The first table below looks at the demand for Citrix Presentation Server skills 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 Presentation Server over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix Presentation Server
Rank 196 212 218
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +6
Contract jobs citing Citrix Presentation Server 5 8 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.079% 0.102% 0.186%
As % of the System Software category 0.969% 1.336% 3.448%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 9
Average daily rate £365 £350 £308
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.28% +13.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £305 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £373 £403 £380
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
-8.00% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £23.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +9.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £41.25 £20.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year
+103.70% -3.57%
All System Software
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
516 599 522
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 8.166% 7.671% 5.398%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 358 309
Average daily rate £400 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £248 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £483 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 61 73
Average hourly rate £23.38 £21.50 £20.60
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.72% +4.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.45 £12.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £37.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -3.64%
Citrix Presentation Server
London

Citrix Presentation Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Citrix Presentation Server Jobs Demand Trend

Citrix Presentation Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Citrix Presentation Server Daily Rate Trend

Citrix Presentation Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Citrix Presentation Server Hourly Rate Trend

Citrix Presentation Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Citrix Presentation Server 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 Presentation Server.

1 13 (100.00%) Windows
1 13 (100.00%) Citrix
1 13 (100.00%) XenApp
2 12 (92.31%) VMware
3 10 (76.92%) VMware ESX
4 8 (61.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (53.85%) vSphere
5 7 (53.85%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (46.15%) SAN
6 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
6 6 (46.15%) ITIL
6 6 (46.15%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (46.15%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (38.46%) IIS
7 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
8 4 (30.77%) HP
8 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
8 4 (30.77%) Blackberry
8 4 (30.77%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 4 (30.77%) AppSense
8 4 (30.77%) VLAN
8 4 (30.77%) SCCM
8 4 (30.77%) Hyper-V
8 4 (30.77%) XenDesktop
9 3 (23.08%) Legato
9 3 (23.08%) Leostream
9 3 (23.08%) NAS
9 3 (23.08%) XenServer
9 3 (23.08%) SCOM
9 3 (23.08%) PlateSpin

Citrix Presentation Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (23.08%) .NET
1 3 (23.08%) ASP.NET
1 3 (23.08%) Web Services
1 3 (23.08%) ADSI
2 1 (7.692%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) IIS
2 4 (30.77%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (23.08%) Apache
4 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
4 2 (15.38%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (7.692%) Oracle Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) SAN
2 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
2 4 (30.77%) VLAN
3 3 (23.08%) NAS
3 3 (23.08%) FTP
3 3 (23.08%) Internet
3 3 (23.08%) Firewall
4 1 (7.692%) BIG-IP
4 1 (7.692%) Extranet
4 1 (7.692%) WAN
4 1 (7.692%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (23.08%) Law
2 1 (7.692%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Support Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) 3rd Line Support
1 4 (30.77%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Wintel Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) Citrix Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) SharePoint Administrator
4 1 (7.692%) Architect
4 1 (7.692%) Citrix Specialist
4 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Citrix Architect
4 1 (7.692%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Blackberry
2 3 (23.08%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (46.15%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (23.08%) Windows 2000
4 3 (23.08%) Windows NT
4 3 (23.08%) Windows XP
5 1 (7.692%) Linux
5 1 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (7.692%) Windows 7
5 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) ITIL
2 2 (15.38%) Change Management
3 1 (7.692%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) VBScript
2 2 (15.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (15.38%) CCEA
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (15.38%) MCSE
2 2 (15.38%) CCIA
3 1 (7.692%) CCA
3 1 (7.692%) CCEE
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) XenApp
2 10 (76.92%) VMware ESX
3 8 (61.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (53.85%) vSphere
5 6 (46.15%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
6 4 (30.77%) XenDesktop
6 4 (30.77%) Hyper-V
7 3 (23.08%) XenServer
8 2 (15.38%) UAG
9 1 (7.692%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (7.692%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) SCCM
2 3 (23.08%) SCOM
2 3 (23.08%) Legato
2 3 (23.08%) NetBackup
2 3 (23.08%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Citrix
2 12 (92.31%) VMware
3 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
4 4 (30.77%) HP
4 4 (30.77%) AppSense
5 3 (23.08%) Veritas
5 3 (23.08%) McAfee
5 3 (23.08%) Sophos
5 3 (23.08%) Dell
5 3 (23.08%) IBM
5 3 (23.08%) BMC
5 3 (23.08%) PlateSpin
5 3 (23.08%) Leostream
6 1 (7.692%) F5
6 1 (7.692%) NetApp
6 1 (7.692%) Novell
6 1 (7.692%) Oracle
6 1 (7.692%) Red Hat
6 1 (7.692%) Altiris
6 1 (7.692%) Blue Coat