Over the years, SharePoint has become firmly ingrained in many corporate networks in a huge number guises: the Intranet, document management system, website CMS, business data connector, business workflow/process manager to name but a few. From its early days as Portal Server, through various reincarnations to what it is today, SharePoint now commonly forms an integral part of many organisations’ infrastructure. SharePoint offers many features out of the box, but its biggest selling point is that it is infinitely customisable – through SharePoint designer, or for full control, Visual Studio. SharePoint exposes a full API and object model and provides a mature framework to produce any required business solution.

The problem? Whilst the Microsoft marketing engine has been working overtime, and persuading big business to adopt SharePoint as the platform of choice, something somewhere has failed to let the developers know – and there’s now a massive shortage. SharePoint developers are now so in demand that they command huge salaries, simple supply and demand.

It’s even harder in captive areas such as the Channel Islands where it’s reasonable to say that good developers only infrequently move back here with the sort of skills we’re looking for. That means that for the right people, the opportunities are endless. There’s loads of work, but where are the developers?

Needless to say, if you’re a talented SharePoint (or CRM, SQL or .NET..!) developer in Guernsey, then I’d love to hear from you.