Essex BizTalk Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft BizTalk Server skills within the Essex 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 last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft BizTalk Server
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Ascot Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Brentwood Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Cumbria Dorking Dorset Dundee Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Egham England Essex Falkirk Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grangemouth Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Kent Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newport North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Wales Warrington Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	51	41
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching contract IT job ads	11	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	8.462 %	9.483 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£383	£563
Average daily rate	£408	£563
% change on same period last year	-27.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£433	£563
UK excluding London average daily rate	£411	£393
% change on same period last year	+4.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.50	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£37.75	£38.33
% change on same period last year	-1.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£44.00	£41.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.50	£39.65
% change on same period last year	-5.42 %
Application Platforms Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	130	116
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.167 %	0.130 %
Daily rates quoted	33	42
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£293
Average daily rate	£291	£309
% change on same period last year	-5.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£308	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	27	31
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.11	£26.23
Average hourly rate	£24.57	£27.30
% change on same period last year	-10.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.03	£28.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
BizTalk Server East of England

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing BizTalk Server across the Essex 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 contract IT jobs ads citing BizTalk Server across the Essex region.

BizTalk Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BizTalk Server across the Essex region over the past 3 months.

BizTalk Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

BizTalk Server
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BizTalk Server within the Essex region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Brentwood	-	2	£375	-
1	Colchester	-	2	-	-

BizTalk Server East of England

BizTalk Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Essex region citing BizTalk Server also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing BizTalk Server.

1 9 (81.82 %) C# 2 8 (72.73 %) .NET 2 8 (72.73 %) SharePoint 3 7 (63.64 %) ASP.NET 4 6 (54.55 %) XML 5 5 (45.45 %) SQL 6 4 (36.36 %) SQL Server 6 4 (36.36 %) Microsoft 6 4 (36.36 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 4 (36.36 %) Silverlight 7 3 (27.27 %) XSLT 8 2 (18.18 %) WebServices 8 2 (18.18 %) OOP 8 2 (18.18 %) N-Tier 8 2 (18.18 %) LAN

8 2 (18.18 %) WAN 8 2 (18.18 %) Cisco 8 2 (18.18 %) AJAX 8 2 (18.18 %) Web 2.0 8 2 (18.18 %) SAP XI 8 2 (18.18 %) SAP 8 2 (18.18 %) .NET Framework 9 1 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 1 (9.091 %) Creative Marketing 9 1 (9.091 %) Manufacturing 9 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft Certification 9 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE 9 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 9 1 (9.091 %) Marketing 9 1 (9.091 %) MS Excel

BizTalk Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Essex region citing BizTalk Server also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing BizTalk Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (72.73 %) .NET 2 7 (63.64 %) ASP.NET 3 6 (54.55 %) XML 4 4 (36.36 %) Silverlight 5 3 (27.27 %) XSLT 6 2 (18.18 %) SAP XI 6 2 (18.18 %) AJAX 6 2 (18.18 %) .NET Framework 6 2 (18.18 %) WebServices 7 1 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 8 (72.73 %) SharePoint 2 4 (36.36 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Office 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (18.18 %) LAN 1 2 (18.18 %) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (36.36 %) SQL Server	General 1 1 (9.091 %) Manufacturing 1 1 (9.091 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 8 (72.73 %) Developer 2 4 (36.36 %) SharePoint Developer 3 2 (18.18 %) Architect 3 2 (18.18 %) Web Developer 3 2 (18.18 %) Systems Architect 4 1 (9.091 %) Senior Manager 4 1 (9.091 %) Senior Project Manager 4 1 (9.091 %) .NET Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) Project Manager 4 1 (9.091 %) BizTalk Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (18.18 %) N-Tier 1 2 (18.18 %) Web 2.0
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (18.18 %) OOP 2 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE 2 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 2 1 (9.091 %) Creative Marketing 2 1 (9.091 %) UML	Programming Languages 1 9 (81.82 %) C# 2 5 (45.45 %) SQL 3 1 (9.091 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 1 (9.091 %) MCSD 1 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft Certification	Vendors 1 4 (36.36 %) Microsoft 2 2 (18.18 %) SAP 2 2 (18.18 %) Cisco