The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Citrix over the 3 months to 21 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 Vendors for the West Midlands region.

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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Citrix Systems.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix
Rank 48 52 40
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -12
Contract jobs citing Citrix 53 58 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 3.153% 2.581% 3.170%
As % of the Vendors category 6.127% 5.230% 7.311%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 23 21
Average daily rate £275 £300 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £122 £160 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £302
% change year-on-year
- +7.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 10
Average hourly rate £15.75 £13.75 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.54% -8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.35 £11.50 £10.97
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.35 £22.50 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.50 £16.75
% change year-on-year
-6.06% -1.49%
All Vendors
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
865 1109 807
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 51.46% 49.35% 43.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 456 325
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £225 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 99 87
Average hourly rate £19.50 £16.85 £14.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.70% +14.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.00 £10.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £33.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Citrix
England

Citrix
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Citrix across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

West Midlands Citrix Jobs Demand Trend

Citrix
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Midlands Citrix Daily Rate Trend

Citrix
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Citrix across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

West Midlands Citrix Daily Rate Histogram

Citrix
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Midlands Citrix Hourly Rate Trend

Citrix
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Citrix across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

West Midlands Citrix Hourly Rate Histogram

Citrix
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 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
Birmingham -9 14 £280 +5.66%
Coventry +3 8 £95 -
Warwickshire -2 6 £450 +25.87%
Staffordshire +9 5 £155 -
Shropshire +5 3 £300 -
Walsall +3 1 £350 -
Wednesbury - 1 £175 -
West Bromwich - 1 - -
Willenhall - 1 £175 -
Herefordshire - 1 £200 -
Halesowen - 1 £175 -
Citrix
England

Citrix
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Citrix 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.

1 71 (71.00%) Windows
2 52 (52.00%) Active Directory
3 51 (51.00%) VMware
4 37 (37.00%) Microsoft
5 36 (36.00%) XenApp
6 34 (34.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 26 (26.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 23 (23.00%) Windows 7
9 20 (20.00%) SAN
9 20 (20.00%) Windows XP
10 18 (18.00%) MS Exchange
10 18 (18.00%) MS Excel
10 18 (18.00%) Windows Server 2003
11 16 (16.00%) HP
12 15 (15.00%) ITIL
12 15 (15.00%) SQL Server
13 14 (14.00%) MS Office
13 14 (14.00%) Cisco
14 13 (13.00%) Migration
14 13 (13.00%) SCCM
15 12 (12.00%) DNS
15 12 (12.00%) SQL
16 11 (11.00%) NetApp
16 11 (11.00%) Exchange Server 2010
17 10 (10.00%) Firewall
17 10 (10.00%) Finance
18 9 (9.000%) MSI
18 9 (9.000%) Microsoft Certification
18 9 (9.000%) EMC
18 9 (9.000%) LAN

Citrix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Citrix 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (3.000%) Application Packaging
2 2 (2.000%) Software Packaging
2 2 (2.000%) COM
3 1 (1.000%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 18 (18.00%) MS Exchange
2 11 (11.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 8 (8.000%) SharePoint
4 7 (7.000%) Lotus Notes
5 5 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2003
6 4 (4.000%) SharePoint 2010
6 4 (4.000%) Lync
7 2 (2.000%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (1.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (1.000%) IIS
8 1 (1.000%) Apache
8 1 (1.000%) Tomcat
8 1 (1.000%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (1.000%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 18 (18.00%) MS Excel
2 14 (14.00%) MS Office
3 1 (1.000%) S-PLUS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (20.00%) SAN
2 12 (12.00%) DNS
3 10 (10.00%) Firewall
4 9 (9.000%) LAN
4 9 (9.000%) WAN
4 9 (9.000%) DHCP
5 6 (6.000%) Internet
6 5 (5.000%) TCP/IP
7 4 (4.000%) Intranet
8 3 (3.000%) VPN
8 3 (3.000%) HTTP
8 3 (3.000%) NetScaler
9 2 (2.000%) VLAN
9 2 (2.000%) NAS
9 2 (2.000%) Wireless
10 1 (1.000%) NetScreen
10 1 (1.000%) MPLS
10 1 (1.000%) IPsec
10 1 (1.000%) Ethernet
10 1 (1.000%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.000%) MS Access
3 3 (3.000%) SQL Server 2000
3 3 (3.000%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (2.000%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (2.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (9.000%) MSI
2 1 (1.000%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (1.000%) LoadRunner
General
1 10 (10.00%) Finance
2 4 (4.000%) Banking
3 3 (3.000%) Telecoms
3 3 (3.000%) Corporate Banking
3 3 (3.000%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.000%) Back Office
4 1 (1.000%) Automotive
4 1 (1.000%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.000%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (11.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 11 (11.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 10 (10.00%) Administrator
3 9 (9.000%) Analyst
3 9 (9.000%) Consultant
4 8 (8.000%) 2nd Line Support
5 7 (7.000%) Architect
6 6 (6.000%) Technical Architect
7 5 (5.000%) Service Analyst
7 5 (5.000%) Wintel Engineer
7 5 (5.000%) Service Desk Analyst
8 4 (4.000%) SQL DBA
8 4 (4.000%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.000%) Citrix Administrator
8 4 (4.000%) Teradata DBA
8 4 (4.000%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (4.000%) DBA
8 4 (4.000%) Support Analyst
9 3 (3.000%) Technical Support
9 3 (3.000%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.000%) Clustering
2 4 (4.000%) Fat Client
2 4 (4.000%) Thin Client
3 3 (3.000%) Blackberry
3 3 (3.000%) Replication
4 1 (1.000%) AS400
4 1 (1.000%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.000%) NHS
4 1 (1.000%) EqualLogic
4 1 (1.000%) Visualisation
4 1 (1.000%) Statistics
4 1 (1.000%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 71 (71.00%) Windows
2 34 (34.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 23 (23.00%) Windows 7
4 20 (20.00%) Windows XP
5 18 (18.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (6.000%) Windows 2000
7 5 (5.000%) Windows Vista
8 2 (2.000%) Linux
8 2 (2.000%) UNIX
9 1 (1.000%) Windows NT
9 1 (1.000%) Windows CE
9 1 (1.000%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (15.00%) ITIL
2 13 (13.00%) Migration
3 6 (6.000%) Service Delivery
4 5 (5.000%) Technical Architecture
4 5 (5.000%) Supplier Management
5 4 (4.000%) Data Migration
5 4 (4.000%) Capacity Management
5 4 (4.000%) Risk Assessment
6 3 (3.000%) Business Transformation
6 3 (3.000%) Network Architecture
6 3 (3.000%) Fund Management
6 3 (3.000%) Wealth Management
6 3 (3.000%) Problem Management
7 2 (2.000%) Change Control
7 2 (2.000%) Software Deployment
7 2 (2.000%) PRINCE2
7 2 (2.000%) Business Continuity
7 2 (2.000%) Service Management
7 2 (2.000%) Project Management
8 1 (1.000%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (12.00%) SQL
2 3 (3.000%) VB
2 3 (3.000%) C
3 2 (2.000%) Java
4 1 (1.000%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.000%) Bash shell
4 1 (1.000%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (9.000%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (6.000%) CCA
2 6 (6.000%) Citrix Certification
2 6 (6.000%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (5.000%) MCSE
4 4 (4.000%) CCNA
5 2 (2.000%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (2.000%) Degree
5 2 (2.000%) CCEE
5 2 (2.000%) CCIA
5 2 (2.000%) CCNP
6 1 (1.000%) CCEA
6 1 (1.000%) ISEB
6 1 (1.000%) CCIE
6 1 (1.000%) CCSP
6 1 (1.000%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.000%) VCP5
6 1 (1.000%) VCP4
6 1 (1.000%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.000%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.000%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (52.00%) Active Directory
2 36 (36.00%) XenApp
3 26 (26.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (7.000%) Microsoft App-V
4 7 (7.000%) vSphere
4 7 (7.000%) XenServer
4 7 (7.000%) XenDesktop
5 4 (4.000%) VMware ESX
6 3 (3.000%) VMware Server
7 2 (2.000%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 2 (2.000%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.000%) DFS Replication
8 1 (1.000%) ISA Server
8 1 (1.000%) Terminal Services
8 1 (1.000%) Xen
Systems Management
1 13 (13.00%) SCCM
2 8 (8.000%) SCOM
3 3 (3.000%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 3 (3.000%) Norton AntiVirus
3 3 (3.000%) WSUS
4 1 (1.000%) MOM
4 1 (1.000%) NetBackup
4 1 (1.000%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (1.000%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (1.000%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 51 (51.00%) VMware
2 37 (37.00%) Microsoft
3 16 (16.00%) HP
4 14 (14.00%) Cisco
5 11 (11.00%) NetApp
6 9 (9.000%) EMC
7 7 (7.000%) Lotus
8 3 (3.000%) Symantec
8 3 (3.000%) AppSense
8 3 (3.000%) Dell
9 2 (2.000%) Veeam
10 1 (1.000%) Sophos
10 1 (1.000%) McAfee
10 1 (1.000%) Oracle
10 1 (1.000%) Veritas
10 1 (1.000%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.000%) Juniper
10 1 (1.000%) Twitter
10 1 (1.000%) F5
10 1 (1.000%) WatchGuard
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