Xen Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Xen 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 Xen over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XenSource Xen
Rank - 215 241
Contract jobs citing Xen 0 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London - 0.051% 0.040%
As % of the System Software category - 0.658% 0.743%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 4
Average daily rate - £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £419 £325 £338
% change year-on-year
+28.84% -3.70%
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
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 511 608 538
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 8.045% 7.724% 5.395%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 360 321
Average daily rate £400 £365 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.58% -2.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £218
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 62 78
Average hourly rate £21.00 £21.25 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.17% +3.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £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 £17.50
% 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 City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

City of London Xen Jobs Demand Trend

Xen
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Xen Daily Rate Trend

Xen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) Nagios
3 1 (33.33%) OSPF
3 1 (33.33%) BGP
3 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Cryptography
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (33.33%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (33.33%) BladeLogic
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Erlang
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) Git (software)
3 1 (33.33%) NAS
3 1 (33.33%) AMQP
3 1 (33.33%) Scala

Xen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) JMS
1 1 (33.33%) Servlets
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon AWS
1 1 (33.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) OSPF
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) AMQP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) CouchDB
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Server Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cryptography
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (33.33%) Open Source
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
1 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) OO
1 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 1 (33.33%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Erlang
1 1 (33.33%) Scala
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) VCP5
2 1 (33.33%) CCIE
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Nagios
1 1 (33.33%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
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