The first table below looks at the demand for Xen skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Xen 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 of the System Software category for the Canary Wharf 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XenSource Xen
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Xen 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf - - -
As % of the System Software category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+30.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- -36.36%
All System Software
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
8 15 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 2.078% 4.054% 2.200%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 2
Average daily rate £176 £450 £563
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-60.88% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £185 £533
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £700 £593
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Xen
London

Xen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf Xen Jobs Demand Trend

Xen
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Xen 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 Xen.

1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Fedora
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V

Xen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Xen 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 Xen. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Fedora
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat