The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Xserve in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Xserve over the 3 months to 24 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Xserve
Rank 376 414 439
Rank change year-on-year
+38 +25
Contract jobs citing Xserve 1 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.005% 0.004% 0.010%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.014% 0.012% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £200 -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
7191 8651 11771
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 33.20% 32.11% 37.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4968 5870 7935
Average daily rate £475 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £283 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 209 196
Average hourly rate £23.00 £22.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.22% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.49 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.40 £52.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Xserve
England

Xserve
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Xserve Jobs Demand Trend

Xserve
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Xserve Daily Rate Trend

Xserve
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Xserve Hourly Rate Trend

Xserve
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Xserve 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 Xserve.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (100.00%) Apple
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) Games
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
1 1 (100.00%) Online Games
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) iPhone
1 1 (100.00%) iPad

Xserve
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Xserve 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 Xserve. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
General
1 1 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Mac Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Mac Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) Online Games
1 1 (100.00%) iPhone
1 1 (100.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS X
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Apple