The first table below looks at the demand for BizTalk Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BizTalk Server over the 3 months to 23 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 Kent 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft BizTalk Server
Rank 31 33 39
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +6
Contract jobs citing BizTalk Server 5 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 1.748% 1.136% 0.326%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.065% 6.818% 1.538%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £340 - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £339 £425 £363
% change year-on-year
-20.29% +17.24%
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
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
62 44 65
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 21.68% 16.67% 21.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 27 44
Average daily rate £298 £300 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.83% +3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £249 £235 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £368 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
Average hourly rate £22.69 £27.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.49% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
BizTalk Server
South East

BizTalk Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Kent BizTalk Server Daily Rate Histogram

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 Kent region over the 3 months to 23 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
Maidstone - 1 £240 -
BizTalk Server
South East

BizTalk Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 6 (85.71%) .NET
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Mobile App
3 3 (42.86%) TDD
3 3 (42.86%) Web Services
3 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
3 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) SOA
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
4 2 (28.57%) Banking
4 2 (28.57%) ESB
5 1 (14.29%) MVC
5 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
5 1 (14.29%) WCF
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (14.29%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (14.29%) RESTful
5 1 (14.29%) C#
5 1 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL
5 1 (14.29%) Windows
5 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
5 1 (14.29%) LAN
5 1 (14.29%) WAN
5 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
5 1 (14.29%) SAN
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (14.29%) VMware
5 1 (14.29%) Clustering

BizTalk Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 6 (85.71%) .NET
2 3 (42.86%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) WCF
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) Windows Azure
2 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
3 2 (28.57%) ESB
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Leader
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Agile C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (14.29%) Windows 2000 Server
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) TDD
1 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 2 (28.57%) SOA
3 1 (14.29%) MVC
3 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) VMware