The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Citrix over the 3 months to 23 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 North East 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix
Rank 27 31 29
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -2
Contract jobs citing Citrix 10 19 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 3.597% 3.838% 3.394%
As % of the Vendors category 8.403% 7.724% 5.747%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 7
Average daily rate £300 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £234 £327 £158
10% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £453 £320
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £20.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +17.64%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £16.50 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
All Vendors
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
119 246 261
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 42.81% 49.70% 59.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 122 107
Average daily rate £300 £334 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.11% +2.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £231 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £550 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 13
Average hourly rate £10.50 £20.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-47.50% +17.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.92 £10.23
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.25 £50.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Citrix
England

Citrix
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region.

North East Citrix Hourly Rate Trend

Citrix
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 North East region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Tyne and Wear +4 8 £300 -14.28%
Durham - 1 £300 -
Citrix
England

Citrix
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 12 (41.38%) Active Directory
2 11 (37.93%) Windows
3 10 (34.48%) Linux
4 8 (27.59%) Red Hat
5 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
5 7 (24.14%) DNS
5 7 (24.14%) SCCM
5 7 (24.14%) CentOS
5 7 (24.14%) Windows 7
5 7 (24.14%) XenServer
6 6 (20.69%) Migration
6 6 (20.69%) Cisco
6 6 (20.69%) LDAP
6 6 (20.69%) Windows XP
6 6 (20.69%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (20.69%) Firewall
7 5 (17.24%) Validation
7 5 (17.24%) Nagios
7 5 (17.24%) MS Visio
7 5 (17.24%) Apache
7 5 (17.24%) SAN
7 5 (17.24%) DHCP
8 4 (13.79%) VPN
8 4 (13.79%) UNIX
8 4 (13.79%) HP
8 4 (13.79%) MySQL
8 4 (13.79%) OSPF
8 4 (13.79%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (10.34%) XenApp
9 3 (10.34%) McAfee

Citrix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 (3.448%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 5 (17.24%) Apache
2 2 (6.897%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (3.448%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (3.448%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 5 (17.24%) MS Visio
2 2 (6.897%) AutoCAD
3 1 (3.448%) MS Office
3 1 (3.448%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.448%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (3.448%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.448%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (3.448%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) DNS
2 6 (20.69%) LDAP
2 6 (20.69%) Firewall
3 5 (17.24%) SAN
3 5 (17.24%) DHCP
4 4 (13.79%) VPN
4 4 (13.79%) OSPF
5 3 (10.34%) BGP
5 3 (10.34%) FTP
5 3 (10.34%) SMS
6 2 (6.897%) SMTP
6 2 (6.897%) SNMP
6 2 (6.897%) IPsec
7 1 (3.448%) VLAN
7 1 (3.448%) HSRP
7 1 (3.448%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (3.448%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) MySQL
2 1 (3.448%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 2 (6.897%) AdminStudio
2 1 (3.448%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (3.448%) MSI
2 1 (3.448%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2 (6.897%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.448%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Analyst
2 9 (31.03%) Administrator
3 7 (24.14%) Systems Administrator
4 6 (20.69%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 6 (20.69%) Linux Administrator
5 4 (13.79%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 4 (13.79%) Software Analyst
5 4 (13.79%) Senior Linux Administrator
5 4 (13.79%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
6 3 (10.34%) Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Applications Packager
6 3 (10.34%) Service Analyst
7 2 (6.897%) Help Desk Analyst
7 2 (6.897%) 1st Line Support
7 2 (6.897%) Help Desk Support
7 2 (6.897%) Server Analyst
7 2 (6.897%) Senior Network Administrator
7 2 (6.897%) Network Administrator
8 1 (3.448%) Server Engineer
8 1 (3.448%) Senior Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.897%) Blackberry
1 2 (6.897%) Clustering
2 1 (3.448%) CESG
Operating Systems
1 11 (37.93%) Windows
2 10 (34.48%) Linux
3 7 (24.14%) CentOS
3 7 (24.14%) Windows 7
4 6 (20.69%) Windows XP
5 4 (13.79%) UNIX
6 2 (6.897%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (6.897%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (6.897%) Debian
7 1 (3.448%) Ubuntu
7 1 (3.448%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (3.448%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.69%) Migration
1 6 (20.69%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (17.24%) Validation
3 4 (13.79%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (6.897%) Project Management
4 2 (6.897%) Identity Management
4 2 (6.897%) Software Distribution
4 2 (6.897%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (6.897%) Incident Management
4 2 (6.897%) Problem Management
5 1 (3.448%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (3.448%) Data Validation
5 1 (3.448%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.448%) PL/SQL
1 1 (3.448%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.448%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (3.448%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.448%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (41.38%) Active Directory
2 7 (24.14%) XenServer
3 3 (10.34%) XenApp
4 2 (6.897%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (6.897%) SRDF
5 1 (3.448%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) SCCM
2 5 (17.24%) Nagios
3 1 (3.448%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Red Hat
2 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
3 6 (20.69%) Cisco
4 4 (13.79%) HP
5 3 (10.34%) McAfee
6 2 (6.897%) Novell
6 2 (6.897%) RightFax
6 2 (6.897%) VMware
7 1 (3.448%) Oracle