Xen Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Xen 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 Xen over the 3 months to 17 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 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 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XenSource Xen
Rank 472 497 521
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +24
Contract jobs citing Xen 38 61 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.091% 0.114% 0.090%
As % of the System Software category 0.966% 1.419% 1.245%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 37 39
Average daily rate £425 £375 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 £275 £262
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+30.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
Average hourly rate - £17.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -23.91%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- -36.36%
All System Software
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 3935 4299 4095
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 9.466% 8.058% 7.257%
Number of daily rates quoted 1913 2094 1830
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £463 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 582 611
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -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 £37.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Xen
UK

Xen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Xen Jobs Demand Trend

Xen
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Xen Daily Rate Trend

Xen
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Xen across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Xen Daily Rate Histogram

Xen
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Xen Hourly Rate Trend

Xen
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Xen within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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
South East +28 14 £452 +18.94%
Yorkshire - 11 £425 -
East of England +8 8 £325 -
South West +18 2 £383 +18.05%
London -3 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 £413 -
Xen
UK

Xen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 41 (56.16%) VMware
2 39 (53.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 39 (53.42%) Citrix
3 38 (52.05%) Microsoft
4 35 (47.95%) Windows
5 29 (39.73%) Hyper-V
6 27 (36.99%) Linux
7 25 (34.25%) SAN
8 22 (30.14%) Active Directory
8 22 (30.14%) SCOM
9 21 (28.77%) Windows Server 2008
10 20 (27.40%) Security Cleared
11 17 (23.29%) Windows Server 2003
11 17 (23.29%) SC Cleared
12 15 (20.55%) Cloud Computing
12 15 (20.55%) Cisco
13 14 (19.18%) UNIX
13 14 (19.18%) Perl
14 12 (16.44%) SQL
14 12 (16.44%) Blackberry
14 12 (16.44%) Configuration Management
14 12 (16.44%) Firewall
14 12 (16.44%) SaaS
14 12 (16.44%) PaaS
14 12 (16.44%) IaaS
15 11 (15.07%) OpenStack
15 11 (15.07%) Open Source
15 11 (15.07%) HP
15 11 (15.07%) C
15 11 (15.07%) DNS

Xen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (2.740%) HTML
1 2 (2.740%) .NET
1 2 (2.740%) WSH
1 2 (2.740%) CGI
1 2 (2.740%) Regular Expression
2 1 (1.370%) Middleware
2 1 (1.370%) LAMP
2 1 (1.370%) REST
2 1 (1.370%) COM
2 1 (1.370%) Servlets
2 1 (1.370%) SOAP
2 1 (1.370%) Web Services
2 1 (1.370%) XML
2 1 (1.370%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 11 (15.07%) MS Exchange
1 11 (15.07%) OpenStack
2 10 (13.70%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (10.96%) Windows Azure
3 8 (10.96%) CloudStack
4 5 (6.849%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 4 (5.479%) IIS
5 4 (5.479%) Apache
6 3 (4.110%) Tomcat
7 1 (1.370%) SharePoint
7 1 (1.370%) Amazon AWS
7 1 (1.370%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (1.370%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (1.370%) WorkSite
Applications
1 9 (12.33%) MS Excel
2 5 (6.849%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 25 (34.25%) SAN
2 12 (16.44%) Firewall
3 11 (15.07%) DNS
4 7 (9.589%) TCP/IP
4 7 (9.589%) MPLS
4 7 (9.589%) LAN
4 7 (9.589%) WAN
4 7 (9.589%) NAS
5 6 (8.219%) DHCP
5 6 (8.219%) Ethernet
6 4 (5.479%) VoIP
6 4 (5.479%) PSTN
6 4 (5.479%) ATM
6 4 (5.479%) Broadband
6 4 (5.479%) GPRS
6 4 (5.479%) Internet
6 4 (5.479%) 3G
6 4 (5.479%) Wireless
7 3 (4.110%) DSL
7 3 (4.110%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.589%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.849%) Oracle 8/8i
2 5 (6.849%) MySQL
3 4 (5.479%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (5.479%) Oracle 11g
3 4 (5.479%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (2.740%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.370%) Big Data
5 1 (1.370%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.370%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 3 (4.110%) Git (software)
1 3 (4.110%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.740%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (2.740%) WiX
2 2 (2.740%) MSBuild
2 2 (2.740%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 2 (2.740%) Subversion
2 2 (2.740%) Maven
2 2 (2.740%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.370%) MSI
3 1 (1.370%) Hudson
General
1 3 (4.110%) Telecoms
2 2 (2.740%) Finance
2 2 (2.740%) Back Office
2 2 (2.740%) Retail
2 2 (2.740%) Marketing
2 2 (2.740%) German Language
3 1 (1.370%) Electronics
3 1 (1.370%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (27.40%) Architect
2 12 (16.44%) Technical Architect
3 8 (10.96%) Analyst
3 8 (10.96%) Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (5.479%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (5.479%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (5.479%) Administrator
5 3 (4.110%) Support Engineer
5 3 (4.110%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (4.110%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (4.110%) Integration Engineer
5 3 (4.110%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (4.110%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (2.740%) Senior Architect
6 2 (2.740%) Server Analyst
6 2 (2.740%) Citrix Support
6 2 (2.740%) VMware Architect
6 2 (2.740%) Citrix Support Engineer
6 2 (2.740%) Citrix Engineer
6 2 (2.740%) Build Manager
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.55%) Cloud Computing
2 12 (16.44%) SaaS
2 12 (16.44%) PaaS
2 12 (16.44%) IaaS
2 12 (16.44%) Blackberry
3 11 (15.07%) Open Source
4 9 (12.33%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (8.219%) Device Driver
5 6 (8.219%) VHDL
5 6 (8.219%) Verilog
6 5 (6.849%) Thin Client
6 5 (6.849%) Fat Client
7 4 (5.479%) Management Information System
8 3 (4.110%) Computer Science
9 2 (2.740%) Replication
9 2 (2.740%) Clustering
9 2 (2.740%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (1.370%) Cryptography
10 1 (1.370%) iPhone
10 1 (1.370%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 35 (47.95%) Windows
2 27 (36.99%) Linux
3 21 (28.77%) Windows Server 2008
4 17 (23.29%) Windows Server 2003
5 14 (19.18%) UNIX
6 10 (13.70%) Windows XP
6 10 (13.70%) Windows 7
7 6 (8.219%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (5.479%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (5.479%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (2.740%) CentOS
9 2 (2.740%) Solaris
10 1 (1.370%) AIX
10 1 (1.370%) HPUX
10 1 (1.370%) Mac OS X
10 1 (1.370%) FreeBSD
10 1 (1.370%) OpenBSD
10 1 (1.370%) Fedora
10 1 (1.370%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.370%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (16.44%) Configuration Management
2 9 (12.33%) ITIL
3 8 (10.96%) Service Management
4 7 (9.589%) ITSM
4 7 (9.589%) Business Continuity
4 7 (9.589%) Change Control
5 6 (8.219%) Electronic Design Automation
5 6 (8.219%) Time Management
5 6 (8.219%) Migration
5 6 (8.219%) Project Management
6 5 (6.849%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (6.849%) Problem Management
7 4 (5.479%) Performance Management
7 4 (5.479%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (5.479%) BCP
7 4 (5.479%) PRINCE2
7 4 (5.479%) E-Commerce
8 3 (4.110%) Risk Management
8 3 (4.110%) Integration Testing
8 3 (4.110%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (19.18%) Perl
2 12 (16.44%) SQL
3 11 (15.07%) C
3 11 (15.07%) PowerShell
4 10 (13.70%) Java
5 8 (10.96%) VB
6 7 (9.589%) Python
7 6 (8.219%) Bash shell
8 5 (6.849%) C++
9 3 (4.110%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.110%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.740%) C#
10 2 (2.740%) PHP
11 1 (1.370%) VBScript
11 1 (1.370%) Ruby
11 1 (1.370%) Korn
11 1 (1.370%) Erlang
11 1 (1.370%) ActionScript
11 1 (1.370%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (27.40%) Security Cleared
2 17 (23.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.219%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (5.479%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.479%) MCSE
4 4 (5.479%) MCTS
4 4 (5.479%) MCITP
5 3 (4.110%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.110%) CCNA
5 3 (4.110%) RHCE
6 2 (2.740%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (2.740%) Degree
7 1 (1.370%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.370%) CCIA
7 1 (1.370%) VCP5
7 1 (1.370%) HPUX Certification
7 1 (1.370%) SCSA
7 1 (1.370%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.370%) ISEB
7 1 (1.370%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.219%) JTAG
2 2 (2.740%) JSP 440
System Software
1 39 (53.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (39.73%) Hyper-V
3 22 (30.14%) Active Directory
4 7 (9.589%) UAG
5 6 (8.219%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (6.849%) XenServer
7 4 (5.479%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (5.479%) VMware ESX
7 4 (5.479%) NFS
8 3 (4.110%) NLBS
9 1 (1.370%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (1.370%) Postfix
9 1 (1.370%) Sendmail
9 1 (1.370%) XenApp
9 1 (1.370%) VirtualBox
9 1 (1.370%) XenDesktop
9 1 (1.370%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (1.370%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (30.14%) SCOM
2 8 (10.96%) SCCM
3 7 (9.589%) MIMEsweeper
4 4 (5.479%) NetBackup
4 4 (5.479%) Nagios
4 4 (5.479%) WSUS
5 3 (4.110%) Puppet
5 3 (4.110%) Splunk
5 3 (4.110%) BladeLogic
5 3 (4.110%) Opalis
6 2 (2.740%) Backup Exec
6 2 (2.740%) ARCserve
6 2 (2.740%) Tivoli
6 2 (2.740%) Ganglia
6 2 (2.740%) HP Operations Orchestration
6 2 (2.740%) Ionix
7 1 (1.370%) OpenView
7 1 (1.370%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (1.370%) Cobbler
7 1 (1.370%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 41 (56.16%) VMware
2 39 (53.42%) Citrix
3 38 (52.05%) Microsoft
4 15 (20.55%) Cisco
5 11 (15.07%) HP
6 10 (13.70%) Oracle
7 8 (10.96%) NetApp
7 8 (10.96%) Google
8 7 (9.589%) Red Hat
9 6 (8.219%) CA
10 5 (6.849%) CheckPoint
11 4 (5.479%) 3PAR
12 3 (4.110%) Symantec
12 3 (4.110%) Veritas
13 2 (2.740%) BMC
13 2 (2.740%) Sun
13 2 (2.740%) Dell
13 2 (2.740%) EMC
13 2 (2.740%) Intel
13 2 (2.740%) AppSense
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