The first table below looks at the demand for XenApp skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XenApp over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Hertfordshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix XenApp
Rank 51 77 64
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -13
Contract jobs citing XenApp 6 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.920% 0.102% 0.224%
As % of the System Software category 8.219% 1.408% 2.151%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £314 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+0.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £32.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £22.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+44.44% -18.18%
All System Software
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
73 71 93
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 11.20% 7.208% 10.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 25 30
Average daily rate £325 £425 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.52% +54.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £249 £115
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £481 £399
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £324 £310
% change year-on-year
+0.30% +4.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 16 14
Average hourly rate £17.50 £16.72 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.69% -47.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.10 £11.13 £11.02
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £34.48 £35.34
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
XenApp
East of England

XenApp
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire XenApp Jobs Demand Trend

XenApp
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire XenApp Daily Rate Trend

XenApp
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire XenApp Hourly Rate Trend

XenApp
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XenApp within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Stevenage - - - -
Watford - - - -
XenApp
East of England

XenApp
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing XenApp 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 XenApp.

1 6 (75.00%) Citrix
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
3 4 (50.00%) VMware
4 2 (25.00%) SSH
4 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (25.00%) VLAN
4 2 (25.00%) NetBackup
4 2 (25.00%) Linux
4 2 (25.00%) UNIX
4 2 (25.00%) WAN
4 2 (25.00%) VMS
4 2 (25.00%) DHCP
4 2 (25.00%) DNS
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (25.00%) HP
4 2 (25.00%) MetaFrame
4 2 (25.00%) SAN
4 2 (25.00%) Terminal Services
4 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (25.00%) Symantec
4 2 (25.00%) MPLS
4 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
4 2 (25.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi

XenApp
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing XenApp 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 XenApp. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (12.50%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) WAN
1 2 (25.00%) DHCP
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
1 2 (25.00%) MPLS
1 2 (25.00%) SSH
1 2 (25.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MSI
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Citrix Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Citrix Support
2 2 (25.00%) Server Support
2 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Server Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Server Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Citrix Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Citrix Server Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Packager
3 1 (12.50%) Build Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Citrix Engineer
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) VMS
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (12.50%) Use Case
2 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
2 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Change Management
2 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) MetaFrame
1 2 (25.00%) Terminal Services
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (12.50%) XenDesktop
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (12.50%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Citrix
2 4 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) Symantec
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) HP
4 1 (12.50%) LANDesk
Hertfordshire
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