XenServer 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 XenServer 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 XenServer 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 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix XenServer
Rank 103 124 118
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -6
Contract jobs citing XenServer 13 7 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.597% 0.235% 0.459%
As % of the System Software category 4.483% 2.310% 4.225%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 9
Average daily rate £398 £338 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.77% +5.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £389 £338 £246
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £338 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £270 £330
% change year-on-year
+34.25% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -27.27%
All System Software
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 290 303 284
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 13.32% 10.16% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 115 112
Average daily rate £293 £305 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.09% +6.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £120 £160 £90
10% offered a daily rate of more than £419 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 65 78
Average hourly rate £17.00 £17.22 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.24% +1.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.17 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £37.75 £33.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
XenServer
England

XenServer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England XenServer Jobs Demand Trend

XenServer
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England XenServer Daily Rate Trend

XenServer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England XenServer Hourly Rate Trend

XenServer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XenServer within the East of England 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
Essex - 10 £400 -
Hertfordshire +12 3 £388 +14.81%
XenServer
England

XenServer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing XenServer 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 XenServer.

1 23 (95.83%) Citrix
2 19 (79.17%) Windows
3 17 (70.83%) XenDesktop
4 15 (62.50%) XenApp
5 14 (58.33%) Wyse
5 14 (58.33%) AppSense
6 13 (54.17%) Windows Server 2008
7 12 (50.00%) PowerShell
7 12 (50.00%) Citrix Certification
8 11 (45.83%) Windows Server 2003
9 10 (41.67%) CCA
10 9 (37.50%) Active Directory
10 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
10 9 (37.50%) VMware
10 9 (37.50%) Hyper-V
11 8 (33.33%) SQL Server
12 7 (29.17%) SCOM
12 7 (29.17%) vSphere
13 6 (25.00%) Build Automation
13 6 (25.00%) Change Control
13 6 (25.00%) VBScript
14 5 (20.83%) TCP/IP
14 5 (20.83%) CCEE
15 4 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
15 4 (16.67%) IAG
15 4 (16.67%) Release Management
15 4 (16.67%) Fat Client
15 4 (16.67%) DNS
15 4 (16.67%) DHCP
15 4 (16.67%) Thin Client

XenServer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (4.167%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.167%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (4.167%) MS Exchange
1 1 (4.167%) IIS
1 1 (4.167%) Lync
1 1 (4.167%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (4.167%) Office Communications Server
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) TCP/IP
2 4 (16.67%) DNS
2 4 (16.67%) DHCP
3 2 (8.333%) Firewall
4 1 (4.167%) Internet
4 1 (4.167%) NAS
4 1 (4.167%) Cisco PIX
4 1 (4.167%) Network Security
4 1 (4.167%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Subversion
1 1 (4.167%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 1 (4.167%) Hudson
1 1 (4.167%) WiX
1 1 (4.167%) MSBuild
1 1 (4.167%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.167%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (4.167%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (8.333%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Consultant
2 3 (12.50%) Support Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Citrix Consultant
2 3 (12.50%) Citrix Engineer
3 2 (8.333%) Citrix Support Engineer
3 2 (8.333%) Analyst
3 2 (8.333%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (8.333%) Technical Support Analyst
3 2 (8.333%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (8.333%) Administrator
3 2 (8.333%) Support Analyst
3 2 (8.333%) Technical Support
3 2 (8.333%) Citrix Administrator
3 2 (8.333%) Citrix Specialist
3 2 (8.333%) Citrix Support
4 1 (4.167%) Linux Specialist
4 1 (4.167%) Wintel Support
4 1 (4.167%) Release Manager
4 1 (4.167%) Project Engineer
4 1 (4.167%) Systems Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Fat Client
1 4 (16.67%) Thin Client
2 1 (4.167%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 19 (79.17%) Windows
2 13 (54.17%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (45.83%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (4.167%) Linux
4 1 (4.167%) Windows 7
4 1 (4.167%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Build Automation
1 6 (25.00%) Change Control
2 4 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (16.67%) Release Management
2 4 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (4.167%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (4.167%) Service Delivery
3 1 (4.167%) Programme Office Management
3 1 (4.167%) Integration Testing
3 1 (4.167%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (25.00%) VBScript
3 1 (4.167%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) Citrix Certification
2 10 (41.67%) CCA
3 5 (20.83%) CCEE
4 3 (12.50%) CCEA
4 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (12.50%) CCSP
4 3 (12.50%) CCIA
5 2 (8.333%) MCSE
5 2 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (4.167%) RHCA
6 1 (4.167%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) SLA
2 1 (4.167%) QA
System Software
1 17 (70.83%) XenDesktop
2 15 (62.50%) XenApp
3 9 (37.50%) Active Directory
3 9 (37.50%) Hyper-V
4 7 (29.17%) vSphere
5 4 (16.67%) IAG
5 4 (16.67%) Xen
6 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (4.167%) Samba
7 1 (4.167%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) SCOM
2 1 (4.167%) WSUS
2 1 (4.167%) Cobbler
2 1 (4.167%) SCCM
2 1 (4.167%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 23 (95.83%) Citrix
2 14 (58.33%) Wyse
2 14 (58.33%) AppSense
3 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 9 (37.50%) VMware
4 2 (8.333%) HP
5 1 (4.167%) LANDesk
5 1 (4.167%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.167%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.167%) Cisco
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