XenDesktop Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for XenDesktop 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 XenDesktop 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 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix XenDesktop
Rank 164 177 226
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +49
Contract jobs citing XenDesktop 39 41 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.611% 0.521% 0.194%
As % of the System Software category 7.647% 6.732% 3.578%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 37 14
Average daily rate £444 £365 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.57% -10.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £275 £340
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £578
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+23.07% -7.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £19.50 - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £36.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- +12.30%
All System Software
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 510 609 531
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 7.995% 7.743% 5.421%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 359 314
Average daily rate £400 £355 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.67% -5.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £244 £225 £220
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 63 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 £11.50 £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 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
XenDesktop
London

XenDesktop
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London XenDesktop Jobs Demand Trend

XenDesktop
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London XenDesktop Daily Rate Trend

XenDesktop
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London XenDesktop Daily Rate Histogram

XenDesktop
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London XenDesktop Hourly Rate Trend

XenDesktop
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 68 (87.18%) Windows
2 66 (84.62%) Citrix
2 66 (84.62%) XenApp
3 38 (48.72%) AppSense
4 34 (43.59%) Active Directory
5 31 (39.74%) Microsoft
5 31 (39.74%) Windows Server 2008
6 29 (37.18%) Windows 7
7 27 (34.62%) Finance
8 23 (29.49%) Banking
8 23 (29.49%) Windows XP
9 20 (25.64%) VMware
10 19 (24.36%) Windows Server 2003
10 19 (24.36%) MS Office
11 17 (21.79%) SCCM
11 17 (21.79%) PowerShell
11 17 (21.79%) NetScaler
12 15 (19.23%) Microsoft App-V
12 15 (19.23%) ITIL
13 14 (17.95%) LANDesk
14 12 (15.38%) VBScript
15 11 (14.10%) Investment Banking
15 11 (14.10%) VMware ESX
15 11 (14.10%) Sysprep
16 10 (12.82%) vSphere
16 10 (12.82%) Lotus Notes
16 10 (12.82%) HP
16 10 (12.82%) Lotus
17 9 (11.54%) SAN
17 9 (11.54%) Law

XenDesktop
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (2.564%) Application Packaging
1 2 (2.564%) Middleware
2 1 (1.282%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.282%) Software Packaging
Application Platforms
1 10 (12.82%) Lotus Notes
2 6 (7.692%) MS Exchange
3 5 (6.410%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (2.564%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (2.564%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (2.564%) IIS
4 2 (2.564%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (2.564%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 19 (24.36%) MS Office
2 5 (6.410%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (21.79%) NetScaler
2 9 (11.54%) SAN
3 7 (8.974%) TCP/IP
4 6 (7.692%) Firewall
5 4 (5.128%) DNS
6 3 (3.846%) WAN
6 3 (3.846%) VPN
6 3 (3.846%) DHCP
7 2 (2.564%) SNMP
7 2 (2.564%) LAN
7 2 (2.564%) NAS
8 1 (1.282%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (1.282%) Extranet
8 1 (1.282%) HTTP
8 1 (1.282%) Cisco PIX
8 1 (1.282%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.128%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (2.564%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (2.564%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (2.564%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (2.564%) MySQL
2 2 (2.564%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (8.974%) InstallShield
2 2 (2.564%) MSI
3 1 (1.282%) Wise Package Studio
General
1 27 (34.62%) Finance
2 23 (29.49%) Banking
3 11 (14.10%) Investment Banking
4 9 (11.54%) Law
5 8 (10.26%) Legal
6 3 (3.846%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 22 (28.21%) Analyst
2 20 (25.64%) Support Analyst
3 15 (19.23%) Architect
4 8 (10.26%) Desktop Support
5 6 (7.692%) Applications Support
6 5 (6.410%) Administrator
6 5 (6.410%) Support Engineer
6 5 (6.410%) Desktop Support Analyst
6 5 (6.410%) Team Leader
6 5 (6.410%) Desktop Analyst
6 5 (6.410%) Citrix Administrator
7 4 (5.128%) Citrix Engineer
7 4 (5.128%) Server Engineer
7 4 (5.128%) Applications Support Analyst
7 4 (5.128%) Technical Support
7 4 (5.128%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.846%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 3 (3.846%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (3.846%) Technical Support Analyst
8 3 (3.846%) Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.128%) Fat Client
1 4 (5.128%) Thin Client
2 2 (2.564%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 68 (87.18%) Windows
2 31 (39.74%) Windows Server 2008
3 29 (37.18%) Windows 7
4 23 (29.49%) Windows XP
5 19 (24.36%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (7.692%) Linux
6 6 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (5.128%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.282%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.282%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (19.23%) ITIL
2 8 (10.26%) Migration
3 7 (8.974%) ITIL V3
4 5 (6.410%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (2.564%) PRINCE2
5 2 (2.564%) SOA
5 2 (2.564%) Project Management
6 1 (1.282%) Service Delivery
6 1 (1.282%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (1.282%) Workflow
6 1 (1.282%) Business Continuity
6 1 (1.282%) Problem Management
6 1 (1.282%) Load Balancing
6 1 (1.282%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.79%) PowerShell
2 12 (15.38%) VBScript
3 7 (8.974%) SQL
4 4 (5.128%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (10.26%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (8.974%) Citrix Certification
3 6 (7.692%) MCSE
4 5 (6.410%) CCA
5 3 (3.846%) CCIA
5 3 (3.846%) CCEA
5 3 (3.846%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.846%) CCNA
6 2 (2.564%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.282%) VCP5
7 1 (1.282%) CCEE
7 1 (1.282%) CCAA
7 1 (1.282%) MCP
7 1 (1.282%) CCNP
7 1 (1.282%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.564%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.564%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.282%) SLA
2 1 (1.282%) QA
System Software
1 66 (84.62%) XenApp
2 34 (43.59%) Active Directory
3 15 (19.23%) Microsoft App-V
4 11 (14.10%) VMware ESX
5 10 (12.82%) vSphere
6 8 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (5.128%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 4 (5.128%) XenServer
8 2 (2.564%) Terminal Services
9 1 (1.282%) Hyper-V
9 1 (1.282%) NFS
Systems Management
1 17 (21.79%) SCCM
2 11 (14.10%) Sysprep
3 2 (2.564%) Backup Exec
4 1 (1.282%) AppDNA
Vendors
1 66 (84.62%) Citrix
2 38 (48.72%) AppSense
3 31 (39.74%) Microsoft
4 20 (25.64%) VMware
5 14 (17.95%) LANDesk
6 10 (12.82%) HP
6 10 (12.82%) Lotus
7 8 (10.26%) EMC
8 7 (8.974%) Wyse
9 6 (7.692%) Oracle
9 6 (7.692%) Red Hat
10 5 (6.410%) Reuters
10 5 (6.410%) Bloomberg
11 4 (5.128%) BMC
11 4 (5.128%) NetApp
12 3 (3.846%) Altiris
13 2 (2.564%) Siebel
13 2 (2.564%) Dell
14 1 (1.282%) Novell
14 1 (1.282%) Cisco
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