Thames Valley BizTalk Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft BizTalk Server skills within the Thames Valley 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	36	59
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	8	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	10.81 %	6.373 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£411	£393
% change on same period last year	+4.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.50	£39.65
% change on same period last year	-5.42 %
Application Platforms Thames Valley
Matching contract IT job ads	74	204
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.095 %	0.229 %
Daily rates quoted	4	25
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£344
Average daily rate	£388	£362
% change on same period last year	+7.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£23.50
Average hourly rate	-	£24.75
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£26.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
BizTalk Server South East

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 Thames Valley 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 Thames Valley region.

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 Thames Valley region.

BizTalk Server
Top 22 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Thames Valley 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 6 (46.15 %) .NET 2 5 (38.46 %) CRM 2 5 (38.46 %) SharePoint 2 5 (38.46 %) Microsoft CRM 2 5 (38.46 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 4 (30.77 %) ASP.NET 3 4 (30.77 %) Microsoft 3 4 (30.77 %) C# 4 3 (23.08 %) SQL Server 5 2 (15.38 %) VB.NET 5 2 (15.38 %) WebServices 6 1 (7.692 %) Workflow 6 1 (7.692 %) Health 6 1 (7.692 %) JavaScript 6 1 (7.692 %) SQL

6 1 (7.692 %) N-Tier 6 1 (7.692 %) EAI 6 1 (7.692 %) InfoPath 6 1 (7.692 %) Windows SharePoint Services 6 1 (7.692 %) Great Plains 6 1 (7.692 %) WF 6 1 (7.692 %) HL7

BizTalk Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Thames Valley 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 6 (46.15 %) .NET 2 4 (30.77 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (15.38 %) WebServices 4 1 (7.692 %) Windows SharePoint Services 4 1 (7.692 %) WF	Application Platforms 1 5 (38.46 %) SharePoint 1 5 (38.46 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 1 (7.692 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 5 (38.46 %) Microsoft CRM 2 1 (7.692 %) Great Plains
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (23.08 %) SQL Server	General 1 1 (7.692 %) Health
Job Titles 1 10 (76.92 %) Developer 2 4 (30.77 %) BizTalk Developer 3 3 (23.08 %) SharePoint Developer 4 2 (15.38 %) Consultant 5 1 (7.692 %) Technical Project Manager 5 1 (7.692 %) Technical Manager 5 1 (7.692 %) CRM Project Manager 5 1 (7.692 %) Microsoft Developer 5 1 (7.692 %) Project Manager 5 1 (7.692 %) BizTalk Consultant 5 1 (7.692 %) CRM Manager	Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.692 %) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (38.46 %) CRM 2 1 (7.692 %) EAI 2 1 (7.692 %) Workflow	Programming Languages 1 4 (30.77 %) C# 2 2 (15.38 %) VB.NET 3 1 (7.692 %) JavaScript 3 1 (7.692 %) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (7.692 %) HL7	Vendors 1 4 (30.77 %) Microsoft