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I was at Vegas last year for the conference and as everyone probably knows now the idea of on-premise SharePoint was always referred to as “legacy” with a big emphasis on moving to the cloud. The merits or otherwise have been done to death in other posts but I was wondering how many SharePoint professionals here think that the amount they can command with their skills is going to go down over time?

A big plus point according to Microsoft about the cloud based SharePoint and especially the app model is that “anyone” can code SharePoint now as only way of interacting is through the client object model. If you consider the JavaScript client object model then the idea being that your app can actually be written in Python/Ruby/Java or whatever floats your boat. You are simply calling into a bunch of JavaScript libraries or REST services or whatever.

So for the more developer focussed people out there what does this mean? If anyone can knock up “apps” or code that can interact with SP and you don’t need to be a .NET developer with specialist SP knowledge any more then why does a client need to pay more? Certainly in the contracting world, day rates for SharePoint developers have been higher than those for straight .NET dev in general.

App model is in its infancy and change is going to take a while but SharePoint online is getting updated much faster than the older traditional releases and the app model will mature and gain capability in the future.

Anyone considering a move to a different technology or a switch in focus with their skills? or do you think that SharePoint solutions will still require a specialist set of skills that will command a higher salary/day rate?

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