Belfast BizTalk Server Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft BizTalk Server skills within the Belfast region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited BizTalk Server over the 3 months to 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft BizTalk Server
Location Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Docklands, London Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant High Wycombe Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Scotland Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Street Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	25
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	8	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	33.33 %	18.18 %
Daily rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum daily rate	£178	£165
Average daily rate	£196	£165
% change on same period last year	+18.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£215	£165
UK excluding London average daily rate	£362	£386
% change on same period last year	-6.39 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	-
Average hourly rate	£17.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.57	£32.53
% change on same period last year	+9.33 %
Application Platforms Belfast
Matching contract IT job ads	24	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.012 %
Daily rates quoted	6	2
Average minimum daily rate	£214	£165
Average daily rate	£237	£165
% change on same period last year	+43.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£260	£165
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£345
% change on same period last year	+1.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.99	-
Average hourly rate	£15.89	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.79	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.88	£23.53
% change on same period last year	-2.76 %
BizTalk Server County Antrim

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

BizTalk Server
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing BizTalk Server across the Belfast region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

BizTalk Server
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing BizTalk Server across the Belfast region.

BizTalk Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BizTalk Server across the Belfast region over the 3 months to 5 December 2008.

BizTalk Server
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing BizTalk Server across the Belfast region.

BizTalk Server
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing BizTalk Server also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited BizTalk Server.

1 8 (100.00 %) .NET 2 7 (87.50 %) SQL Server 3 5 (62.50 %) ASP.NET 3 5 (62.50 %) C# 4 4 (50.00 %) Microsoft 5 3 (37.50 %) CCNA 5 3 (37.50 %) Cisco Certification 5 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft Certification 5 3 (37.50 %) Project Management 5 3 (37.50 %) ITIL 5 3 (37.50 %) PRINCE2 5 3 (37.50 %) MCSE 5 3 (37.50 %) Oracle Financials 5 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 3 (37.50 %) SharePoint

5 3 (37.50 %) VB.NET 5 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 5 3 (37.50 %) Service Management 5 3 (37.50 %) Finance 5 3 (37.50 %) Education 5 3 (37.50 %) MOS 5 3 (37.50 %) Business Analysis 5 3 (37.50 %) Technical Architecture 6 2 (25.00 %) .NET Framework 6 2 (25.00 %) Degree 6 2 (25.00 %) Information Management 6 2 (25.00 %) Police 6 2 (25.00 %) VPN 7 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared

BizTalk Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing BizTalk Server also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited BizTalk Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (100.00 %) .NET 2 5 (62.50 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (25.00 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 3 (37.50 %) SharePoint
Business Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle Financials	Communications & Networking 1 2 (25.00 %) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (87.50 %) SQL Server 2 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 8/8i	General 1 3 (37.50 %) Finance 1 3 (37.50 %) Education 2 2 (25.00 %) Police
Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Architect 1 3 (37.50 %) Support Engineer 2 2 (25.00 %) Information Architect 3 1 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Technical Architect	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) ITIL 1 3 (37.50 %) PRINCE2 1 3 (37.50 %) Project Management 1 3 (37.50 %) Service Management 1 3 (37.50 %) Business Analysis 1 3 (37.50 %) Technical Architecture 2 2 (25.00 %) Information Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 5 (62.50 %) C# 2 3 (37.50 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 3 (37.50 %) MCSE 1 3 (37.50 %) CCNA 1 3 (37.50 %) Cisco Certification 1 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft Certification 1 3 (37.50 %) MOS 2 2 (25.00 %) Degree
Vendors 1 4 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 3 (37.50 %) Oracle