The first table below looks at the demand for Citrix Certification in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Citrix Certification 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 Qualifications for the City of London 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 Certification
Rank 195 200 218
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +18
Contract jobs citing Citrix Certification 8 18 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.125% 0.229% 0.276%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.851% 1.673% 2.233%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 20
Average daily rate £365 £388 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.80% +17.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £344 £350 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £278 £265
% change year-on-year
+26.12% +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Average hourly rate - £22.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.27%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £20.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -20.00%
All Qualifications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
940 1076 1209
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 14.74% 13.68% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 646 767
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 50 53
Average hourly rate £36.29 £17.85 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+103.30% -15.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £28.20 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Citrix Certification
London

Citrix Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Citrix Certification across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

City of London Citrix Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Citrix Certification
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Citrix Certification across the City of London region.

City of London Citrix Certification Daily Rate Trend

Citrix Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Citrix Certification across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Citrix Certification Daily Rate Histogram

Citrix Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Citrix Certification across the City of London region.

City of London Citrix Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Citrix Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Citrix Certification 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 Certification.

1 19 (100.00%) Citrix
2 14 (73.68%) Windows
3 11 (57.89%) CCA
3 11 (57.89%) VMware
4 8 (42.11%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (42.11%) XenApp
5 7 (36.84%) XenDesktop
5 7 (36.84%) AppSense
5 7 (36.84%) Active Directory
5 7 (36.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (36.84%) MCSE
6 6 (31.58%) CCEA
6 6 (31.58%) Finance
7 5 (26.32%) VMware ESX
7 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (26.32%) SAN
7 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
7 5 (26.32%) CCIA
8 4 (21.05%) Windows 7
8 4 (21.05%) SCCM
8 4 (21.05%) MS Exchange
8 4 (21.05%) ITIL
8 4 (21.05%) Firewall
9 3 (15.79%) Law
9 3 (15.79%) WAN
9 3 (15.79%) Cisco
9 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (15.79%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 3 (15.79%) XenServer
9 3 (15.79%) Degree

Citrix Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Citrix Certification 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 Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) MS Exchange
2 3 (15.79%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (5.263%) SharePoint
4 1 (5.263%) IIS
4 1 (5.263%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (5.263%) MS Excel
1 1 (5.263%) MS Project
1 1 (5.263%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) SAN
2 4 (21.05%) Firewall
3 3 (15.79%) WAN
4 2 (10.53%) DNS
5 1 (5.263%) Extranet
5 1 (5.263%) LAN
5 1 (5.263%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.263%) VPN
5 1 (5.263%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (5.263%) Cisco PIX
5 1 (5.263%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (5.263%) NetScaler
General
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Law
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Legal
4 1 (5.263%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.263%) Local Government
4 1 (5.263%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Citrix Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (15.79%) Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Citrix Architect
4 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Server Support
4 2 (10.53%) Server Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Server Support
4 2 (10.53%) Support Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Server Support Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Citrix Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (5.263%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (5.263%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) Fixed Income
1 1 (5.263%) Clustering
1 1 (5.263%) Blackberry
1 1 (5.263%) Thin Client
1 1 (5.263%) Fat Client
1 1 (5.263%) PDA
1 1 (5.263%) Derivative
1 1 (5.263%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 14 (73.68%) Windows
2 8 (42.11%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (21.05%) Windows 7
5 1 (5.263%) SUSE
5 1 (5.263%) Mac OS X
5 1 (5.263%) Windows XP
5 1 (5.263%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) ITIL
2 2 (10.53%) Project Management
3 1 (5.263%) Service Delivery
3 1 (5.263%) PRINCE2
3 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (5.263%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.263%) C
2 1 (5.263%) SQL
2 1 (5.263%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) CCA
2 7 (36.84%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (36.84%) MCSE
3 6 (31.58%) CCEA
4 5 (26.32%) CCIA
5 3 (15.79%) Degree
5 3 (15.79%) CCEE
6 2 (10.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (10.53%) CCNP
6 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (5.263%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (5.263%) CCNA
7 1 (5.263%) CCIE
7 1 (5.263%) MCSA
7 1 (5.263%) MCITP
7 1 (5.263%) VCP5
7 1 (5.263%) CCAA
7 1 (5.263%) NCDA
7 1 (5.263%) NCIE
7 1 (5.263%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.263%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) XenApp
2 7 (36.84%) XenDesktop
2 7 (36.84%) Active Directory
3 5 (26.32%) VMware ESX
4 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (15.79%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 3 (15.79%) XenServer
5 2 (10.53%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (5.263%) vSphere
6 1 (5.263%) IAG
6 1 (5.263%) UAG
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) SCCM
2 1 (5.263%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) Citrix
2 11 (57.89%) VMware
3 7 (36.84%) AppSense
4 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
5 3 (15.79%) Cisco
6 1 (5.263%) HP
6 1 (5.263%) NetApp
6 1 (5.263%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.263%) Altiris
6 1 (5.263%) LANDesk