The first table below looks at the demand for CCIA in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CCIA over the 3 months to 17 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 Qualifications for the London 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix Certified Integration Architect (CCIA)
Rank 376 401 434
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +33
Contract jobs citing CCIA 9 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.042% 0.019% 0.010%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.283% 0.133% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 3
Average daily rate £413 £350 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.85% +2.94%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £285
% change year-on-year
- +22.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £25.00
All Qualifications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
3177 3754 4151
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 14.71% 14.02% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1897 2243 2392
Average daily rate £421 £425 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.94% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 114 143
Average hourly rate £23.20 £21.25 £20.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.17% +2.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.25 £12.50 £13.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.63 £37.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
CCIA
England

CCIA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CCIA across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

London CCIA Jobs Demand Trend

CCIA
Daily Rate Trend

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

London CCIA Daily Rate Trend

CCIA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCIA across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London CCIA Daily Rate Histogram

CCIA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London CCIA Hourly Rate Trend

CCIA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCIA within the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
City of London +15 5 £450 +28.57%
CCIA
England

CCIA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing CCIA 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 CCIA.

1 12 (100.00%) Citrix
1 12 (100.00%) Citrix Certification
2 9 (75.00%) VMware
2 9 (75.00%) Windows
2 9 (75.00%) XenApp
3 7 (58.33%) CCEA
4 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (50.00%) MCSE
4 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 6 (50.00%) XenServer
4 6 (50.00%) XenDesktop
4 6 (50.00%) CCEE
5 5 (41.67%) AppSense
5 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
5 5 (41.67%) VMware ESX
6 4 (33.33%) CCA
6 4 (33.33%) SCCM
6 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (25.00%) Law
7 3 (25.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 3 (25.00%) NetScaler
7 3 (25.00%) SAN
7 3 (25.00%) Firewall
7 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
8 2 (16.67%) DHCP
8 2 (16.67%) SQL
8 2 (16.67%) DNS
8 2 (16.67%) Finance
8 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003

CCIA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing CCIA 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 CCIA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) SAN
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
1 3 (25.00%) NetScaler
2 2 (16.67%) DHCP
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (8.333%) WAN
3 1 (8.333%) VPN
3 1 (8.333%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 3 (25.00%) Law
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Consultant
2 4 (33.33%) Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Citrix Consultant
3 3 (25.00%) Citrix Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Citrix Architect
4 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) VMware Architect
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Architect
4 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (8.333%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Citrix Certification
2 7 (58.33%) CCEA
3 6 (50.00%) CCEE
3 6 (50.00%) MCSE
3 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (33.33%) CCA
5 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (8.333%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (8.333%) Security Cleared
6 1 (8.333%) VCDX
6 1 (8.333%) NCDA
6 1 (8.333%) NCIE
6 1 (8.333%) CCIE
6 1 (8.333%) CCSP
6 1 (8.333%) CCNP
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) XenApp
2 6 (50.00%) XenServer
2 6 (50.00%) XenDesktop
2 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (41.67%) VMware ESX
4 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (25.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 2 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (8.333%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Citrix
2 9 (75.00%) VMware
3 5 (41.67%) AppSense
3 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.333%) Cisco
4 1 (8.333%) NetApp
4 1 (8.333%) Altiris