West Midlands Citrix Presentation Server Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Citrix Presentation Server skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our System Software category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Citrix Presentation Server over the 3 months to 16 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Citrix Presentation Server
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Crewe Denbighshire Devon Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hartlepool Hertfordshire Lancashire Leicester Leicestershire Lewes London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North East North Wales North West Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Preston Reading Reigate Sandbach Scotland South Coast South East South Wales South West St Asaph Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 16 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	110	130
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	4	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	1.600 %	0.361 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£190	-
Average daily rate	£198	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£205	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£280	£299
% change on same period last year	-6.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£50.00	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£50.00	£17.50
% change on same period last year	+185.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£50.00	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.47	£26.82
% change on same period last year	+21.06 %
System Software West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	250	277
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.357 %	0.287 %
Daily rates quoted	36	70
Average minimum daily rate	£299	£222
Average daily rate	£323	£239
% change on same period last year	+35.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£256
UK excluding London average daily rate	£320	£321
% change on same period last year	-0.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	81	91
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.44	£19.63
Average hourly rate	£20.44	£21.12
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.44	£22.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.35	£21.37
% change on same period last year	-0.08 %
Citrix Presentation Server England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Citrix Presentation Server
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Citrix Presentation Server across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Citrix Presentation Server
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Citrix Presentation Server across the West Midlands region.

Citrix Presentation Server
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Citrix Presentation Server across the West Midlands region.

Citrix Presentation Server
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix Presentation Server within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 16 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Birmingham	-	4	£198	-

Citrix Presentation Server England

Citrix Presentation Server
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Citrix Presentation Server 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 Citrix Presentation Server.

1 7 (100.00 %) Citrix 2 3 (42.86 %) SQL 2 3 (42.86 %) Windows 2 3 (42.86 %) Cerner 2 3 (42.86 %) VMware 2 3 (42.86 %) Clustering 2 3 (42.86 %) Cerner Millennium 3 2 (28.57 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (28.57 %) Windows XP 4 1 (14.29 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (14.29 %) Active Directory 4 1 (14.29 %) HP 4 1 (14.29 %) CCA 4 1 (14.29 %) Citrix Certification 4 1 (14.29 %) SAN

4 1 (14.29 %) Migration 4 1 (14.29 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (14.29 %) VERITAS 4 1 (14.29 %) Terminal Services 4 1 (14.29 %) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP) 4 1 (14.29 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 4 1 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (14.29 %) NetBackup 4 1 (14.29 %) VMware Infrastructure

Citrix Presentation Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Citrix Presentation Server 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 Citrix Presentation Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003	Business Applications 1 3 (42.86 %) Cerner Millennium
Communications & Networking 1 1 (14.29 %) SAN	Job Titles 1 3 (42.86 %) Citrix Engineer 2 2 (28.57 %) Deployment Engineer 2 2 (28.57 %) Architect 3 1 (14.29 %) Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Consultant 3 1 (14.29 %) Infrastructure Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) Server Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) Deployment Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 3 (42.86 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 3 (42.86 %) Windows 2 2 (28.57 %) Windows XP 2 2 (28.57 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (14.29 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 3 (42.86 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (14.29 %) CCA 1 1 (14.29 %) Citrix Certification 1 1 (14.29 %) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP) 1 1 (14.29 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)	System Software 1 1 (14.29 %) Active Directory 1 1 (14.29 %) Terminal Services 1 1 (14.29 %) VMware ESX 1 1 (14.29 %) NetBackup 1 1 (14.29 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 7 (100.00 %) Citrix 2 3 (42.86 %) Cerner 2 3 (42.86 %) VMware 3 1 (14.29 %) HP 3 1 (14.29 %) VERITAS