South Wales Citrix Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT contracts within the South Wales region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Citrix over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Barking Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorking Dudley Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grimsby Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kent King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stourbridge Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	47
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	5	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	1.838 %	1.980 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£318
% change on same period last year	-1.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£13.80
Average hourly rate	£40.00	£13.80
% change on same period last year	+189.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£13.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.62	£20.83
% change on same period last year	-0.99 %
Vendors South Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	272	303
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.363 %	0.302 %
Daily rates quoted	77	72
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£364
Average daily rate	£347	£386
% change on same period last year	-10.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£369	£408
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£359
% change on same period last year	+0.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	34	42
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.39	£19.08
Average hourly rate	£32.48	£20.20
% change on same period last year	+60.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.58	£21.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.10	£24.81
% change on same period last year	-2.85 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Citrix Systems.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Citrix across the South Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Newport	-	3	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 10 (76.92 %) Windows 2 7 (53.85 %) Windows Server 2003 3 6 (46.15 %) Security Cleared 4 4 (30.77 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 4 (30.77 %) Microsoft 4 4 (30.77 %) Active Directory 4 4 (30.77 %) SAN 5 3 (23.08 %) Thin Client 5 3 (23.08 %) Terminal Server 5 3 (23.08 %) HP 5 3 (23.08 %) SQL 5 3 (23.08 %) Windows XP 5 3 (23.08 %) MS Exchange 5 3 (23.08 %) Fat Client 5 3 (23.08 %) VMware

5 3 (23.08 %) VMware ESX 5 3 (23.08 %) Clustering 5 3 (23.08 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 2 (15.38 %) Fujitsu Siemens 6 2 (15.38 %) Electric 6 2 (15.38 %) Government 6 2 (15.38 %) Local Government 6 2 (15.38 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 2 (15.38 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 2 (15.38 %) Cisco 6 2 (15.38 %) SC Cleared 6 2 (15.38 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 2 (15.38 %) Compaq 6 2 (15.38 %) MetaFrame 6 2 (15.38 %) Terminal Services

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 3 (23.08 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (23.08 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (15.38 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 2 (15.38 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (7.692 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 1 (7.692 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 4 (30.77 %) SAN 2 2 (15.38 %) Intranet 2 2 (15.38 %) Internet 3 1 (7.692 %) Cisco IOS 3 1 (7.692 %) DHCP 3 1 (7.692 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (7.692 %) DNS	General 1 2 (15.38 %) Electric 1 2 (15.38 %) Government 1 2 (15.38 %) Local Government 2 1 (7.692 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 2 (15.38 %) Architect 1 2 (15.38 %) Server Support 1 2 (15.38 %) Support Engineer 1 2 (15.38 %) 3rd Line Support 1 2 (15.38 %) Server Engineer 1 2 (15.38 %) Server Support Engineer 1 2 (15.38 %) Server Specialist 2 1 (7.692 %) Principal Systems Engineer 2 1 (7.692 %) Principal Engineer 2 1 (7.692 %) Integration Engineer 2 1 (7.692 %) Systems Integration Engineer 2 1 (7.692 %) IT Trainer 2 1 (7.692 %) Trainer 2 1 (7.692 %) Test Manager 2 1 (7.692 %) Systems Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (23.08 %) Thin Client 1 3 (23.08 %) Clustering 1 3 (23.08 %) Fat Client 2 2 (15.38 %) Smartcard
Operating Systems 1 10 (76.92 %) Windows 2 7 (53.85 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (23.08 %) Windows XP 4 2 (15.38 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (7.692 %) Windows Server 2008 5 1 (7.692 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (46.15 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (15.38 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (7.692 %) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages 1 3 (23.08 %) SQL	System Software 1 4 (30.77 %) Active Directory 1 4 (30.77 %) Citrix Presentation Server 2 3 (23.08 %) VMware ESX 2 3 (23.08 %) Terminal Server 3 2 (15.38 %) Terminal Services 3 2 (15.38 %) MetaFrame 4 1 (7.692 %) ISA Server 4 1 (7.692 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 2 (15.38 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 4 (30.77 %) Microsoft 2 3 (23.08 %) HP 2 3 (23.08 %) VMware 3 2 (15.38 %) Fujitsu Siemens 3 2 (15.38 %) Cisco 3 2 (15.38 %) Compaq 3 2 (15.38 %) Siemens 3 2 (15.38 %) Symantec 3 2 (15.38 %) McAfee Security 3 2 (15.38 %) Sophos 4 1 (7.692 %) Oracle