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XenApp Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for XenApp 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 XenApp over the 3 months to 18 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 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
18 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix XenApp
Rank 62 72 77
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +5
Contract jobs citing XenApp 9 11 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.029% 0.956% 0.099%
As % of the System Software category 7.317% 8.943% 0.633%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 0
Average daily rate £385 £338 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.07% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+0.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £27.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £22.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+44.44% -18.18%
All System Software
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 123 123 158
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 14.06% 10.69% 15.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 57 57
Average daily rate £330 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.34% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £225 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £478 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £324 £310
% change year-on-year
+0.30% +4.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 13
Average hourly rate £27.50 £19.50 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+41.02% +77.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £15.13 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.50 £35.00 £21.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
XenApp
Berkshire

XenApp
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading XenApp Jobs Demand Trend

XenApp
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading XenApp Daily Rate Trend

XenApp
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading XenApp Hourly Rate Trend

XenApp
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing XenApp 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 XenApp.

1 15 (100.00%) Citrix
2 13 (86.67%) Windows
3 12 (80.00%) Microsoft
4 8 (53.33%) MSI
5 7 (46.67%) VMware
5 7 (46.67%) Active Directory
5 7 (46.67%) MS Excel
6 6 (40.00%) VBScript
6 6 (40.00%) Publishing
7 5 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (26.67%) XenServer
8 4 (26.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 4 (26.67%) Windows XP
9 3 (20.00%) VB
9 3 (20.00%) MCSE
9 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (20.00%) CCA
9 3 (20.00%) Citrix Certification
9 3 (20.00%) Validation
9 3 (20.00%) Altiris
9 3 (20.00%) InstallShield
9 3 (20.00%) Change Management
9 3 (20.00%) Finance
9 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (20.00%) SCCM
9 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
9 3 (20.00%) QA

XenApp
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing XenApp 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 XenApp. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (20.00%) Software Packaging
2 1 (6.667%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) MS Exchange
1 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 7 (46.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) DHCP
1 1 (6.667%) DNS
1 1 (6.667%) Internet
1 1 (6.667%) NetScaler
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) MSI
2 3 (20.00%) InstallShield
3 2 (13.33%) Wise Package Studio
General
1 6 (40.00%) Publishing
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Applications Packager
2 3 (20.00%) Citrix Specialist
2 3 (20.00%) Senior Citrix Specialist
3 1 (6.667%) MSI Packager
3 1 (6.667%) Desktop Support
3 1 (6.667%) Consultant
3 1 (6.667%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Citrix Consultant
Operating Systems
1 13 (86.67%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Windows XP
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (13.33%) Windows 7
5 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Change Management
1 3 (20.00%) Validation
1 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (6.667%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) VBScript
2 3 (20.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) MCSE
1 3 (20.00%) CCA
1 3 (20.00%) Citrix Certification
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.667%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
2 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (26.67%) XenServer
3 4 (26.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 1 (6.667%) MetaFrame
4 1 (6.667%) XenDesktop
4 1 (6.667%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Citrix
2 12 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (46.67%) VMware
4 3 (20.00%) Altiris
5 2 (13.33%) Autodesk
6 1 (6.667%) Cisco
Senior Windows/Citrix Specialist
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
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