London BizTalk Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft BizTalk Server skills within the London 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 16 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 London Luton Maidenhead Manchester 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 Staines Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Wales Warrington Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	224	291
Rank change on same period last year	+67
Matching contract IT job ads	211	164
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.271 %	0.184 %
As % of the category below	4.315 %	2.996 %
Daily rates quoted	75	68
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£434
Average daily rate	£387	£458
% change on same period last year	-15.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£418	£481
UK excluding London average daily rate	£407	£391
% change on same period last year	+3.91 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£43.33
Average hourly rate	£37.50	£45.00
% change on same period last year	-16.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£46.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.53	£40.05
% change on same period last year	-3.80 %
Application Platforms London
Matching contract IT job ads	4890	5474
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	6.274 %	6.150 %
Daily rates quoted	1823	1638
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£374
Average daily rate	£405	£395
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£432	£416
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£354
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	376	488
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.08	£22.23
Average hourly rate	£24.78	£23.49
% change on same period last year	+5.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.49	£24.76
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.66	£22.76
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
BizTalk Server 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 London 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 London region.

BizTalk Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BizTalk Server across the London 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 London 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 London 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	City of London	+4	37	£463	-11.74 %
2	Ealing	-	4	-	-
3	Luton	-	1	-	-

BizTalk Server England

BizTalk Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the London 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.

1 295 (76.62 %) .NET 2 237 (61.56 %) C# 3 209 (54.29 %) SQL Server 4 146 (37.92 %) ASP.NET 4 146 (37.92 %) Microsoft 5 122 (31.69 %) XML 6 107 (27.79 %) SharePoint 7 90 (23.38 %) SQL 8 89 (23.12 %) WebServices 8 89 (23.12 %) SQL Server 2005 9 84 (21.82 %) JavaScript 10 76 (19.74 %) Finance 11 66 (17.14 %) HTML 12 64 (16.62 %) NHibernate 13 61 (15.84 %) SQL Server 2000

14 58 (15.06 %) WCF 15 55 (14.29 %) Unit Testing 16 53 (13.77 %) .NET Framework 17 52 (13.51 %) OO 18 51 (13.25 %) UML 19 50 (12.99 %) Continuous Integration 20 49 (12.73 %) SharePoint Server 2007 20 49 (12.73 %) SQL Server 7 21 48 (12.47 %) Spring 22 47 (12.21 %) Windows 22 47 (12.21 %) VB.NET 23 46 (11.95 %) Selenium 23 46 (11.95 %) FitNesse 24 44 (11.43 %) SOA 25 42 (10.91 %) Visual Studio

BizTalk Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the London 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 1 295 (76.62 %) .NET 2 146 (37.92 %) ASP.NET 3 122 (31.69 %) XML 4 89 (23.12 %) WebServices 5 66 (17.14 %) HTML 6 64 (16.62 %) NHibernate 7 58 (15.06 %) WCF 8 53 (13.77 %) .NET Framework 9 48 (12.47 %) Spring 10 38 (9.870 %) WPF 10 38 (9.870 %) XSLT 11 32 (8.312 %) WF 12 25 (6.494 %) WSE 12 25 (6.494 %) iBATIS 13 20 (5.195 %) WinForms 14 16 (4.156 %) CSS 14 16 (4.156 %) MonoRail 15 13 (3.377 %) SOAP 15 13 (3.377 %) Middleware 16 12 (3.117 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 107 (27.79 %) SharePoint 2 49 (12.73 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 20 (5.195 %) IIS 4 13 (3.377 %) SharePoint Portal Server 5 6 (1.558 %) MQSeries 5 6 (1.558 %) Commerce Server 5 6 (1.558 %) Content Management Server 6 5 (1.299 %) Tomcat 6 5 (1.299 %) MS Exchange 7 4 (1.039 %) CMS 7 4 (1.039 %) ESB 7 4 (1.039 %) Commerce Server 2007 8 3 (0.779 %) NetWeaver 9 2 (0.519 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 9 2 (0.519 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 2 (0.519 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 2 (0.519 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 2 (0.519 %) Office Project Server 10 1 (0.260 %) TIBCO EMS 10 1 (0.260 %) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications 1 37 (9.610 %) MS Excel 2 10 (2.597 %) MS Office 3 6 (1.558 %) InfoPath 4 2 (0.519 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 9 (2.338 %) Microsoft CRM 2 5 (1.299 %) Axapta 2 5 (1.299 %) Dynamics CRM 3 4 (1.039 %) Dynamics AX 4 1 (0.260 %) JDE EnterpriseOne 4 1 (0.260 %) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking 1 14 (3.636 %) Internet 2 6 (1.558 %) FTP 3 5 (1.299 %) Firewall 4 4 (1.039 %) SAN 5 3 (0.779 %) Network Security 5 3 (0.779 %) TCP/IP 6 2 (0.519 %) DNS 6 2 (0.519 %) HTTP 6 2 (0.519 %) LAN 6 2 (0.519 %) SMS 6 2 (0.519 %) WAN 6 2 (0.519 %) SMTP 6 2 (0.519 %) DHCP 7 1 (0.260 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 209 (54.29 %) SQL Server 2 89 (23.12 %) SQL Server 2005 3 61 (15.84 %) SQL Server 2000 4 49 (12.73 %) SQL Server 7 5 36 (9.351 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 27 (7.013 %) Crystal Reports 7 25 (6.494 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 9 (2.338 %) BusinessObjects 9 8 (2.078 %) RDBMS 10 3 (0.779 %) Datawarehouse 10 3 (0.779 %) DB2 10 3 (0.779 %) EDRMS 11 2 (0.519 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 11 2 (0.519 %) DTS 11 2 (0.519 %) Data Mining 12 1 (0.260 %) Oracle 8/8i 12 1 (0.260 %) MS Access 12 1 (0.260 %) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 46 (11.95 %) Selenium 1 46 (11.95 %) FitNesse 2 42 (10.91 %) Visual Studio 3 34 (8.831 %) NUnit 4 26 (6.753 %) Subversion 5 23 (5.974 %) ReSharper 6 9 (2.338 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 3 (0.779 %) TestDirector 7 3 (0.779 %) CruiseControl 8 1 (0.260 %) NetAdvantage	General 1 76 (19.74 %) Finance 2 29 (7.532 %) Banking 3 21 (5.455 %) Government 4 17 (4.416 %) Front Office 4 17 (4.416 %) Retail 4 17 (4.416 %) Investment Banking 5 10 (2.597 %) Insurance 6 5 (1.299 %) Publishing 7 4 (1.039 %) Local Government 7 4 (1.039 %) Telecoms 8 3 (0.779 %) Health 9 2 (0.519 %) Construction 9 2 (0.519 %) Marketing 9 2 (0.519 %) Criminal Justice 9 2 (0.519 %) Games 9 2 (0.519 %) Manufacturing 10 1 (0.260 %) Financial Institution 10 1 (0.260 %) Legal 10 1 (0.260 %) Automotive
Job Titles 1 235 (61.04 %) Developer 2 98 (25.45 %) BizTalk Developer 3 92 (23.90 %) .NET Developer 4 54 (14.03 %) C# Developer 5 45 (11.69 %) Consultant 6 30 (7.792 %) BizTalk Consultant 7 28 (7.273 %) Architect 8 17 (4.416 %) Analyst 9 16 (4.156 %) .NET Architect 10 12 (3.117 %) Applications Developer 10 12 (3.117 %) Project Manager 11 10 (2.597 %) Programmer 11 10 (2.597 %) VB.NET Developer 11 10 (2.597 %) Team Leader 12 9 (2.338 %) Delivery Manager 12 9 (2.338 %) Applications Support 13 8 (2.078 %) SQL Developer 13 8 (2.078 %) SharePoint Developer 14 7 (1.818 %) Microsoft Developer 14 7 (1.818 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 17 (4.416 %) N-Tier 2 15 (3.896 %) Thin Client 2 15 (3.896 %) Fat Client 3 7 (1.818 %) Multithreading 3 7 (1.818 %) Mainframe 3 7 (1.818 %) Asset Management 4 6 (1.558 %) Equities 5 5 (1.299 %) PKI 5 5 (1.299 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 6 4 (1.039 %) Fixed Income 6 4 (1.039 %) Fund Management 7 2 (0.519 %) IBM Mainframe 7 2 (0.519 %) Web 2.0 7 2 (0.519 %) Client/Server 7 2 (0.519 %) Blackberry 8 1 (0.260 %) Management Information System 8 1 (0.260 %) PMI 8 1 (0.260 %) Derivative 8 1 (0.260 %) Computer Science 8 1 (0.260 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 47 (12.21 %) Windows 2 9 (2.338 %) Windows XP 3 8 (2.078 %) Unix 3 8 (2.078 %) Linux 4 5 (1.299 %) Windows 2000 5 4 (1.039 %) AIX 6 2 (0.519 %) Solaris 7 1 (0.260 %) Windows NT 7 1 (0.260 %) OS/400	Processes & Methodologies 1 55 (14.29 %) Unit Testing 2 52 (13.51 %) OO 3 51 (13.25 %) UML 4 50 (12.99 %) Continuous Integration 5 44 (11.43 %) SOA 6 34 (8.831 %) Agile Software Development 7 33 (8.571 %) Refactoring 8 28 (7.273 %) Load Testing 9 26 (6.753 %) Automated Testing 10 21 (5.455 %) Workflow 11 18 (4.675 %) PRINCE2 12 16 (4.156 %) Scrum 13 12 (3.117 %) Project Management 14 11 (2.857 %) CRM 14 11 (2.857 %) TDD 14 11 (2.857 %) Migration 14 11 (2.857 %) Test Scripting 15 9 (2.338 %) User Acceptance Testing 15 9 (2.338 %) ERP 16 8 (2.078 %) Content Management
Programming Languages 1 237 (61.56 %) C# 2 90 (23.38 %) SQL 3 84 (21.82 %) JavaScript 4 47 (12.21 %) VB.NET 5 19 (4.935 %) Transact-SQL 6 16 (4.156 %) DHTML 6 16 (4.156 %) Java 7 12 (3.117 %) VB 8 10 (2.597 %) PL/SQL 9 9 (2.338 %) C++ 9 9 (2.338 %) C 10 6 (1.558 %) XPath 11 5 (1.299 %) VBScript 12 3 (0.779 %) X++	Qualifications 1 10 (2.597 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (1.039 %) MCSD 2 4 (1.039 %) Degree 3 3 (0.779 %) MCDBA 3 3 (0.779 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 1 (0.260 %) PMP 4 1 (0.260 %) PMI Certification 4 1 (0.260 %) MCTS 4 1 (0.260 %) ISEB 4 1 (0.260 %) MCP 4 1 (0.260 %) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (2.078 %) QA 2 1 (0.260 %) SLA	System Software 1 6 (1.558 %) MSMQ 1 6 (1.558 %) Active Directory 1 6 (1.558 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 2 2 (0.519 %) RACF
Systems Management 1 5 (1.299 %) MOM 2 3 (0.779 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (0.260 %) MIIS	Vendors 1 146 (37.92 %) Microsoft 2 16 (4.156 %) Oracle 3 14 (3.636 %) SAP 4 9 (2.338 %) Business Objects 5 6 (1.558 %) TIBCO 6 5 (1.299 %) Siebel 7 4 (1.039 %) IBM 7 4 (1.039 %) Sybase 7 4 (1.039 %) HP 7 4 (1.039 %) Citrix 7 4 (1.039 %) VMware 8 3 (0.779 %) Meridio 9 2 (0.519 %) Sophos 9 2 (0.519 %) VERITAS 9 2 (0.519 %) Progress 9 2 (0.519 %) Cisco 10 1 (0.260 %) JD Edwards 10 1 (0.260 %) BEA 10 1 (0.260 %) EMC 10 1 (0.260 %) Sun