The first table below looks at the demand for NetScaler skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NetScaler 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 of the Communications & Networking category.

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 NetScaler Application Delivery Controller
Rank 434 457 573
Rank change year-on-year
+23 +116
Contract jobs citing NetScaler 107 113 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.222% 0.195% 0.045%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.549% 1.250% 0.345%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 85 17
Average daily rate £470 £375 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.33% +13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £318 £246
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £418 £330
% change year-on-year
-4.19% +26.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
Average hourly rate £27.50 £47.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.10% +58.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £30.00
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6909 9038 8107
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.36% 15.57% 13.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3471 4041 3676
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £208 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 510 605 809
Average hourly rate £23.75 £24.38 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.56% +1.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00

NetScaler
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing NetScaler within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

NetScaler Jobs Demand Trend

NetScaler
Daily Rate Trend

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

NetScaler Daily Rate Trend

NetScaler
Daily Rate Histogram

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

NetScaler Daily Rate Histogram

NetScaler
Hourly Rate Trend

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

NetScaler Hourly Rate Trend

NetScaler
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 NetScaler 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 +4 103 £470 +25.33% 17
London +19 82 £475 +26.66% 10
City of London -16 23 £450 +28.57% 5
South East +27 6 £375 -16.66% 2
East of England +13 6 £425 -2.85% 2
Cambridge - 6 £425 -
Cambridgeshire - 6 £425 - 2
West Sussex - 5 - -
West Midlands +9 4 £450 +63.63%
Docklands, London +6 3 £350 -22.22%
North West +18 2 £375 -11.76% 1
South West +31 1 £525 +28.04%
Yorkshire +4 1 £300 -17.24% 1
North Yorkshire 0 1 £300 -17.24%
Nottinghamshire - 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 £375 -
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Manchester - 1 £400 - 1
Gatwick - 1 - -
Nottingham - 1 - -
Oldham - - - -
Oxford - - - -
Peterborough - - - - 2
Portsmouth - - - -
Preston - - - -
Reading - - - -
Sale - - - -
Salford - - - -
Sheffield - - - -
Slough - - - -

NetScaler
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing NetScaler 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 NetScaler.

1 193 (96.98%) Citrix
2 118 (59.30%) Windows
3 85 (42.71%) XenApp
4 84 (42.21%) Microsoft
5 81 (40.70%) XenDesktop
6 68 (34.17%) Firewall
7 64 (32.16%) TCP/IP
8 63 (31.66%) VMware
9 58 (29.15%) Linux
10 55 (27.64%) E-Commerce
11 53 (26.63%) Windows Server 2008
12 50 (25.13%) Red Hat
13 49 (24.62%) UNIX
13 49 (24.62%) Cisco
13 49 (24.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 47 (23.62%) IIS
15 46 (23.12%) ITIL
16 43 (21.61%) PKI
16 43 (21.61%) F5
17 42 (21.11%) Load Balancing
17 42 (21.11%) AppSense
18 41 (20.60%) BIG-IP
19 40 (20.10%) Java
19 40 (20.10%) Apache
19 40 (20.10%) Active Directory
20 39 (19.60%) JBoss
20 39 (19.60%) WebSphere
21 38 (19.10%) LDAP
21 38 (19.10%) XML
21 38 (19.10%) XSLT

NetScaler
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing NetScaler 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 NetScaler. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 39 (19.60%) WebSphere
2 38 (19.10%) XML
2 38 (19.10%) XSLT
2 38 (19.10%) SOAP
3 33 (16.58%) Java EE
4 32 (16.08%) COM+
5 17 (8.543%) Web Services
6 6 (3.015%) Regular Expression
7 2 (1.005%) Middleware
8 1 (0.503%) COM
8 1 (0.503%) CSS
8 1 (0.503%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 47 (23.62%) IIS
2 40 (20.10%) Apache
3 38 (19.10%) WebSphere Application Server
4 17 (8.543%) MS Exchange
5 13 (6.533%) Exchange Server 2010
6 10 (5.025%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 6 (3.015%) Exchange Server 2003
8 4 (2.010%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (1.508%) Lync
9 3 (1.508%) Live Communications Server
10 1 (0.503%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.503%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.503%) CloudStack
10 1 (0.503%) GroupWise
10 1 (0.503%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.503%) SharePoint
Applications
1 36 (18.09%) MS Excel
2 6 (3.015%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 68 (34.17%) Firewall
2 64 (32.16%) TCP/IP
3 41 (20.60%) BIG-IP
4 38 (19.10%) LDAP
5 29 (14.57%) DNS
6 25 (12.56%) WAN
7 24 (12.06%) LAN
7 24 (12.06%) Internet
8 20 (10.05%) SAN
8 20 (10.05%) BGP
9 16 (8.040%) DHCP
10 15 (7.538%) VPN
11 14 (7.035%) Cisco Nexus
12 13 (6.533%) Cisco ASA
12 13 (6.533%) MPLS
12 13 (6.533%) OSPF
13 11 (5.528%) Ethernet
14 10 (5.025%) VoIP
15 9 (4.523%) VLAN
15 9 (4.523%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.533%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.518%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (1.508%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (1.005%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.005%) DTS
5 1 (0.503%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 3 (1.508%) WinRunner
1 3 (1.508%) QuickTest Pro
1 3 (1.508%) LoadRunner
1 3 (1.508%) MSI
1 3 (1.508%) InstallShield
1 3 (1.508%) Selenium
1 3 (1.508%) Bugzilla
2 2 (1.005%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 34 (17.09%) Finance
2 19 (9.548%) Banking
3 10 (5.025%) Telecoms
4 7 (3.518%) Investment Banking
5 4 (2.010%) Publishing
6 3 (1.508%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.005%) Back Office
7 2 (1.005%) Law
8 1 (0.503%) Local Government
8 1 (0.503%) Retail
8 1 (0.503%) Billing
Job Titles
1 38 (19.10%) Consultant
2 30 (15.08%) Support Engineer
3 24 (12.06%) Citrix Consultant
4 22 (11.06%) Senior Support Engineer
5 19 (9.548%) Administrator
6 18 (9.045%) Network Engineer
7 13 (6.533%) Citrix Administrator
7 13 (6.533%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (6.030%) Architect
8 12 (6.030%) Citrix Support
9 10 (5.025%) Technical Architect
9 10 (5.025%) Project Manager
9 10 (5.025%) Security Engineer
9 10 (5.025%) Citrix Engineer
9 10 (5.025%) Firewall Engineer
9 10 (5.025%) Web Engineer
10 7 (3.518%) Analyst
10 7 (3.518%) Network Consultant
10 7 (3.518%) Migration Engineer
11 6 (3.015%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 43 (21.61%) PKI
2 11 (5.528%) Clustering
3 8 (4.020%) Blackberry
4 7 (3.518%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (2.513%) Open Source
6 4 (2.010%) Firmware
7 2 (1.005%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.503%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.503%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.503%) Statistics
8 1 (0.503%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 118 (59.30%) Windows
2 58 (29.15%) Linux
3 53 (26.63%) Windows Server 2008
4 49 (24.62%) UNIX
4 49 (24.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (19.10%) Windows XP
6 31 (15.58%) Windows Server 2003
7 18 (9.045%) Windows 7
8 4 (2.010%) Windows Vista
9 3 (1.508%) Windows 2000
9 3 (1.508%) Windows NT
9 3 (1.508%) Windows 2000 Server
10 2 (1.005%) Solaris
11 1 (0.503%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.503%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (27.64%) E-Commerce
2 46 (23.12%) ITIL
3 42 (21.11%) Load Balancing
4 37 (18.59%) Change Control
5 25 (12.56%) Migration
6 22 (11.06%) Time Management
7 18 (9.045%) ITIL V3
8 13 (6.533%) Change Management
9 11 (5.528%) Project Management
10 10 (5.025%) PRINCE2
10 10 (5.025%) Information Security
11 9 (4.523%) Service Delivery
12 8 (4.020%) WAN Optimisation
13 7 (3.518%) Disaster Recovery
14 6 (3.015%) High Availability
15 5 (2.513%) Continuous Improvement
15 5 (2.513%) Business Development
15 5 (2.513%) Service Management
16 4 (2.010%) Stakeholder Management
16 4 (2.010%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 40 (20.10%) Java
2 36 (18.09%) PowerShell
3 33 (16.58%) Perl
4 26 (13.07%) VBScript
5 12 (6.030%) SQL
6 8 (4.020%) VB
7 3 (1.508%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.005%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (12.06%) Citrix Certification
2 23 (11.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 21 (10.55%) MCSE
4 20 (10.05%) CCA
5 19 (9.548%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (5.025%) CCIE
6 10 (5.025%) CCNP
6 10 (5.025%) GIAC
6 10 (5.025%) GWAPT
6 10 (5.025%) GPEN
7 9 (4.523%) CCEE
7 9 (4.523%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (4.020%) MCP
9 7 (3.518%) CCIA
9 7 (3.518%) CCNA
9 7 (3.518%) MCSA
10 6 (3.015%) MCITP
11 5 (2.513%) VCP4
11 5 (2.513%) CCAA
11 5 (2.513%) CCEA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.503%) SLA
1 1 (0.503%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (0.503%) QA
1 1 (0.503%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 85 (42.71%) XenApp
2 81 (40.70%) XenDesktop
3 40 (20.10%) Active Directory
4 25 (12.56%) XenServer
4 25 (12.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (11.56%) VMware ESX
5 23 (11.56%) vSphere
6 13 (6.533%) ProxySG
7 11 (5.528%) Microsoft App-V
8 9 (4.523%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (4.523%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 8 (4.020%) Hyper-V
10 4 (2.010%) MetaFrame
11 2 (1.005%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (1.005%) Xen
11 2 (1.005%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.503%) vCloud
12 1 (0.503%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 23 (11.56%) SCOM
2 14 (7.035%) SCCM
3 7 (3.518%) Cisco CUCM
4 6 (3.015%) MOM
5 5 (2.513%) Cacti
5 5 (2.513%) Nagios
5 5 (2.513%) NetBackup
6 4 (2.010%) WSUS
7 3 (1.508%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (1.508%) Tivoli
8 2 (1.005%) Legato
8 2 (1.005%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (1.005%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (0.503%) AppDNA
9 1 (0.503%) OpenView
9 1 (0.503%) Norton AntiVirus
9 1 (0.503%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 193 (96.98%) Citrix
2 84 (42.21%) Microsoft
3 63 (31.66%) VMware
4 50 (25.13%) Red Hat
5 49 (24.62%) Cisco
6 43 (21.61%) F5
7 42 (21.11%) AppSense
8 39 (19.60%) JBoss
9 17 (8.543%) HP
10 13 (6.533%) Blue Coat
11 11 (5.528%) Wyse
11 11 (5.528%) CheckPoint
12 10 (5.025%) NetApp
12 10 (5.025%) Juniper
12 10 (5.025%) Imperva
12 10 (5.025%) SolarWinds
13 8 (4.020%) Oracle
13 8 (4.020%) IBM
13 8 (4.020%) Dell
14 7 (3.518%) Symantec
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