The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft App-V skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge 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 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 of the System Software category for the Cambridge 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Application Virtualisation (formerly Softricity SoftGrid)
Rank 33 47 -
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 3 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.965% 0.448% -
As % of the System Software category 5.882% 4.167% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £288
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.52 £33.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-40.84% +37.50%
All System Software
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
51 48 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 16.40% 10.76% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 19 12
Average daily rate £294 £300 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.08% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £221 £162 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £350 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £305
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 19 10
Average hourly rate £10.75 £13.42 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.89% +7.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.35 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £46.50 £13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
Microsoft App-V
Cambridgeshire

Microsoft App-V
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Microsoft App-V Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft App-V
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 4 (80.00%) XenApp
2 4 (80.00%) Citrix
2 4 (80.00%) SCCM
3 3 (60.00%) SCOM
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (60.00%) PKI
3 3 (60.00%) Clustering
3 3 (60.00%) Blackberry
3 3 (60.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) Oracle
3 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 3 (60.00%) MS Exchange
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (60.00%) NetScaler
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (60.00%) WSUS
4 1 (20.00%) Fat Client
4 1 (20.00%) IBM Notes
4 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (20.00%) MSI
4 1 (20.00%) InstallShield
4 1 (20.00%) CCA

Microsoft App-V
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 (20.00%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 3 (60.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (20.00%) IBM Notes
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) NetScaler
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MSI
1 1 (20.00%) InstallShield
General
1 1 (20.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Administrator
1 3 (60.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Rollout Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) PKI
1 3 (60.00%) Clustering
1 3 (60.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (20.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (20.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCA
1 1 (20.00%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (20.00%) MCTS
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) XenApp
2 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) SCCM
2 3 (60.00%) SCOM
2 3 (60.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Citrix
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Lotus
3 1 (20.00%) VMware