SharePoint Server Contracts

Microsoft SharePoint Server (including MOSS & SPS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SharePoint Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SharePoint Server over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 708 827
Rank change year-on-year +179 +119 -148
Contract jobs citing SharePoint Server 49 8 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.014% 0.045%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.17% 0.12% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 5 26
10th Percentile £460 £355 £324
25th Percentile £463 £381 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -2.44% +20.59%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £600
90th Percentile £575 £560 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -1.00% -13.04% +30.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.63 - £22.50
Median hourly rate £46.18 - £23.00
75th Percentile - - £23.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 - £23.00
% change year-on-year - - +91.67%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

SharePoint Server is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,178 6,465 11,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.63% 10.95% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,879 4,519 7,639
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +8.42%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 153 211
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.61 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.41 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +77.78% +5.14%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.00 £79.19 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.63 £26.48 £18.50
% change year-on-year -10.78% +43.14% -2.63%

SharePoint Server
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SharePoint Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SharePoint Server in the UK

SharePoint Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SharePoint Server.

Daily rate trend for SharePoint Server in the UK

SharePoint Server
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SharePoint Server over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SharePoint Server in the UK

SharePoint Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SharePoint Server.

Hourly rate trend for SharePoint Server in the UK

SharePoint Server
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SharePoint Server within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +102 46 £495 -1.00% 11
England +145 45 £495 -1.00% 16
South West +58 36 £495 -1.00% 2
Work from Home +151 23 £495 - 3
North of England - 7 £400 - 6
North West - 7 £400 - 2
London +109 1 - - 5
East of England +8 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £363 -
Scotland - 1 - - 1

SharePoint Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 48 (97.96%) SharePoint
2 36 (73.47%) Confluence
3 8 (16.33%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (2.04%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.04%) InfoPath
Cloud Services
1 37 (75.51%) Azure
2 34 (69.39%) Azure Stack
3 5 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.08%) OneDrive
4 2 (4.08%) Power Automate
4 2 (4.08%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.08%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.04%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.04%) Serverless
5 1 (2.04%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 35 (71.43%) BGP
1 35 (71.43%) Firewall
2 2 (4.08%) Intranet
3 1 (2.04%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.33%) Metadata
2 7 (14.29%) PowerPivot
2 7 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 7 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Power View
4 1 (2.04%) Power BI
4 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (75.51%) JIRA
2 1 (2.04%) Git
2 1 (2.04%) GitLab
2 1 (2.04%) Subversion
2 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (75.51%) Social Skills
2 18 (36.73%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (12.24%) Publishing
4 4 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (36.73%) Microsoft Engineer
2 10 (20.41%) Analyst
3 8 (16.33%) SharePoint Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Service Analyst
4 5 (10.20%) Service Management Analyst
5 2 (4.08%) Architect
5 2 (4.08%) Developer
5 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) SharePoint Developer
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.04%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.04%) Consultant
6 1 (2.04%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
6 1 (2.04%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.04%) PowerShell Developer
6 1 (2.04%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.29%) CSS
1 7 (14.29%) HTML
2 2 (4.08%) .NET
3 1 (2.04%) .NET Remoting
3 1 (2.04%) CAML
3 1 (2.04%) jQuery
3 1 (2.04%) JSON
3 1 (2.04%) React
3 1 (2.04%) REST
3 1 (2.04%) SPFx
3 1 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (71.43%) Private Cloud
2 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 36 (73.47%) Windows
2 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (85.71%) ITIL
2 35 (71.43%) Service Management
3 34 (69.39%) Capacity Management
3 34 (69.39%) Network Management
3 34 (69.39%) Security Monitoring
4 28 (57.14%) ITSM
5 18 (36.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (22.45%) Backlog Management
6 11 (22.45%) Knowledge Transfer
7 10 (20.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (16.33%) Metadata Management
9 7 (14.29%) Information Architecture
10 6 (12.24%) Statistics
11 2 (4.08%) DevOps
11 2 (4.08%) Migration
11 2 (4.08%) Problem-Solving
11 2 (4.08%) Project Management
12 1 (2.04%) Collaborative Working
12 1 (2.04%) Requirements Gathering
12 1 (2.04%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.45%) PowerShell
2 8 (16.33%) JavaScript
2 8 (16.33%) SQL
3 1 (2.04%) C#
3 1 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 38 (77.55%) Security Cleared
2 35 (71.43%) DV Cleared
3 10 (20.41%) Degree
4 4 (8.16%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (71.43%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (48.98%) SCOM
2 1 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 40 (81.63%) Microsoft
2 35 (71.43%) Atlassian
3 7 (14.29%) VMware