The first table below looks at the demand for Xen skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Xen over the 3 months to 23 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 of the System Software category for the Leeds 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XenSource Xen
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Xen 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.136% - -
As % of the System Software category 1.724% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £125 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £419 £325 £338
% change year-on-year
+28.84% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- -36.36%
All System Software
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
58 72 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 7.902% 8.173% 7.477%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 24 18
Average daily rate £278 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.61% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £130 £132 £168
10% offered a daily rate of more than £478 £400 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 7
Average hourly rate £16.50 £12.00 £11.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.50% +1.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.39 £10.50 £10.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £23.50 £21.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Xen
West Yorkshire

Xen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Xen 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 Xen.

1 1 (100.00%) VBScript
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (100.00%) Apple
1 1 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Wyse
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) iPhone
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7

Xen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Xen 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 Xen. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (100.00%) iPhone
1 1 (100.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) VBScript
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Apple
1 1 (100.00%) Wyse
1 1 (100.00%) VMware