The first table below looks at the demand for BizTalk Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BizTalk Server over the 3 months to 21 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 East of England 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft BizTalk Server
Rank 104 92 60
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -32
Contract jobs citing BizTalk Server 16 39 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.734% 1.328% 2.863%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.990% 8.369% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 27 42
Average daily rate £388 £450 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.88% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £353 £217
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £535 £499
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £425 £351
% change year-on-year
-20.00% +20.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 £25.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
+90.00% +19.04%
All Application Platforms
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
401 466 481
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 18.39% 15.87% 18.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 225 223
Average daily rate £300 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £211 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 43 53
Average hourly rate £23.50 £19.63 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.74% +40.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.75 £35.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
BizTalk Server
England

BizTalk Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England BizTalk Server Daily Rate Trend

BizTalk Server
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BizTalk Server across the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

East of England BizTalk Server Daily Rate Histogram

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 East of England region.

East of England BizTalk Server Hourly Rate Trend

BizTalk Server
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BizTalk Server within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Suffolk +14 8 £475 +11.76%
Hertfordshire +14 3 £388 -
Essex -1 3 £240 -
Cambridgeshire +9 1 £625 +88.67%
Bedfordshire +3 1 £425 +19.71%
BizTalk Server
England

BizTalk Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 40 (70.18%) .NET
2 37 (64.91%) SQL Server
3 25 (43.86%) Microsoft
4 23 (40.35%) SharePoint
5 22 (38.60%) Oracle
6 21 (36.84%) XML
6 21 (36.84%) C#
6 21 (36.84%) SOA
7 19 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 17 (29.82%) TDD
9 16 (28.07%) N-Tier
9 16 (28.07%) ESB
10 15 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (24.56%) Web Services
11 14 (24.56%) Finance
11 14 (24.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (22.81%) Validation
13 12 (21.05%) WCF
13 12 (21.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 12 (21.05%) SAP PI
13 12 (21.05%) SAP
13 12 (21.05%) SQL
14 11 (19.30%) Java
14 11 (19.30%) ASP.NET
14 11 (19.30%) VLDB
14 11 (19.30%) Windows Azure
14 11 (19.30%) Contract for Difference
14 11 (19.30%) SQL Server 2008
15 10 (17.54%) Multithreading
15 10 (17.54%) WSDL

BizTalk Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 40 (70.18%) .NET
2 21 (36.84%) XML
3 14 (24.56%) Web Services
4 12 (21.05%) WCF
4 12 (21.05%) SAP PI
5 11 (19.30%) ASP.NET
6 10 (17.54%) WSDL
7 9 (15.79%) XML Schema
8 7 (12.28%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (12.28%) WebSphere
8 7 (12.28%) J2EE
9 6 (10.53%) LINQ
10 5 (8.772%) Silverlight
10 5 (8.772%) XSLT
11 4 (7.018%) Hibernate
12 3 (5.263%) .NET Framework
13 2 (3.509%) ASP.NET MVC
13 2 (3.509%) soapUI
13 2 (3.509%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 2 (3.509%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 23 (40.35%) SharePoint
2 16 (28.07%) ESB
3 11 (19.30%) Windows Azure
4 9 (15.79%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (3.509%) MSMQ
5 2 (3.509%) IIS
6 1 (1.754%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (1.754%) Lync
Applications
1 9 (15.79%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.263%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.754%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.772%) Internet
2 2 (3.509%) HTTP
2 2 (3.509%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (64.91%) SQL Server
2 19 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 14 (24.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 12 (21.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 11 (19.30%) VLDB
5 11 (19.30%) SQL Server 2008
6 7 (12.28%) SQL Server 2005
7 5 (8.772%) Oracle 8/8i
8 3 (5.263%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (3.509%) dBASE
9 2 (3.509%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (1.754%) GIS
Development Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (8.772%) Talend Open Studio
3 1 (1.754%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.754%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 14 (24.56%) Finance
2 7 (12.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (50.88%) Architect
2 22 (38.60%) Solutions Architect
3 17 (29.82%) Developer
4 5 (8.772%) C# Developer
4 5 (8.772%) Data Architect
5 4 (7.018%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (7.018%) Tester
5 4 (7.018%) Support Analyst
5 4 (7.018%) Analyst
5 4 (7.018%) Technical Architect
5 4 (7.018%) .NET Developer
6 3 (5.263%) Integration Architect
6 3 (5.263%) DBA
6 3 (5.263%) Senior Developer
6 3 (5.263%) Development Analyst
6 3 (5.263%) Development Support Analyst
6 3 (5.263%) Integration Specialist
7 2 (3.509%) Lead Developer
7 2 (3.509%) BizTalk Developer
7 2 (3.509%) Data Integration Developer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (28.07%) N-Tier
2 11 (19.30%) Contract for Difference
3 4 (7.018%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (7.018%) NHS
4 2 (3.509%) Data Integration
5 1 (1.754%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.53%) Windows
2 5 (8.772%) Windows 7
2 5 (8.772%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (8.772%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (36.84%) SOA
2 17 (29.82%) TDD
3 15 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (22.81%) Validation
5 10 (17.54%) Multithreading
6 9 (15.79%) Systems Analysis
7 7 (12.28%) Waterfall
7 7 (12.28%) Data Modelling
8 6 (10.53%) RAD
8 6 (10.53%) Enterprise Architecture
9 5 (8.772%) AOP
9 5 (8.772%) TOGAF
9 5 (8.772%) Unified Process
9 5 (8.772%) Unit Testing
9 5 (8.772%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (8.772%) Technical Architecture
9 5 (8.772%) Refactoring
9 5 (8.772%) RUP
9 5 (8.772%) ITIL
9 5 (8.772%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (36.84%) C#
2 12 (21.05%) SQL
3 11 (19.30%) Java
4 3 (5.263%) VB
5 2 (3.509%) VB.NET
5 2 (3.509%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.509%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.754%) XPath
Qualifications
1 6 (10.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.509%) HL7
Vendors
1 25 (43.86%) Microsoft
2 22 (38.60%) Oracle
3 12 (21.05%) SAP
4 5 (8.772%) webMethods
4 5 (8.772%) Talend
5 3 (5.263%) ATG
6 2 (3.509%) TIBCO
6 2 (3.509%) Ab Initio
7 1 (1.754%) Metastorm
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