Herefordshire Citrix Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT contracts within the Herefordshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Citrix over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Banbury Barnet Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bognor Regis Borehamwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Cleethorpes Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Grimsby Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich 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 Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Renfrewshire Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	30
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	10	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	18.52 %	11.84 %
Daily rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum daily rate	£230	£231
Average daily rate	£230	£231
% change on same period last year	-0.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£230	£231
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£332
% change on same period last year	-2.78 %
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	£19.89	£18.97
% change on same period last year	+4.82 %
Vendors Herefordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	54	76
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.071 %	0.081 %
Daily rates quoted	13	16
Average minimum daily rate	£291	£304
Average daily rate	£307	£307
% change on same period last year	+0.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£311
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£356
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£12.57
Average hourly rate	£22.50	£15.20
% change on same period last year	+48.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£17.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.94	£25.21
% change on same period last year	-8.99 %
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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 Herefordshire 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 Herefordshire 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 Herefordshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 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 Herefordshire region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Citrix within the Herefordshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 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
Hemel Hempstead	+19	8	-	-
Borehamwood	-	2	£230	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Herefordshire 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 29 (87.88 %) Windows 2 24 (72.73 %) Active Directory 3 18 (54.55 %) Windows Server 2003 3 18 (54.55 %) OpenView Configuration Management 4 17 (51.52 %) Lotus 4 17 (51.52 %) Lotus Domino 5 16 (48.48 %) VBScript 5 16 (48.48 %) VB 6 15 (45.45 %) SAN 7 12 (36.36 %) IBM 7 12 (36.36 %) SQL Server 7 12 (36.36 %) Government 7 12 (36.36 %) WMI 8 11 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 8 11 (33.33 %) SQL

8 11 (33.33 %) ADSI 9 9 (27.27 %) DHCP 9 9 (27.27 %) WINS 9 9 (27.27 %) DNS 9 9 (27.27 %) HP 9 9 (27.27 %) Transact-SQL 9 9 (27.27 %) ADO 10 7 (21.21 %) Microsoft 11 5 (15.15 %) LAN 11 5 (15.15 %) WAN 12 4 (12.12 %) ITIL 12 4 (12.12 %) Windows 2000 12 4 (12.12 %) OpenView 12 4 (12.12 %) Cisco 12 4 (12.12 %) Thin Client

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Herefordshire 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 12 (36.36 %) WMI 2 11 (33.33 %) ADSI 3 9 (27.27 %) ADO	Application Platforms 1 17 (51.52 %) Lotus Domino 2 3 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (6.061 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (3.030 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 1 (3.030 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 15 (45.45 %) SAN 2 9 (27.27 %) DHCP 2 9 (27.27 %) WINS 2 9 (27.27 %) DNS 3 5 (15.15 %) LAN 3 5 (15.15 %) WAN 4 2 (6.061 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (36.36 %) SQL Server 2 3 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 12 (36.36 %) Government 2 2 (6.061 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 5 (15.15 %) Architect 2 3 (9.091 %) Support Engineer 3 2 (6.061 %) 2nd Line Support 3 2 (6.061 %) Technical Architect 3 2 (6.061 %) Consultant 3 2 (6.061 %) Technical Support 3 2 (6.061 %) Team Leader 4 1 (3.030 %) Infrastructure Architect 4 1 (3.030 %) Citrix Consultant 4 1 (3.030 %) Infrastructure Specialist 4 1 (3.030 %) Network Support 4 1 (3.030 %) Enterprise Architect 4 1 (3.030 %) Windows Technical Consultant 4 1 (3.030 %) Windows Administrator 4 1 (3.030 %) Senior Windows Administrator 4 1 (3.030 %) Analyst 4 1 (3.030 %) Network Consultant 4 1 (3.030 %) Applications Packager 4 1 (3.030 %) Helpdesk Analyst 4 1 (3.030 %) 1st Line Support	Miscellaneous 1 4 (12.12 %) Thin Client 1 4 (12.12 %) Fat Client 2 2 (6.061 %) Client/Server 3 1 (3.030 %) Clustering 3 1 (3.030 %) Statistics
Operating Systems 1 29 (87.88 %) Windows 2 18 (54.55 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (12.12 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (12.12 %) ITIL 3 2 (6.061 %) CRM 3 2 (6.061 %) Business Analysis 3 2 (6.061 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (3.030 %) Problem Management
Programming Languages 1 16 (48.48 %) VBScript 1 16 (48.48 %) VB 2 11 (33.33 %) SQL 3 9 (27.27 %) Transact-SQL 4 2 (6.061 %) C	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (6.061 %) SLA
System Software 1 24 (72.73 %) Active Directory 2 2 (6.061 %) MetaFrame 3 1 (3.030 %) Terminal Services 3 1 (3.030 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 18 (54.55 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 4 (12.12 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 17 (51.52 %) Lotus 2 12 (36.36 %) IBM 3 9 (27.27 %) HP 4 7 (21.21 %) Microsoft 5 4 (12.12 %) Cisco 6 3 (9.091 %) Dell 7 2 (6.061 %) VMware