The first table below looks at the demand for the Citrix Architect role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Citrix Architect in their job title 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 Job Titles 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix Architect
Rank 517 558 577
Rank change year-on-year
+41 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Citrix Architect 16 15 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.034% 0.026% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.028% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 5
Average daily rate £400 £325 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -27.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £237 £324 £410
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £462 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 - £413
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42921 54032 55868
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.62% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24602 29796 30366
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2138 2561 2889
Average hourly rate £18.53 £18.75 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.20% -6.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.74 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Citrix Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Citrix Architect within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Citrix Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Citrix Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

Citrix Architect Daily Rate Trend

Citrix Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Citrix Architect within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Citrix Architect Daily Rate Histogram

Citrix Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Citrix Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Citrix Architect
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix Architect within the UK 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
England +63 15 £400 +23.07%
London +16 8 £400 +23.07%
Cambridge - 4 £413 -
Cambridgeshire - 4 £413 -
East of England - 4 £413 -
City of London +14 3 £413 +26.92%
North West +18 2 £233 -
Cheshire +9 2 £233 -
South East - 1 - -
Edinburgh - 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 - -
Bracknell - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -

Citrix Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Citrix Architect in their job title 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 with Citrix Architect in their job title.

1 23 (100.00%) Citrix
2 12 (52.17%) XenDesktop
3 11 (47.83%) Windows
3 11 (47.83%) XenApp
4 10 (43.48%) AppSense
5 9 (39.13%) VMware
6 8 (34.78%) XenServer
7 7 (30.43%) Citrix Certification
8 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
8 6 (26.09%) Banking
9 5 (21.74%) VMware ESX
9 5 (21.74%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (21.74%) CCA
9 5 (21.74%) NetScaler
10 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
10 4 (17.39%) Finance
11 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (13.04%) SAN
11 3 (13.04%) SharePoint
11 3 (13.04%) ITIL
11 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
11 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
11 3 (13.04%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (13.04%) CCIA
12 2 (8.696%) Windows 7
12 2 (8.696%) CCAA
12 2 (8.696%) CloudStack
12 2 (8.696%) Application Packaging
12 2 (8.696%) Citrix Presentation Server
12 2 (8.696%) SCCM

Citrix Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Citrix Architect in their job title 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 with Citrix Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (8.696%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.696%) CloudStack
3 1 (4.348%) IIS
3 1 (4.348%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (4.348%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) NetScaler
2 3 (13.04%) SAN
3 2 (8.696%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (26.09%) Banking
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 2 (8.696%) Law
3 2 (8.696%) Publishing
4 1 (4.348%) Advertising
4 1 (4.348%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.348%) NHS
1 1 (4.348%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 11 (47.83%) Windows
2 5 (21.74%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (8.696%) Windows 7
4 1 (4.348%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.348%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (13.04%) ITIL
2 2 (8.696%) Migration
2 2 (8.696%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (8.696%) Business Continuity
3 1 (4.348%) Data Analysis
3 1 (4.348%) Competitor Analysis
3 1 (4.348%) IT Governance
3 1 (4.348%) Load Testing
3 1 (4.348%) ITIL V3
3 1 (4.348%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (4.348%) PRINCE2
3 1 (4.348%) PRINCE
3 1 (4.348%) Project Management
3 1 (4.348%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.696%) VBScript
3 1 (4.348%) VB
3 1 (4.348%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Citrix Certification
2 5 (21.74%) CCA
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) CCIA
4 2 (8.696%) CCAA
4 2 (8.696%) MCSE
5 1 (4.348%) CCEA
5 1 (4.348%) VCDX
5 1 (4.348%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.348%) ISO 9001
1 1 (4.348%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (52.17%) XenDesktop
2 11 (47.83%) XenApp
3 8 (34.78%) XenServer
4 5 (21.74%) VMware ESX
5 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
6 3 (13.04%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (8.696%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 2 (8.696%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (8.696%) Hyper-V
8 1 (4.348%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (8.696%) SCCM
2 1 (4.348%) SCOM
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Citrix
2 10 (43.48%) AppSense
3 9 (39.13%) VMware
4 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
5 2 (8.696%) Wyse
6 1 (4.348%) NetApp
6 1 (4.348%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.348%) Altiris
6 1 (4.348%) Lumension