The first table below looks at the demand for CCEA in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CCEA 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 Qualifications currently tracked.

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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator (CCEA)
Rank 514 548 558
Rank change year-on-year
+34 +10
Contract jobs citing CCEA 16 30 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.034% 0.051% 0.049%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.191% 0.297% 0.310%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 17
Average daily rate £363 £350 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% +2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £273 £211
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £373 £275 £265
% change year-on-year
+35.45% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 6
Average hourly rate £25.00 £22.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% -12.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.00 £19.90 £21.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £22.70 £32.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £19.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -24.00%
All Qualifications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
8360 10099 9690
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.02% 17.33% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4481 5262 4618
Average daily rate £375 £378 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.66% +0.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £540 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 455 547 662
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -2.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%

CCEA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CCEA within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

CCEA Jobs Demand Trend

CCEA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CCEA within the UK.

CCEA Daily Rate Trend

CCEA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CCEA within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

CCEA Daily Rate Histogram

CCEA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CCEA within the UK.

CCEA Hourly Rate Trend

CCEA
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCEA within the UK 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
England +37 16 £363 +3.57%
London +16 13 £363 -1.36%
City of London +9 4 £375 -18.91%
South East +24 1 £395 -
West Midlands +7 1 - -
North West - 1 £350 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £395 -

CCEA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing CCEA 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 CCEA.

1 46 (100.00%) Citrix
1 46 (100.00%) Citrix Certification
2 39 (84.78%) Windows
3 32 (69.57%) CCA
3 32 (69.57%) Windows Server 2008
3 32 (69.57%) XenApp
4 27 (58.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 27 (58.70%) MCSE
5 26 (56.52%) VMware
6 25 (54.35%) XenDesktop
7 23 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
8 21 (45.65%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (45.65%) Active Directory
9 19 (41.30%) Microsoft
9 19 (41.30%) CCIA
10 18 (39.13%) VMware Infrastructure
11 17 (36.96%) Cisco
12 16 (34.78%) Finance
12 16 (34.78%) MCITP
13 15 (32.61%) CCEE
13 15 (32.61%) CCNP
14 14 (30.43%) CCNA
14 14 (30.43%) MS Exchange
14 14 (30.43%) Exchange Server 2007
15 13 (28.26%) SQL
16 12 (26.09%) DNS
16 12 (26.09%) SAN
16 12 (26.09%) Firewall
16 12 (26.09%) XenServer
17 11 (23.91%) DHCP

CCEA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing CCEA 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 CCEA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 14 (30.43%) MS Exchange
1 14 (30.43%) Exchange Server 2007
2 10 (21.74%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (8.696%) Exchange Server 2000
3 4 (8.696%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (2.174%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (4.348%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (26.09%) DNS
1 12 (26.09%) SAN
1 12 (26.09%) Firewall
2 11 (23.91%) WAN
2 11 (23.91%) DHCP
3 10 (21.74%) Cisco IOS
3 10 (21.74%) Cisco PIX
3 10 (21.74%) Cisco ASA
3 10 (21.74%) LAN
4 9 (19.57%) Internet
5 8 (17.39%) NetScaler
6 1 (2.174%) Extranet
6 1 (2.174%) HTTPS
6 1 (2.174%) HTTP
6 1 (2.174%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.696%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.348%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 2 (4.348%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (4.348%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (4.348%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (4.348%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 16 (34.78%) Finance
2 2 (4.348%) Law
2 2 (4.348%) French Language
2 2 (4.348%) German Language
2 2 (4.348%) Spanish Language
3 1 (2.174%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.174%) Advertising
3 1 (2.174%) Banking
3 1 (2.174%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 17 (36.96%) Consultant
2 15 (32.61%) Citrix Consultant
3 14 (30.43%) 3rd Line Support
3 14 (30.43%) Support Engineer
3 14 (30.43%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 10 (21.74%) Citrix Engineer
5 9 (19.57%) IT Support
5 9 (19.57%) IT Support Engineer
6 3 (6.522%) Wintel Engineer
7 2 (4.348%) Wintel Consultant
7 2 (4.348%) Account Manager
7 2 (4.348%) Technical Account Manager
7 2 (4.348%) Technical Manager
7 2 (4.348%) Microsoft Consultant
8 1 (2.174%) Citrix Specialist
8 1 (2.174%) Senior Citrix Consultant
8 1 (2.174%) Implementation Engineer
8 1 (2.174%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.174%) Migration Engineer
8 1 (2.174%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.174%) Replication
1 1 (2.174%) Fixed Income
1 1 (2.174%) Clustering
1 1 (2.174%) Derivative
1 1 (2.174%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 39 (84.78%) Windows
2 32 (69.57%) Windows Server 2008
3 23 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 10 (21.74%) Mac OS X
5 5 (10.87%) Windows 7
6 4 (8.696%) Windows 2000 Server
6 4 (8.696%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (8.696%) Migration
2 2 (4.348%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (4.348%) Project Management
2 2 (4.348%) Use Case
2 2 (4.348%) Analytics
3 1 (2.174%) Load Testing
3 1 (2.174%) High Availability
3 1 (2.174%) Workflow
3 1 (2.174%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.26%) SQL
2 3 (6.522%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.174%) C
Qualifications
1 46 (100.00%) Citrix Certification
2 32 (69.57%) CCA
3 27 (58.70%) MCSE
3 27 (58.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (45.65%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (41.30%) CCIA
6 16 (34.78%) MCITP
7 15 (32.61%) CCEE
7 15 (32.61%) CCNP
8 14 (30.43%) CCNA
9 7 (15.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (13.04%) MCP
10 6 (13.04%) CCSP
11 4 (8.696%) MCTS
12 2 (4.348%) Degree
12 2 (4.348%) MCSA
13 1 (2.174%) CCIE
13 1 (2.174%) SC Cleared
13 1 (2.174%) Security Cleared
13 1 (2.174%) VCP4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.174%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 32 (69.57%) XenApp
2 25 (54.35%) XenDesktop
3 21 (45.65%) Active Directory
4 18 (39.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (26.09%) XenServer
6 7 (15.22%) VMware ESX
7 4 (8.696%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (4.348%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 2 (4.348%) Terminal Server
8 2 (4.348%) Hyper-V
8 2 (4.348%) vCloud
9 1 (2.174%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) SCCM
2 2 (4.348%) SCOM
Vendors
1 46 (100.00%) Citrix
2 26 (56.52%) VMware
3 19 (41.30%) Microsoft
4 17 (36.96%) Cisco
5 6 (13.04%) AppSense
6 4 (8.696%) NetApp
7 2 (4.348%) HP
7 2 (4.348%) Twitter
8 1 (2.174%) EMC
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