The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft App-V skills in IT contracts advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft App-V 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 System Software category for the Aberdeen 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 Application Virtualisation (formerly Softricity SoftGrid)
Rank 24 24 20
Rank change year-on-year
0 -4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 1 3 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 0.714% 1.538% 4.348%
As % of the System Software category 11.11% 10.34% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 4
Average daily rate - £275 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.29%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £288
% change year-on-year
- +12.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £33.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year
-42.42% +34.69%
All System Software
Aberdeen
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
9 29 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 6.429% 14.87% 20.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 14
Average daily rate £315 £250 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.00% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £231 £141 £198
10% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £328 £312
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
Average hourly rate £12.00 £17.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-29.41% +13.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
Microsoft App-V
Scotland

Microsoft App-V
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft App-V across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Aberdeen Microsoft App-V Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft App-V
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen Microsoft App-V Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft App-V
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing Microsoft App-V 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 Microsoft App-V.

1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
1 2 (50.00%) Perl
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) MSI
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (25.00%) Application Packaging
2 1 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing

Microsoft App-V
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing Microsoft App-V 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 Microsoft App-V. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) Application Packaging
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MSI
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Applications Packager
2 2 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Information Systems Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Information Analyst
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Perl
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix