The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Northampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Citrix over the 3 months to 21 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 Northampton 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix
Rank 16 24 14
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -10
Contract jobs citing Citrix 7 7 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northampton 5.072% 2.966% 5.682%
As % of the Vendors category 16.67% 11.29% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 3
Average daily rate £345 £240 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+43.54% -40.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £302
% change year-on-year
- +7.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £18.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.50 £16.75
% change year-on-year
-6.06% -1.49%
All Vendors
Northampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
42 62 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northampton 30.43% 26.27% 35.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 41 33
Average daily rate £314 £355 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.54% +77.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £210 £151
10% offered a daily rate of more than £390 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 7
Average hourly rate £13.50 £10.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+35.00% -47.36%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Citrix
Northamptonshire

Citrix
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northampton 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 Northampton region.

Northampton 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 Northampton region.

Northampton Citrix Hourly Rate Trend

Citrix
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northampton 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 6 (85.71%) Windows
1 6 (85.71%) SharePoint
1 6 (85.71%) Migration
2 5 (71.43%) MS PowerPoint
2 5 (71.43%) Finance
3 4 (57.14%) Microsoft App-V
3 4 (57.14%) XenApp
3 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (14.29%) DHCP
4 1 (14.29%) DNS
4 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
4 1 (14.29%) HP
4 1 (14.29%) IVR
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
4 1 (14.29%) SCCM
4 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012

Citrix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northampton 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 (14.29%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 6 (85.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (71.43%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Defect Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft App-V
1 4 (57.14%) XenApp
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
1 1 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) HP