The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Derbyshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Citrix 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 Vendors for the Derbyshire 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Citrix Systems.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix
Rank 15 18 34
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +16
Contract jobs citing Citrix 7 14 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Derbyshire 5.109% 6.604% 1.325%
As % of the Vendors category 10.00% 11.76% 3.509%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 2
Average daily rate £340 £420 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.04% +15.86%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £11.21 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.25 £16.50 £16.75
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -1.49%
All Vendors
Derbyshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
70 119 114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Derbyshire 51.09% 56.13% 37.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 42 40
Average daily rate £320 £370 £361
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.51% +2.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £150 £89
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 15
Average hourly rate £15.50 £33.50 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.73% +28.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.02 £10.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £57.50 £120.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Citrix
East Midlands

Citrix
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Derbyshire Citrix Jobs Demand Trend

Citrix
Daily Rate Trend

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

Derbyshire Citrix Daily Rate Trend

Citrix
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Derbyshire Citrix Hourly Rate Trend

Citrix
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix within the Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Derby +9 5 £340 -12.65%
Citrix
East Midlands

Citrix
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire region citing Citrix 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.

1 9 (60.00%) Windows
1 9 (60.00%) Cisco
1 9 (60.00%) VMware
2 8 (53.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (46.67%) Active Directory
4 6 (40.00%) LAN
5 5 (33.33%) WLAN
5 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 5 (33.33%) Firewall
5 5 (33.33%) Wireless
6 3 (20.00%) NetApp
6 3 (20.00%) Backup Exec
6 3 (20.00%) SQL
7 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
7 2 (13.33%) WAN
7 2 (13.33%) NFS
7 2 (13.33%) SLA
7 2 (13.33%) ISA Server
7 2 (13.33%) Symantec
7 2 (13.33%) McAfee
7 2 (13.33%) Norton AntiVirus
7 2 (13.33%) Blackberry
7 2 (13.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 2 (13.33%) Project Management
7 2 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (13.33%) WSUS
7 2 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (13.33%) iSCSI
7 2 (13.33%) XenApp
7 2 (13.33%) Riverbed

Citrix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (13.33%) MS Exchange
1 2 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) LAN
2 5 (33.33%) WLAN
2 5 (33.33%) Firewall
2 5 (33.33%) Wireless
3 2 (13.33%) WAN
3 2 (13.33%) iSCSI
3 2 (13.33%) SAN
4 1 (6.667%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (6.667%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Service Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) SCCM Consultant
4 1 (6.667%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Consultant
4 1 (6.667%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Blackberry
1 2 (13.33%) Clustering
2 1 (6.667%) Open Source
2 1 (6.667%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Windows
2 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (6.667%) Windows 7
2 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (6.667%) UNIX
2 1 (6.667%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
1 2 (13.33%) Project Management
1 2 (13.33%) WAN Optimisation
1 2 (13.33%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (6.667%) PRINCE
2 1 (6.667%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (6.667%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (6.667%) PMP
1 1 (6.667%) PMI Certification
1 1 (6.667%) MCP
1 1 (6.667%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (46.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (13.33%) NFS
3 2 (13.33%) ISA Server
3 2 (13.33%) XenApp
4 1 (6.667%) Terminal Server
4 1 (6.667%) Terminal Services
4 1 (6.667%) XenServer
4 1 (6.667%) Hyper-V
4 1 (6.667%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Backup Exec
2 2 (13.33%) Norton AntiVirus
2 2 (13.33%) WSUS
2 2 (13.33%) NetBackup
2 2 (13.33%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (6.667%) HP SIM
3 1 (6.667%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Cisco
1 9 (60.00%) VMware
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (20.00%) NetApp
4 2 (13.33%) Symantec
4 2 (13.33%) McAfee
4 2 (13.33%) Riverbed
4 2 (13.33%) Veritas
4 2 (13.33%) MobileIron
5 1 (6.667%) BT
5 1 (6.667%) HP
5 1 (6.667%) Dell
5 1 (6.667%) Oracle
5 1 (6.667%) SAP