The first table below looks at the demand for BizTalk Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BizTalk Server over the 3 months to 24 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 Yorkshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft BizTalk Server
Rank 104 83 79
Rank change year-on-year
-21 -4
Contract jobs citing BizTalk Server 6 29 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.323% 1.298% 1.039%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.478% 6.621% 4.460%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 9
Average daily rate £338 £438 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.85% +2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £341 £365
10% offered a daily rate of more than £352 £500 £546
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £425 £363
% change year-on-year
-20.00% +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
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
406 438 426
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 21.85% 19.61% 23.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 241 190
Average daily rate £308 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.38% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £150 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 26 32
Average hourly rate £23.50 £17.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+38.23% -19.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £11.12 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.90 £30.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
BizTalk Server
England

BizTalk Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire BizTalk Server Hourly Rate Trend

BizTalk Server
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BizTalk Server within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
West Yorkshire -11 2 £319 -20.31%
BizTalk Server
England

BizTalk Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 13 (72.22%) .NET
2 9 (50.00%) C#
3 8 (44.44%) VB.NET
4 7 (38.89%) SQL
5 6 (33.33%) PL/SQL
5 6 (33.33%) Oracle
5 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 6 (33.33%) XSLT
5 6 (33.33%) Windows
5 6 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
5 6 (33.33%) WCF
6 5 (27.78%) WinForms
6 5 (27.78%) CRM
7 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
7 4 (22.22%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (16.67%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (16.67%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (16.67%) X++
8 3 (16.67%) Finance
8 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
8 3 (16.67%) ERP
8 3 (16.67%) Project Management
8 3 (16.67%) XML
8 3 (16.67%) MS Excel
9 2 (11.11%) Integration Testing
9 2 (11.11%) Data Migration
9 2 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (11.11%) NHS
9 2 (11.11%) SeeBeyond
9 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management

BizTalk Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 13 (72.22%) .NET
2 6 (33.33%) XSLT
2 6 (33.33%) WCF
3 5 (27.78%) WinForms
4 3 (16.67%) XML
5 1 (5.556%) NHibernate
5 1 (5.556%) WPF
5 1 (5.556%) Ajax
5 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET
5 1 (5.556%) CSS
5 1 (5.556%) SOAP
5 1 (5.556%) Web Services
5 1 (5.556%) XSL
5 1 (5.556%) XHTML
5 1 (5.556%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) SharePoint Server
1 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.556%) ESB
2 1 (5.556%) Apache
2 1 (5.556%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (16.67%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (5.556%) Dynamics NAV
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 6 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (11.11%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (5.556%) NUnit
2 1 (5.556%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.556%) MSTest
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (5.556%) Local Government
2 1 (5.556%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) BizTalk Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Consultant
4 4 (22.22%) .NET Developer
5 3 (16.67%) Dynamics AX Consultant
5 3 (16.67%) VB.NET Developer
6 2 (11.11%) C# Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Integration Consultant
7 1 (5.556%) ScrumMaster
7 1 (5.556%) Systems Developer
7 1 (5.556%) Data Architect
7 1 (5.556%) Web Developer
7 1 (5.556%) Architect
7 1 (5.556%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) CRM
2 3 (16.67%) ERP
2 3 (16.67%) Project Management
3 2 (11.11%) Integration Testing
3 2 (11.11%) Data Migration
3 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 2 (11.11%) Migration
3 2 (11.11%) Web Development
3 2 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (5.556%) TDD
4 1 (5.556%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (5.556%) Logistics
4 1 (5.556%) Business Analysis
4 1 (5.556%) Scrum
4 1 (5.556%) PRINCE2
4 1 (5.556%) OOP
4 1 (5.556%) OO
4 1 (5.556%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) C#
2 8 (44.44%) VB.NET
3 7 (38.89%) SQL
4 6 (33.33%) PL/SQL
5 3 (16.67%) X++
6 1 (5.556%) XPath
6 1 (5.556%) T-SQL
6 1 (5.556%) Java
6 1 (5.556%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.556%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) HL7
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) SeeBeyond
4 1 (5.556%) Lagan