The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Halifax region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Citrix over the 3 months to 21 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 Vendors for the Halifax 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Citrix Systems.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix
Rank 19 29 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Contract jobs citing Citrix 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 1.709% 0.437% -
As % of the Vendors category 6.897% 2.778% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £138 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £302
% change year-on-year
- +7.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.50 £16.75
% change year-on-year
-6.06% -1.49%
All Vendors
Halifax
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
29 36 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 24.79% 15.72% 14.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 31 8
Average daily rate £350 £380 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% -3.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £138 £270 £321
10% offered a daily rate of more than £505 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £12.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Citrix
West Yorkshire

Citrix
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax Citrix Jobs Demand Trend

Citrix
Daily Rate Trend

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

Halifax Citrix Daily Rate Trend

Citrix
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) NAS
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (66.67%) Xen
2 2 (66.67%) Time Management
2 2 (66.67%) iSCSI
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Back Office
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
2 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
2 2 (66.67%) Backup Exec
2 2 (66.67%) ARCserve
2 2 (66.67%) NFS
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) EMC
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) NetApp
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) BPR
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) HTTP
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis

Citrix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) NAS
1 2 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (66.67%) iSCSI
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) Time Management
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) BPR
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Business Process Improvement
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (66.67%) Xen
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
1 2 (66.67%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
1 2 (66.67%) Backup Exec
1 2 (66.67%) ARCserve
2 1 (33.33%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) EMC
1 2 (66.67%) NetApp
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) HP