The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Citrix 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 Vendors for the Merseyside 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Citrix Systems.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix
Rank - 21 22
Contract jobs citing Citrix 0 14 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside - 5.364% 3.629%
As % of the Vendors category - 10.45% 7.627%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 3
Average daily rate - £238 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -31.15%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Average hourly rate - £16.50 £21.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -24.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.25 £16.50 £16.75
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -1.49%
All Vendors
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
94 134 118
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 46.53% 51.34% 47.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 55 55
Average daily rate £363 £300 £317
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.83% -5.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £155 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £462
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 23 14
Average hourly rate £11.29 £16.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.59% +10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.96 £11.68
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.65 £21.86 £22.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Citrix
North West

Citrix
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Citrix across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Merseyside Citrix Jobs Demand Trend

Citrix
Daily Rate Trend

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

Merseyside Citrix Daily Rate Trend

Citrix
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Merseyside Citrix Hourly Rate Trend

Citrix
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 14 (73.68%) XenApp
2 10 (52.63%) Microsoft
3 9 (47.37%) Windows
4 8 (42.11%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (26.32%) ITIL
5 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
5 5 (26.32%) Citrix Certification
6 4 (21.05%) CCA
6 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (21.05%) AppSense
6 4 (21.05%) Migration
6 4 (21.05%) VMware
7 3 (15.79%) Clustering
7 3 (15.79%) Cisco
8 2 (10.53%) DNS
8 2 (10.53%) DHCP
8 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
8 2 (10.53%) MS Exchange
8 2 (10.53%) LAN
8 2 (10.53%) MCP
8 2 (10.53%) MS Office
8 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (10.53%) SAN
8 2 (10.53%) VMware ESX
8 2 (10.53%) Internet
8 2 (10.53%) XenDesktop
8 2 (10.53%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 1 (5.263%) Fat Client
9 1 (5.263%) NETGEAR
9 1 (5.263%) Smartphone

Citrix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (5.263%) COM
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) MS Exchange
2 1 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (5.263%) GroupWise
2 1 (5.263%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
1 2 (10.53%) DHCP
1 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
1 2 (10.53%) LAN
1 2 (10.53%) SAN
1 2 (10.53%) Internet
2 1 (5.263%) NetScaler
2 1 (5.263%) MPLS
2 1 (5.263%) IP Telephony
2 1 (5.263%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (5.263%) Firewall
2 1 (5.263%) VoIP
2 1 (5.263%) WAN
2 1 (5.263%) ADSL
2 1 (5.263%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.263%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (5.263%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Citrix Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Project Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Citrix Support
3 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (10.53%) Citrix Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Server Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Citrix Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Applications Packager
4 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Clustering
2 1 (5.263%) Fat Client
2 1 (5.263%) Smartphone
2 1 (5.263%) Blackberry
2 1 (5.263%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.263%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Windows
2 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (5.263%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (5.263%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) ITIL
2 4 (21.05%) Migration
3 1 (5.263%) Problem Management
3 1 (5.263%) Service Desk Management
3 1 (5.263%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (5.263%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.263%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Citrix Certification
2 4 (21.05%) CCA
3 2 (10.53%) MCP
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.263%) A+ Certification
System Software
1 14 (73.68%) XenApp
2 8 (42.11%) Microsoft App-V
3 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
4 2 (10.53%) VMware ESX
4 2 (10.53%) XenDesktop
4 2 (10.53%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 1 (5.263%) vSphere
5 1 (5.263%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.263%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (5.263%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) AppSense
2 4 (21.05%) VMware
3 3 (15.79%) Cisco
4 1 (5.263%) NETGEAR
4 1 (5.263%) Symantec
4 1 (5.263%) Wyse
4 1 (5.263%) HP
4 1 (5.263%) Dell
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