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Xen Contracts in the East of England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Xen skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Xen over the 3 months to 18 June 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 of England 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
18 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XenSource Xen
Rank 112 117 127
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +10
Contract jobs citing Xen 9 18 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.402% 0.595% 0.182%
As % of the System Software category 2.857% 4.762% 1.736%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 2
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £390 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- -36.36%
All System Software
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 315 378 288
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 14.06% 12.50% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 142 110
Average daily rate £325 £325 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +44.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £138 £165 £93
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £450 £394
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £324 £310
% change year-on-year
+0.30% +4.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 77 72
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% +17.24%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.90 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £38.40 £32.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
Xen
England

Xen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Xen Jobs Demand Trend

Xen
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England Xen Daily Rate Trend

Xen
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Xen Hourly Rate Trend

Xen
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Xen within the East of England region over the 3 months to 18 June 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		 Find
Job
Vacancies
Essex - 6 £350 -
Hertfordshire +10 2 - - 1
Cambridgeshire +4 1 £350 +7.69%
Xen
England

Xen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Xen 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 Xen.

1 11 (64.71%) VMware
1 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (58.82%) Citrix
3 7 (41.18%) Windows
3 7 (41.18%) Linux
4 6 (35.29%) C
4 6 (35.29%) Ethernet
4 6 (35.29%) DNS
4 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
4 6 (35.29%) JTAG
4 6 (35.29%) Embedded Linux
4 6 (35.29%) Electronic Design Automation
4 6 (35.29%) Device Driver
4 6 (35.29%) VHDL
4 6 (35.29%) Verilog
4 6 (35.29%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (29.41%) XenServer
5 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
6 4 (23.53%) DHCP
6 4 (23.53%) XenApp
7 3 (17.65%) XenDesktop
7 3 (17.65%) SolarWinds
7 3 (17.65%) AppSense
7 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
7 3 (17.65%) Time Management
8 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
8 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (11.76%) Cisco PIX
8 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (11.76%) Integration Testing

Xen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Xen 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 Xen. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (11.76%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) IIS
2 1 (5.882%) Apache
2 1 (5.882%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Ethernet
1 6 (35.29%) DNS
2 4 (23.53%) DHCP
3 2 (11.76%) Internet
3 2 (11.76%) Firewall
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco PIX
4 1 (5.882%) LDAP
4 1 (5.882%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.882%) MySQL
1 1 (5.882%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 2 (11.76%) Subversion
1 2 (11.76%) TeamCity
1 2 (11.76%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (11.76%) WiX
1 2 (11.76%) MSBuild
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.882%) Hudson
General
1 2 (11.76%) Retail
2 1 (5.882%) Finance
2 1 (5.882%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Support Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Citrix Support
3 2 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Citrix Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Build Manager
3 2 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Support Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Release Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Citrix Support Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Citrix Support Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Deployment Manager
4 1 (5.882%) Technical Support Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Senior Support Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Technical Support
4 1 (5.882%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Environment Manager
4 1 (5.882%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Device Driver
1 6 (35.29%) VHDL
1 6 (35.29%) Verilog
1 6 (35.29%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Windows
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
2 6 (35.29%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (5.882%) Windows 7
4 1 (5.882%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Electronic Design Automation
2 3 (17.65%) Time Management
3 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (11.76%) Integration Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Test Scripting
4 1 (5.882%) Load Balancing
4 1 (5.882%) ITIL
4 1 (5.882%) Project Management
4 1 (5.882%) Change Management
4 1 (5.882%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (5.882%) Migration
4 1 (5.882%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (5.882%) Investment Management
4 1 (5.882%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) C
2 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) Java
4 1 (5.882%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) JTAG
2 1 (5.882%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
3 5 (29.41%) XenServer
4 4 (23.53%) XenApp
5 3 (17.65%) XenDesktop
6 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
7 1 (5.882%) Postfix
7 1 (5.882%) MetaFrame
7 1 (5.882%) VMware ESX
7 1 (5.882%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) VMware
2 10 (58.82%) Citrix
3 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
4 3 (17.65%) AppSense
4 3 (17.65%) SolarWinds
5 2 (11.76%) Cisco
5 2 (11.76%) CheckPoint
6 1 (5.882%) HP
6 1 (5.882%) Dell
6 1 (5.882%) Red Hat
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