScript
4543 (11.52 %)VB.NET
5259 (5.497 %)T-SQL
6227 (4.817 %)VB
7206 (4.372 %)Java
8124 (2.632 %)X++
9121 (2.568 %)C
10103 (2.186 %)PL/SQL
1194 (1.995 %)PHP
1288 (1.868 %)VBScript
1387 (1.846 %)C++
1470 (1.486 %)VBA
1545 (0.955 %)Perl
1638 (0.806 %)PowerShell
1735 (0.743 %)VB6
1829 (0.615 %)XPath
1927 (0.573 %)Ruby
2020 (0.424 %)Shell Script
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1600 (12.73 %)Microsoft Certification
2384 (8.149 %)Degree
3260 (5.518 %)MCSE
4185 (3.926 %)MCTS
5163 (3.459 %)Security Cleared
6153 (3.247 %)MCSD
7152 (3.226 %)MCP
892 (1.952 %)MCAD
987 (1.846 %)Cisco Certification
1080 (1.698 %)SC Cleared
1172 (1.528 %)MCITP
1264 (1.358 %)CCNA
1361 (1.295 %)MCSA
1436 (0.764 %)MCPD
1531 (0.658 %)ISEB
1531 (0.658 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1630 (0.637 %)ITIL Certification
1726 (0.552 %)MCDBA
1825 (0.531 %)DV Cleared
1921 (0.446 %)CCNP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1113 (2.398 %)QA
259 (1.252 %)SLA
34 (0.085 %)Dublin Core
43 (0.064 %)PCI DSS
43 (0.064 %)ISO27001
43 (0.064 %)ISO17799
51 (0.021 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
51 (0.021 %)BS15000
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1517 (10.97 %)Active Directory
2161 (3.417 %)VMware Infrastructure
360 (1.273 %)Hyper-V
459 (1.252 %)ISA Server
551 (1.082 %)Backup Exec
647 (0.997 %)VMware ESX
724 (0.509 %)XenServer
724 (0.509 %)Terminal Services
822 (0.467 %)Citrix Presentation Server
915 (0.318 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
915 (0.318 %)Terminal Server
915 (0.318 %)NetBackup
1013 (0.276 %)vSphere
1112 (0.255 %)XenApp
128 (0.170 %)MSMQ
135 (0.106 %)MetaFrame
135 (0.106 %)VMware Workstation
142 (0.042 %)XenDesktop
142 (0.042 %)Oracle RAC
151 (0.021 %)VMware Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
146 (0.976 %)SCOM
233 (0.700 %)SCCM
327 (0.573 %)MOM
413 (0.276 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
511 (0.233 %)WSUS
610 (0.212 %)Tivoli
79 (0.191 %)Norton AntiVirus
87 (0.149 %)MSI
96 (0.127 %)ARCserve
96 (0.127 %)OpenView Configuration Management
105 (0.106 %)McAfee ePO
113 (0.064 %)Nagios
122 (0.042 %)Sysprep
122 (0.042 %)HP Quality Center
131 (0.021 %)ServiceCenter
131 (0.021 %)EMC NetWorker
131 (0.021 %)CA Endevor
131 (0.021 %)Unicenter
131 (0.021 %)ZENworks
131 (0.021 %)BMC PATROL
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12241 (47.56 %)Microsoft
2373 (7.916 %)Oracle
3284 (6.027 %)VMware
4212 (4.499 %)Cisco
5180 (3.820 %)Citrix
6120 (2.547 %)Cognos
7110 (2.334 %)Business Objects
899 (2.101 %)HP
987 (1.846 %)SAP
1077 (1.634 %)ProClarity
1169 (1.464 %)IBM
1263 (1.337 %)Open Text
1357 (1.210 %)Adobe
1451 (1.082 %)NetApp
1544 (0.934 %)Google
1643 (0.913 %)EMC
1741 (0.870 %)Symantec
1839 (0.828 %)Lotus
1937 (0.785 %)Sage
2034 (0.722 %)Dell