Reading BizTalk Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft BizTalk Server skills within the Reading 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 15 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 Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside 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 Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Wales Warrington Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	59	58
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	10	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	5.848 %	6.767 %
Daily rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum daily rate	£463	£269
Average daily rate	£481	£309
% change on same period last year	+55.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£411	£393
% change on same period last year	+4.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£40.00	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.50	£39.65
% change on same period last year	-5.42 %
Application Platforms Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	171	133
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.219 %	0.149 %
Daily rates quoted	57	26
Average minimum daily rate	£376	£329
Average daily rate	£397	£355
% change on same period last year	+11.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.62	£17.46
Average hourly rate	£36.48	£18.63
% change on same period last year	+95.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.34	£19.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
BizTalk Server Berkshire

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 Reading 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 Reading region.

BizTalk Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BizTalk Server across the Reading 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 Reading region.

BizTalk Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Reading 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 17 (89.47 %) SharePoint 2 16 (84.21 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 14 (73.68 %) .NET 4 13 (68.42 %) Microsoft 4 13 (68.42 %) C# 5 10 (52.63 %) ASP.NET 6 9 (47.37 %) SQL Server 7 7 (36.84 %) CRM 7 7 (36.84 %) Microsoft CRM 7 7 (36.84 %) Windows SharePoint Services 8 6 (31.58 %) SQL Server 2005 8 6 (31.58 %) SQL Server 7 8 6 (31.58 %) WebServices 9 5 (26.32 %) SQL 9 5 (26.32 %) Content Management

10 4 (21.05 %) JavaScript 10 4 (21.05 %) XML 11 3 (15.79 %) Transact-SQL 11 3 (15.79 %) Windows 11 3 (15.79 %) Microsoft Certification 11 3 (15.79 %) Finance 11 3 (15.79 %) .NET Framework 12 2 (10.53 %) Requirements Analysis 12 2 (10.53 %) Commerce Server 2007 12 2 (10.53 %) WSUS 12 2 (10.53 %) Load Balancing 12 2 (10.53 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 2 (10.53 %) Clustering 12 2 (10.53 %) Disaster Recovery 12 2 (10.53 %) SQL Server 2000

BizTalk Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Reading 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 14 (73.68 %) .NET 2 10 (52.63 %) ASP.NET 3 7 (36.84 %) Windows SharePoint Services 4 6 (31.58 %) WebServices 5 4 (21.05 %) XML 6 3 (15.79 %) .NET Framework 7 2 (10.53 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 2 (10.53 %) XSLT 8 1 (5.263 %) WinForms 8 1 (5.263 %) WF	Application Platforms 1 17 (89.47 %) SharePoint 2 16 (84.21 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 2 (10.53 %) Commerce Server 2007 3 2 (10.53 %) IIS 3 2 (10.53 %) Commerce Server 3 2 (10.53 %) Content Management Server 4 1 (5.263 %) SharePoint Portal Server
Applications 1 1 (5.263 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 7 (36.84 %) Microsoft CRM 2 1 (5.263 %) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking 1 2 (10.53 %) SAN 2 1 (5.263 %) Intranet 2 1 (5.263 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (47.37 %) SQL Server 2 6 (31.58 %) SQL Server 7 2 6 (31.58 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (10.53 %) SQL Server 2000
General 1 3 (15.79 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 10 (52.63 %) Developer 2 9 (47.37 %) Consultant 3 7 (36.84 %) SharePoint Developer 4 4 (21.05 %) SharePoint Consultant 5 3 (15.79 %) .NET Developer 5 3 (15.79 %) C# Developer 6 2 (10.53 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 2 (10.53 %) Team Leader 6 2 (10.53 %) CRM Project Manager 6 2 (10.53 %) Infrastructure Consultant 6 2 (10.53 %) Project Manager 6 2 (10.53 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 2 (10.53 %) CRM Manager 7 1 (5.263 %) BizTalk Developer 7 1 (5.263 %) Technical Project Manager 7 1 (5.263 %) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (10.53 %) N-Tier 1 2 (10.53 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 3 (15.79 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (36.84 %) CRM 2 5 (26.32 %) Content Management 3 2 (10.53 %) Requirements Analysis 3 2 (10.53 %) Load Balancing 3 2 (10.53 %) MOF 3 2 (10.53 %) Disaster Recovery 3 2 (10.53 %) ITIL 4 1 (5.263 %) BPM 4 1 (5.263 %) Workflow 4 1 (5.263 %) EAI	Programming Languages 1 13 (68.42 %) C# 2 5 (26.32 %) SQL 3 4 (21.05 %) JavaScript 4 3 (15.79 %) Transact-SQL 5 1 (5.263 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 3 (15.79 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (5.263 %) MCAD 2 1 (5.263 %) MCSD	System Software 1 2 (10.53 %) Active Directory 1 2 (10.53 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 2 (10.53 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 2 (10.53 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 13 (68.42 %) Microsoft