The first table below looks at the demand for SharePoint Foundation skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SharePoint Foundation over the 3 months to 17 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation (WSS 4.0)
Rank 206 188 -
Rank change year-on-year
-18 -
Permanent jobs citing SharePoint Foundation 1 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.020% 0.022% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.103% 0.128% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £46,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year
+12.29% -25.20%
All Application Platforms
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
969 783 814
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 19.52% 17.39% 19.61%
Number of salaries quoted 833 677 740
Average salary £37,500 £37,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.35% -1.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £61,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
SharePoint Foundation
England

SharePoint Foundation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands SharePoint Foundation Jobs Demand Trend

SharePoint Foundation
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands SharePoint Foundation Salary Trend

SharePoint Foundation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing SharePoint Foundation 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 Foundation.

1 13 (100.00%) Windows
1 13 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 13 (100.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
1 13 (100.00%) InfoPath
2 12 (92.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 12 (92.31%) MSF
2 12 (92.31%) SharePoint 2010
2 12 (92.31%) MSBuild
2 12 (92.31%) SC Cleared
2 12 (92.31%) DV Cleared
2 12 (92.31%) Security Cleared
2 12 (92.31%) Visual Studio Team System
2 12 (92.31%) SQL Server 2008
2 12 (92.31%) .NET Framework
2 12 (92.31%) WCF
2 12 (92.31%) WPF
2 12 (92.31%) WF
2 12 (92.31%) Silverlight
2 12 (92.31%) Continuous Integration
2 12 (92.31%) Unified Process
2 12 (92.31%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (92.31%) NUnit
2 12 (92.31%) CruiseControl
2 12 (92.31%) Ajax
2 12 (92.31%) BizTalk Server
2 12 (92.31%) UML
2 12 (92.31%) OOA/OOD
2 12 (92.31%) OO
2 12 (92.31%) RUP

SharePoint Foundation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing SharePoint Foundation 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 Foundation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (100.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
2 12 (92.31%) .NET Framework
2 12 (92.31%) WCF
2 12 (92.31%) WPF
2 12 (92.31%) WF
2 12 (92.31%) Silverlight
2 12 (92.31%) HTML
2 12 (92.31%) .NET
2 12 (92.31%) ADO.NET
2 12 (92.31%) ASP.NET
2 12 (92.31%) CSS
2 12 (92.31%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 13 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 12 (92.31%) BizTalk Server
2 12 (92.31%) IIS
2 12 (92.31%) SharePoint 2010
3 9 (69.23%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 13 (100.00%) InfoPath
2 12 (92.31%) MS Office
3 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (92.31%) SQL Server
1 12 (92.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 12 (92.31%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (7.692%) PerformancePoint
Development Applications
1 12 (92.31%) Visual Studio
1 12 (92.31%) NUnit
1 12 (92.31%) CruiseControl
1 12 (92.31%) Visual Studio Team System
1 12 (92.31%) MSBuild
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
1 8 (61.54%) SharePoint Developer
2 4 (30.77%) SharePoint Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Architect
3 1 (7.692%) Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Consultant
3 1 (7.692%) SharePoint Consultant
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) UML
1 12 (92.31%) OOA/OOD
1 12 (92.31%) OO
1 12 (92.31%) RUP
1 12 (92.31%) Unified Process
1 12 (92.31%) Agile Software Development
1 12 (92.31%) Continuous Integration
1 12 (92.31%) MSF
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) C#
1 12 (92.31%) JavaScript
1 12 (92.31%) SQL
1 12 (92.31%) T-SQL
1 12 (92.31%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) SC Cleared
1 12 (92.31%) DV Cleared
1 12 (92.31%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft