The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Citrix 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 Vendors for the Edinburgh 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Citrix Systems.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix
Rank 41 44 46
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +2
Contract jobs citing Citrix 14 14 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.695% 1.268% 1.932%
As % of the Vendors category 4.778% 4.023% 5.924%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 1
Average daily rate £125 £410 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-69.51% +9.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £16.50 £16.75
% change year-on-year
-7.57% -1.49%
All Vendors
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
293 348 422
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 35.47% 31.52% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 151 164
Average daily rate £375 £360 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £247 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £444 £496
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 19
Average hourly rate £20.25 £17.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.11% +11.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.29 £13.65 £13.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £70.00 £25.25 £21.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Citrix
Scotland

Citrix
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Citrix across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Edinburgh Citrix Jobs Demand Trend

Citrix
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Citrix Daily Rate Trend

Citrix
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Citrix Hourly Rate Trend

Citrix
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Citrix 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 Citrix.

1 24 (80.00%) Windows
2 16 (53.33%) Active Directory
3 14 (46.67%) Finance
3 14 (46.67%) VMware
4 11 (36.67%) Banking
4 11 (36.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (30.00%) MS Excel
5 9 (30.00%) XenApp
6 8 (26.67%) SCCM
6 8 (26.67%) TCP/IP
6 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
7 7 (23.33%) MS Office
7 7 (23.33%) MSI
7 7 (23.33%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (23.33%) Windows 7
8 6 (20.00%) MS Exchange
9 5 (16.67%) SQL
10 4 (13.33%) Migration
10 4 (13.33%) LAN
10 4 (13.33%) WAN
10 4 (13.33%) Windows XP
10 4 (13.33%) HP
10 4 (13.33%) Software Deployment
10 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
11 3 (10.00%) Clustering
11 3 (10.00%) XenDesktop
11 3 (10.00%) Wise Package Studio
11 3 (10.00%) Novell
11 3 (10.00%) DNS

Citrix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (6.667%) Application Packaging
2 1 (3.333%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (20.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (3.333%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (3.333%) Lync
2 1 (3.333%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (3.333%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 9 (30.00%) MS Excel
2 7 (23.33%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.667%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 8 (26.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (13.33%) LAN
2 4 (13.33%) WAN
3 3 (10.00%) DNS
4 2 (6.667%) SAN
4 2 (6.667%) NetScaler
4 2 (6.667%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (3.333%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (3.333%) SSL
5 1 (3.333%) VPN
5 1 (3.333%) LDAP
5 1 (3.333%) DHCP
5 1 (3.333%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.333%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) MSI
2 3 (10.00%) Wise Package Studio
2 3 (10.00%) InstallShield
General
1 14 (46.67%) Finance
2 11 (36.67%) Banking
3 2 (6.667%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Analyst
2 7 (23.33%) Applications Packager
3 5 (16.67%) Support Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (10.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Desktop Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Service Desk Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Service Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Desktop Support
5 2 (6.667%) Technical Specialist
5 2 (6.667%) VMware Specialist
5 2 (6.667%) Citrix Support
5 2 (6.667%) Help Desk Support
6 1 (3.333%) Technical Support Analyst
6 1 (3.333%) Active Directory Specialist
6 1 (3.333%) Citrix Specialist
6 1 (3.333%) Windows Server Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) Citrix Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (3.333%) iSeries
2 1 (3.333%) PKI
2 1 (3.333%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.333%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 24 (80.00%) Windows
2 7 (23.33%) Windows 7
3 4 (13.33%) Windows XP
3 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (6.667%) Windows Vista
5 1 (3.333%) Android
5 1 (3.333%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.333%) Linux
5 1 (3.333%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (13.33%) Migration
1 4 (13.33%) Software Deployment
2 2 (6.667%) Project Management
2 2 (6.667%) Incident Management
3 1 (3.333%) Project Planning
3 1 (3.333%) Change Control
3 1 (3.333%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (3.333%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (3.333%) Service Delivery
3 1 (3.333%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) SQL
2 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.00%) VBScript
2 3 (10.00%) VB
3 1 (3.333%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (3.333%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.333%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (3.333%) Security Cleared
1 1 (3.333%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 16 (53.33%) Active Directory
2 11 (36.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (30.00%) XenApp
4 7 (23.33%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (10.00%) XenDesktop
6 2 (6.667%) VMware ESX
7 1 (3.333%) XenServer
7 1 (3.333%) ProxySG
7 1 (3.333%) DFS Replication
7 1 (3.333%) vSphere
7 1 (3.333%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) SCCM
2 3 (10.00%) ZENworks
3 1 (3.333%) ServiceCenter
3 1 (3.333%) SCOM
3 1 (3.333%) Tivoli
3 1 (3.333%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) VMware
2 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (13.33%) HP
4 3 (10.00%) Novell
5 2 (6.667%) Cisco
5 2 (6.667%) Lotus
6 1 (3.333%) Fujitsu
6 1 (3.333%) IronPort
6 1 (3.333%) AppSense
6 1 (3.333%) Blue Coat
6 1 (3.333%) NetApp
6 1 (3.333%) Oracle
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