The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Citrix 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 Vendors for the Swindon 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix
Rank 30 37 34
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -3
Contract jobs citing Citrix 10 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 3.333% 1.377% 0.946%
As % of the Vendors category 6.098% 2.632% 2.308%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 1
Average daily rate £525 £410 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.04% -8.88%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.25 £16.50 £16.75
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -1.49%
All Vendors
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
164 190 130
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 54.67% 52.34% 41.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 137 76
Average daily rate £425 £418 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.79% +1.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £314 £300 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £490 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 9
Average hourly rate £14.00 £16.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -23.80%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £15.40 £12.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.60 £32.50 £29.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Citrix
Wiltshire

Citrix
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Citrix Hourly Rate Trend

Citrix
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 6 (60.00%) VMware
1 6 (60.00%) XenApp
1 6 (60.00%) XenDesktop
2 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (50.00%) Windows
3 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (40.00%) MS Exchange
3 4 (40.00%) vSphere
3 4 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (30.00%) HP
5 2 (20.00%) SAN
5 2 (20.00%) SQL
5 2 (20.00%) EMC
5 2 (20.00%) Windows 7
6 1 (10.00%) HP SIM
6 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (10.00%) XenServer
6 1 (10.00%) NetScaler
6 1 (10.00%) assyst
6 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (10.00%) VLAN
6 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (10.00%) Fat Client
6 1 (10.00%) SCCM
6 1 (10.00%) SCOM
6 1 (10.00%) SCVMM

Citrix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 4 (40.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (10.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (10.00%) VLAN
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Technical Consultant
1 4 (40.00%) Consultant
1 4 (40.00%) Citrix Technical Consultant
1 4 (40.00%) Citrix Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix Server Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Server Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Data Migration Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (10.00%) Clustering
1 1 (10.00%) PMI
1 1 (10.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (20.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (10.00%) Migration
1 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) XenApp
1 6 (60.00%) XenDesktop
2 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (40.00%) vSphere
2 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (10.00%) XenServer
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (10.00%) VMware ESX
3 1 (10.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) HP SIM
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
1 1 (10.00%) SCOM
1 1 (10.00%) SCVMM
1 1 (10.00%) HP Data Protector
1 1 (10.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (10.00%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) VMware
2 3 (30.00%) HP
3 2 (20.00%) EMC
4 1 (10.00%) ProCurve
4 1 (10.00%) Wyse
4 1 (10.00%) Sophos
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) NetApp
4 1 (10.00%) Novell
4 1 (10.00%) Dell
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