The first table below looks at the demand for Citrix Presentation Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Citrix Presentation Server 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 Scotland 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
Citrix Presentation Server
Rank 116 105 103
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -2
Contract jobs citing Citrix Presentation Server 2 5 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.082% 0.188% 0.290%
As % of the System Software category 1.183% 2.604% 3.540%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
Average daily rate £288 £350 £210
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.85% +66.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £278 £190 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £298 £450 £326
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £310 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.25% -4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £20.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year
+122.22% -3.57%
All System Software
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
169 192 226
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 6.929% 7.218% 8.180%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 92 62
Average daily rate £350 £313 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% +13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £185 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £420 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 21
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% +47.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £16.20 £11.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.50 £35.00 £73.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
Citrix Presentation Server
UK

Citrix Presentation Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Citrix Presentation Server Jobs Demand Trend

Citrix Presentation Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Citrix Presentation Server Daily Rate Trend

Citrix Presentation Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Citrix Presentation Server Hourly Rate Trend

Citrix Presentation Server
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix Presentation Server within the Scotland 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
Glasgow - 1 £275 -
Citrix Presentation Server
UK

Citrix Presentation Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Citrix Presentation Server 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 Presentation Server.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) SCCM
1 3 (100.00%) SCOM
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (100.00%) XenApp
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (66.67%) MOM
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
2 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
3 1 (33.33%) SMS
3 1 (33.33%) MCP
3 1 (33.33%) MCSE
3 1 (33.33%) MCSA
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server

Citrix Presentation Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Citrix Presentation Server 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 Presentation Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) SMS
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Server Support
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Support
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Wintel Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) MCP
1 1 (33.33%) MCSE
1 1 (33.33%) MCSA
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) XenApp
2 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) SCCM
1 3 (100.00%) SCOM
2 2 (66.67%) MOM
3 1 (33.33%) WSUS
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Compaq