Xen Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Xen skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Xen 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 of the System Software 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XenSource Xen
Rank 492 515 515
Rank change year-on-year
+23 0
Contract jobs citing Xen 38 63 73
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.082% 0.108% 0.119%
As % of the System Software category 0.880% 1.359% 1.634%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 38 45
Average daily rate £425 £378 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.58% -16.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 £275 £269
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+30.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 11
Average hourly rate - £17.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -36.36%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- -36.36%
All System Software
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 4317 4635 4468
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 9.304% 7.953% 7.289%
Number of daily rates quoted 2073 2240 1970
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £200 £202
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £460 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 599 613 651
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%

Xen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Xen Jobs Demand Trend

Xen
Daily Rate Trend

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

Xen Daily Rate Trend

Xen
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Xen Daily Rate Histogram

Xen
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Xen Hourly Rate Trend

Xen
Top 26 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Xen 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 +25 38 £425 +13.33%
South East +28 14 £452 +18.94%
Yorkshire - 11 £425 -
Berkshire - 10 £421 -
East of England +8 8 £325 -
North Yorkshire - 8 £425 -
Bracknell - 8 £342 -
York - 6 £425 -
Hampshire -3 4 £490 +11.25%
Hertfordshire -1 3 £325 -
West Yorkshire - 3 £132 -
Essex - 3 - -
South West +18 2 £383 +18.05%
Cambridgeshire +10 2 - -
Cambridge +7 2 - -
London -3 2 - -
Halifax - 2 £138 -
Basildon - 2 - -
Hammersmith - 2 - -
Wiltshire - 2 £383 -
East Midlands - 1 £413 -
Northamptonshire - 1 £413 -
Leeds - 1 £125 -
Swindon - 1 £450 -
Maidenhead - 1 £500 -
Andover - 1 £575 -

Xen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 45 (57.69%) VMware
2 44 (56.41%) Citrix
3 43 (55.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (53.85%) Microsoft
5 36 (46.15%) Windows
6 31 (39.74%) Hyper-V
7 27 (34.62%) Linux
7 27 (34.62%) SAN
8 24 (30.77%) Active Directory
9 22 (28.21%) Windows Server 2008
9 22 (28.21%) SCOM
10 20 (25.64%) Security Cleared
11 17 (21.79%) Windows Server 2003
11 17 (21.79%) SC Cleared
12 15 (19.23%) Cloud Computing
12 15 (19.23%) Cisco
13 14 (17.95%) UNIX
13 14 (17.95%) Perl
14 13 (16.67%) HP
15 12 (15.38%) Configuration Management
15 12 (15.38%) Blackberry
15 12 (15.38%) SQL
15 12 (15.38%) Firewall
15 12 (15.38%) SaaS
15 12 (15.38%) PaaS
15 12 (15.38%) IaaS
16 11 (14.10%) OpenStack
16 11 (14.10%) Open Source
16 11 (14.10%) PowerShell
16 11 (14.10%) C

Xen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (2.564%) HTML
1 2 (2.564%) .NET
1 2 (2.564%) WSH
1 2 (2.564%) CGI
1 2 (2.564%) Regular Expression
2 1 (1.282%) Middleware
2 1 (1.282%) LAMP
2 1 (1.282%) REST
2 1 (1.282%) COM
2 1 (1.282%) Servlets
2 1 (1.282%) SOAP
2 1 (1.282%) Web Services
2 1 (1.282%) XML
2 1 (1.282%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 11 (14.10%) MS Exchange
1 11 (14.10%) OpenStack
2 10 (12.82%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (10.26%) Windows Azure
3 8 (10.26%) CloudStack
4 5 (6.410%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 4 (5.128%) IIS
5 4 (5.128%) Apache
6 3 (3.846%) Tomcat
7 1 (1.282%) SharePoint
7 1 (1.282%) Amazon AWS
7 1 (1.282%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (1.282%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (1.282%) WorkSite
Applications
1 11 (14.10%) MS Excel
2 5 (6.410%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 27 (34.62%) SAN
2 12 (15.38%) Firewall
3 11 (14.10%) DNS
4 7 (8.974%) TCP/IP
4 7 (8.974%) MPLS
4 7 (8.974%) LAN
4 7 (8.974%) WAN
4 7 (8.974%) NAS
5 6 (7.692%) DHCP
5 6 (7.692%) Ethernet
6 4 (5.128%) VoIP
6 4 (5.128%) PSTN
6 4 (5.128%) ATM
6 4 (5.128%) Broadband
6 4 (5.128%) GPRS
6 4 (5.128%) Internet
6 4 (5.128%) 3G
6 4 (5.128%) Wireless
7 3 (3.846%) DSL
7 3 (3.846%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.974%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.410%) Oracle 8/8i
2 5 (6.410%) MySQL
3 4 (5.128%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (5.128%) Oracle 11g
3 4 (5.128%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (2.564%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.282%) Big Data
5 1 (1.282%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.282%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 3 (3.846%) Git (software)
1 3 (3.846%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.564%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (2.564%) WiX
2 2 (2.564%) MSBuild
2 2 (2.564%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 2 (2.564%) Subversion
2 2 (2.564%) Maven
2 2 (2.564%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.282%) MSI
3 1 (1.282%) Hudson
General
1 4 (5.128%) Finance
2 3 (3.846%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.564%) Retail
3 2 (2.564%) Marketing
3 2 (2.564%) German Language
3 2 (2.564%) Back Office
4 1 (1.282%) Electronics
4 1 (1.282%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (25.64%) Architect
2 12 (15.38%) Technical Architect
3 9 (11.54%) Analyst
4 8 (10.26%) Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (5.128%) Administrator
5 4 (5.128%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (5.128%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (3.846%) Citrix Technical Consultant
6 3 (3.846%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (3.846%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 3 (3.846%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (3.846%) Consultant
6 3 (3.846%) Support Engineer
6 3 (3.846%) Technical Consultant
6 3 (3.846%) Citrix Consultant
6 3 (3.846%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (3.846%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 2 (2.564%) Build Manager
7 2 (2.564%) Citrix Engineer
7 2 (2.564%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.23%) Cloud Computing
2 12 (15.38%) SaaS
2 12 (15.38%) PaaS
2 12 (15.38%) IaaS
2 12 (15.38%) Blackberry
3 11 (14.10%) Open Source
4 9 (11.54%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (7.692%) Device Driver
5 6 (7.692%) VHDL
5 6 (7.692%) Verilog
6 5 (6.410%) Thin Client
6 5 (6.410%) Fat Client
7 4 (5.128%) Management Information System
8 3 (3.846%) Computer Science
9 2 (2.564%) Replication
9 2 (2.564%) Clustering
9 2 (2.564%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (1.282%) Cryptography
10 1 (1.282%) iPhone
10 1 (1.282%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 36 (46.15%) Windows
2 27 (34.62%) Linux
3 22 (28.21%) Windows Server 2008
4 17 (21.79%) Windows Server 2003
5 14 (17.95%) UNIX
6 10 (12.82%) Windows XP
6 10 (12.82%) Windows 7
7 6 (7.692%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (5.128%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (5.128%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (2.564%) CentOS
9 2 (2.564%) Solaris
10 1 (1.282%) AIX
10 1 (1.282%) HPUX
10 1 (1.282%) Mac OS X
10 1 (1.282%) FreeBSD
10 1 (1.282%) OpenBSD
10 1 (1.282%) Fedora
10 1 (1.282%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.282%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (15.38%) Configuration Management
2 9 (11.54%) ITIL
3 8 (10.26%) Service Management
4 7 (8.974%) ITSM
4 7 (8.974%) Business Continuity
4 7 (8.974%) Change Control
5 6 (7.692%) Electronic Design Automation
5 6 (7.692%) Time Management
5 6 (7.692%) Migration
5 6 (7.692%) Project Management
6 5 (6.410%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (6.410%) Problem Management
7 4 (5.128%) Performance Management
7 4 (5.128%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (5.128%) BCP
7 4 (5.128%) PRINCE2
7 4 (5.128%) E-Commerce
8 3 (3.846%) Risk Management
8 3 (3.846%) Integration Testing
8 3 (3.846%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.95%) Perl
2 12 (15.38%) SQL
3 11 (14.10%) C
3 11 (14.10%) PowerShell
4 10 (12.82%) Java
5 8 (10.26%) VB
6 7 (8.974%) Python
7 6 (7.692%) Bash shell
8 5 (6.410%) C++
9 3 (3.846%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.846%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.564%) C#
10 2 (2.564%) PHP
11 1 (1.282%) VBScript
11 1 (1.282%) Ruby
11 1 (1.282%) Korn
11 1 (1.282%) Erlang
11 1 (1.282%) ActionScript
11 1 (1.282%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (25.64%) Security Cleared
2 17 (21.79%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (5.128%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.128%) MCSE
4 4 (5.128%) MCTS
4 4 (5.128%) MCITP
5 3 (3.846%) Citrix Certification
5 3 (3.846%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.846%) CCNA
5 3 (3.846%) RHCE
6 2 (2.564%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (2.564%) Degree
6 2 (2.564%) CCA
6 2 (2.564%) CCEE
7 1 (1.282%) CCIA
7 1 (1.282%) VCP5
7 1 (1.282%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.282%) HPUX Certification
7 1 (1.282%) SCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.692%) JTAG
2 2 (2.564%) JSP 440
System Software
1 43 (55.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (39.74%) Hyper-V
3 24 (30.77%) Active Directory
4 7 (8.974%) UAG
5 6 (7.692%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (6.410%) XenServer
7 4 (5.128%) XenDesktop
7 4 (5.128%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (5.128%) VMware ESX
7 4 (5.128%) NFS
7 4 (5.128%) XenApp
8 3 (3.846%) NLBS
9 2 (2.564%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 1 (1.282%) VirtualBox
10 1 (1.282%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (1.282%) vSphere
10 1 (1.282%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (1.282%) Postfix
10 1 (1.282%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 22 (28.21%) SCOM
2 8 (10.26%) SCCM
3 7 (8.974%) MIMEsweeper
4 4 (5.128%) NetBackup
4 4 (5.128%) Nagios
4 4 (5.128%) WSUS
5 3 (3.846%) Puppet
5 3 (3.846%) Splunk
5 3 (3.846%) BladeLogic
5 3 (3.846%) Opalis
6 2 (2.564%) Backup Exec
6 2 (2.564%) ARCserve
6 2 (2.564%) Tivoli
6 2 (2.564%) Ganglia
6 2 (2.564%) HP Operations Orchestration
6 2 (2.564%) Ionix
7 1 (1.282%) OpenView
7 1 (1.282%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (1.282%) Cobbler
7 1 (1.282%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 45 (57.69%) VMware
2 44 (56.41%) Citrix
3 42 (53.85%) Microsoft
4 15 (19.23%) Cisco
5 13 (16.67%) HP
6 10 (12.82%) Oracle
6 10 (12.82%) NetApp
7 8 (10.26%) Google
8 7 (8.974%) Red Hat
9 6 (7.692%) CA
10 5 (6.410%) CheckPoint
10 5 (6.410%) Symantec
11 4 (5.128%) 3PAR
11 4 (5.128%) Dell
12 3 (3.846%) Veritas
13 2 (2.564%) CommVault
13 2 (2.564%) Sun
13 2 (2.564%) EMC
13 2 (2.564%) Intel
13 2 (2.564%) BMC
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