The first table below looks at the demand for XenServer skills in IT contracts advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XenServer 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 Newcastle upon Tyne 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 XenServer
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XenServer 7 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 4.730% - -
As % of the System Software category 53.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £356 £270 £330
% change year-on-year
+31.94% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -27.27%
All System Software
Newcastle upon Tyne
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
13 29 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 8.784% 11.24% 6.667%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 5
Average daily rate £300 £400 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.93% +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £250 £112
10% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £490 £333
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
Average hourly rate £18.25 £14.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+30.35% +3.70%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
XenServer
Tyne and Wear

XenServer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne XenServer Jobs Demand Trend

XenServer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing XenServer across the Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne XenServer Daily Rate Trend

XenServer
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne region citing XenServer 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 XenServer.

1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Citrix
2 5 (71.43%) Red Hat
2 5 (71.43%) MS Visio
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco
3 4 (57.14%) DNS
3 4 (57.14%) DHCP
3 4 (57.14%) Firewall
3 4 (57.14%) Validation
3 4 (57.14%) CentOS
4 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (42.86%) Nagios
4 3 (42.86%) OSPF
4 3 (42.86%) VPN
4 3 (42.86%) Apache
4 3 (42.86%) LDAP
4 3 (42.86%) MySQL
5 2 (28.57%) HP
5 2 (28.57%) BGP
5 2 (28.57%) SAN
5 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
6 1 (14.29%) VLAN
6 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (14.29%) HSRP
6 1 (14.29%) IPsec

XenServer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne region citing XenServer 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 XenServer. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (71.43%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DHCP
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) VPN
2 3 (42.86%) OSPF
2 3 (42.86%) LDAP
3 2 (28.57%) BGP
3 2 (28.57%) SAN
4 1 (14.29%) IPsec
4 1 (14.29%) VLAN
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (14.29%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Administrator
2 4 (57.14%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 3 (42.86%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 3 (42.86%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Linux Administrator
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Administrator
4 2 (28.57%) Network Administrator
5 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Validation
2 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Citrix
2 5 (71.43%) Red Hat
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) HP