The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Citrix over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the Bedfordshire 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Citrix Systems.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix
Rank 10 12 33
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +21
Contract jobs citing Citrix 24 24 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 12.18% 9.160% 4.016%
As % of the Vendors category 30.38% 19.35% 7.692%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 7
Average daily rate £350 £361 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.91% +20.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £157 £130 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £375 £326
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £12.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.25
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +7.69%
All Vendors
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
79 124 130
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 40.10% 47.33% 52.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 61 46
Average daily rate £350 £375 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +26.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £403
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 7
Average hourly rate - £32.75 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +23.58%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
Citrix
East of England

Citrix
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Citrix across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Bedfordshire Citrix Jobs Demand Trend

Citrix
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Citrix across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Citrix Daily Rate Trend

Citrix
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Citrix across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Bedfordshire Citrix Daily Rate Histogram

Citrix
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Citrix across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Citrix Hourly Rate Trend

Citrix
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Dunstable +2 6 £450 +36.36%
Luton 0 6 £388 +7.48% 1
Bedford - - - -
Leighton Buzzard - - - -
Citrix
East of England

Citrix
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Citrix 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 Citrix.

1 32 (69.57%) Windows
2 31 (67.39%) VMware
3 23 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 19 (41.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (34.78%) Active Directory
5 16 (34.78%) XenApp
6 15 (32.61%) Windows Server 2003
7 14 (30.43%) Windows 7
7 14 (30.43%) Windows Server 2008
8 12 (26.09%) HP
8 12 (26.09%) SQL Server
8 12 (26.09%) IIS
9 11 (23.91%) Cisco
10 10 (21.74%) ITIL
10 10 (21.74%) MS Exchange
11 9 (19.57%) Finance
12 8 (17.39%) Fat Client
12 8 (17.39%) MS Visio
12 8 (17.39%) Project Management
12 8 (17.39%) SAN
12 8 (17.39%) Thin Client
12 8 (17.39%) XenDesktop
13 7 (15.22%) DNS
13 7 (15.22%) DHCP
13 7 (15.22%) MS Excel
13 7 (15.22%) SQL
14 6 (13.04%) PRINCE2
14 6 (13.04%) LAN
14 6 (13.04%) WAN
14 6 (13.04%) Windows XP

Citrix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Citrix 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 Citrix. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (6.522%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 12 (26.09%) IIS
2 10 (21.74%) MS Exchange
3 6 (13.04%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (8.696%) Exchange Server 2003
5 3 (6.522%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (4.348%) SharePoint
7 1 (2.174%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (2.174%) Lync
Applications
1 8 (17.39%) MS Visio
2 7 (15.22%) MS Excel
3 4 (8.696%) MS Office
4 2 (4.348%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (8.696%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (4.348%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.39%) SAN
2 7 (15.22%) DNS
2 7 (15.22%) DHCP
3 6 (13.04%) LAN
3 6 (13.04%) WAN
3 6 (13.04%) DMZ
3 6 (13.04%) IP Telephony
4 4 (8.696%) Nortel Meridian
5 3 (6.522%) Firewall
6 1 (2.174%) Wireless
6 1 (2.174%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.348%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (4.348%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) MSI
2 3 (6.522%) AdminStudio
3 1 (2.174%) Wise Package Studio
General
1 9 (19.57%) Finance
2 5 (10.87%) Back Office
2 5 (10.87%) Local Government
2 5 (10.87%) Retail
3 1 (2.174%) Legal
3 1 (2.174%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.174%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) Analyst
2 7 (15.22%) Architect
2 7 (15.22%) Network Engineer
2 7 (15.22%) Applications Packager
3 6 (13.04%) Technical Analyst
4 5 (10.87%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (10.87%) Senior Technical Analyst
5 4 (8.696%) Project Manager
5 4 (8.696%) Technical Architect
6 3 (6.522%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (6.522%) Support Analyst
6 3 (6.522%) Technical Engineer
6 3 (6.522%) Desktop Support
6 3 (6.522%) Senior Technical Engineer
7 2 (4.348%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 2 (4.348%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 2 (4.348%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.348%) Wintel Engineer
7 2 (4.348%) Server Engineer
7 2 (4.348%) Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Fat Client
1 8 (17.39%) Thin Client
2 5 (10.87%) IVR
3 2 (4.348%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.174%) Clustering
4 1 (2.174%) Replication
4 1 (2.174%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.174%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 32 (69.57%) Windows
2 15 (32.61%) Windows Server 2003
3 14 (30.43%) Windows 7
3 14 (30.43%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (13.04%) Windows XP
5 5 (10.87%) Windows 2000 Server
6 2 (4.348%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (21.74%) ITIL
2 8 (17.39%) Project Management
3 6 (13.04%) PRINCE2
4 5 (10.87%) TOGAF
5 4 (8.696%) Change Management
6 3 (6.522%) DNA
7 2 (4.348%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (4.348%) PRINCE
7 2 (4.348%) Supplier Management
7 2 (4.348%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (4.348%) Migration
7 2 (4.348%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (4.348%) Service Delivery
7 2 (4.348%) Business Continuity
8 1 (2.174%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (2.174%) Data Architecture
8 1 (2.174%) Resource Management
8 1 (2.174%) Technical Architecture
8 1 (2.174%) ERP
8 1 (2.174%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.696%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.522%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.348%) MCSE
3 2 (4.348%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (2.174%) MCITP
4 1 (2.174%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.174%) Degree
4 1 (2.174%) MCSA
4 1 (2.174%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (2.174%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.696%) ISO 9001
1 4 (8.696%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (8.696%) TickIT
2 1 (2.174%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (2.174%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (41.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (34.78%) Active Directory
2 16 (34.78%) XenApp
3 8 (17.39%) XenDesktop
4 6 (13.04%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (10.87%) VMware Server
5 5 (10.87%) Terminal Server
6 4 (8.696%) Forefront TMG
6 4 (8.696%) VMware ESX
7 3 (6.522%) vSphere
8 2 (4.348%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 4 (8.696%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 4 (8.696%) NetBackup
2 3 (6.522%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (6.522%) WhatsUp Gold
2 3 (6.522%) AppDNA
3 2 (4.348%) ZENworks
4 1 (2.174%) SCOM
4 1 (2.174%) OpenView Configuration Management
4 1 (2.174%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 31 (67.39%) VMware
2 23 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 12 (26.09%) HP
4 11 (23.91%) Cisco
5 5 (10.87%) AppSense
6 4 (8.696%) Symantec
6 4 (8.696%) Nortel
6 4 (8.696%) Oracle
6 4 (8.696%) LANDesk
7 3 (6.522%) Dell
8 2 (4.348%) Websense
8 2 (4.348%) CA
8 2 (4.348%) Novell
8 2 (4.348%) Adobe
8 2 (4.348%) Mercator
9 1 (2.174%) EMC
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