Collaboration Platform Jobs Comparisons: from UK IT Jobs Watch

An update on earlier posts comparing jobs for the two leading enterprise collaboration platforms: IBM's Notes, Domino and Workplace products vs Microsoft's Sharepoint and Exchange.

Comments and caveats:

• It's only one country, so doesn't necessarily reflect the situation outside the UK.
• Here's an alternative view of the job market
• The ITJobsWatch site appears to provide high quality, normalised and de-duped data, so it shouldn't be compared with keyword  job search sites in which:
  • a query for, Notes, may return jobs ".. taking notes ..." or Exchange may return jobs in a " ... stock exchange ..."
  • a single position will appear many times from different sources.

Application Platforms: UK Permanent and Contract IT Positions for 3 months ended Jan 16th 2008

Source ITJobsWatch 16th January, 2008

Note: this site breaks out the MSFT products by release (Exchange2003, Exchange 2007, etc), so I added together the individual results. The Lotus releases are combined (i.e. one entry for Notes, one for Domino).

12-month Trend: Lotus Notes Permanent positions trend is shown in the chart below

Additional 12-month trend lines for each company's leading entries are below:

Domino Permanent Positions

Notes Contract Positions

Domino Contract Positions

MS Exchange Permanent Positions

MS Exchange Contract Positions

Sharepoint Permanent Positions

Sharepoint Contract Positions

Comments

[hosted exchange service]

Looks like there are a lot of jobs for exchange professionals!