The first table below looks at the demand for MetaFrame skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MetaFrame over the 3 months to 19 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 Manchester 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix MetaFrame Server
Rank 74 80 70
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -10
Contract jobs citing MetaFrame 1 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.104% 0.081% 0.096%
As % of the System Software category 1.111% 0.862% 1.205%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £100
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £425 £325
% change year-on-year
-17.64% +30.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 - £16.72
All System Software
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
90 116 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 9.385% 9.400% 7.958%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 46 25
Average daily rate £266 £260 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.40% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £187 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £375 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £305
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 25 28
Average hourly rate £20.00 £17.00 £10.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% +65.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £9.00 £9.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £33.50 £17.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
MetaFrame
North West

MetaFrame
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester MetaFrame Jobs Demand Trend

MetaFrame
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester MetaFrame Daily Rate Trend

MetaFrame
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester MetaFrame Hourly Rate Trend

MetaFrame
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MetaFrame within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 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
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Vacancies
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MetaFrame
North West

MetaFrame
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing MetaFrame 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 MetaFrame.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCEA
1 1 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 1 (100.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) Lync
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (100.00%) CCEE

MetaFrame
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing MetaFrame 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 MetaFrame. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Lync
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Communications
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (100.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCEA
1 1 (100.00%) CCEE
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
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