The first table below looks at the demand for NetScaler 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 NetScaler over the 3 months to 21 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 Communications & Networking 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix NetScaler Application Delivery Controller
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing NetScaler 6 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.786% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.108% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £425 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £388 £330
% change year-on-year
- +17.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 - £30.00
All Communications & Networking
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
74 73 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 22.02% 17.59% 22.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 31 19
Average daily rate £285 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.80% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £213 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £375 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 21 10
Average hourly rate £37.00 £42.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.94% +18.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £10.70 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
NetScaler
Cambridgeshire

NetScaler
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing NetScaler across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Cambridge NetScaler Jobs Demand Trend

NetScaler
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge NetScaler Daily Rate Trend

NetScaler
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing NetScaler 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 NetScaler.

1 6 (100.00%) ITIL
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Citrix
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (83.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (83.33%) XenApp
2 5 (83.33%) SCOM
2 5 (83.33%) Red Hat
2 5 (83.33%) Clustering
2 5 (83.33%) PKI
2 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) MS Exchange
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (83.33%) Blackberry
2 5 (83.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 5 (83.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (50.00%) WSUS
3 3 (50.00%) SCCM
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (50.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (33.33%) Lync
5 1 (16.67%) ITIL V3
5 1 (16.67%) PRINCE
5 1 (16.67%) AppSense
5 1 (16.67%) PowerShell

NetScaler
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing NetScaler 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 NetScaler. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) MS Exchange
1 5 (83.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 5 (83.33%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (33.33%) Lync
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Systems Administrator
1 5 (83.33%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Clustering
1 5 (83.33%) PKI
1 5 (83.33%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (83.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL V3
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) VBScript
2 1 (16.67%) VB
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) XenApp
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (16.67%) XenDesktop
4 1 (16.67%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) SCOM
2 3 (50.00%) WSUS
2 3 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Citrix
2 5 (83.33%) Red Hat
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) AppSense
3 1 (16.67%) VMware