XenApp Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for XenApp 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 XenApp 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 XenApp
Rank 107 103 97
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -6
Contract jobs citing XenApp 11 7 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.451% 0.263% 0.507%
As % of the System Software category 6.509% 3.646% 6.195%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 3
Average daily rate £300 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £180 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £438 £295
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £22.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+66.66% -18.18%
Search 9 XenApp jobs in Scotland
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%
XenApp
UK

XenApp
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland XenApp Daily Rate Trend

XenApp
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XenApp across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland XenApp Daily Rate Histogram

XenApp
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland XenApp Hourly Rate Trend

XenApp
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XenApp 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
Edinburgh +8 4 £220 -37.14%
Glasgow - 3 £250 -
Renfrewshire - 1 £425 -
Highlands - 1 £363 -
XenApp
UK

XenApp
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 24 (96.00%) Citrix
2 23 (92.00%) Windows
3 16 (64.00%) VMware
4 13 (52.00%) Microsoft
4 13 (52.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (48.00%) SCCM
6 10 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 9 (36.00%) Active Directory
8 8 (32.00%) MS Exchange
8 8 (32.00%) Windows Server 2003
9 7 (28.00%) Clustering
9 7 (28.00%) DNS
9 7 (28.00%) Windows 7
10 6 (24.00%) Exchange Server 2003
10 6 (24.00%) DHCP
10 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (20.00%) MSI
11 5 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (20.00%) Finance
11 5 (20.00%) HP
11 5 (20.00%) Windows XP
11 5 (20.00%) MS Excel
11 5 (20.00%) SCOM
12 4 (16.00%) Exchange Server 2007
12 4 (16.00%) Migration
12 4 (16.00%) XenDesktop
12 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
12 4 (16.00%) Banking
12 4 (16.00%) vSphere
12 4 (16.00%) Wise Package Studio

XenApp
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 1 (4.000%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 8 (32.00%) MS Exchange
2 6 (24.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (16.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (16.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (16.00%) Lotus Notes
4 3 (12.00%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) DNS
2 6 (24.00%) DHCP
3 4 (16.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (8.000%) SMS
4 2 (8.000%) SAN
5 1 (4.000%) HTTP
5 1 (4.000%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (4.000%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.000%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.000%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) MSI
2 4 (16.00%) Wise Package Studio
2 4 (16.00%) InstallShield
General
1 5 (20.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Banking
3 2 (8.000%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.000%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Applications Packager
3 4 (16.00%) Technical Support
4 3 (12.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (12.00%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (8.000%) Technical Specialist
5 2 (8.000%) Server Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) Technical Support Analyst
5 2 (8.000%) Server Support
5 2 (8.000%) Architect
6 1 (4.000%) Desktop Support
6 1 (4.000%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.000%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.000%) Applications Support Analyst
6 1 (4.000%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (4.000%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Clustering
2 1 (4.000%) Thin Client
2 1 (4.000%) SaaS
2 1 (4.000%) Mathematics
2 1 (4.000%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 23 (92.00%) Windows
2 10 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (32.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (28.00%) Windows 7
5 5 (20.00%) Windows XP
6 2 (8.000%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (16.00%) Migration
1 4 (16.00%) Software Deployment
2 3 (12.00%) Project Management
2 3 (12.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (12.00%) ITIL
2 3 (12.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (4.000%) ERP
3 1 (4.000%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (16.00%) VBScript
1 4 (16.00%) VB
2 3 (12.00%) C
2 3 (12.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.000%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (16.00%) MCSE
3 3 (12.00%) MCTS
3 3 (12.00%) MCITP
4 1 (4.000%) MCSA
4 1 (4.000%) MCP
4 1 (4.000%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.000%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.000%) SLA
2 1 (4.000%) QA
System Software
1 13 (52.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (36.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (16.00%) XenDesktop
4 4 (16.00%) vSphere
5 3 (12.00%) Terminal Services
5 3 (12.00%) VMware ESX
5 3 (12.00%) Hyper-V
5 3 (12.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 2 (8.000%) XenServer
7 1 (4.000%) ISA Server
7 1 (4.000%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 12 (48.00%) SCCM
2 5 (20.00%) SCOM
3 4 (16.00%) ZENworks
4 3 (12.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 3 (12.00%) MOM
5 2 (8.000%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (4.000%) Tivoli
6 1 (4.000%) Backup Exec
6 1 (4.000%) WSUS
6 1 (4.000%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 24 (96.00%) Citrix
2 16 (64.00%) VMware
3 13 (52.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (20.00%) HP
5 4 (16.00%) Novell
5 4 (16.00%) Lotus
5 4 (16.00%) Sophos
6 3 (12.00%) CommVault
6 3 (12.00%) Dell
7 2 (8.000%) Altiris
7 2 (8.000%) NetApp
7 2 (8.000%) AppSense
8 1 (4.000%) Symantec
8 1 (4.000%) Compaq
Systems Administrator - AppV
Edinburgh, Scotland
Multiple systems Administrators - (Windows 7, AppV, Citrix, SCCM) - Edinburgh (3 months)A fantastic opportunity has arisen with a leading Edinburgh based company for a Systems Administrator.
Computer Futures
Posted: 16 May 2013
Senior Infrastructure Analyst
Glasgow, Scotland
Very strong experience working in an Intel support role. Experience working in a data centre environment a significant advantage.Experience working in a global organization an advantage.Technical...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £250.00 - £350.00 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
Desktop Support
Aberdeen, Scotland
Thorough knowledge of Word, Excel, Power Point, Active Directory, LANDesk, Exchange, IIS Web services and related web environment. Knowledge of Citrix Xen Server, Xen App, Xen Desktop, or...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £90.00 - £120.00 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
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