Docklands, London Citrix Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT contracts within the Docklands, London region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Citrix over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Banbury Barnet Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bognor Regis Borehamwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Cleethorpes Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Grimsby Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Renfrewshire Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	58	74
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	13	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	2.326 %	2.198 %
Daily rates quoted	5	6
Average minimum daily rate	£433	£342
Average daily rate	£448	£379
% change on same period last year	+18.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£463	£417
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£332
% change on same period last year	-2.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£20.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.91	£19.09
% change on same period last year	+4.31 %
Vendors Docklands, London
Matching contract IT job ads	559	819
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.737 %	0.869 %
Daily rates quoted	326	422
Average minimum daily rate	£460	£449
Average daily rate	£495	£476
% change on same period last year	+3.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£530	£504
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£356
% change on same period last year	+1.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.94	£19.55
Average hourly rate	£24.67	£20.14
% change on same period last year	+22.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.40	£20.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.91	£25.10
% change on same period last year	-8.72 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Citrix Systems.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Citrix across the Docklands, London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Citrix across the Docklands, London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Citrix across the Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Citrix across the Docklands, London region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 29 (90.63 %) Windows 2 12 (37.50 %) VMware 3 11 (34.38 %) Active Directory 3 11 (34.38 %) Windows 2000 4 10 (31.25 %) MetaFrame 4 10 (31.25 %) Finance 5 8 (25.00 %) Microsoft 6 7 (21.88 %) Blackberry 6 7 (21.88 %) SQL 6 7 (21.88 %) IIS 7 6 (18.75 %) MS Office 7 6 (18.75 %) WAN 7 6 (18.75 %) SLA 7 6 (18.75 %) HP 7 6 (18.75 %) SAN

8 5 (15.63 %) Reuters 8 5 (15.63 %) Bloomberg 8 5 (15.63 %) MS Exchange 8 5 (15.63 %) LAN 8 5 (15.63 %) Windows Vista 8 5 (15.63 %) VMware Infrastructure 8 5 (15.63 %) Financial Institution 9 4 (12.50 %) Migration 9 4 (12.50 %) VMware ESX 9 4 (12.50 %) Citrix Presentation Server 9 4 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 9 4 (12.50 %) Unix 9 4 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 9 4 (12.50 %) OpenView Configuration Management 10 3 (9.375 %) Microsoft Certification

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 Development 1 3 (9.375 %) Middleware 2 1 (3.125 %) ODBC 2 1 (3.125 %) MAPI	Application Platforms 1 7 (21.88 %) IIS 2 5 (15.63 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (6.250 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (3.125 %) Lotus Domino 4 1 (3.125 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (3.125 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 6 (18.75 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 6 (18.75 %) WAN 1 6 (18.75 %) SAN 2 5 (15.63 %) LAN 3 2 (6.250 %) DHCP 4 1 (3.125 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (3.125 %) VPN 4 1 (3.125 %) WINS 4 1 (3.125 %) DNS 4 1 (3.125 %) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (9.375 %) RDBMS 2 1 (3.125 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (3.125 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 3 (9.375 %) Ant 2 1 (3.125 %) ClearCase 2 1 (3.125 %) ClearQuest 2 1 (3.125 %) MSI 2 1 (3.125 %) JIRA
General 1 10 (31.25 %) Finance 2 5 (15.63 %) Financial Institution 3 2 (6.250 %) Banking 4 1 (3.125 %) Investment Banking 4 1 (3.125 %) Law	Job Titles 1 13 (40.63 %) Analyst 2 7 (21.88 %) Support Analyst 2 7 (21.88 %) Desktop Analyst 3 4 (12.50 %) Desktop Support Analyst 3 4 (12.50 %) Desktop Support 4 3 (9.375 %) Technical Support 4 3 (9.375 %) Applications Packager 5 2 (6.250 %) Consultant 5 2 (6.250 %) Project Manager 5 2 (6.250 %) Technical Support Analyst 5 2 (6.250 %) Systems Engineer 5 2 (6.250 %) Applications Specialist 5 2 (6.250 %) 3rd Line Support 5 2 (6.250 %) Technical Analyst 5 2 (6.250 %) Citrix Specialist 5 2 (6.250 %) Server Engineer 5 2 (6.250 %) Infrastructure Specialist 6 1 (3.125 %) MSI Packager 6 1 (3.125 %) Server Specialist 6 1 (3.125 %) Windows Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 7 (21.88 %) Blackberry 2 2 (6.250 %) Replication 2 2 (6.250 %) Thin Client 2 2 (6.250 %) Fat Client 3 1 (3.125 %) Clustering 3 1 (3.125 %) PDA	Operating Systems 1 29 (90.63 %) Windows 2 11 (34.38 %) Windows 2000 3 5 (15.63 %) Windows Vista 4 4 (12.50 %) Unix 4 4 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (6.250 %) Windows NT 5 2 (6.250 %) Windows XP 5 2 (6.250 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 1 4 (12.50 %) Migration 2 2 (6.250 %) Incident Management 2 2 (6.250 %) ITIL 2 2 (6.250 %) Configuration Management 3 1 (3.125 %) Project Management 3 1 (3.125 %) Service Delivery	Programming Languages 1 7 (21.88 %) SQL 2 2 (6.250 %) Java 2 2 (6.250 %) Shell Script 3 1 (3.125 %) VB
Qualifications 1 3 (9.375 %) MCSE 1 3 (9.375 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (3.125 %) MCP 2 1 (3.125 %) CCA 2 1 (3.125 %) Citrix Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (18.75 %) SLA
System Software 1 11 (34.38 %) Active Directory 2 10 (31.25 %) MetaFrame 3 5 (15.63 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 4 (12.50 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 4 (12.50 %) VMware ESX 5 1 (3.125 %) VMware Workstation 5 1 (3.125 %) Terminal Services	Systems Management 1 4 (12.50 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 1 (3.125 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 12 (37.50 %) VMware 2 8 (25.00 %) Microsoft 3 6 (18.75 %) HP 4 5 (15.63 %) Reuters 4 5 (15.63 %) Bloomberg 5 3 (9.375 %) VERITAS 5 3 (9.375 %) TIBCO 6 2 (6.250 %) IBM 6 2 (6.250 %) Lotus 6 2 (6.250 %) Symantec 7 1 (3.125 %) Red Hat 7 1 (3.125 %) Oracle 7 1 (3.125 %) Cisco