The first table below looks at the demand for XenApp skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XenApp 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 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix XenApp
Rank 43 50 48
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -2
Contract jobs citing XenApp 5 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 1.121% 0.791% 0.363%
As % of the System Software category 10.42% 10.64% 8.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
Average daily rate £458 £425 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.64% +54.54%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £23.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.78% -13.63%
All System Software
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
48 47 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 10.76% 7.437% 4.356%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 20 15
Average daily rate £440 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.33% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £311 £178 £124
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 4
Average hourly rate £13.50 £17.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.85% +25.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
XenApp
South West

XenApp
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire XenApp Jobs Demand Trend

XenApp
Daily Rate Trend

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

Wiltshire XenApp Daily Rate Trend

XenApp
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XenApp across the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Wiltshire XenApp Daily Rate Histogram

XenApp
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XenApp within the Wiltshire region 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
Swindon +6 5 £458 +4.57%
XenApp
South West

XenApp
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire region citing XenApp 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 XenApp.

1 6 (100.00%) Citrix
2 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 4 (66.67%) vSphere
3 4 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (66.67%) MS Exchange
4 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (50.00%) HP
4 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (33.33%) SAN
5 2 (33.33%) EMC
5 2 (33.33%) NetScaler
5 2 (33.33%) XenDesktop
6 1 (16.67%) NetBackup
6 1 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (16.67%) Wyse
6 1 (16.67%) Migration
6 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
6 1 (16.67%) VMware ESX
6 1 (16.67%) Clustering
6 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
6 1 (16.67%) XenServer
6 1 (16.67%) HP SIM
6 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (16.67%) assyst
6 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (16.67%) VLAN
6 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003

XenApp
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire region citing XenApp 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 XenApp. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) MS Exchange
1 4 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SAN
1 2 (33.33%) NetScaler
2 1 (16.67%) VLAN
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Citrix Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Server Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix Technical Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Thin Client
1 1 (16.67%) Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Migration
1 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) VBScript
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) vSphere
2 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (33.33%) XenDesktop
4 1 (16.67%) NFS
4 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (16.67%) VMware ESX
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (16.67%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) ZENworks
1 1 (16.67%) NetBackup
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) SCOM
1 1 (16.67%) SCVMM
1 1 (16.67%) HP Data Protector
1 1 (16.67%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Citrix
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 3 (50.00%) HP
4 2 (33.33%) EMC
5 1 (16.67%) ProCurve
5 1 (16.67%) Dell
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (16.67%) NetApp
5 1 (16.67%) Novell
5 1 (16.67%) Sophos
5 1 (16.67%) Wyse
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