The first table below looks at the demand for XenApp 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 XenApp 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix XenApp
Rank 29 45 33
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -12
Contract jobs citing XenApp 7 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 2.128% 0.708% 0.391%
As % of the System Software category 13.21% 7.895% 3.226%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £295 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 £47.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-57.89% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £22.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+66.66% -18.18%
All System Software
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
53 38 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 16.11% 8.962% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 12
Average daily rate £310 £290 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.89% -14.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £185 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £388 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 11
Average hourly rate £16.38 £37.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.33% +200.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.05 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.80 £47.50 £13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
XenApp
Cambridgeshire

XenApp
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge XenApp Hourly Rate Trend

XenApp
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Citrix
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (87.50%) MS Exchange
2 7 (87.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (75.00%) ITIL
3 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (62.50%) NetScaler
4 5 (62.50%) SCOM
4 5 (62.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (62.50%) SQL
4 5 (62.50%) Oracle
4 5 (62.50%) Linux
4 5 (62.50%) Clustering
4 5 (62.50%) PKI
4 5 (62.50%) Blackberry
4 5 (62.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 5 (62.50%) Red Hat
5 4 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (50.00%) Windows 7
5 4 (50.00%) SCCM
6 3 (37.50%) WSUS
6 3 (37.50%) VMware
7 2 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (25.00%) Lync
8 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
8 1 (12.50%) Fat Client

XenApp
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 7 (87.50%) MS Exchange
2 6 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (62.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (25.00%) Lync
5 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (12.50%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) NetScaler
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
General
1 1 (12.50%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Systems Administrator
1 5 (62.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Rollout Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Clustering
1 5 (62.50%) PKI
1 5 (62.50%) Blackberry
2 1 (12.50%) Fat Client
2 1 (12.50%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (87.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (62.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (62.50%) Linux
4 4 (50.00%) Windows 7
5 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) MCTS
1 1 (12.50%) CCA
1 1 (12.50%) Citrix Certification
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) SCOM
2 4 (50.00%) SCCM
3 3 (37.50%) WSUS
4 1 (12.50%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Citrix
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (62.50%) Oracle
3 5 (62.50%) Red Hat
4 3 (37.50%) VMware
5 1 (12.50%) Lotus