SharePoint Contracts in London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for SharePoint skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SharePoint over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Microsoft SharePoint England / London
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	115	84	60
Rank change year-on-year	-31	-24
Contract jobs citing SharePoint	470	586	788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	2.26%	2.74%	3.38%
As % of the Application Platforms category	13.28%	14.73%	18.08%
Number of daily rates quoted	323	420	511
Median daily rate	£425	£400	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.25%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£273	£230	£230
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£525	£550	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£350	£350	£338
% change year-on-year	-	+3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted	12	15	28
Median hourly rate	£23.00	£19.00	£17.33
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+21.05%	+9.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£14.75	£12.50	£11.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.25	£34.07	£37.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£25.00	£20.50	£21.50
% change year-on-year	+21.95%	-4.65%

SharePoint is in the application platform skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract Application Platform Skills London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills	3538	3979	4359
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	17.04%	18.61%	18.67%
Number of daily rates quoted	2484	2873	2915
Median daily rate	£475	£450	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.55%	+12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£295	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£390	£350
% change year-on-year	+2.56%	+11.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted	37	43	100
Median hourly rate	£22.00	£17.50	£19.75
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+25.71%	-11.39%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.45	£12.50	£12.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.25	£34.54	£37.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£26.25	£25.00	£21.00
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	+19.04%

SharePoint
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London citing SharePoint as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Application Platforms category.

Job vacancy trend for SharePoint in London

SharePoint
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing SharePoint in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for SharePoint in London

SharePoint
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing SharePoint in London over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for SharePoint in London

SharePoint
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint in London.

Contractor hourly rate trend for SharePoint in London

SharePoint
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in London

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing SharePoint in London over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for SharePoint in London

SharePoint
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint within the London region over the 3 months to 26 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	-20	74	£413	+3.12%	21
Canary Wharf	+3	10	£588	+32.39%
Uxbridge	+2	7	£425	-
West Drayton	-	4	£125	-	1
Teddington	-	2	-	-
West End of London	+7	1	£466	+29.30%	1
Harrow	+7	1	£425	+93.18%
Bromley	+5	1	-	-
Wimbledon	+2	1	£360	-10.00%
Croydon	-	1	£325	-
Barnet	-	1	£200	-
Brentford	-	1	£365	-
Morden	-	1	-	-
Twickenham	-	1	£363	-	1
Hammersmith	-	1	£450	-
SharePoint England

SharePoint
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing SharePoint also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region with a requirement for SharePoint.

1	396 (37.64%)	Microsoft
2	315 (29.94%)	Office 365
3	250 (23.76%)	Windows
4	231 (21.96%)	SQL Server
5	227 (21.58%)	Finance
6	203 (19.30%)	SQL
7	198 (18.82%)	Agile Software Development
8	182 (17.30%)	SharePoint 2013
9	178 (16.92%)	Microsoft Office
10	167 (15.87%)	Microsoft Azure
11	166 (15.78%)	Active Directory
12	161 (15.30%)	Migration
13	160 (15.21%)	.NET
14	152 (14.45%)	HTML
14	152 (14.45%)	JavaScript

15	143 (13.59%)	Project Management
16	131 (12.45%)	Microsoft Excel
17	128 (12.17%)	C#
18	125 (11.88%)	CRM
19	122 (11.60%)	CSS
20	120 (11.41%)	Stakeholder Management
20	120 (11.41%)	PowerShell
21	116 (11.03%)	Business Intelligence
22	111 (10.55%)	Skype for Business
23	99 (9.41%)	ITIL
24	97 (9.22%)	Security Cleared
25	95 (9.03%)	Dynamics CRM
26	85 (8.08%)	JIRA
26	85 (8.08%)	Intranet
27	83 (7.89%)	jQuery

SharePoint
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	182 (17.30%)	SharePoint 2013
2	111 (10.55%)	Skype for Business
3	83 (7.89%)	SharePoint 2010
4	51 (4.85%)	IIS
5	48 (4.56%)	MS Exchange
6	41 (3.90%)	BizTalk Server
7	32 (3.04%)	CMS
8	24 (2.28%)	Exchange Server 2013
9	16 (1.52%)	Exchange Server 2010
10	15 (1.43%)	Confluence
11	14 (1.33%)	Exchange Server 2007
12	11 (1.05%)	MS Project Server
13	7 (0.67%)	Drupal
13	7 (0.67%)	Magnolia
13	7 (0.67%)	SharePoint Server
14	6 (0.57%)	SAS
14	6 (0.57%)	WebSphere
14	6 (0.57%)	WebSphere Application Server
15	5 (0.48%)	Exchange Server 2003
15	5 (0.48%)	Office Communications Server

Applications
1	178 (16.92%)	Microsoft Office
2	131 (12.45%)	Microsoft Excel
3	74 (7.03%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	58 (5.51%)	MS Visio
5	50 (4.75%)	Microsoft Project
6	7 (0.67%)	InfoPath
7	5 (0.48%)	Photoshop
8	4 (0.38%)	Adobe Creative Suite
8	4 (0.38%)	Spreadsheet
9	3 (0.29%)	Stata
10	2 (0.19%)	Adobe Illustrator
10	2 (0.19%)	Adobe Premiere
11	1 (0.095%)	Camtasia
11	1 (0.095%)	Fireworks
11	1 (0.095%)	InDesign
11	1 (0.095%)	InVision

Business Applications
1	95 (9.03%)	Dynamics CRM
2	31 (2.95%)	Dynamics AX
3	10 (0.95%)	Unit4 Business World
4	6 (0.57%)	Salesforce.com CRM
5	5 (0.48%)	Remedy ITSM
6	3 (0.29%)	Dynamics NAV
7	2 (0.19%)	NetSuite
7	2 (0.19%)	SAP Oil and Gas
7	2 (0.19%)	WebTrends
8	1 (0.095%)	IntelliMatch
8	1 (0.095%)	Magento
8	1 (0.095%)	Oracle ASCP
8	1 (0.095%)	Oracle EBS
8	1 (0.095%)	Oracle iProcurement
8	1 (0.095%)	Oracle Manufacturing
8	1 (0.095%)	Oracle SCM
8	1 (0.095%)	Remedy AR System
8	1 (0.095%)	ResourceLink

Cloud Services
1	315 (29.94%)	Office 365
2	167 (15.87%)	Microsoft Azure
3	68 (6.46%)	OneDrive
4	47 (4.47%)	Yammer
5	35 (3.33%)	IaaS
6	24 (2.28%)	PaaS
7	23 (2.19%)	Azure Active Directory
8	21 (2.00%)	SaaS
9	16 (1.52%)	Amazon AWS
10	4 (0.38%)	Cloud Computing
11	3 (0.29%)	Amazon EC2
11	3 (0.29%)	AWS CloudFormation
11	3 (0.29%)	Dynamics 365
12	2 (0.19%)	Amazon EMR
12	2 (0.19%)	AWS OpsWorks
12	2 (0.19%)	Google Play
12	2 (0.19%)	MailChimp
12	2 (0.19%)	Slack
12	2 (0.19%)	SurveyMonkey
12	2 (0.19%)	Trello

Communications & Networking
1	85 (8.08%)	Intranet
2	80 (7.60%)	Skype
3	40 (3.80%)	DNS
4	39 (3.71%)	WAN
5	33 (3.14%)	Firewall
5	33 (3.14%)	LAN
6	31 (2.95%)	DHCP
7	25 (2.38%)	Internet
8	23 (2.19%)	VPN
9	20 (1.90%)	SAN
10	18 (1.71%)	Extranet
11	17 (1.62%)	HTTP
12	16 (1.52%)	TCP/IP
13	12 (1.14%)	VoIP
14	11 (1.05%)	MPLS
14	11 (1.05%)	Network Security
14	11 (1.05%)	SSL
15	10 (0.95%)	LDAP
16	8 (0.76%)	Unified Communications
16	8 (0.76%)	WebEx

Database & Business Intelligence
1	231 (21.96%)	SQL Server
2	75 (7.13%)	SQL Server Integration Services
3	66 (6.27%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
4	50 (4.75%)	SQL Server 2008
5	39 (3.71%)	SQL Server 2012
6	32 (3.04%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
7	30 (2.85%)	Relational Database
8	28 (2.66%)	Data Warehouse
9	27 (2.57%)	Power BI
10	22 (2.09%)	EDRMS
11	11 (1.05%)	MySQL
11	11 (1.05%)	Oracle Reports
12	10 (0.95%)	BusinessObjects
12	10 (0.95%)	SQL Server 2014
13	9 (0.86%)	QlikView
14	8 (0.76%)	Microsoft Analysis Services
14	8 (0.76%)	OLAP
15	7 (0.67%)	SQL Server 2005
16	6 (0.57%)	MS Access
16	6 (0.57%)	ObjectStore

Development Applications
1	85 (8.08%)	JIRA
2	65 (6.18%)	Team Foundation Server
3	53 (5.04%)	Visual Studio
4	26 (2.47%)	Git (software)
5	12 (1.14%)	Jenkins
6	11 (1.05%)	NUnit
7	8 (0.76%)	MSTest
7	8 (0.76%)	Octopus Deploy
8	7 (0.67%)	Atlassian Bamboo
8	7 (0.67%)	Axure RP
9	6 (0.57%)	Vagrant
10	5 (0.48%)	Balsamiq Mockups
10	5 (0.48%)	Bitbucket
10	5 (0.48%)	Hudson
11	4 (0.38%)	Cucumber
11	4 (0.38%)	Eclipse
11	4 (0.38%)	TeamCity
11	4 (0.38%)	VSS/SourceSafe
12	3 (0.29%)	Subversion
12	3 (0.29%)	Toad

General
1	227 (21.58%)	Finance
2	78 (7.41%)	Banking
3	65 (6.18%)	Legal
4	55 (5.23%)	Retail
5	32 (3.04%)	Advertising
6	23 (2.19%)	Marketing
7	17 (1.62%)	Investment Banking
7	17 (1.62%)	Telecoms
8	13 (1.24%)	Financial Institution
9	11 (1.05%)	Law
9	11 (1.05%)	Publishing
10	8 (0.76%)	Back Office
11	7 (0.67%)	French Language
11	7 (0.67%)	Local Government
11	7 (0.67%)	Manufacturing
12	5 (0.48%)	Pharmaceutical
12	5 (0.48%)	Retail Banking
13	3 (0.29%)	International Banking
14	2 (0.19%)	Corporate Banking
14	2 (0.19%)	Private Banking

Job Titles
1	267 (25.38%)	Developer
2	167 (15.87%)	Analyst
3	157 (14.92%)	SharePoint Developer
4	109 (10.36%)	Architect
5	82 (7.79%)	Consultant
6	78 (7.41%)	Project Manager
7	61 (5.80%)	Business Analyst
8	51 (4.85%)	Solutions Architect
9	44 (4.18%)	Administrator
10	31 (2.95%)	SharePoint Architect
10	31 (2.95%)	SharePoint Consultant
11	29 (2.76%)	.NET Developer
11	29 (2.76%)	SharePoint Project Manager
12	26 (2.47%)	Microsoft Developer
12	26 (2.47%)	Office 365 Architect
13	23 (2.19%)	Support Analyst
13	23 (2.19%)	Technical Consultant
14	22 (2.09%)	Office 365 Manager
15	21 (2.00%)	IT Analyst
15	21 (2.00%)	SharePoint Analyst

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	160 (15.21%)	.NET
2	152 (14.45%)	HTML
3	122 (11.60%)	CSS
4	83 (7.89%)	jQuery
5	76 (7.22%)	Web Services
6	67 (6.37%)	HTML5
7	65 (6.18%)	WCF
8	46 (4.37%)	AngularJS
9	43 (4.09%)	ASP.NET
10	41 (3.90%)	CSS3
10	41 (3.90%)	XML
11	24 (2.28%)	REST
12	23 (2.19%)	.NET Framework
13	19 (1.81%)	Twitter Bootstrap
14	18 (1.71%)	COM
15	15 (1.43%)	RESTful
16	14 (1.33%)	Ajax
16	14 (1.33%)	ASP.NET MVC
17	13 (1.24%)	SOAP
18	12 (1.14%)	Middleware

Miscellaneous
1	66 (6.27%)	Analytical Skills
2	47 (4.47%)	User Experience
3	41 (3.90%)	Management Information System
4	27 (2.57%)	Data Centre
5	20 (1.90%)	Virtual Team
6	16 (1.52%)	Mobile App
7	15 (1.43%)	Computer Science
8	14 (1.33%)	e-Learning
8	14 (1.33%)	Hedge funds
9	12 (1.14%)	Blackberry
10	11 (1.05%)	Taxonomies
11	9 (0.86%)	Data Structures
12	8 (0.76%)	Clustering
12	8 (0.76%)	PKI
12	8 (0.76%)	Social Media
13	7 (0.67%)	Client/Server
13	7 (0.67%)	Data Protection Act
13	7 (0.67%)	NHS
14	6 (0.57%)	PMI
14	6 (0.57%)	Wiki

Operating Systems
1	250 (23.76%)	Windows
2	78 (7.41%)	Windows Server
3	50 (4.75%)	Windows 7
4	47 (4.47%)	Windows 10
5	41 (3.90%)	Windows Server 2012
6	35 (3.33%)	Windows Server 2008
7	22 (2.09%)	Windows Server 2003
8	20 (1.90%)	Linux
9	12 (1.14%)	Android
9	12 (1.14%)	Apple iOS
9	12 (1.14%)	Unix
9	12 (1.14%)	Windows 8
10	6 (0.57%)	Mac OS
11	3 (0.29%)	Mac OS X
12	2 (0.19%)	OpenVMS
13	1 (0.095%)	CentOS
13	1 (0.095%)	pSOS
13	1 (0.095%)	Windows 2000 Server
13	1 (0.095%)	Windows Phone
13	1 (0.095%)	Windows XP

Processes & Methodologies
1	198 (18.82%)	Agile Software Development
2	161 (15.30%)	Migration
3	143 (13.59%)	Project Management
4	125 (11.88%)	CRM
5	120 (11.41%)	Stakeholder Management
6	116 (11.03%)	Business Intelligence
7	99 (9.41%)	ITIL
8	78 (7.41%)	Change Management
9	77 (7.32%)	Scrum
10	76 (7.22%)	PRINCE2
11	71 (6.75%)	Workflow
12	65 (6.18%)	ERP
13	64 (6.08%)	Document Management
14	58 (5.51%)	Business Analysis
15	52 (4.94%)	MVC
15	52 (4.94%)	TDD
16	43 (4.09%)	SDLC
17	42 (3.99%)	TOGAF
18	41 (3.90%)	Information Architecture
19	40 (3.80%)	Data Migration

Programming Languages
1	203 (19.30%)	SQL
2	152 (14.45%)	JavaScript
3	128 (12.17%)	C#
4	120 (11.41%)	PowerShell
5	22 (2.09%)	T-SQL
5	22 (2.09%)	VBA
6	19 (1.81%)	Java
7	17 (1.62%)	C
8	16 (1.52%)	VB
9	10 (0.95%)	PHP
10	9 (0.86%)	Python
11	8 (0.76%)	Bash Shell
11	8 (0.76%)	Shell Script
12	4 (0.38%)	C++
12	4 (0.38%)	VB.NET
13	3 (0.29%)	Perl
13	3 (0.29%)	R
14	2 (0.19%)	Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
14	2 (0.19%)	X++
14	2 (0.19%)	XQuery

Qualifications
1	97 (9.22%)	Security Cleared
2	71 (6.75%)	SC Cleared
3	56 (5.32%)	Degree
4	34 (3.23%)	Microsoft Certification
5	17 (1.62%)	PMI Certification
6	16 (1.52%)	MCSE
6	16 (1.52%)	PMP
7	15 (1.43%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
8	12 (1.14%)	MCITP
8	12 (1.14%)	PRINCE2 Certification
9	8 (0.76%)	Computer Science Degree
9	8 (0.76%)	ISEB
9	8 (0.76%)	ITIL Certification
9	8 (0.76%)	MCSA
10	7 (0.67%)	MCP
11	6 (0.57%)	CISSP
11	6 (0.57%)	DV Cleared
11	6 (0.57%)	Master's Degree
12	5 (0.48%)	MOS
13	4 (0.38%)	MAPM

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	59 (5.61%)	PMO
2	22 (2.09%)	QA
3	13 (1.24%)	SLA
4	12 (1.14%)	Data Quality
5	8 (0.76%)	COBIT
6	7 (0.67%)	PCI DSS
7	6 (0.57%)	Disclosure Scotland
8	5 (0.48%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
9	3 (0.29%)	GDPR
9	3 (0.29%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
9	3 (0.29%)	ISO/IEC 27001
9	3 (0.29%)	MiFID
10	2 (0.19%)	Basel III
10	2 (0.19%)	Solvency II
11	1 (0.095%)	GCP
11	1 (0.095%)	GxP
11	1 (0.095%)	ISO 14001
11	1 (0.095%)	ISO 20022
11	1 (0.095%)	ISO 9001
11	1 (0.095%)	WCAG

System Software
1	166 (15.78%)	Active Directory
2	42 (3.99%)	Hyper-V
3	38 (3.61%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	10 (0.95%)	Virtual Servers
5	9 (0.86%)	BitLocker
6	8 (0.76%)	vSphere
7	7 (0.67%)	XenApp
8	6 (0.57%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
8	6 (0.57%)	Terminal Services
8	6 (0.57%)	VMware ESXi
9	5 (0.48%)	XenDesktop
10	4 (0.38%)	UAG
10	4 (0.38%)	Virtual Machines
11	3 (0.29%)	Forefront TMG
11	3 (0.29%)	ISA Server
11	3 (0.29%)	Virtual Desktop
12	2 (0.19%)	DFS Replication
12	2 (0.19%)	RACF
12	2 (0.19%)	VMware Server
12	2 (0.19%)	VMware Workstation

Systems Management
1	45 (4.28%)	SCCM
2	16 (1.52%)	SCOM
3	11 (1.05%)	Microsoft Intune
4	10 (0.95%)	Puppet
5	9 (0.86%)	Ansible
5	9 (0.86%)	Backup Exec
6	8 (0.76%)	Opscode Chef
7	7 (0.67%)	NetBackup
8	5 (0.48%)	HP Quality Center
8	5 (0.48%)	WSUS
9	4 (0.38%)	Microsoft Clustering
10	3 (0.29%)	DatAdvantage
10	3 (0.29%)	IBM BigFix
10	3 (0.29%)	Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10	3 (0.29%)	QRadar
10	3 (0.29%)	Tivoli Identity Manager
10	3 (0.29%)	vCenter Server
11	2 (0.19%)	CSIRT
11	2 (0.19%)	FTK
11	2 (0.19%)	Symantec Endpoint Protection

Vendors
1	396 (37.64%)	Microsoft
2	64 (6.08%)	VMware
3	58 (5.51%)	SAP
4	47 (4.47%)	Oracle
5	38 (3.61%)	Citrix
6	29 (2.76%)	Cisco
6	29 (2.76%)	HP
6	29 (2.76%)	Salesforce.com
7	25 (2.38%)	ServiceNow
8	16 (1.52%)	Apple
9	14 (1.33%)	Remedy
10	12 (1.14%)	Splunk
11	11 (1.05%)	Infor
12	10 (0.95%)	Altiris
12	10 (0.95%)	AppDynamics
12	10 (0.95%)	Atlassian
12	10 (0.95%)	Google
12	10 (0.95%)	Sophos
12	10 (0.95%)	Tableau
13	9 (0.86%)	iManage