Awesome Opportunity to become a SharePoint Developer

Posted by Global Employees
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Nov 25, 2016
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Many professional fields are grabbing the attention of youths, but the competition is cut throat.Therefore, the focus should be on doing something different and unique which offers handsome pay as well as perks. One such emerging technical field is SharePoint development. One can gain expertise and grab this opportunity with some effort. Many companies are willing to hire Share point developer in India, and there is no dearth of opportunity for the right candidate.

What is SharePoint?

SharePoint is a browser-based application and document managing platform offered by Microsoft Corporation. It facilitates setting up of Intranet, Extranet and Internet in the organization and can improve organization effectiveness by collaborating data and knowledge. A more technical definition would be it is Enterprise Information Portal (EIP), Enterprise content Management (ECM) platform, Business Intelligence (BI) tool facilitating collaboration across organization.

What is SharePoint from the eye of a Developer?

There is a 3-tier categorization in the application

Tier - 1: This tier deals with the Client software and web interface only. This provides with less freedom and power. This needs specialization of Taxonomy and client application.
Tier - 2: This tier utilizes specialized tools and mark-up to develop solutions. This tier demands skills of SharePoint Designer and InfoPath. This needs Specialization in Data View Web parts.
Tier - 3: This tier focuses on developing WSP Solution files, designing, compiling and managing codes. This needs specialization of Workflow/ Web part development.

The basic thing is none of the tiers can be termed as difficult or easy, better or worse or developer of any tiers is learned or green. Every tier needs skills and understanding of development concepts debugging, control, event security, Data modelling, etc. and specialization in respective fields.

What key skills are required for Share point Developer?

The hot skill required are ASP.NET, MS SQL, WSS, C#, Moss, InfoPath, and some other languages as demanded by companies as per the profile and experience of the candidate. Java script, JQuery, HTML, CSS, XML, etc. are also much in demand. But from a freshers perspective, you are expected to gain expertise in ASP.NET and InfoPath. Most of them are inter-connected in a project life cycle and crucial courses can be completed in a year, if focused seriously.

Scope of SharePoint Developer in India

Since SharePoint establishes all-in-one pack, corporate are preferring and adopting SharePoint vigorously. Some of the SharePoint-related products with which you can have an idea about the scope in this field are Yammer, Skype, Excel Services, One Drive for Business and Mac, Web-based Microsoft Office web pages  such as word, Excel, PowerPoint, One Note etc. These are all technologies used by millions around the world.

Salary for SharePoint Developer in India

Starting salary for SharePoint developers in India is between 2Lakhs (3000 USD) to 7 Lakhs (11000 USD)per annum but with experience, there is no limit to the salary and associated perks. Experienced SharePoint developers earn up to 18 Lakhs (30000 USD) per annum.

Hot Cities for SharePoint Jobs

Cities such as Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Chennai are the hub for software companies. There are thousands of IT service provides who are willing to hire SharePoint developer in India. There is no dearth of opportunities for a candidate with the right skill set.


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