The first table below looks at the demand for Citrix Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Citrix Certification over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Reading 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix Certification
Rank 70 71 73
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +2
Contract jobs citing Citrix Certification 5 8 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.562% 0.709% 0.100%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.146% 2.395% 0.292%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
Average daily rate £385 - £340
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £275 £265
% change year-on-year
+18.18% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £27.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £22.50 £24.44
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -7.92%
All Qualifications
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
233 334 343
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 26.21% 29.58% 34.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 114 127
Average daily rate £425 £350 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% +6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £298 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 13
Average hourly rate £18.50 £27.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.72% +71.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.72 £14.30 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.90 £27.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £21.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -14.00%
Citrix Certification
Berkshire

Citrix Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Citrix Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Citrix Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Citrix Certification Daily Rate Trend

Citrix Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Citrix Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Citrix Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Citrix Certification 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 Certification.

1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) MCSE
1 6 (100.00%) CCA
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (83.33%) Citrix
2 5 (83.33%) MS Excel
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (50.00%) Publishing
3 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Time Management
3 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (50.00%) XenApp
3 3 (50.00%) XenServer
3 3 (50.00%) HNC
4 2 (33.33%) UNIX
4 2 (33.33%) NFS
4 2 (33.33%) DNS
4 2 (33.33%) IIS
4 2 (33.33%) Windows 2000
4 2 (33.33%) Thin Client
4 2 (33.33%) MetaFrame
4 2 (33.33%) Degree
4 2 (33.33%) Fat Client
4 2 (33.33%) Internet
5 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
5 1 (16.67%) Linux

Citrix Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Citrix Certification 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 Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (83.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Internet
General
1 3 (50.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Citrix Specialist
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Citrix Specialist
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Thin Client
1 2 (33.33%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (33.33%) UNIX
4 2 (33.33%) Windows 2000
5 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) MCSE
1 6 (100.00%) CCA
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (50.00%) HNC
3 2 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) XenApp
2 3 (50.00%) XenServer
3 2 (33.33%) NFS
3 2 (33.33%) MetaFrame
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (83.33%) Citrix
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
Reading, Thames Valley
You will be responsible for providing both on-site and remote administration of Microsoft Windows Servers, Citrix Provisioning, Citrix XenApp, XenServer, and a multitude of proprietary applications... Required...
Claremont Consulting
Rate: £350 - £420 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013