The first table below looks at the demand for XenServer 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 XenServer 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix XenServer
Rank 119 104 113
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +9
Contract jobs citing XenServer 1 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.041% 0.038% 0.036%
As % of the System Software category 0.571% 0.526% 0.437%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £425 £260 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+63.46% -30.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £356 £270 £330
% change year-on-year
+31.94% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -27.27%
All System Software
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
175 190 229
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 7.175% 7.173% 8.164%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 93 63
Average daily rate £350 £309 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.36% +12.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £152 £181 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £419 £393
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 20
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% +51.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £17.25 £11.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.40 £35.00 £25.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
XenServer
UK

XenServer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland XenServer Jobs Demand Trend

XenServer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland XenServer Daily Rate Trend

XenServer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XenServer within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 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
Renfrewshire - 1 £425 -
XenServer
UK

XenServer
Top 18 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) XenApp
1 2 (100.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) MS Access
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Thin Client
2 1 (50.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) AppSense
2 1 (50.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceCenter
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) SCOM

XenServer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MS Access
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix Support
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (50.00%) Fat Client
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) XenApp
1 2 (100.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceCenter
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) AppSense
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) HP
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Posted: 17 May 2013