The first table below looks at the demand for MetaFrame skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MetaFrame 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 East Midlands 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 MetaFrame Server
Rank 78 - 76
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing MetaFrame 5 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.397% - 0.222%
As % of the System Software category 3.049% - 2.941%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £313
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £303 £315
% change year-on-year
+15.70% -3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 - £15.86
All System Software
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
164 127 102
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 13.04% 9.304% 7.561%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 60 24
Average daily rate £315 £325 £301
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.07% +8.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £177 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £424 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 33 27
Average hourly rate £13.25 £15.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.66% -21.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £8.50 £11.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £57.50 £29.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -3.64%
MetaFrame
England

MetaFrame
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands MetaFrame Jobs Demand Trend

MetaFrame
Daily Rate Trend

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

East Midlands MetaFrame Daily Rate Trend

MetaFrame
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East Midlands MetaFrame Hourly Rate Trend

MetaFrame
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MetaFrame within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 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
Nottinghamshire - 5 - -
MetaFrame
England

MetaFrame
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing MetaFrame 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 MetaFrame.

1 6 (100.00%) IIS
1 6 (100.00%) Web Services
1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Apache
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) Citrix
1 6 (100.00%) Tivoli
1 6 (100.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 6 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 6 (100.00%) Validation
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (66.67%) Service Delivery
3 3 (50.00%) F5
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (50.00%) IBM
4 1 (16.67%) BIG-IP
4 1 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) SAN
4 1 (16.67%) McAfee
4 1 (16.67%) LAN
4 1 (16.67%) VPN

MetaFrame
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing MetaFrame 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 MetaFrame. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) IIS
1 6 (100.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Server Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Storage Engineer
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Validation
2 4 (66.67%) Service Delivery
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Tivoli
1 6 (100.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) Citrix
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) F5
2 3 (50.00%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) McAfee