The first table below looks at the demand for BizTalk Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BizTalk Server over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft BizTalk Server
Rank 41 50 29
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -21
Contract jobs citing BizTalk Server 2 6 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.456% 0.966% 3.899%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.333% 5.128% 17.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 11
Average daily rate - £267 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -23.78%
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £425 £363
% change year-on-year
-20.00% +17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 £25.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
+90.00% +19.04%
All Application Platforms
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
60 117 115
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 13.67% 18.84% 22.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 59 67
Average daily rate £310 £307 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.14% -5.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £208 £183 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 4
Average hourly rate £13.25 £30.00 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-55.83% +150.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.05 £8.25 £11.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.45 £33.00 £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
BizTalk Server
West Midlands

BizTalk Server
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing BizTalk Server across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Birmingham BizTalk Server Jobs Demand Trend

BizTalk Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham BizTalk Server Daily Rate Trend

BizTalk Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham BizTalk Server Hourly Rate Trend

BizTalk Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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%) C#
1 8 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 4 (50.00%) Web Services
4 2 (25.00%) Open Source
4 2 (25.00%) WCF
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
5 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (12.50%) WPF
5 1 (12.50%) WF
5 1 (12.50%) Silverlight
5 1 (12.50%) Finance
5 1 (12.50%) Unified Process
5 1 (12.50%) MSF
5 1 (12.50%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Foundation
5 1 (12.50%) MSBuild
5 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
5 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (12.50%) NUnit
5 1 (12.50%) CruiseControl
5 1 (12.50%) Ajax
5 1 (12.50%) InfoPath

BizTalk Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 4 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (25.00%) WCF
4 1 (12.50%) WPF
4 1 (12.50%) WF
4 1 (12.50%) Silverlight
4 1 (12.50%) Ajax
4 1 (12.50%) Windows SharePoint Services
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 1 (12.50%) ADO.NET
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
4 1 (12.50%) CSS
4 1 (12.50%) XML
4 1 (12.50%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Foundation
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Server
1 1 (12.50%) IIS
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) InfoPath
1 1 (12.50%) MS Office
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Team System
1 1 (12.50%) MSBuild
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) NUnit
1 1 (12.50%) CruiseControl
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Architect
2 2 (25.00%) BizTalk Developer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Architect
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Developer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Architect
3 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Business Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (12.50%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (12.50%) Unified Process
2 1 (12.50%) MSF
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (12.50%) UML
2 1 (12.50%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (12.50%) OO
2 1 (12.50%) RUP
2 1 (12.50%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C#
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
3 4 (50.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
4 1 (12.50%) C++
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
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