Kent Citrix Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT contracts within the Kent 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Barking Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grimsby Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hartlepool Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Ipswich Isle of Man Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden 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 Preston Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rotherham Runcorn Salisbury Sandbach Scotland Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	34
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	5	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	2.890 %	8.170 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£350
Average daily rate	-	£400
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£319
% change on same period last year	-6.22 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	10
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£25.30
Average hourly rate	-	£25.75
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£26.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.62	£20.69
% change on same period last year	+4.51 %
Vendors Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	173	306
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.244 %	0.309 %
Daily rates quoted	58	64
Average minimum daily rate	£306	£329
Average daily rate	£319	£357
% change on same period last year	-10.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£331	£385
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	34	52
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.21	£17.92
Average hourly rate	£18.15	£19.05
% change on same period last year	-4.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.09	£20.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.44	£24.37
% change on same period last year	+0.26 %
Citrix South East

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 Kent 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 Kent region.

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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 Kent 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Maidstone	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 12 (54.55 %) Active Directory 2 11 (50.00 %) Windows 3 9 (40.91 %) Windows Server 2003 4 7 (31.82 %) Wireless 4 7 (31.82 %) VMware 4 7 (31.82 %) Broadband 5 6 (27.27 %) Microsoft 6 5 (22.73 %) Microsoft Certification 6 5 (22.73 %) Oracle 6 5 (22.73 %) MCSE 6 5 (22.73 %) Finance 6 5 (22.73 %) AutoCAD 6 5 (22.73 %) Asset Management 6 5 (22.73 %) Data Analysis 6 5 (22.73 %) QA

7 4 (18.18 %) Project Management 7 4 (18.18 %) SAN 7 4 (18.18 %) SQL Server 7 4 (18.18 %) HP 7 4 (18.18 %) Windows XP 8 3 (13.64 %) SQL 8 3 (13.64 %) MS Exchange 8 3 (13.64 %) DNS 8 3 (13.64 %) Government 8 3 (13.64 %) VMware ESX 8 3 (13.64 %) Altiris 9 2 (9.091 %) Backup Exec 9 2 (9.091 %) Cisco Certification 9 2 (9.091 %) Banking 9 2 (9.091 %) Local Government

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 Platforms 1 3 (13.64 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (4.545 %) IIS 3 1 (4.545 %) SharePoint 3 1 (4.545 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (4.545 %) GroupWise 3 1 (4.545 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 1 (4.545 %) Exchange Server 2000	Applications 1 5 (22.73 %) AutoCAD 2 2 (9.091 %) MS Excel 3 1 (4.545 %) MS Visio 3 1 (4.545 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (4.545 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 1 (4.545 %) Summit 1 1 (4.545 %) GoldMine	Communications & Networking 1 7 (31.82 %) Broadband 1 7 (31.82 %) Wireless 2 4 (18.18 %) SAN 3 3 (13.64 %) DNS 4 2 (9.091 %) LAN 5 1 (4.545 %) WAN 5 1 (4.545 %) DHCP 5 1 (4.545 %) HTTP 5 1 (4.545 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (4.545 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2 2 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 1 (4.545 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 5 (22.73 %) Finance 2 3 (13.64 %) Government 3 2 (9.091 %) Health 3 2 (9.091 %) Banking 3 2 (9.091 %) Local Government 4 1 (4.545 %) Investment Banking 4 1 (4.545 %) Legal	Job Titles 1 4 (18.18 %) Project Officer 2 3 (13.64 %) Analyst 2 3 (13.64 %) Coordinator 2 3 (13.64 %) Project Coordinator 2 3 (13.64 %) Technical Specialist 3 2 (9.091 %) 3rd Line Support 3 2 (9.091 %) Support Technician 4 1 (4.545 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (4.545 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (4.545 %) Desktop Support 4 1 (4.545 %) Network Engineer 4 1 (4.545 %) Systems Engineer 4 1 (4.545 %) Server Support 4 1 (4.545 %) Infrastructure Analyst 4 1 (4.545 %) 2nd Line Support 4 1 (4.545 %) Administrator 4 1 (4.545 %) Senior Analyst 4 1 (4.545 %) Desktop Support Analyst 4 1 (4.545 %) IT Administrator 4 1 (4.545 %) Desktop Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 2 (9.091 %) Clustering 2 1 (4.545 %) Informatics 2 1 (4.545 %) Fat Client 2 1 (4.545 %) Client/Server 2 1 (4.545 %) NHS 2 1 (4.545 %) Thin Client	Operating Systems 1 11 (50.00 %) Windows 2 9 (40.91 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (18.18 %) Windows XP 4 2 (9.091 %) UNIX 4 2 (9.091 %) Linux 4 2 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (4.545 %) Windows NT 5 1 (4.545 %) AIX 5 1 (4.545 %) Windows Vista 5 1 (4.545 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (22.73 %) Asset Management 1 5 (22.73 %) Data Analysis 2 4 (18.18 %) Project Management 3 2 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (4.545 %) Disaster Recovery 4 1 (4.545 %) Load Balancing 4 1 (4.545 %) Fund Management 4 1 (4.545 %) Investment Management 4 1 (4.545 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (4.545 %) BC Cleared 4 1 (4.545 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 3 (13.64 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 5 (22.73 %) MCSE 1 5 (22.73 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (9.091 %) MCP 2 2 (9.091 %) CCNA 2 2 (9.091 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (4.545 %) MCSA 3 1 (4.545 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (4.545 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (22.73 %) QA
System Software 1 12 (54.55 %) Active Directory 2 3 (13.64 %) VMware ESX 3 2 (9.091 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (9.091 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 1 (4.545 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 1 (4.545 %) NetBackup 4 1 (4.545 %) NDS	Systems Management 1 1 (4.545 %) Legato 1 1 (4.545 %) MOM 1 1 (4.545 %) WSUS 1 1 (4.545 %) EMC NetWorker
Vendors 1 7 (31.82 %) VMware 2 6 (27.27 %) Microsoft 3 5 (22.73 %) Oracle 4 4 (18.18 %) HP 5 3 (13.64 %) Altiris 6 2 (9.091 %) Novell 6 2 (9.091 %) Symantec 7 1 (4.545 %) Intel 7 1 (4.545 %) Cisco