Falkirk BizTalk Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft BizTalk Server skills within the Falkirk region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited BizTalk Server over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft BizTalk Server
Location Altrincham Ascot Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brentwood Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Egham England Essex Falkirk Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staines Surrey Sussex Telford Thames Valley UK Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
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UK excluding London average daily rate	£412	£396
% change on same period last year	+4.00 %
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UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.71	£38.25
% change on same period last year	-1.41 %
Application Platforms Falkirk
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
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UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£347
% change on same period last year	+3.68 %
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UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.43	£24.21
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
BizTalk Server Scotland

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 Falkirk region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

BizTalk Server
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Falkirk 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 1 (100.00 %) VB 1 1 (100.00 %) .NET 1 1 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (100.00 %) SOAP 1 1 (100.00 %) WebServices 1 1 (100.00 %) XML 1 1 (100.00 %) OOD 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 1 (100.00 %) Active Directory 1 1 (100.00 %) Internet 1 1 (100.00 %) Government

BizTalk Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Falkirk 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 1 (100.00 %) .NET 1 1 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (100.00 %) SOAP 1 1 (100.00 %) WebServices 1 1 (100.00 %) XML	Communications & Networking 1 1 (100.00 %) Internet
General 1 1 (100.00 %) Government	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) OOD	Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) VB
System Software 1 1 (100.00 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft