The first table below looks at the demand for XenApp skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XenApp 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 of the System Software category 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix XenApp
Rank - 35 -
Contract jobs citing XenApp 0 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside - 1.538% -
As % of the System Software category - 10.53% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £250 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £23.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.78% -13.63%
All System Software
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
20 38 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 9.569% 14.62% 8.560%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 11
Average daily rate £275 £268 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.80% -7.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £185 £208 £132
10% offered a daily rate of more than £459 £463 £419
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 4
Average hourly rate £10.75 £17.00 £21.47
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.76% -20.80%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £14.00 £17.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £29.75 £22.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
XenApp
North West

XenApp
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside XenApp Jobs Demand Trend

XenApp
Daily Rate Trend

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

Merseyside XenApp Daily Rate Trend

XenApp
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Merseyside XenApp Hourly Rate Trend

XenApp
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 14 (100.00%) Citrix
2 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
3 8 (57.14%) Microsoft App-V
4 5 (35.71%) ITIL
4 5 (35.71%) Windows
5 4 (28.57%) CCA
5 4 (28.57%) Citrix Certification
5 4 (28.57%) AppSense
5 4 (28.57%) Migration
6 2 (14.29%) XenDesktop
7 1 (7.143%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (7.143%) Firewall
7 1 (7.143%) Security Management
7 1 (7.143%) Management Information System
7 1 (7.143%) Wyse
7 1 (7.143%) Finance
7 1 (7.143%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (7.143%) SAN
7 1 (7.143%) Thin Client
7 1 (7.143%) Internet
7 1 (7.143%) MPLS
7 1 (7.143%) Blackberry
7 1 (7.143%) MS Exchange
7 1 (7.143%) ADSL
7 1 (7.143%) LAN
7 1 (7.143%) WAN
7 1 (7.143%) TCP/IP
7 1 (7.143%) VPN
7 1 (7.143%) Cisco
7 1 (7.143%) MCP

XenApp
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (7.143%) COM
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.143%) MS Exchange
1 1 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.143%) ADSL
1 1 (7.143%) LAN
1 1 (7.143%) WAN
1 1 (7.143%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.143%) VPN
1 1 (7.143%) SAN
1 1 (7.143%) Internet
1 1 (7.143%) MPLS
1 1 (7.143%) Firewall
1 1 (7.143%) IP Telephony
1 1 (7.143%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (7.143%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Citrix Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Project Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Citrix Support
4 2 (14.29%) Citrix Support Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (7.143%) Consultant
5 1 (7.143%) Applications Packager
5 1 (7.143%) Citrix Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) Thin Client
1 1 (7.143%) Blackberry
1 1 (7.143%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.143%) Clustering
1 1 (7.143%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) ITIL
2 4 (28.57%) Migration
3 1 (7.143%) Problem Management
3 1 (7.143%) Service Desk Management
3 1 (7.143%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (7.143%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) CCA
1 4 (28.57%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (7.143%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.143%) MCP
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (14.29%) XenDesktop
3 1 (7.143%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.143%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Citrix
2 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
3 4 (28.57%) AppSense
4 1 (7.143%) NETGEAR
4 1 (7.143%) Cisco
4 1 (7.143%) HP
4 1 (7.143%) Dell
4 1 (7.143%) Wyse