The first table below looks at the demand for BizTalk Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BizTalk Server over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Gloucestershire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft BizTalk Server
Rank 34 58 48
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -10
Contract jobs citing BizTalk Server 1 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 0.402% 0.193% 0.449%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.030% 1.124% 4.348%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £339 £425 £390
% change year-on-year
-20.29% +8.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £24.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 £25.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
+90.00% +19.04%
All Application Platforms
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
33 89 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 13.25% 17.21% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 56 27
Average daily rate £365 £375 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.66% +50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £303 £168
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
Average hourly rate £21.50 £20.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.87% +2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £20.00 £17.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £21.00 £20.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +2.56%
BizTalk Server
South West

BizTalk Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cheltenham - - - - 1
BizTalk Server
South West

BizTalk Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) IIS
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Content Management
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) VB
2 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
2 1 (33.33%) HTML

BizTalk Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) ASP
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) IIS
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Support
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Developer
2 1 (33.33%) BizTalk Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Content Management
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VB
2 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft