The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Northamptonshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Citrix over the 3 months to 24 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 Northamptonshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix
Rank 24 27 18
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -9
Contract jobs citing Citrix 8 19 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 3.175% 4.567% 5.109%
As % of the Vendors category 10.13% 13.67% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 3
Average daily rate £314 £245 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.16% -38.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 6
Average hourly rate - £18.00 £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.25 £16.50 £16.75
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -1.49%
All Vendors
Northamptonshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
79 139 100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 31.35% 33.41% 36.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 86 57
Average daily rate £350 £250 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+40.00% -7.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £224 £155
10% offered a daily rate of more than £604 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 13
Average hourly rate £16.50 £14.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.85% -17.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.75 £8.95 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £18.00 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Citrix
East Midlands

Citrix
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Northampton +7 7 £345 +66.02%
Citrix
East Midlands

Citrix
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 7 (77.78%) Windows
2 6 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 6 (66.67%) Migration
3 5 (55.56%) Finance
3 5 (55.56%) MS PowerPoint
4 4 (44.44%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (44.44%) XenApp
4 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
5 3 (33.33%) HP
6 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
6 2 (22.22%) WebSphere
7 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (11.11%) SCCM
7 1 (11.11%) Retail Banking
7 1 (11.11%) IVR
7 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
7 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (11.11%) Banking
7 1 (11.11%) Retail
7 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (11.11%) DHCP
7 1 (11.11%) HTTP
7 1 (11.11%) DNS
7 1 (11.11%) Active Directory

Citrix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 2 (22.22%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 6 (66.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (55.56%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Retail Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Defect Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Incident Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
3 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft App-V
1 4 (44.44%) XenApp
2 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) HP
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