The first table below looks at the demand for NetScaler 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 NetScaler 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 of the Communications & Networking 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix NetScaler Application Delivery Controller
Rank 409 478 538
Rank change year-on-year
+69 +60
Contract jobs citing NetScaler 104 81 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.250% 0.152% 0.059%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.703% 0.966% 0.448%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 66 21
Average daily rate £475 £400 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.75% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £343 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £375 £330
% change year-on-year
+3.33% +13.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Average hourly rate £27.50 £47.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.10% +58.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 - £30.00
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6108 8385 7368
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.69% 15.72% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3064 3932 3397
Average daily rate £350 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 561 752
Average hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.81 £12.21
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.50 £45.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
NetScaler
UK

NetScaler
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing NetScaler across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

England NetScaler Jobs Demand Trend

NetScaler
Daily Rate Trend

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

England NetScaler Daily Rate Trend

NetScaler
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England NetScaler Daily Rate Histogram

NetScaler
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England NetScaler Hourly Rate Trend

NetScaler
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NetScaler 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 +54 80 £475 +11.76%
South East +21 8 £375 +13.63%
East of England +18 6 £425 +19.63%
East Midlands -1 3 - -
West Midlands - 3 £350 -
North West +14 2 £375 -11.76%
South West +28 1 £525 +28.04%
Yorkshire -1 1 £300 -25.00%
NetScaler
UK

NetScaler
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing NetScaler 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 NetScaler.

1 187 (97.91%) Citrix
2 121 (63.35%) Windows
3 75 (39.27%) Firewall
3 75 (39.27%) XenApp
4 74 (38.74%) Microsoft
5 71 (37.17%) XenDesktop
6 68 (35.60%) Linux
7 66 (34.55%) E-Commerce
8 56 (29.32%) TCP/IP
8 56 (29.32%) Red Hat
9 55 (28.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 55 (28.80%) Windows Server 2008
10 53 (27.75%) UNIX
11 48 (25.13%) VMware
12 46 (24.08%) Load Balancing
12 46 (24.08%) IIS
13 43 (22.51%) PKI
14 42 (21.99%) ITIL
15 41 (21.47%) BIG-IP
15 41 (21.47%) F5
16 40 (20.94%) Apache
16 40 (20.94%) Active Directory
17 39 (20.42%) JBoss
17 39 (20.42%) Java
17 39 (20.42%) Cisco
17 39 (20.42%) WebSphere
18 38 (19.90%) AppSense
18 38 (19.90%) LDAP
18 38 (19.90%) WebSphere Application Server
18 38 (19.90%) SOAP

NetScaler
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing NetScaler 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 NetScaler. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 39 (20.42%) WebSphere
2 38 (19.90%) SOAP
2 38 (19.90%) XML
2 38 (19.90%) XSLT
3 33 (17.28%) Java EE
4 32 (16.75%) COM+
5 19 (9.948%) Web Services
6 9 (4.712%) Regular Expression
7 2 (1.047%) Middleware
8 1 (0.524%) Application Packaging
8 1 (0.524%) COM
Application Platforms
1 46 (24.08%) IIS
2 40 (20.94%) Apache
3 38 (19.90%) WebSphere Application Server
4 17 (8.901%) MS Exchange
5 14 (7.330%) Exchange Server 2010
6 10 (5.236%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 5 (2.618%) Exchange Server 2003
8 4 (2.094%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (1.571%) Live Communications Server
9 3 (1.571%) Lync
10 1 (0.524%) Lotus Notes
10 1 (0.524%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.524%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.524%) GroupWise
10 1 (0.524%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 37 (19.37%) MS Excel
2 4 (2.094%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 75 (39.27%) Firewall
2 56 (29.32%) TCP/IP
3 41 (21.47%) BIG-IP
4 38 (19.90%) LDAP
5 32 (16.75%) DNS
6 28 (14.66%) Internet
7 24 (12.57%) WAN
8 23 (12.04%) LAN
9 22 (11.52%) BGP
10 19 (9.948%) VPN
10 19 (9.948%) Cisco Nexus
11 15 (7.853%) SAN
11 15 (7.853%) Ethernet
12 13 (6.806%) VLAN
12 13 (6.806%) DHCP
13 11 (5.759%) Cisco ASA
14 10 (5.236%) OSPF
15 9 (4.712%) HTTP
15 9 (4.712%) MPLS
16 6 (3.141%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.283%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.141%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (1.047%) DTS
3 2 (1.047%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (1.047%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.524%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (1.047%) WinRunner
1 2 (1.047%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (1.047%) LoadRunner
1 2 (1.047%) MSI
1 2 (1.047%) InstallShield
1 2 (1.047%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 2 (1.047%) Bugzilla
1 2 (1.047%) Selenium
General
1 35 (18.32%) Finance
2 22 (11.52%) Banking
3 8 (4.188%) Investment Banking
4 6 (3.141%) Telecoms
5 5 (2.618%) Publishing
6 3 (1.571%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.047%) Law
7 2 (1.047%) Retail
8 1 (0.524%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 31 (16.23%) Consultant
2 30 (15.71%) Support Engineer
3 24 (12.57%) Citrix Consultant
4 22 (11.52%) Senior Support Engineer
5 21 (10.99%) Network Engineer
6 17 (8.901%) Administrator
7 15 (7.853%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (6.806%) Citrix Support
9 12 (6.283%) Citrix Administrator
9 12 (6.283%) Citrix Engineer
10 10 (5.236%) Project Manager
10 10 (5.236%) Web Engineer
10 10 (5.236%) Firewall Engineer
10 10 (5.236%) Security Engineer
10 10 (5.236%) Migration Engineer
11 7 (3.665%) Citrix Specialist
11 7 (3.665%) Analyst
12 6 (3.141%) Systems Engineer
12 6 (3.141%) Linux Engineer
13 5 (2.618%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 43 (22.51%) PKI
2 11 (5.759%) Clustering
3 8 (4.188%) Blackberry
3 8 (4.188%) Open Source
4 6 (3.141%) Firmware
5 3 (1.571%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.047%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.524%) Statistics
7 1 (0.524%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.524%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.524%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.524%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 121 (63.35%) Windows
2 68 (35.60%) Linux
3 55 (28.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 55 (28.80%) Windows Server 2008
4 53 (27.75%) UNIX
5 37 (19.37%) Windows XP
6 33 (17.28%) Windows Server 2003
7 17 (8.901%) Windows 7
8 2 (1.047%) Windows NT
8 2 (1.047%) Windows 2000
8 2 (1.047%) Solaris
8 2 (1.047%) Windows 2000 Server
8 2 (1.047%) Windows Vista
9 1 (0.524%) MVS
9 1 (0.524%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (34.55%) E-Commerce
2 46 (24.08%) Load Balancing
3 42 (21.99%) ITIL
4 38 (19.90%) Change Control
5 29 (15.18%) Migration
6 22 (11.52%) Time Management
7 18 (9.424%) ITIL V3
7 18 (9.424%) Change Management
8 13 (6.806%) Information Security
9 11 (5.759%) Project Management
10 10 (5.236%) PRINCE2
11 9 (4.712%) High Availability
12 7 (3.665%) Disaster Recovery
13 6 (3.141%) Service Delivery
14 5 (2.618%) Continuous Improvement
15 4 (2.094%) Network Architecture
15 4 (2.094%) Data Modelling
15 4 (2.094%) Stakeholder Management
15 4 (2.094%) Service Management
15 4 (2.094%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 39 (20.42%) Java
2 36 (18.85%) PowerShell
3 33 (17.28%) Perl
4 26 (13.61%) VBScript
5 13 (6.806%) SQL
6 7 (3.665%) VB
7 3 (1.571%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.047%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (8.901%) Citrix Certification
1 17 (8.901%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (7.853%) MCSE
3 11 (5.759%) CCA
3 11 (5.759%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (5.236%) GIAC
4 10 (5.236%) GWAPT
4 10 (5.236%) GPEN
5 7 (3.665%) MCP
5 7 (3.665%) CCNA
6 6 (3.141%) CCNP
6 6 (3.141%) CCIE
6 6 (3.141%) MCSA
7 5 (2.618%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.618%) CCEA
7 5 (2.618%) CCEE
7 5 (2.618%) CCAA
7 5 (2.618%) CCIA
8 4 (2.094%) SC Cleared
8 4 (2.094%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.047%) SLA
2 1 (0.524%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.524%) QA
2 1 (0.524%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 75 (39.27%) XenApp
2 71 (37.17%) XenDesktop
3 40 (20.94%) Active Directory
4 25 (13.09%) XenServer
5 22 (11.52%) VMware ESX
6 17 (8.901%) vSphere
7 15 (7.853%) ProxySG
8 10 (5.236%) VMware Infrastructure
9 9 (4.712%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (3.665%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 7 (3.665%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (2.618%) MetaFrame
12 2 (1.047%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (1.047%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.524%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 22 (11.52%) SCOM
2 12 (6.283%) SCCM
3 8 (4.188%) Nagios
3 8 (4.188%) Cacti
4 5 (2.618%) NetBackup
4 5 (2.618%) MOM
5 3 (1.571%) WSUS
5 3 (1.571%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (1.047%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (1.047%) Legato
6 2 (1.047%) Tivoli
6 2 (1.047%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.524%) SCVMM
7 1 (0.524%) OpenView
7 1 (0.524%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 187 (97.91%) Citrix
2 74 (38.74%) Microsoft
3 56 (29.32%) Red Hat
4 48 (25.13%) VMware
5 41 (21.47%) F5
6 39 (20.42%) JBoss
6 39 (20.42%) Cisco
7 38 (19.90%) AppSense
8 16 (8.377%) HP
9 15 (7.853%) CheckPoint
9 15 (7.853%) Blue Coat
10 13 (6.806%) Wyse
11 10 (5.236%) Imperva
12 8 (4.188%) NetApp
12 8 (4.188%) Oracle
12 8 (4.188%) SolarWinds
13 7 (3.665%) Infoblox
13 7 (3.665%) IBM
14 6 (3.141%) Symantec
14 6 (3.141%) Juniper
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