The first table below looks at the demand for the Citrix Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Citrix Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles advertised for the 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix Specialist
Rank 495 533 531
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Citrix Specialist 18 26 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.043% 0.049% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.053% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 19 26
Average daily rate £385 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £301 £306
10% offered a daily rate of more than £404 £450 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £315 £350
% change year-on-year
+23.01% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £27.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £27.50 -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38421 49352 52077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.41% 92.53% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22588 27902 28893
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1983 2412 2765
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.86 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Citrix Specialist
UK

Citrix Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Citrix Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Citrix Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Citrix Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Citrix Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Citrix Specialist across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Citrix Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

Citrix Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Citrix Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Citrix Specialist
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix Specialist within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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
London +33 8 £375 -6.25%
North West +16 4 - -
South East +9 3 £385 +22.22%
East of England - 2 £393 -
East Midlands - 1 £225 -
Citrix Specialist
UK

Citrix Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Citrix Specialist in their job title 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 with Citrix Specialist in their job title.

1 39 (100.00%) Citrix
2 28 (71.79%) XenApp
3 21 (53.85%) Windows
3 21 (53.85%) AppSense
4 18 (46.15%) XenDesktop
5 14 (35.90%) Active Directory
6 13 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
6 13 (33.33%) XenServer
6 13 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
7 10 (25.64%) VMware
8 9 (23.08%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
10 7 (17.95%) Finance
10 7 (17.95%) NetScaler
11 6 (15.38%) Citrix Presentation Server
12 5 (12.82%) VMware Infrastructure
12 5 (12.82%) PowerShell
12 5 (12.82%) CCA
12 5 (12.82%) Citrix Certification
13 4 (10.26%) Load Balancing
14 3 (7.692%) Wyse
14 3 (7.692%) VMware ESX
14 3 (7.692%) Banking
14 3 (7.692%) SCCM
14 3 (7.692%) Hyper-V
14 3 (7.692%) Lumension
14 3 (7.692%) CloudStack
14 3 (7.692%) vSphere
15 2 (5.128%) Demand Management
15 2 (5.128%) CCEE

Citrix Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Citrix Specialist in their job title 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 with Citrix Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.564%) XML
Application Platforms
1 3 (7.692%) CloudStack
Applications
1 2 (5.128%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.95%) NetScaler
2 1 (2.564%) DHCP
2 1 (2.564%) DNS
2 1 (2.564%) SAN
2 1 (2.564%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.564%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.564%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 7 (17.95%) Finance
2 3 (7.692%) Banking
3 1 (2.564%) Law
3 1 (2.564%) Legal
3 1 (2.564%) Publishing
3 1 (2.564%) Retail
3 1 (2.564%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.564%) Thin Client
1 1 (2.564%) Clustering
1 1 (2.564%) PKI
1 1 (2.564%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 21 (53.85%) Windows
2 13 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 13 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.564%) Linux
3 1 (2.564%) SUSE
3 1 (2.564%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (2.564%) Windows 7
3 1 (2.564%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (10.26%) Load Balancing
2 2 (5.128%) Demand Management
2 2 (5.128%) Capacity Management
2 2 (5.128%) Migration
2 2 (5.128%) Service Delivery
2 2 (5.128%) ITIL
3 1 (2.564%) Project Management
3 1 (2.564%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (2.564%) Service Management
3 1 (2.564%) Business Continuity
3 1 (2.564%) Incident Management
3 1 (2.564%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (2.564%) Load Testing
3 1 (2.564%) ITIL V3
3 1 (2.564%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.82%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.128%) VBScript
3 1 (2.564%) VB
3 1 (2.564%) C
3 1 (2.564%) Perl
3 1 (2.564%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) CCA
1 5 (12.82%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (5.128%) CCEE
2 2 (5.128%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.128%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.128%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (5.128%) MCSE
3 1 (2.564%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (2.564%) Degree
System Software
1 28 (71.79%) XenApp
2 18 (46.15%) XenDesktop
3 14 (35.90%) Active Directory
4 13 (33.33%) XenServer
5 9 (23.08%) Microsoft App-V
6 6 (15.38%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 5 (12.82%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (7.692%) VMware ESX
8 3 (7.692%) Hyper-V
8 3 (7.692%) vSphere
9 1 (2.564%) MetaFrame
9 1 (2.564%) IAG
9 1 (2.564%) UAG
Systems Management
1 3 (7.692%) SCCM
2 1 (2.564%) NetBackup
2 1 (2.564%) SCOM
Vendors
1 39 (100.00%) Citrix
2 21 (53.85%) AppSense
3 10 (25.64%) VMware
4 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
5 3 (7.692%) Wyse
5 3 (7.692%) Lumension
6 2 (5.128%) NetApp
6 2 (5.128%) Symantec
6 2 (5.128%) HP
7 1 (2.564%) IBM
7 1 (2.564%) EMC
7 1 (2.564%) Remedy
7 1 (2.564%) Websense
7 1 (2.564%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.564%) LANDesk
Reading, Thames Valley
You will be responsible for providing both on-site and remote administration of Microsoft Windows Servers, Citrix Provisioning, Citrix XenApp, XenServer, and a multitude of proprietary applications... Required...
Claremont Consulting
Rate: £350 - £420 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013