West Sussex Citrix Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT contracts within the West Sussex region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Citrix over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Barking Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Cleethorpes Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dudley Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grimsby Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kent King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stourbridge Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	46
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching contract IT job ads	20	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	8.696 %	2.294 %
Daily rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£300	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£309	£317
% change on same period last year	-2.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-14.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.18	£20.61
% change on same period last year	-2.09 %
Vendors West Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	230	218
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.304 %	0.217 %
Daily rates quoted	52	68
Average minimum daily rate	£376	£368
Average daily rate	£400	£376
% change on same period last year	+6.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£383
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	27
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.37	£17.52
Average hourly rate	£24.82	£18.61
% change on same period last year	+33.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.28	£19.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£24.82
% change on same period last year	-4.13 %
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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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Citrix Systems.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Citrix across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix within the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Gatwick	-	7	£300	-
Crawley	+3	4	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 30 (66.67 %) Windows 2 24 (53.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 23 (51.11 %) Active Directory 4 19 (42.22 %) Microsoft 5 18 (40.00 %) VMware 6 17 (37.78 %) Windows XP 7 14 (31.11 %) MS Exchange 8 12 (26.67 %) Windows 2000 8 12 (26.67 %) HP 8 12 (26.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 11 (24.44 %) MS Office 10 10 (22.22 %) VPN 10 10 (22.22 %) NetBackup 10 10 (22.22 %) VMware Infrastructure 11 9 (20.00 %) Windows 2000 Server

11 9 (20.00 %) German Language 11 9 (20.00 %) Internet 11 9 (20.00 %) Intel 12 8 (17.78 %) IBM 12 8 (17.78 %) NetWare 12 8 (17.78 %) Italian Language 12 8 (17.78 %) Spanish Language 13 7 (15.56 %) French Language 13 7 (15.56 %) VERITAS 14 6 (13.33 %) SAN 14 6 (13.33 %) Novell 14 6 (13.33 %) DNS 15 5 (11.11 %) TCP/IP 15 5 (11.11 %) Dell 15 5 (11.11 %) EMC

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 2 (4.444 %) WMI	Application Platforms 1 14 (31.11 %) MS Exchange 2 12 (26.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 5 (11.11 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (2.222 %) SharePoint 4 1 (2.222 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 11 (24.44 %) MS Office 2 4 (8.889 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 10 (22.22 %) VPN 2 9 (20.00 %) Internet 3 6 (13.33 %) SAN 3 6 (13.33 %) DNS 4 5 (11.11 %) TCP/IP 4 5 (11.11 %) LAN 5 3 (6.667 %) DHCP 6 2 (4.444 %) Firewall 6 2 (4.444 %) Wireless 6 2 (4.444 %) WAN 7 1 (2.222 %) WLAN 7 1 (2.222 %) ADSL 7 1 (2.222 %) HTTP 7 1 (2.222 %) IPX 7 1 (2.222 %) HTTPS 7 1 (2.222 %) DSL 7 1 (2.222 %) Wi-Fi 7 1 (2.222 %) IP Telephony 7 1 (2.222 %) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.222 %) SQL Server 1 1 (2.222 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (2.222 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 2 (4.444 %) MSI 2 1 (2.222 %) LoadRunner
General 1 3 (6.667 %) Insurance 1 3 (6.667 %) Legal 2 1 (2.222 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 24 (53.33 %) Analyst 2 14 (31.11 %) Support Analyst 3 11 (24.44 %) Helpdesk Support 3 11 (24.44 %) Helpdesk Analyst 4 8 (17.78 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 5 7 (15.56 %) Administrator 6 6 (13.33 %) 1st Line Support 7 5 (11.11 %) Infrastructure Analyst 7 5 (11.11 %) Network Administrator 8 4 (8.889 %) 2nd Line Support 8 4 (8.889 %) Systems Administrator 9 3 (6.667 %) Support Engineer 9 3 (6.667 %) 3rd Line Support 9 3 (6.667 %) Desktop Support 10 2 (4.444 %) Citrix Support 10 2 (4.444 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 10 2 (4.444 %) 1st Line Support Analyst 10 2 (4.444 %) Citrix Engineer 10 2 (4.444 %) Server Engineer 10 2 (4.444 %) Network Support
Miscellaneous 1 9 (20.00 %) German Language 2 8 (17.78 %) Italian Language 2 8 (17.78 %) Spanish Language 3 7 (15.56 %) French Language	Operating Systems 1 30 (66.67 %) Windows 2 24 (53.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 17 (37.78 %) Windows XP 4 12 (26.67 %) Windows 2000 5 9 (20.00 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 8 (17.78 %) NetWare 7 4 (8.889 %) Windows NT 8 1 (2.222 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (6.667 %) ITIL 2 2 (4.444 %) Operations Management 2 2 (4.444 %) Change Management 3 1 (2.222 %) Configuration Management 3 1 (2.222 %) Service Management 3 1 (2.222 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (2.222 %) Release Management 3 1 (2.222 %) Incident Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (4.444 %) SQL 1 2 (4.444 %) VBA 2 1 (2.222 %) Java
Qualifications 1 2 (4.444 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (4.444 %) MCSE 2 1 (2.222 %) CCNA 2 1 (2.222 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (2.222 %) ISEB	System Software 1 23 (51.11 %) Active Directory 2 10 (22.22 %) NetBackup 2 10 (22.22 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 3 (6.667 %) MetaFrame 3 3 (6.667 %) VMware ESX 4 2 (4.444 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 2 (4.444 %) VMware Workstation 5 1 (2.222 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 2 (4.444 %) MOM 1 2 (4.444 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 1 (2.222 %) OpenView 2 1 (2.222 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 19 (42.22 %) Microsoft 2 18 (40.00 %) VMware 3 12 (26.67 %) HP 4 9 (20.00 %) Intel 5 8 (17.78 %) IBM 6 7 (15.56 %) VERITAS 7 6 (13.33 %) Novell 8 5 (11.11 %) Dell 8 5 (11.11 %) EMC 8 5 (11.11 %) Lotus 9 4 (8.889 %) Cisco 10 3 (6.667 %) Compaq 10 3 (6.667 %) Interwoven 11 2 (4.444 %) Symantec 12 1 (2.222 %) Websense 12 1 (2.222 %) Altiris