XenDesktop Contracts in the East of England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for XenDesktop 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 XenDesktop over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix XenDesktop
Rank 100 114 117
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +3
Contract jobs citing XenDesktop 15 15 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.696% 0.509% 0.571%
As % of the System Software category 5.190% 5.051% 5.319%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 4
Average daily rate £400 £375 £406
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £322 £292 £386
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £399 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £325 £351
% change year-on-year
+23.07% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £41.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- +27.69%
All System Software
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 289 297 282
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 13.42% 10.08% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 117 109
Average daily rate £293 £308 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.87% +6.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £116 £160 £90
10% offered a daily rate of more than £422 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 61 78
Average hourly rate £16.38 £17.43 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.05% +2.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.85 £11.11 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £38.50 £33.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
XenDesktop
England

XenDesktop
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England XenDesktop Jobs Demand Trend

XenDesktop
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England XenDesktop Daily Rate Trend

XenDesktop
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XenDesktop across the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East of England XenDesktop Daily Rate Histogram

XenDesktop
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XenDesktop within the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 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
Essex - 7 £400 -
Bedfordshire -1 6 £450 +20.00%
Cambridgeshire +11 1 £425 +97.67%
Hertfordshire - 1 £325 -
XenDesktop
England

XenDesktop
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing XenDesktop 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 XenDesktop.

1 29 (100.00%) Citrix
2 26 (89.66%) Windows
3 24 (82.76%) XenApp
4 17 (58.62%) XenServer
4 17 (58.62%) AppSense
5 16 (55.17%) Microsoft
6 14 (48.28%) Wyse
6 14 (48.28%) Windows Server 2008
7 13 (44.83%) PowerShell
7 13 (44.83%) VMware
7 13 (44.83%) Citrix Certification
7 13 (44.83%) SQL Server
8 12 (41.38%) Windows Server 2003
9 10 (34.48%) Hyper-V
10 9 (31.03%) CCA
10 9 (31.03%) Active Directory
11 8 (27.59%) Finance
11 8 (27.59%) vSphere
12 7 (24.14%) Change Control
12 7 (24.14%) SCOM
12 7 (24.14%) VBScript
13 6 (20.69%) TCP/IP
13 6 (20.69%) Windows 7
13 6 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
13 6 (20.69%) CCEE
13 6 (20.69%) Build Automation
14 5 (17.24%) Fat Client
14 5 (17.24%) Thin Client
14 5 (17.24%) IIS
15 4 (13.79%) MS Visio

XenDesktop
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing XenDesktop 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 XenDesktop. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (17.24%) IIS
2 1 (3.448%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (3.448%) MS Exchange
2 1 (3.448%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (3.448%) Office Communications Server
2 1 (3.448%) Lync
2 1 (3.448%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) MS Visio
2 2 (6.897%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) TCP/IP
2 4 (13.79%) Nortel Meridian
3 2 (6.897%) NetScaler
4 1 (3.448%) Network Security
4 1 (3.448%) iSCSI
4 1 (3.448%) NAS
4 1 (3.448%) DNS
4 1 (3.448%) Firewall
4 1 (3.448%) LAN
4 1 (3.448%) WAN
4 1 (3.448%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (44.83%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (3.448%) MSI
1 1 (3.448%) AdminStudio
General
1 8 (27.59%) Finance
2 4 (13.79%) Retail
3 2 (6.897%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Architect
2 4 (13.79%) Technical Architect
2 4 (13.79%) Consultant
3 3 (10.34%) Citrix Consultant
4 2 (6.897%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (6.897%) Citrix Engineer
4 2 (6.897%) Citrix Administrator
4 2 (6.897%) Wintel Engineer
4 2 (6.897%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.897%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (6.897%) Administrator
4 2 (6.897%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.448%) Systems Support
5 1 (3.448%) Applications Packager
5 1 (3.448%) Project Engineer
5 1 (3.448%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.448%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (3.448%) Build Engineer
5 1 (3.448%) Citrix Architect
5 1 (3.448%) Wintel Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Thin Client
1 5 (17.24%) Fat Client
2 4 (13.79%) IVR
3 1 (3.448%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 26 (89.66%) Windows
2 14 (48.28%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (41.38%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (20.69%) Windows 7
5 1 (3.448%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) Change Control
2 6 (20.69%) Build Automation
3 4 (13.79%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (13.79%) TOGAF
3 4 (13.79%) Load Balancing
3 4 (13.79%) Release Management
4 1 (3.448%) Test Scripting
4 1 (3.448%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (3.448%) ITIL V3
4 1 (3.448%) ITIL
4 1 (3.448%) PRINCE2
4 1 (3.448%) DNA
4 1 (3.448%) PRINCE
4 1 (3.448%) Service Delivery
4 1 (3.448%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (3.448%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (3.448%) Programme Office Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) PowerShell
2 7 (24.14%) VBScript
3 1 (3.448%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (44.83%) Citrix Certification
2 9 (31.03%) CCA
3 6 (20.69%) CCEE
4 3 (10.34%) CCIA
4 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
4 3 (10.34%) MCSE
4 3 (10.34%) CCSP
4 3 (10.34%) CCEA
4 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.448%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (82.76%) XenApp
2 17 (58.62%) XenServer
3 10 (34.48%) Hyper-V
4 9 (31.03%) Active Directory
5 8 (27.59%) vSphere
6 6 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (13.79%) VMware Server
7 4 (13.79%) IAG
8 1 (3.448%) NFS
8 1 (3.448%) MetaFrame
8 1 (3.448%) Terminal Services
8 1 (3.448%) VMware ESX
8 1 (3.448%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (3.448%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) SCOM
2 4 (13.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (3.448%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 1 (3.448%) WSUS
3 1 (3.448%) SCVMM
3 1 (3.448%) AppDNA
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) Citrix
2 17 (58.62%) AppSense
3 16 (55.17%) Microsoft
4 14 (48.28%) Wyse
5 13 (44.83%) VMware
6 4 (13.79%) Oracle
6 4 (13.79%) Cisco
6 4 (13.79%) Nortel
7 3 (10.34%) HP
8 2 (6.897%) Mercator
9 1 (3.448%) Lotus
9 1 (3.448%) LANDesk
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