The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft App-V skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft App-V 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 of the System Software category 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Application Virtualisation (formerly Softricity SoftGrid)
Rank 50 78 83
Rank change year-on-year
+28 +5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 20 6 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 2.395% 0.538% 0.192%
As % of the System Software category 19.61% 5.000% 1.183%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 0
Average daily rate £438 £450 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £288
% change year-on-year
- +12.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £33.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year
-42.42% +34.69%
All System Software
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
102 120 169
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 12.22% 10.76% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 51 72
Average daily rate £328 £340 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.67% -9.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £231 £262
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 19 9
Average hourly rate £20.75 £16.13 £10.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.68% +53.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
Microsoft App-V
Berkshire

Microsoft App-V
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft App-V across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Reading Microsoft App-V Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft App-V
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Microsoft App-V Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft App-V
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft App-V across the Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading Microsoft App-V Daily Rate Histogram

Microsoft App-V
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Microsoft App-V Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft App-V
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Microsoft App-V 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 Microsoft App-V.

1 23 (95.83%) Microsoft
2 21 (87.50%) Windows
3 20 (83.33%) Citrix
4 13 (54.17%) SCCM
5 12 (50.00%) Active Directory
6 11 (45.83%) VMware
6 11 (45.83%) Windows 7
7 10 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
7 10 (41.67%) Windows XP
7 10 (41.67%) MS Office
8 9 (37.50%) Security Cleared
9 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
9 8 (33.33%) MS Excel
9 8 (33.33%) HP
10 7 (29.17%) TCP/IP
10 7 (29.17%) VPN
10 7 (29.17%) Finance
10 7 (29.17%) FrontRange
10 7 (29.17%) Internet
11 6 (25.00%) Remedy
11 6 (25.00%) Blackberry
11 6 (25.00%) Royalblue
11 6 (25.00%) CA
11 6 (25.00%) Unicenter
11 6 (25.00%) Mac OS X
11 6 (25.00%) LAN
11 6 (25.00%) WAN
11 6 (25.00%) Ethernet
11 6 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
11 6 (25.00%) Software Distribution

Microsoft App-V
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Microsoft App-V 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 Microsoft App-V. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (12.50%) .NET
1 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET
1 3 (12.50%) Application Packaging
2 2 (8.333%) Software Packaging
2 2 (8.333%) CSS
2 2 (8.333%) HTML
2 2 (8.333%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) MS Exchange
2 2 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (8.333%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (8.333%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.167%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 10 (41.67%) MS Office
2 8 (33.33%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.333%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) TCP/IP
1 7 (29.17%) VPN
1 7 (29.17%) Internet
2 6 (25.00%) LAN
2 6 (25.00%) WAN
2 6 (25.00%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) MSI
2 2 (8.333%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (8.333%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 2 (8.333%) InstallShield
General
1 7 (29.17%) Finance
2 2 (8.333%) Retail
3 1 (4.167%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Service Analyst
1 7 (29.17%) Service Desk Analyst
1 7 (29.17%) Analyst
1 7 (29.17%) Applications Packager
2 6 (25.00%) Architect
3 5 (20.83%) Technical Architect
4 2 (8.333%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (8.333%) Applications Architect
4 2 (8.333%) Consultant
5 1 (4.167%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (4.167%) Help Desk Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (4.167%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (4.167%) IT Consultant
5 1 (4.167%) IT Architect
5 1 (4.167%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (4.167%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.167%) Senior Architect
5 1 (4.167%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (8.333%) Clustering
3 1 (4.167%) Thin Client
3 1 (4.167%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 21 (87.50%) Windows
2 11 (45.83%) Windows 7
3 10 (41.67%) Windows XP
4 6 (25.00%) Mac OS X
4 6 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (4.167%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Software Distribution
2 3 (12.50%) ITIL
3 2 (8.333%) Incident Management
3 2 (8.333%) Data Migration
3 2 (8.333%) Migration
3 2 (8.333%) Service Management
3 2 (8.333%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) C#
2 3 (12.50%) VB.NET
3 2 (8.333%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.333%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.167%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.167%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (20.83%) XenApp
4 3 (12.50%) vSphere
4 3 (12.50%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 1 (4.167%) VMware ESX
5 1 (4.167%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (4.167%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 13 (54.17%) SCCM
2 6 (25.00%) Unicenter
3 2 (8.333%) SCOM
Vendors
1 23 (95.83%) Microsoft
2 20 (83.33%) Citrix
3 11 (45.83%) VMware
4 8 (33.33%) HP
5 7 (29.17%) FrontRange
6 6 (25.00%) Remedy
6 6 (25.00%) Royalblue
6 6 (25.00%) CA
7 2 (8.333%) Clearswift
7 2 (8.333%) Autodesk
8 1 (4.167%) Brocade
8 1 (4.167%) Avaya
8 1 (4.167%) EMC
8 1 (4.167%) Cisco