The first table below looks at the demand for MetaFrame 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 MetaFrame 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 MetaFrame Server
Rank 114 - 102
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing MetaFrame 4 0 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.164% - 0.326%
As % of the System Software category 2.367% - 3.982%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £375 - £198
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £303 £325
% change year-on-year
+15.70% -6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £14.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 - £15.86
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%
MetaFrame
UK

MetaFrame
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland MetaFrame Jobs Demand Trend

MetaFrame
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland MetaFrame Daily Rate Trend

MetaFrame
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland MetaFrame Hourly Rate Trend

MetaFrame
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MetaFrame 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 - -
Stirling - 1 - -
MetaFrame
UK

MetaFrame
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) XML
2 4 (80.00%) UNIX
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
3 3 (60.00%) JUnit
3 3 (60.00%) Photoshop
3 3 (60.00%) Java
3 3 (60.00%) Perl
3 3 (60.00%) J2EE
3 3 (60.00%) Tomcat
3 3 (60.00%) JMS
3 3 (60.00%) Eclipse
3 3 (60.00%) JAXB
3 3 (60.00%) CSS
3 3 (60.00%) JDBC
3 3 (60.00%) JSP
3 3 (60.00%) Fireworks
3 3 (60.00%) MVC
3 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (60.00%) Spring
3 3 (60.00%) Ajax
3 3 (60.00%) WebSphere
3 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (60.00%) JSTL
3 3 (60.00%) jQuery
3 3 (60.00%) Firebug

MetaFrame
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) XML
3 3 (60.00%) J2EE
3 3 (60.00%) JMS
3 3 (60.00%) JAXB
3 3 (60.00%) CSS
3 3 (60.00%) JDBC
3 3 (60.00%) JSP
3 3 (60.00%) Spring
3 3 (60.00%) Ajax
3 3 (60.00%) WebSphere
3 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (60.00%) JSTL
3 3 (60.00%) jQuery
3 3 (60.00%) Spring MVC
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (20.00%) IIS
2 1 (20.00%) CICS
2 1 (20.00%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Photoshop
1 3 (60.00%) Fireworks
2 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Advent Geneva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Intranet
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) DB2
2 1 (20.00%) MS Access
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JUnit
1 3 (60.00%) Eclipse
1 3 (60.00%) Firebug
2 1 (20.00%) ClearCase
2 1 (20.00%) ClearQuest
2 1 (20.00%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Development Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
1 1 (20.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (20.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) UNIX
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) AIX
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000
3 1 (20.00%) Windows NT
3 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (20.00%) zOS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) MVC
2 1 (20.00%) SOA
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) Perl
1 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) VB
3 1 (20.00%) COBOL
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Terminal Services
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) Intel
2 2 (40.00%) Sun
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Advent