The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Citrix over the 3 months to 18 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 Vendors for the Wiltshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix
Rank 42 32 44
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +12
Contract jobs citing Citrix 10 20 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 1.942% 3.442% 1.331%
As % of the Vendors category 4.237% 6.536% 3.200%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 3
Average daily rate £495 £216 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+128.90% -45.93%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £284 £119 £312
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £428 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £303
% change year-on-year
+0.15% +7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
Average hourly rate - £17.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -41.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +6.06%
All Vendors
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
236 306 250
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 45.83% 52.67% 41.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 152 121
Average daily rate £404 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.93% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £200 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 30 34
Average hourly rate £15.50 £22.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.11% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £14.75 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.80 £41.50 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%
Citrix
South West

Citrix
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire Citrix Hourly Rate Trend

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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 18 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
Swindon -4 9 £525 +64.70%
Chippenham 0 1 £165 +15.78% 2
Citrix
South West

Citrix
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 8 (66.67%) VMware
2 6 (50.00%) XenApp
2 6 (50.00%) XenDesktop
2 6 (50.00%) Windows
3 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
3 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (33.33%) Hyper-V
4 4 (33.33%) vSphere
4 4 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (33.33%) HP
4 4 (33.33%) MS Exchange
5 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (16.67%) SAN
6 2 (16.67%) SQL
6 2 (16.67%) EMC
6 2 (16.67%) Windows 7
7 1 (8.333%) HP SIM
7 1 (8.333%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (8.333%) NetScaler
7 1 (8.333%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (8.333%) VMware ESX
7 1 (8.333%) Clustering
7 1 (8.333%) SolarWinds
7 1 (8.333%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (8.333%) XenServer
7 1 (8.333%) PMI
7 1 (8.333%) PMI Certification
7 1 (8.333%) Dell
7 1 (8.333%) OpenView

Citrix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 4 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (8.333%) IBM Notes
2 1 (8.333%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (8.333%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (8.333%) VLAN
2 1 (8.333%) NetScaler
2 1 (8.333%) DHCP
2 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.333%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Consultant
2 4 (33.33%) Technical Consultant
2 4 (33.33%) Citrix Consultant
2 4 (33.33%) Citrix Technical Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Citrix Server Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Server Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Citrix Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Data Migration Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Service Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Applications Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Architect
4 1 (8.333%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) PMI
1 1 (8.333%) Thin Client
1 1 (8.333%) Clustering
1 1 (8.333%) Fat Client
1 1 (8.333%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (16.67%) Windows 7
5 1 (8.333%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (8.333%) ITIL
1 1 (8.333%) PRINCE2
1 1 (8.333%) Migration
1 1 (8.333%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.333%) VBScript
2 1 (8.333%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (8.333%) PMI Certification
1 1 (8.333%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.333%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) XenApp
1 6 (50.00%) XenDesktop
2 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 4 (33.33%) vSphere
4 1 (8.333%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (8.333%) NFS
4 1 (8.333%) XenServer
4 1 (8.333%) Terminal Services
4 1 (8.333%) VMware ESX
4 1 (8.333%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) OpenView
1 1 (8.333%) Nagios
1 1 (8.333%) ZENworks
1 1 (8.333%) NetBackup
1 1 (8.333%) SCCM
1 1 (8.333%) SCOM
1 1 (8.333%) SCVMM
1 1 (8.333%) HP Data Protector
1 1 (8.333%) SolarWinds Orion
1 1 (8.333%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) HP
3 2 (16.67%) EMC
4 1 (8.333%) BMC
4 1 (8.333%) CA
4 1 (8.333%) NetApp
4 1 (8.333%) Novell
4 1 (8.333%) Lotus
4 1 (8.333%) Sophos
4 1 (8.333%) Wyse
4 1 (8.333%) OPNET
4 1 (8.333%) Dell
4 1 (8.333%) Cisco
4 1 (8.333%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.333%) Compuware
4 1 (8.333%) NetScout
4 1 (8.333%) ProCurve
4 1 (8.333%) SolarWinds