The first table below looks at the demand for Xen 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 Xen over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XenSource Xen
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Xen 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading - - -
As % of the System Software category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+30.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- -36.36%
All System Software
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
99 121 174
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 11.93% 11.37% 16.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 54 76
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £235 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £450 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 16 8
Average hourly rate £19.00 £15.50 £10.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.58% +47.61%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Xen
Berkshire

Xen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Xen Jobs Demand Trend

Xen
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Xen Daily Rate Trend

Xen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Xen 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 Xen.

1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) FreeBSD
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Sun
1 1 (100.00%) OpenView
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Intel
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP

Xen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Xen 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 Xen. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) FreeBSD
1 1 (100.00%) OpenBSD
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SCSA
1 1 (100.00%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Postfix
1 1 (100.00%) Sendmail
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (100.00%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) OpenView
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Sun
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Intel
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Egenera