The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Citrix 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 Vendors for the Cambridgeshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix
Rank 25 31 30
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -1
Contract jobs citing Citrix 27 32 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 4.918% 4.631% 4.008%
As % of the Vendors category 9.747% 9.552% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 7
Average daily rate £325 £300 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -3.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £194 £230 £253
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £336 £348
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £325 £303
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +7.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 9
Average hourly rate £11.00 £22.00 £11.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% +95.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.80 £22.00 £8.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.50 £42.40 £27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £16.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
-4.68% -4.47%
All Vendors
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
277 335 194
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 50.46% 48.48% 37.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 155 76
Average daily rate £325 £323 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.77% -0.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £214 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 30 49
Average hourly rate £17.50 £37.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.33% +167.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.30 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £47.50 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -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 Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Citrix Hourly Rate Trend

Citrix
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Citrix across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire Citrix Hourly Rate Histogram

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Cambridge +13 18 £400 +37.93%
Huntingdon +1 2 - -
Citrix
East of England

Citrix
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 51 (72.86%) Windows
2 39 (55.71%) Microsoft
3 31 (44.29%) Active Directory
4 27 (38.57%) VMware
5 25 (35.71%) XenApp
6 21 (30.00%) MS Exchange
7 18 (25.71%) Microsoft App-V
7 18 (25.71%) SCCM
7 18 (25.71%) Windows Server 2008
8 14 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 14 (20.00%) SCOM
8 14 (20.00%) ITIL
9 13 (18.57%) Windows Server 2003
9 13 (18.57%) AppSense
9 13 (18.57%) PowerShell
10 12 (17.14%) Windows 7
10 12 (17.14%) Exchange Server 2010
10 12 (17.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (14.29%) SLA
11 10 (14.29%) Terminal Services
11 10 (14.29%) MSI
11 10 (14.29%) InstallShield
11 10 (14.29%) VBScript
11 10 (14.29%) TCP/IP
11 10 (14.29%) MCSE
12 9 (12.86%) SharePoint
12 9 (12.86%) Linux
12 9 (12.86%) MS Office
12 9 (12.86%) Red Hat
12 9 (12.86%) XenDesktop

Citrix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 1 (1.429%) .NET
1 1 (1.429%) ASP.NET
1 1 (1.429%) COM
1 1 (1.429%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 21 (30.00%) MS Exchange
2 12 (17.14%) Exchange Server 2010
3 9 (12.86%) SharePoint
4 5 (7.143%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 5 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (5.714%) Lync
6 3 (4.286%) Exchange Server 2003
6 3 (4.286%) Lotus Notes
7 2 (2.857%) Apache
8 1 (1.429%) IIS
8 1 (1.429%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 9 (12.86%) MS Office
2 8 (11.43%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 6 (8.571%) NetScaler
3 5 (7.143%) DHCP
3 5 (7.143%) DNS
4 2 (2.857%) LAN
5 1 (1.429%) WAN
5 1 (1.429%) HTTP
5 1 (1.429%) LDAP
5 1 (1.429%) SAN
5 1 (1.429%) Internet
5 1 (1.429%) Firewall
5 1 (1.429%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.429%) VLAN
5 1 (1.429%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.429%) NAS
5 1 (1.429%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (14.29%) MSI
1 10 (14.29%) InstallShield
2 5 (7.143%) AdminStudio
3 3 (4.286%) Wise Package Studio
4 1 (1.429%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.429%) Subversion
General
1 5 (7.143%) Telecoms
2 3 (4.286%) Finance
3 2 (2.857%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.429%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 11 (15.71%) Applications Packager
2 10 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
2 10 (14.29%) Administrator
3 8 (11.43%) Architect
4 6 (8.571%) Analyst
4 6 (8.571%) Consultant
5 5 (7.143%) Technical Architect
5 5 (7.143%) Service Analyst
5 5 (7.143%) Service Desk Analyst
6 4 (5.714%) 1st Line Support
6 4 (5.714%) Citrix Architect
7 3 (4.286%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.286%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (4.286%) Support Analyst
7 3 (4.286%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 3 (4.286%) Linux Administrator
7 3 (4.286%) SharePoint Architect
8 2 (2.857%) Citrix Consultant
8 2 (2.857%) 1st Line Support Analyst
8 2 (2.857%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.43%) Blackberry
1 8 (11.43%) Clustering
2 6 (8.571%) Thin Client
2 6 (8.571%) Fat Client
3 5 (7.143%) PKI
4 4 (5.714%) NHS
5 2 (2.857%) SaaS
5 2 (2.857%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (1.429%) Computer Science
6 1 (1.429%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 51 (72.86%) Windows
2 18 (25.71%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (18.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 12 (17.14%) Windows 7
5 9 (12.86%) Linux
6 7 (10.00%) Windows XP
7 6 (8.571%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (4.286%) Windows Vista
9 2 (2.857%) HPUX
10 1 (1.429%) Solaris
10 1 (1.429%) Windows 2000 Server
10 1 (1.429%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (20.00%) ITIL
2 6 (8.571%) Validation
2 6 (8.571%) Service Delivery
2 6 (8.571%) Change Control
2 6 (8.571%) Build Automation
3 5 (7.143%) Release Management
3 5 (7.143%) Migration
4 4 (5.714%) ERP
4 4 (5.714%) Load Balancing
4 4 (5.714%) Incident Management
4 4 (5.714%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (4.286%) Project Management
5 3 (4.286%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (2.857%) E-business
6 2 (2.857%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (1.429%) IC Design
7 1 (1.429%) Software Engineering
7 1 (1.429%) PRINCE
7 1 (1.429%) PRINCE2
7 1 (1.429%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (18.57%) PowerShell
2 10 (14.29%) VBScript
3 8 (11.43%) VB
4 5 (7.143%) SQL
5 3 (4.286%) C
6 2 (2.857%) Perl
7 1 (1.429%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (17.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (14.29%) MCSE
3 4 (5.714%) Citrix Certification
4 3 (4.286%) Degree
4 3 (4.286%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.286%) CCEE
5 2 (2.857%) MCP
6 1 (1.429%) CCA
6 1 (1.429%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (44.29%) Active Directory
2 25 (35.71%) XenApp
3 18 (25.71%) Microsoft App-V
4 14 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (14.29%) Terminal Services
6 9 (12.86%) XenDesktop
6 9 (12.86%) vSphere
7 7 (10.00%) Hyper-V
8 6 (8.571%) XenServer
9 5 (7.143%) IAG
10 4 (5.714%) VMware ESX
10 4 (5.714%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (2.857%) NFS
12 1 (1.429%) Xen
12 1 (1.429%) VMware Server
12 1 (1.429%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (1.429%) Samba
12 1 (1.429%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (25.71%) SCCM
2 14 (20.00%) SCOM
3 5 (7.143%) Backup Exec
4 3 (4.286%) WSUS
5 2 (2.857%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (2.857%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (2.857%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 2 (2.857%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.429%) ARCserve
6 1 (1.429%) AppManager
Vendors
1 39 (55.71%) Microsoft
2 27 (38.57%) VMware
3 13 (18.57%) AppSense
4 9 (12.86%) Red Hat
5 7 (10.00%) Remedy
5 7 (10.00%) Oracle
6 6 (8.571%) HP
6 6 (8.571%) Dell
6 6 (8.571%) Wyse
7 5 (7.143%) Symantec
8 3 (4.286%) Toshiba
8 3 (4.286%) Cisco
8 3 (4.286%) Lotus
9 2 (2.857%) McAfee
9 2 (2.857%) Sophos
9 2 (2.857%) EMC
9 2 (2.857%) SAP
9 2 (2.857%) Adobe
10 1 (1.429%) Sun
10 1 (1.429%) Intel