The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft App-V skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire 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 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 System Software category 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.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Application Virtualisation (formerly Softricity SoftGrid)
Rank 50 55 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 3 8 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.550% 1.173% -
As % of the System Software category 3.896% 11.43% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £300 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £286
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +11.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £33.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-42.42% +37.50%
All System Software
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
77 70 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 14.13% 10.26% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 30 25
Average daily rate £310 £300 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £209 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £388 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 22
Average hourly rate £17.50 £29.75 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.17% +128.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £47.50 £19.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Microsoft App-V
East of England

Microsoft App-V
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Microsoft App-V Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft App-V
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft App-V within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 21 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 +12 3 - -
Microsoft App-V
East of England

Microsoft App-V
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 22 (88.00%) Windows
2 17 (68.00%) Microsoft
3 16 (64.00%) MSI
3 16 (64.00%) Citrix
3 16 (64.00%) SCCM
4 15 (60.00%) InstallShield
5 14 (56.00%) VBScript
5 14 (56.00%) VMware
6 13 (52.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 13 (52.00%) VB
7 12 (48.00%) SLA
8 11 (44.00%) Validation
9 8 (32.00%) Windows 7
10 7 (28.00%) Remedy
10 7 (28.00%) MCSE
10 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (28.00%) Terminal Services
11 6 (24.00%) Active Directory
12 5 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
12 5 (20.00%) AdminStudio
12 5 (20.00%) XenApp
12 5 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (16.00%) SCOM
13 4 (16.00%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (16.00%) Application Packaging
13 4 (16.00%) Service Delivery
13 4 (16.00%) MS Exchange
13 4 (16.00%) ITIL
14 3 (12.00%) SQL
14 3 (12.00%) Linux

Microsoft App-V
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 4 (16.00%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 4 (16.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 4 (16.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (12.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (4.000%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 1 (4.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.000%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (64.00%) MSI
2 15 (60.00%) InstallShield
3 5 (20.00%) AdminStudio
4 2 (8.000%) Wise Package Studio
General
1 1 (4.000%) Front Office
1 1 (4.000%) Telecoms
1 1 (4.000%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (68.00%) Applications Packager
2 4 (16.00%) Software Packager
2 4 (16.00%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (16.00%) Administrator
3 1 (4.000%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (4.000%) Rollout Engineer
3 1 (4.000%) Applications Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) PKI
1 3 (12.00%) Blackberry
1 3 (12.00%) Clustering
2 1 (4.000%) Fat Client
2 1 (4.000%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 22 (88.00%) Windows
2 8 (32.00%) Windows 7
3 5 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (12.00%) Linux
4 3 (12.00%) Windows Vista
4 3 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.000%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Validation
2 4 (16.00%) Service Delivery
2 4 (16.00%) ITIL
3 2 (8.000%) Migration
3 2 (8.000%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (4.000%) Test Scripting
4 1 (4.000%) Incident Management
4 1 (4.000%) Release Management
4 1 (4.000%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (4.000%) Software Architecture
4 1 (4.000%) DNA
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) VBScript
2 13 (52.00%) VB
3 3 (12.00%) SQL
3 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) MCSE
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.000%) MCTS
2 1 (4.000%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.000%) CCA
2 1 (4.000%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (48.00%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (52.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (28.00%) Terminal Services
3 6 (24.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (20.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 16 (64.00%) SCCM
2 4 (16.00%) SCOM
3 3 (12.00%) WSUS
4 2 (8.000%) AppDNA
5 1 (4.000%) Backup Exec
5 1 (4.000%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 17 (68.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (64.00%) Citrix
3 14 (56.00%) VMware
4 7 (28.00%) Remedy
5 3 (12.00%) Oracle
5 3 (12.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.000%) AppSense
6 1 (4.000%) Symantec
6 1 (4.000%) Lotus
6 1 (4.000%) Dell