Yorkshire BizTalk Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft BizTalk Server skills within the Yorkshire 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 16 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 London Luton Maidenhead Manchester 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 Staines Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Wales Warrington Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	112	79
Rank change on same period last year	-33
Matching contract IT job ads	13	48
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.054 %
As % of the category below	2.600 %	8.807 %
Daily rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£370
Average daily rate	£425	£385
% change on same period last year	+10.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£407	£391
% change on same period last year	+3.91 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	-
Average hourly rate	£37.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.53	£40.05
% change on same period last year	-3.80 %
Application Platforms Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	500	545
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.642 %	0.612 %
Daily rates quoted	95	65
Average minimum daily rate	£287	£289
Average daily rate	£304	£304
% change on same period last year	-0.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£322	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£354
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	63	51
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.12	£14.14
Average hourly rate	£17.44	£14.69
% change on same period last year	+18.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.77	£15.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.66	£22.76
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
BizTalk Server England

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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

BizTalk Server
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BizTalk Server within the Yorkshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	West Yorkshire	-8	6	-	-
2	North Yorkshire	-19	1	-	-

BizTalk Server England

BizTalk Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Yorkshire 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 27 (90.00 %) .NET 2 22 (73.33 %) C# 3 19 (63.33 %) SQL Server 4 11 (36.67 %) XML 5 9 (30.00 %) Finance 5 9 (30.00 %) SQL Server 2005 6 7 (23.33 %) Microsoft 6 7 (23.33 %) SharePoint 6 7 (23.33 %) ASP.NET 7 6 (20.00 %) Windows 7 6 (20.00 %) .NET Framework 8 5 (16.67 %) VB6 8 5 (16.67 %) Configuration Management 8 5 (16.67 %) OO 8 5 (16.67 %) WebServices

8 5 (16.67 %) VB 9 4 (13.33 %) VB.NET 9 4 (13.33 %) SQL 9 4 (13.33 %) SQL Server 2000 9 4 (13.33 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 4 (13.33 %) Unit Testing 10 3 (10.00 %) Workflow 10 3 (10.00 %) Agile Software Development 10 3 (10.00 %) CSS 10 3 (10.00 %) SOAP 10 3 (10.00 %) Oracle 10 3 (10.00 %) HTML 10 3 (10.00 %) JavaScript 10 3 (10.00 %) RUP 10 3 (10.00 %) Windows 2000

BizTalk Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Yorkshire 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 27 (90.00 %) .NET 2 11 (36.67 %) XML 3 7 (23.33 %) ASP.NET 4 6 (20.00 %) .NET Framework 5 5 (16.67 %) WebServices 6 3 (10.00 %) HTML 6 3 (10.00 %) CSS 6 3 (10.00 %) SOAP 7 2 (6.667 %) XSLT 7 2 (6.667 %) XML Schema 8 1 (3.333 %) WCF 8 1 (3.333 %) EDI 8 1 (3.333 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 7 (23.33 %) SharePoint 2 2 (6.667 %) IIS 2 2 (6.667 %) EPiServer 3 1 (3.333 %) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications 1 1 (3.333 %) Great Plains	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.333 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 19 (63.33 %) SQL Server 2 9 (30.00 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (13.33 %) SQL Server 2000 3 4 (13.33 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (3.333 %) Oracle Reports	Development Applications 1 1 (3.333 %) Visual Studio
General 1 9 (30.00 %) Finance 2 1 (3.333 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 20 (66.67 %) Developer 2 6 (20.00 %) .NET Developer 3 5 (16.67 %) C# Developer 4 4 (13.33 %) BizTalk Developer 4 4 (13.33 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 4 4 (13.33 %) VB Developer 4 4 (13.33 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 2 (6.667 %) Software Developer 5 2 (6.667 %) Project Manager 5 2 (6.667 %) Tester 5 2 (6.667 %) Analyst 5 2 (6.667 %) Infrastructure Specialist 6 1 (3.333 %) Developer Analyst 6 1 (3.333 %) Technical Test Analyst 6 1 (3.333 %) VB6 Developer 6 1 (3.333 %) BizTalk Consultant 6 1 (3.333 %) Technical Analyst 6 1 (3.333 %) Test Analyst 6 1 (3.333 %) IT Manager 6 1 (3.333 %) Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.333 %) Data Integration	Operating Systems 1 6 (20.00 %) Windows 2 3 (10.00 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (16.67 %) OO 1 5 (16.67 %) Configuration Management 2 4 (13.33 %) Unit Testing 3 3 (10.00 %) Workflow 3 3 (10.00 %) Agile Software Development 3 3 (10.00 %) RUP 3 3 (10.00 %) UML 3 3 (10.00 %) SOA 4 2 (6.667 %) CRM 4 2 (6.667 %) Content Management 4 2 (6.667 %) Software Testing 4 2 (6.667 %) Integration Testing 4 2 (6.667 %) Time Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Migration 5 1 (3.333 %) Matrix Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Use Case 5 1 (3.333 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (3.333 %) Process Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Disaster Recovery 5 1 (3.333 %) BPM	Programming Languages 1 22 (73.33 %) C# 2 5 (16.67 %) VB 2 5 (16.67 %) VB6 3 4 (13.33 %) VB.NET 3 4 (13.33 %) SQL 4 3 (10.00 %) JavaScript 5 1 (3.333 %) COBOL
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (6.667 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (3.333 %) MSMQ
Vendors 1 7 (23.33 %) Microsoft 2 3 (10.00 %) Oracle 3 1 (3.333 %) Siebel 3 1 (3.333 %) Micro Focus 3 1 (3.333 %) Northgate