The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Citrix over the 3 months to 20 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 South Yorkshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix
Rank 21 14 33
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +19
Contract jobs citing Citrix 11 17 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 4.167% 6.564% 2.151%
As % of the Vendors category 10.58% 12.32% 5.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 2
Average daily rate £362 £185 £235
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+95.81% -21.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £217 £136 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £389 £478 £267
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £303
% change year-on-year
- +7.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
Average hourly rate £22.75 £23.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.08% +15.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £16.50 £16.75
% change year-on-year
-7.57% -1.49%
All Vendors
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
104 138 118
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 39.39% 53.28% 42.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 72 59
Average daily rate £350 £265 £308
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+31.88% -13.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £185 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 17 23
Average hourly rate £12.44 £23.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-45.91% +2.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.48 £10.80 £10.57
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.25 £40.00 £58.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Citrix
Yorkshire

Citrix
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire Citrix Daily Rate Trend

Citrix
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Citrix across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

South Yorkshire Citrix Daily Rate Histogram

Citrix
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Sheffield -3 6 £375 +102.70%
Doncaster +2 4 £372 +175.74%
Citrix
Yorkshire

Citrix
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 29 (96.67%) Windows
2 24 (80.00%) Active Directory
3 21 (70.00%) Windows XP
4 20 (66.67%) Microsoft
5 16 (53.33%) MS Exchange
6 13 (43.33%) ITIL
7 12 (40.00%) MS Office
7 12 (40.00%) VMware
8 11 (36.67%) Windows Server 2003
8 11 (36.67%) MS Excel
9 10 (33.33%) SLA
10 9 (30.00%) Windows 2000
11 8 (26.67%) Exchange Server 2007
11 8 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
12 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
12 7 (23.33%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (20.00%) XenApp
13 6 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
14 5 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
14 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
14 5 (16.67%) Incident Management
14 5 (16.67%) Windows NT
15 4 (13.33%) CA
15 4 (13.33%) Unicenter
15 4 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2003
15 4 (13.33%) Windows 7
16 3 (10.00%) Terminal Services
16 3 (10.00%) Service Delivery
16 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
16 3 (10.00%) SAN

Citrix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 16 (53.33%) MS Exchange
2 8 (26.67%) Exchange Server 2007
3 6 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2003
5 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
6 1 (3.333%) Lotus Notes
6 1 (3.333%) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications
1 12 (40.00%) MS Office
2 11 (36.67%) MS Excel
3 1 (3.333%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 2 (6.667%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) DHCP
1 3 (10.00%) DNS
1 3 (10.00%) SAN
2 1 (3.333%) Firewall
2 1 (3.333%) iSCSI
2 1 (3.333%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.333%) VPN
2 1 (3.333%) LAN
2 1 (3.333%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.667%) SQL Server
1 2 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (3.333%) Electronics
1 1 (3.333%) Telecoms
1 1 (3.333%) Aerospace
1 1 (3.333%) Military
1 1 (3.333%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 16 (53.33%) Analyst
2 12 (40.00%) Service Analyst
2 12 (40.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (13.33%) Support Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) IT Support
4 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Service Desk Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Help Desk Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Storage Specialist
5 2 (6.667%) Server Specialist
5 2 (6.667%) IT Support Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) Technical Specialist
5 2 (6.667%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) Server Support Analyst
6 1 (3.333%) Technical Team Leader
6 1 (3.333%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
6 1 (3.333%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.333%) Client/Server
1 1 (3.333%) Thin Client
1 1 (3.333%) Blackberry
1 1 (3.333%) Clustering
1 1 (3.333%) PDA
1 1 (3.333%) Fat Client
1 1 (3.333%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 29 (96.67%) Windows
2 21 (70.00%) Windows XP
3 11 (36.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (30.00%) Windows 2000
5 7 (23.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (16.67%) Windows NT
7 4 (13.33%) Windows 7
8 1 (3.333%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) ITIL
2 5 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 5 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (10.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (6.667%) CRM
5 1 (3.333%) Service Management
5 1 (3.333%) PRINCE2
5 1 (3.333%) Security Management
5 1 (3.333%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (3.333%) Information Management
5 1 (3.333%) Problem Management
5 1 (3.333%) Time Management
5 1 (3.333%) Communications Security
5 1 (3.333%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) VBScript
2 2 (6.667%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.333%) C
3 1 (3.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) MCSE
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.333%) CCA
4 1 (3.333%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (3.333%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (20.00%) XenApp
4 3 (10.00%) Terminal Services
5 2 (6.667%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.333%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Unicenter
2 2 (6.667%) SCCM
3 1 (3.333%) NetBackup
3 1 (3.333%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 20 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (40.00%) VMware
3 4 (13.33%) CA
4 2 (6.667%) NetApp
5 1 (3.333%) Lotus
5 1 (3.333%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.333%) Websense
5 1 (3.333%) AppSense
5 1 (3.333%) Blue Coat
5 1 (3.333%) IronPort
5 1 (3.333%) HP
5 1 (3.333%) Cisco