Norfolk Citrix Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT contracts within the Norfolk region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Citrix over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Barking Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grimsby Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hartlepool Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Ipswich Isle of Man Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rotherham Runcorn Salisbury Sandbach Scotland Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Asaph Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	31
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	13	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	7.879 %	5.932 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£259	£400
Average daily rate	£272	£400
% change on same period last year	-32.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£284	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£294	£318
% change on same period last year	-7.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.00	£18.00
Average hourly rate	£19.25	£18.67
% change on same period last year	+3.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.50	£19.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.53	£20.65
% change on same period last year	+4.29 %
Vendors Norfolk
Matching contract IT job ads	165	118
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.233 %	0.119 %
Daily rates quoted	48	29
Average minimum daily rate	£371	£337
Average daily rate	£390	£357
% change on same period last year	+9.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£409	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	39	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.29	£19.38
Average hourly rate	£19.30	£20.65
% change on same period last year	-6.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.31	£21.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.41	£24.34
% change on same period last year	+0.26 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Citrix Systems.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Citrix across the Norfolk region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Citrix across the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix within the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Norwich	-7	7	£272	-32.12 %
King's Lynn	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 19 (73.08 %) VMware 2 18 (69.23 %) MS Exchange 3 16 (61.54 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 11 (42.31 %) Windows 4 11 (42.31 %) Active Directory 5 10 (38.46 %) SAN 6 9 (34.62 %) Windows Server 2003 7 8 (30.77 %) Back Office 7 8 (30.77 %) DNS 8 7 (26.92 %) SQL Server 9 4 (15.38 %) Microsoft 9 4 (15.38 %) VoIP 9 4 (15.38 %) DHCP 10 3 (11.54 %) HP 10 3 (11.54 %) Microsoft Certification

11 2 (7.692 %) Web Testing 11 2 (7.692 %) VMware Infrastructure 11 2 (7.692 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 11 2 (7.692 %) Terminal Services 11 2 (7.692 %) Construction 11 2 (7.692 %) Avaya 11 2 (7.692 %) CCA 11 2 (7.692 %) Citrix Certification 11 2 (7.692 %) Dell 11 2 (7.692 %) WAN 11 2 (7.692 %) LAN 11 2 (7.692 %) MCSE 11 2 (7.692 %) MS Office 12 1 (3.846 %) UNIX 12 1 (3.846 %) WebSphere Application Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 (3.846 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 18 (69.23 %) MS Exchange 2 16 (61.54 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (3.846 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 1 (3.846 %) Lotus Domino 3 1 (3.846 %) IBM HTTP Server 3 1 (3.846 %) WPS 3 1 (3.846 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 2 (7.692 %) MS Office 2 1 (3.846 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 10 (38.46 %) SAN 2 8 (30.77 %) DNS 3 4 (15.38 %) VoIP 3 4 (15.38 %) DHCP 4 2 (7.692 %) WAN 4 2 (7.692 %) LAN 5 1 (3.846 %) Firewall 5 1 (3.846 %) Nortel Meridian 5 1 (3.846 %) HTTP 5 1 (3.846 %) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (26.92 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 1 (3.846 %) LoadRunner 1 1 (3.846 %) MSI
General 1 8 (30.77 %) Back Office 2 2 (7.692 %) Construction 3 1 (3.846 %) Insurance 3 1 (3.846 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 11 (42.31 %) Systems Engineer 2 6 (23.08 %) Infrastructure Engineer 3 5 (19.23 %) Systems Support 3 5 (19.23 %) Support Engineer 4 3 (11.54 %) Support Technician 4 3 (11.54 %) Systems Support Engineer 5 2 (7.692 %) PC Support 5 2 (7.692 %) IT Support Engineer 5 2 (7.692 %) 3rd Line Support 5 2 (7.692 %) Analyst 5 2 (7.692 %) Test Analyst 5 2 (7.692 %) Infrastructure Support Engineer 6 1 (3.846 %) Performance Analyst 6 1 (3.846 %) Infrastructure Designer 6 1 (3.846 %) Performance Test Analyst 6 1 (3.846 %) Consultant 6 1 (3.846 %) Applications Packager 6 1 (3.846 %) Citrix Consultant 6 1 (3.846 %) UNIX Specialist 6 1 (3.846 %) IT Support Technician
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.846 %) Thin Client 1 1 (3.846 %) Clustering 1 1 (3.846 %) Fat Client	Operating Systems 1 11 (42.31 %) Windows 2 9 (34.62 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (3.846 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (3.846 %) UNIX 3 1 (3.846 %) AIX 3 1 (3.846 %) Solaris 3 1 (3.846 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (3.846 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (7.692 %) Web Testing 2 1 (3.846 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (3.846 %) Migration 2 1 (3.846 %) Network Design	Qualifications 1 3 (11.54 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (7.692 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 2 2 (7.692 %) MCSE 2 2 (7.692 %) CCA 2 2 (7.692 %) Citrix Certification 3 1 (3.846 %) ISEB
System Software 1 11 (42.31 %) Active Directory 2 2 (7.692 %) Terminal Services 2 2 (7.692 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (3.846 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (3.846 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (3.846 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Systems Management 1 1 (3.846 %) Tivoli 1 1 (3.846 %) MOM 1 1 (3.846 %) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors 1 19 (73.08 %) VMware 2 4 (15.38 %) Microsoft 3 3 (11.54 %) HP 4 2 (7.692 %) Dell 4 2 (7.692 %) Avaya 5 1 (3.846 %) Siemens 5 1 (3.846 %) IBM 5 1 (3.846 %) EMC 5 1 (3.846 %) Intel 5 1 (3.846 %) Nortel 5 1 (3.846 %) Altiris 5 1 (3.846 %) Orchard 5 1 (3.846 %) Kaspersky