The first table below looks at the demand for XenDesktop 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 XenDesktop 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix XenDesktop
Rank 71 75 70
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -5
Contract jobs citing XenDesktop 4 8 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.429% 0.619% 0.192%
As % of the System Software category 5.333% 6.897% 3.390%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
Average daily rate £356 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.75% -14.28%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+23.07% -7.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £36.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- +12.30%
All System Software
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
75 116 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 8.039% 8.978% 5.662%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 39 14
Average daily rate £263 £313 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.00% +42.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £175 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £409 £387 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 22 21
Average hourly rate £15.50 £17.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.82% +54.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.23 £9.00 £9.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.70 £20.80 £18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
XenDesktop
North West

XenDesktop
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester XenDesktop Jobs Demand Trend

XenDesktop
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester XenDesktop Daily Rate Trend

XenDesktop
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XenDesktop across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Manchester XenDesktop Daily Rate Histogram

XenDesktop
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 9 (90.00%) Citrix
2 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) XenApp
3 5 (50.00%) Fat Client
3 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (50.00%) Thin Client
4 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (30.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (30.00%) vSphere
4 3 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (30.00%) Wyse
4 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 3 (30.00%) MS Exchange
4 3 (30.00%) SSL
4 3 (30.00%) Cisco
5 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (20.00%) Lotus Notes
5 2 (20.00%) SAS
5 2 (20.00%) NFS
5 2 (20.00%) VPN
5 2 (20.00%) IIS
5 2 (20.00%) MS Office
5 2 (20.00%) Terminal Services
5 2 (20.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (20.00%) Blackberry
5 2 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (20.00%) Windows XP
5 2 (20.00%) Lotus
5 2 (20.00%) iPad
5 2 (20.00%) Fibre Channel

XenDesktop
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 3 (30.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (20.00%) Lotus Notes
2 2 (20.00%) SAS
2 2 (20.00%) IIS
2 2 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Office
2 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) SSL
2 2 (20.00%) VPN
2 2 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (20.00%) iSCSI
3 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Consultant
2 4 (40.00%) Technical Manager
3 3 (30.00%) Citrix Consultant
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (20.00%) Support Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (20.00%) IT Support
4 2 (20.00%) Citrix Technical Consultant
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (20.00%) Service Manager
4 2 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Technical Consultant
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Services Manager
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Citrix Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Citrix Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Applications Packager
5 1 (10.00%) Applications Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Fat Client
1 5 (50.00%) Thin Client
2 2 (20.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (20.00%) iPad
2 2 (20.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (20.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Vista
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (10.00%) SUSE
4 1 (10.00%) Linux
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CCEE
1 1 (10.00%) CCIA
1 1 (10.00%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (10.00%) CCEA
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) XenApp
2 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (30.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (30.00%) vSphere
4 2 (20.00%) NFS
4 2 (20.00%) Terminal Services
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 2 (20.00%) Backup Exec
1 2 (20.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Citrix
2 3 (30.00%) Wyse
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Lotus
3 2 (20.00%) VMware
4 1 (10.00%) Dell
4 1 (10.00%) NetApp