The first table below looks at the demand for NetScaler 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 NetScaler over the 3 months to 22 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 Communications & Networking 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix NetScaler Application Delivery Controller
Rank 83 85 83
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -2
Contract jobs citing NetScaler 3 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.238% 0.072% 0.073%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.974% 0.578% 0.625%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £375 £330
% change year-on-year
+3.33% +13.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 - £30.00
All Communications & Networking
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
152 173 160
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 12.04% 12.37% 11.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 77 43
Average daily rate £313 £250 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £232 £173 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £461 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 25 18
Average hourly rate £15.50 £33.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.73% +67.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.21 £9.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.90 £57.50 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
NetScaler
England

NetScaler
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing NetScaler across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

East Midlands NetScaler Jobs Demand Trend

NetScaler
Daily Rate Trend

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

East Midlands NetScaler Daily Rate Trend

NetScaler
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East Midlands NetScaler Hourly Rate Trend

NetScaler
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NetScaler within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 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 0 3 - -
NetScaler
England

NetScaler
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing NetScaler 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 NetScaler.

1 9 (90.00%) Citrix
2 6 (60.00%) VBScript
2 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (60.00%) MS Excel
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (60.00%) Change Management
2 6 (60.00%) VMware
2 6 (60.00%) Altiris
2 6 (60.00%) SCOM
2 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (60.00%) vSphere
3 5 (50.00%) TCP/IP
4 4 (40.00%) IIS
4 4 (40.00%) MCP
4 4 (40.00%) Windows
4 4 (40.00%) MCSE
4 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (40.00%) Clustering
5 3 (30.00%) Finance
6 2 (20.00%) DMVPN
6 2 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (20.00%) Firewall
6 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
6 2 (20.00%) Juniper
6 2 (20.00%) Nokia
6 2 (20.00%) Nortel

NetScaler
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing NetScaler 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 NetScaler. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (60.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (20.00%) DMVPN
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) VPN
2 2 (20.00%) LAN
2 2 (20.00%) WAN
3 1 (10.00%) FTP
3 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Systems Support
2 4 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Systems Support Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (10.00%) UNIX
2 1 (10.00%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Change Management
2 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (10.00%) Load Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Workflow
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) VBScript
1 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) MCP
1 4 (40.00%) MCSE
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CCNP
2 2 (20.00%) CCNA
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (10.00%) CCEA
3 1 (10.00%) CCEE
3 1 (10.00%) CCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) vSphere
2 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (10.00%) XenApp
3 1 (10.00%) XenServer
3 1 (10.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Citrix
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (60.00%) VMware
2 6 (60.00%) Altiris
3 2 (20.00%) Juniper
3 2 (20.00%) Nokia
3 2 (20.00%) Nortel
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint