The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Shropshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Citrix 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 Vendors for the Shropshire 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Citrix Systems.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix
Rank 20 25 21
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -4
Contract jobs citing Citrix 2 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Shropshire 1.770% 3.200% 0.926%
As % of the Vendors category 2.469% 4.494% 2.500%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Average daily rate £300 £300 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £325 £303
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +7.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £16.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
-4.68% -4.47%
All Vendors
Shropshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
81 89 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Shropshire 71.68% 71.20% 37.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 50 10
Average daily rate £500 £350 £316
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% +10.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £268 £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £585 £500 £428
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £14.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Citrix
West Midlands

Citrix
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Citrix across the Shropshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Shropshire Citrix Jobs Demand Trend

Citrix
Daily Rate Trend

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

Shropshire Citrix Daily Rate Trend

Citrix
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Shropshire Citrix Hourly Rate Trend

Citrix
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix within the Shropshire 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
Telford +7 1 - -
Citrix
West Midlands

Citrix
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (25.00%) Replication
4 1 (25.00%) Retail
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL V3
4 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (25.00%) DFS Replication
4 1 (25.00%) vSphere
4 1 (25.00%) Terminal Services
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (25.00%) Symantec
4 1 (25.00%) McAfee
4 1 (25.00%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
4 1 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (25.00%) DHCP

Citrix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) LAN
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (25.00%) Wintel Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) MCSE
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Terminal Services
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) DFS Replication
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (25.00%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Symantec
2 1 (25.00%) McAfee
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