The first table below looks at the demand for the BizTalk Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BizTalk Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised for the Southampton 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
BizTalk Specialist
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a BizTalk Specialist 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £473 £313
% change year-on-year
- +51.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
281 218 175
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 95.25% 95.20% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 113 75
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £250 £198
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £475 £526
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 53 29
Average hourly rate £14.00 £17.50 £20.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -15.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.00 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £41.50 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
BizTalk Specialist
Hampshire

BizTalk Specialist
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton region that cited BizTalk Specialist in their job title 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 with BizTalk Specialist in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) EDI
1 3 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS

BizTalk Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton region that cited BizTalk Specialist in their job title 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 with BizTalk Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) EDI
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java