The first table below looks at the demand for BizTalk Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford 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 Oxford 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 - 37 25
Contract jobs citing BizTalk Server 0 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford - 0.298% 1.198%
As % of the Application Platforms category - 1.408% 6.452%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £350
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
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
70 71 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 30.17% 21.13% 18.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 43 17
Average daily rate £340 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 10
Average hourly rate £24.50 £14.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+75.00% -39.13%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
BizTalk Server
Oxfordshire

BizTalk Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford BizTalk Server Hourly Rate Trend

BizTalk Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) SOA
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Foglight
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
2 1 (33.33%) WF
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (33.33%) XenApp

BizTalk Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) WCF
1 1 (33.33%) WF
1 1 (33.33%) AppFabric
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Server Support
1 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Server Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Server Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) BizTalk Developer
1 1 (33.33%) BizTalk Consultant
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) SOA
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 1 (33.33%) XenApp
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Foglight
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) VMware