The first table below looks at the demand for the Citrix Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix Engineer
Rank 492 491 551
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +60
Contract jobs requiring a Citrix Engineer 49 79 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.102% 0.136% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.110% 0.147% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 52 22
Average daily rate £330 £340 £349
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -2.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £250 £204
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £290 £296
% change year-on-year
+20.68% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 4
Average hourly rate £32.50 £34.87 £25.94
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.79% +34.43%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £41.74 £25.94
% change year-on-year
-22.13% +60.92%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
44347 53663 57608
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.47% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 25564 29628 31510
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
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 2099 2560 2964
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.19 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%

Citrix Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Citrix Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Citrix Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Citrix Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Citrix Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Citrix Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Citrix Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Citrix Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Citrix Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Citrix Engineer
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -14 48 £330 -2.94% 11
London +8 29 £330 -2.94% 6
City of London 0 7 £315 -22.46% 3
South East +23 6 £375 +7.14% 1
East of England +20 6 £350 +12.00% 2
South West +33 3 £450 +44.00%
Essex -4 3 £350 -6.66%
Surrey +20 2 £375 - 1
West Midlands +1 2 £250 -20.00% 1
North West +15 1 - - 1
Manchester +6 1 - - 1
Birmingham +2 1 £250 -28.57% 1
East Midlands -1 1 £230 -16.36%
Nottingham -4 1 £230 -16.36%
Nottinghamshire -5 1 £230 -16.36%
Wiltshire - 1 £450 -
Swindon - 1 £450 -
Woking - - - - 1
Wolverhampton - - - -
Bedfordshire - - - -
Berkshire - - - -
Cambridgeshire - - - - 2
Derbyshire - - - -
Peterborough - - - - 2
Reading - - - -
Reigate - - - -
Sheffield - - - -
Slough - - - -
Bromsgrove - - - -
Coventry - - - -

Citrix Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Citrix Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 115 (100.00%) Citrix
2 85 (73.91%) XenApp
3 57 (49.57%) Windows
4 43 (37.39%) VMware
5 40 (34.78%) Citrix Certification
5 40 (34.78%) Windows Server 2008
6 39 (33.91%) Microsoft
7 38 (33.04%) AppSense
8 36 (31.30%) Active Directory
9 31 (26.96%) XenDesktop
10 24 (20.87%) CCA
11 23 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
12 22 (19.13%) VMware Infrastructure
13 18 (15.65%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (15.65%) HP
14 16 (13.91%) SCCM
15 15 (13.04%) XenServer
15 15 (13.04%) Finance
15 15 (13.04%) Windows Server 2003
16 14 (12.17%) VMware ESX
16 14 (12.17%) PowerShell
17 12 (10.43%) Migration
18 11 (9.565%) Fat Client
18 11 (9.565%) Thin Client
18 11 (9.565%) CCEA
18 11 (9.565%) MCSE
18 11 (9.565%) VBScript
19 10 (8.696%) Linux
19 10 (8.696%) Citrix Presentation Server
19 10 (8.696%) CCEE

Citrix Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Citrix Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (1.739%) XML
1 2 (1.739%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 6 (5.217%) MS Exchange
1 6 (5.217%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (2.609%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (2.609%) IIS
3 2 (1.739%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.739%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.870%) Lync
Applications
1 8 (6.957%) MS Excel
2 5 (4.348%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.696%) NetScaler
2 7 (6.087%) SAN
2 7 (6.087%) DHCP
3 4 (3.478%) WAN
3 4 (3.478%) DNS
4 3 (2.609%) VLAN
4 3 (2.609%) VPN
5 2 (1.739%) HTTP
5 2 (1.739%) MPLS
5 2 (1.739%) SSH
6 1 (0.870%) NAS
6 1 (0.870%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.870%) Firewall
6 1 (0.870%) Extranet
6 1 (0.870%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.870%) SSL
6 1 (0.870%) LAN
6 1 (0.870%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.478%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.870%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (0.870%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 15 (13.04%) Finance
2 8 (6.957%) Banking
3 6 (5.217%) Telecoms
4 4 (3.478%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.609%) Publishing
6 2 (1.739%) Retail
6 2 (1.739%) Local Government
6 2 (1.739%) Law
7 1 (0.870%) Legal
7 1 (0.870%) Back Office
7 1 (0.870%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.870%) Online Betting
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.565%) Fat Client
1 11 (9.565%) Thin Client
2 3 (2.609%) NHS
3 2 (1.739%) PDA
3 2 (1.739%) Clustering
3 2 (1.739%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.870%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.870%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (0.870%) Replication
4 1 (0.870%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.870%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 57 (49.57%) Windows
2 40 (34.78%) Windows Server 2008
3 15 (13.04%) Windows Server 2003
4 10 (8.696%) Linux
5 6 (5.217%) SUSE
5 6 (5.217%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.739%) UNIX
6 2 (1.739%) Windows XP
6 2 (1.739%) VMS
7 1 (0.870%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.870%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (10.43%) Migration
2 9 (7.826%) ITIL
3 8 (6.957%) Service Management
4 4 (3.478%) Load Balancing
4 4 (3.478%) ITIL V3
5 3 (2.609%) Service Delivery
5 3 (2.609%) Change Management
5 3 (2.609%) Project Management
6 2 (1.739%) Release Management
6 2 (1.739%) Incident Management
6 2 (1.739%) Network Load Balancing
7 1 (0.870%) Infrastructure Management
7 1 (0.870%) High Availability
7 1 (0.870%) Capacity Management
7 1 (0.870%) Validation
7 1 (0.870%) Asset Management
7 1 (0.870%) Problem Management
7 1 (0.870%) Investment Management
7 1 (0.870%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.17%) PowerShell
2 11 (9.565%) VBScript
3 4 (3.478%) VB
3 4 (3.478%) SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (34.78%) Citrix Certification
2 24 (20.87%) CCA
3 18 (15.65%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (9.565%) CCEA
4 11 (9.565%) MCSE
5 10 (8.696%) CCEE
6 7 (6.087%) Security Cleared
7 6 (5.217%) Linux+ Certification
8 4 (3.478%) SC Cleared
8 4 (3.478%) DV Cleared
8 4 (3.478%) CCAA
9 3 (2.609%) CCIA
10 2 (1.739%) HNC
10 2 (1.739%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.739%) Degree
11 1 (0.870%) VCP5
11 1 (0.870%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.870%) CCIE
11 1 (0.870%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.217%) SLA
System Software
1 85 (73.91%) XenApp
2 36 (31.30%) Active Directory
3 31 (26.96%) XenDesktop
4 23 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 22 (19.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 15 (13.04%) XenServer
7 14 (12.17%) VMware ESX
8 10 (8.696%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 8 (6.957%) vSphere
10 7 (6.087%) MetaFrame
11 4 (3.478%) IAG
11 4 (3.478%) UAG
12 3 (2.609%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (2.609%) Terminal Services
13 2 (1.739%) ISA Server
13 2 (1.739%) Xen
14 1 (0.870%) Hyper-V
14 1 (0.870%) Terminal Server
14 1 (0.870%) NFS
Systems Management
1 16 (13.91%) SCCM
2 3 (2.609%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 2 (1.739%) ZENworks
4 1 (0.870%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.870%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 115 (100.00%) Citrix
2 43 (37.39%) VMware
3 39 (33.91%) Microsoft
4 38 (33.04%) AppSense
5 18 (15.65%) HP
6 6 (5.217%) Red Hat
7 4 (3.478%) Wyse
7 4 (3.478%) Altiris
8 3 (2.609%) Oracle
9 2 (1.739%) Adobe
9 2 (1.739%) NetApp
9 2 (1.739%) IBM
9 2 (1.739%) EMC
9 2 (1.739%) Remedy
9 2 (1.739%) 3PAR
9 2 (1.739%) Veeam
10 1 (0.870%) Twitter
10 1 (0.870%) ProCurve
10 1 (0.870%) Symantec
10 1 (0.870%) Websense
Birmingham, West Midlands
Citrix Infrastructure Engineer / 2nd Line / 3rd Line Engineer is required on a 3-Month contract basis in Birmingham paying £250 per day by an exclusive client if mine-...
OPUS
Rate: GBP250 per day
Posted: 29 May 2013
City, London
3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer - Citrix / Windows / Legal... You will have an In-depth knowledge of supporting Citrix Infrastructure, XenApp, XenDesktop, Citrix Access Gateway along with Windows Server 2008...
Senitor Associates
Rate: £250 - £320 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
We have an exciting opportunity to work with a multinational insurance company based in the City; the requirement is for a Citrix Engineer - Xenapp / App-v / SCCM. The...
Coal IT Services
Rate: Up to £460 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
We are currently looking for a Senior Citrix Engineer with experince working on Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop and XenServer.This is a contract that will last between 4-6...
Agilisys
Rate: £400 - £600 per day
Posted: 30 May 2013
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