The first table below looks at the demand for MetaFrame skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MetaFrame over the 3 months to 17 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 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix MetaFrame Server
Rank 506 536 529
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -7
Contract jobs citing MetaFrame 15 23 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.034% 0.043% 0.057%
As % of the System Software category 0.353% 0.522% 0.779%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 13
Average daily rate £325 £365 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.95% +12.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £303 £267
10% offered a daily rate of more than £345 £465 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £425 £325
% change year-on-year
-17.64% +30.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 8
Average hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £17.86
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +95.96%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £35.00 £13.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 - £16.72
All System Software
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4244 4408 4108
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 9.690% 8.308% 7.300%
Number of daily rates quoted 2068 2119 1847
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £453 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 604 640 631
Average hourly rate £18.25 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.28% -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.00 £34.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
MetaFrame
UK

MetaFrame
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England MetaFrame Jobs Demand Trend

MetaFrame
Daily Rate Trend

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

England MetaFrame Daily Rate Trend

MetaFrame
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England MetaFrame Hourly Rate Trend

MetaFrame
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MetaFrame within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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
London +21 5 £313 -2.34% 5
East of England +13 3 - - 1
South East +8 3 £325 -29.72% 1
East Midlands - 3 - -
North West +10 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - - - -
South West - - - -
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MetaFrame
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing MetaFrame 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 MetaFrame.

1 24 (100.00%) Citrix
2 15 (62.50%) VMware
3 14 (58.33%) Windows
3 14 (58.33%) XenApp
4 13 (54.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (45.83%) Active Directory
6 10 (41.67%) UNIX
6 10 (41.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
8 8 (33.33%) Linux
8 8 (33.33%) IIS
9 7 (29.17%) Telecoms
9 7 (29.17%) Windows Server 2003
10 6 (25.00%) Tivoli
10 6 (25.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 6 (25.00%) Validation
10 6 (25.00%) Web Services
10 6 (25.00%) Apache
10 6 (25.00%) DNS
10 6 (25.00%) Cisco
10 6 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (20.83%) XenDesktop
11 5 (20.83%) NetScaler
11 5 (20.83%) Publishing
11 5 (20.83%) Load Balancing
11 5 (20.83%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (20.83%) SLA
11 5 (20.83%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (20.83%) AppSense
12 4 (16.67%) SAN

MetaFrame
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing MetaFrame 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 MetaFrame. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (25.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 8 (33.33%) IIS
2 6 (25.00%) Apache
3 1 (4.167%) Lync
3 1 (4.167%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) DNS
1 6 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (20.83%) NetScaler
3 4 (16.67%) DHCP
3 4 (16.67%) SAN
4 3 (12.50%) Internet
4 3 (12.50%) WAN
5 2 (8.333%) LAN
5 2 (8.333%) MPLS
5 2 (8.333%) SSH
5 2 (8.333%) VLAN
6 1 (4.167%) Unified Communications
6 1 (4.167%) BIG-IP
6 1 (4.167%) VPN
6 1 (4.167%) Firewall
6 1 (4.167%) SMS
6 1 (4.167%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.167%) MSI
General
1 7 (29.17%) Telecoms
2 5 (20.83%) Publishing
3 3 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (8.333%) Finance
5 1 (4.167%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Citrix Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Citrix Consultant
2 6 (25.00%) Consultant
3 5 (20.83%) Systems Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Server Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Citrix Support
5 3 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (12.50%) Network Engineer
6 2 (8.333%) Server Support
6 2 (8.333%) Server Support Engineer
6 2 (8.333%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (8.333%) Windows Support Engineer
6 2 (8.333%) Citrix Support Engineer
6 2 (8.333%) Analyst
6 2 (8.333%) Citrix Server Engineer
7 1 (4.167%) Citrix Support Analyst
7 1 (4.167%) VMware Consultant
7 1 (4.167%) Desktop Analyst
7 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Thin Client
1 4 (16.67%) Fat Client
2 1 (4.167%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 14 (58.33%) Windows
2 10 (41.67%) UNIX
3 8 (33.33%) Linux
4 7 (29.17%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (20.83%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (8.333%) Windows 2000
6 2 (8.333%) VMS
7 1 (4.167%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Validation
2 5 (20.83%) Load Balancing
3 4 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 3 (12.50%) Service Management
4 3 (12.50%) Time Management
5 2 (8.333%) Incident Management
5 2 (8.333%) ITIL
5 2 (8.333%) Network Load Balancing
6 1 (4.167%) Investment Management
6 1 (4.167%) Migration
6 1 (4.167%) Change Management
6 1 (4.167%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (4.167%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (4.167%) Change Control
6 1 (4.167%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) VBScript
2 3 (12.50%) VB
2 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (8.333%) HNC
2 2 (8.333%) MCSE
2 2 (8.333%) CCA
2 2 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (8.333%) Degree
3 1 (4.167%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.167%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.167%) CCEE
3 1 (4.167%) CCEA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (58.33%) XenApp
2 13 (54.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (45.83%) Active Directory
4 10 (41.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 5 (20.83%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (20.83%) XenDesktop
6 4 (16.67%) vSphere
7 2 (8.333%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (8.333%) Terminal Services
7 2 (8.333%) VMware ESX
7 2 (8.333%) NFS
8 1 (4.167%) Hyper-V
8 1 (4.167%) Xen
8 1 (4.167%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Tivoli
1 6 (25.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (8.333%) SCCM
3 1 (4.167%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 24 (100.00%) Citrix
2 15 (62.50%) VMware
3 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 6 (25.00%) Cisco
5 5 (20.83%) AppSense
6 4 (16.67%) HP
7 3 (12.50%) IBM
7 3 (12.50%) F5
8 1 (4.167%) Altiris
8 1 (4.167%) LANDesk
8 1 (4.167%) SolarWinds
8 1 (4.167%) Lotus
8 1 (4.167%) McAfee
8 1 (4.167%) Wyse
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