The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear 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 19 24 28
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +4
Contract jobs citing Citrix 9 15 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 5.085% 4.702% 3.030%
As % of the Vendors category 10.59% 9.554% 5.229%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 4
Average daily rate £300 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £325 £303
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +7.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £20.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £16.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
-4.68% -4.47%
All Vendors
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
85 157 153
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 48.02% 49.22% 57.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 76 70
Average daily rate £270 £325 £316
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.92% +2.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £232 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £475 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 5
Average hourly rate £10.50 £20.00 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-47.50% +66.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.74 £10.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.38 £50.00 £17.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Citrix
North East

Citrix
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +6 9 £300 -11.76%
Citrix
North East

Citrix
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 9 (64.29%) Linux
2 7 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (50.00%) XenServer
3 6 (42.86%) CentOS
3 6 (42.86%) DNS
3 6 (42.86%) Cisco
4 5 (35.71%) Nagios
4 5 (35.71%) LDAP
4 5 (35.71%) MS Visio
4 5 (35.71%) Validation
4 5 (35.71%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (35.71%) Firewall
5 4 (28.57%) SAN
5 4 (28.57%) Apache
5 4 (28.57%) UNIX
5 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
5 4 (28.57%) DHCP
6 3 (21.43%) VPN
6 3 (21.43%) OSPF
6 3 (21.43%) Windows
6 3 (21.43%) MySQL
6 3 (21.43%) HP
7 2 (14.29%) Novell
7 2 (14.29%) Identity Management
7 2 (14.29%) Clustering
7 2 (14.29%) McAfee
7 2 (14.29%) BGP
7 2 (14.29%) Blackberry
7 2 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 2 (14.29%) Project Management

Citrix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 Development
1 1 (7.143%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) Apache
2 2 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (7.143%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 5 (35.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (7.143%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) DNS
2 5 (35.71%) LDAP
2 5 (35.71%) Firewall
3 4 (28.57%) DHCP
3 4 (28.57%) SAN
4 3 (21.43%) OSPF
4 3 (21.43%) VPN
5 2 (14.29%) BGP
5 2 (14.29%) FTP
5 2 (14.29%) SNMP
5 2 (14.29%) SMTP
6 1 (7.143%) IPsec
6 1 (7.143%) VLAN
6 1 (7.143%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (7.143%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) MySQL
2 1 (7.143%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1 (7.143%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Administrator
2 6 (42.86%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (35.71%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 5 (35.71%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (28.57%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 4 (28.57%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 4 (28.57%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (14.29%) Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Server Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Network Administrator
5 2 (14.29%) Network Administrator
6 1 (7.143%) Server Engineer
6 1 (7.143%) Help Desk Support
6 1 (7.143%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (7.143%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (7.143%) Server Support
6 1 (7.143%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 1 (7.143%) Support Engineer
6 1 (7.143%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (7.143%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Blackberry
1 2 (14.29%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Linux
2 6 (42.86%) CentOS
3 4 (28.57%) UNIX
4 3 (21.43%) Windows
5 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (7.143%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (7.143%) Debian
6 1 (7.143%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Validation
1 5 (35.71%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (14.29%) Identity Management
2 2 (14.29%) Project Management
2 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 1 (7.143%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (7.143%) Data Validation
3 1 (7.143%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.143%) PL/SQL
1 1 (7.143%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.143%) RHCE
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) XenServer
2 2 (14.29%) SRDF
2 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (42.86%) Cisco
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 3 (21.43%) HP
5 2 (14.29%) Novell
5 2 (14.29%) McAfee
5 2 (14.29%) RightFax
6 1 (7.143%) Oracle
6 1 (7.143%) VMware