The first table below looks at the demand for XenApp skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XenApp over the 3 months to 17 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 Bristol 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix XenApp
Rank 49 50 43
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -7
Contract jobs citing XenApp 1 11 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.187% 1.294% 0.930%
As % of the System Software category 2.941% 20.75% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 5
Average daily rate £260 £355 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.76% +1.42%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £23.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.78% -13.63%
All System Software
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
34 53 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 6.367% 6.235% 6.667%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 29 15
Average daily rate £333 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.83% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £156 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £467 £400 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 10
Average hourly rate £17.00 £21.00 £15.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.04% +37.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £17.85 £9.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £80.30 £21.35 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
XenApp
South West

XenApp
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol XenApp Jobs Demand Trend

XenApp
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bristol XenApp Daily Rate Trend

XenApp
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bristol XenApp Hourly Rate Trend

XenApp
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing XenApp 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 XenApp.

1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Wyse
3 1 (25.00%) XenDesktop
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (25.00%) SCCM
3 1 (25.00%) SCOM
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) EMC
3 1 (25.00%) NetApp
3 1 (25.00%) Symantec
3 1 (25.00%) McAfee
3 1 (25.00%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
3 1 (25.00%) AppSense

XenApp
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing XenApp 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 XenApp. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Consultant
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) AppSense
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) EMC
2 1 (25.00%) NetApp
2 1 (25.00%) Symantec
2 1 (25.00%) McAfee
2 1 (25.00%) Wyse