Gloucestershire Citrix Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT contracts within the Gloucestershire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Citrix over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Barking Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorking Dudley Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grimsby Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kent King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stourbridge Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	29
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	24	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	9.091 %	10.77 %
Daily rates quoted	5	15
Average minimum daily rate	£346	£342
Average daily rate	£346	£380
% change on same period last year	-8.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£418
UK excluding London average daily rate	£308	£319
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.77	£21.24
% change on same period last year	-2.19 %
Vendors Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	264	260
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.357 %	0.256 %
Daily rates quoted	61	71
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£361
Average daily rate	£367	£383
% change on same period last year	-4.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£405
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.90	£23.55
Average hourly rate	£20.97	£24.95
% change on same period last year	-15.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.05	£26.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.29	£24.78
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
Citrix South West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Citrix Systems.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Citrix across the Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Citrix across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Gloucester	+9	17	£338	-16.01 %
Cheltenham	-10	4	£380	+0.46 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 20 (74.07 %) Windows 2 13 (48.15 %) Active Directory 2 13 (48.15 %) Windows Server 2003 3 9 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 4 8 (29.63 %) MetaFrame 5 7 (25.93 %) SQL 5 7 (25.93 %) VBScript 6 6 (22.22 %) VB 6 6 (22.22 %) MS Exchange 6 6 (22.22 %) Citrix Presentation Server 7 5 (18.52 %) DV Cleared 7 5 (18.52 %) Security Cleared 7 5 (18.52 %) ITIL 7 5 (18.52 %) Compaq 7 5 (18.52 %) VoIP

7 5 (18.52 %) Cisco 7 5 (18.52 %) IBM 8 4 (14.81 %) Microsoft 8 4 (14.81 %) SMS 8 4 (14.81 %) Migration 8 4 (14.81 %) VMware 8 4 (14.81 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 4 (14.81 %) Application Packaging 8 4 (14.81 %) QA 9 3 (11.11 %) Auditing 9 3 (11.11 %) Test Scripting 9 3 (11.11 %) Altiris 9 3 (11.11 %) Clustering 9 3 (11.11 %) SAN 10 2 (7.407 %) SQL Server 2000

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 4 (14.81 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 6 (22.22 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (14.81 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (7.407 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (3.704 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (3.704 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 2 (7.407 %) MS Office 2 1 (3.704 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 5 (18.52 %) VoIP 2 4 (14.81 %) SMS 3 3 (11.11 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (7.407 %) SQL Server 1 2 (7.407 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 2 (7.407 %) MSI
General 1 3 (11.11 %) Auditing 2 2 (7.407 %) Government 3 1 (3.704 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 6 (22.22 %) Citrix Engineer 2 5 (18.52 %) Applications Packager 2 5 (18.52 %) Infrastructure Engineer 3 3 (11.11 %) Systems Engineer 3 3 (11.11 %) Test Manager 4 2 (7.407 %) Consultant 4 2 (7.407 %) Desktop Support 4 2 (7.407 %) Test Engineer 4 2 (7.407 %) Citrix Consultant 4 2 (7.407 %) Cisco Engineer 4 2 (7.407 %) Senior Test Engineer 5 1 (3.704 %) Support Team Leader 5 1 (3.704 %) Cisco Network Engineer 5 1 (3.704 %) IT Administrator 5 1 (3.704 %) Desktop Engineer 5 1 (3.704 %) Team Leader 5 1 (3.704 %) Desktop Support Engineer 5 1 (3.704 %) Support Engineer 5 1 (3.704 %) Administrator 5 1 (3.704 %) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 3 (11.11 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 20 (74.07 %) Windows 2 13 (48.15 %) Windows Server 2003 3 9 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (3.704 %) Windows XP 4 1 (3.704 %) Linux 4 1 (3.704 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (18.52 %) ITIL 1 5 (18.52 %) DV Cleared 1 5 (18.52 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (14.81 %) Migration 3 3 (11.11 %) Test Scripting 4 2 (7.407 %) Validation 5 1 (3.704 %) Change Management 5 1 (3.704 %) Information Security 5 1 (3.704 %) Incident Management 5 1 (3.704 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (3.704 %) Test Management	Programming Languages 1 7 (25.93 %) SQL 1 7 (25.93 %) VBScript 2 6 (22.22 %) VB
Qualifications 1 2 (7.407 %) MCSE 1 2 (7.407 %) ISEB 1 2 (7.407 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (7.407 %) ISTQB 2 1 (3.704 %) MCP 2 1 (3.704 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (14.81 %) QA 2 1 (3.704 %) SLA
System Software 1 13 (48.15 %) Active Directory 2 8 (29.63 %) MetaFrame 3 6 (22.22 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 2 (7.407 %) Terminal Server 4 2 (7.407 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 1 (3.704 %) MOM
Vendors 1 5 (18.52 %) Compaq 1 5 (18.52 %) Cisco 1 5 (18.52 %) IBM 2 4 (14.81 %) Microsoft 2 4 (14.81 %) VMware 3 3 (11.11 %) Altiris 4 2 (7.407 %) Remedy 5 1 (3.704 %) Primavera 5 1 (3.704 %) NetApp 5 1 (3.704 %) VERITAS 5 1 (3.704 %) Red Hat 5 1 (3.704 %) Oracle