The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Citrix over the 3 months to 19 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 Yorkshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix
Rank 63 57 79
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +22
Contract jobs citing Citrix 54 74 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 2.772% 3.053% 1.414%
As % of the Vendors category 5.782% 6.572% 3.346%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 33 14
Average daily rate £300 £235 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.65% -18.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £135 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 5
Average hourly rate £20.00 £16.00 £16.72
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -4.30%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.20 £12.60 £13.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.80 £27.90 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.25
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +7.69%
All Vendors
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
934 1126 807
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 47.95% 46.45% 42.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 556 348
Average daily rate £313 £320 £339
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.34% -5.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £175 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 91 76
Average hourly rate £17.00 £16.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.03% -17.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.48 £10.33 £10.62
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.85 £32.50 £56.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
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England

Citrix
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 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
West Yorkshire -15 32 £250 +6.38% 13
North Yorkshire +6 11 £425 +112.50% 2
South Yorkshire -1 9 £395 +113.51% 1
East Yorkshire -7 1 - - 2
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England

Citrix
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 77 (67.54%) Windows
2 70 (61.40%) Microsoft
2 70 (61.40%) VMware
3 49 (42.98%) Active Directory
4 41 (35.96%) Windows Server 2003
5 40 (35.09%) VMware Infrastructure
6 35 (30.70%) Windows Server 2008
7 34 (29.82%) MS Exchange
8 30 (26.32%) Windows XP
9 27 (23.68%) MS Excel
10 25 (21.93%) ITIL
11 22 (19.30%) MS Office
11 22 (19.30%) DNS
12 20 (17.54%) XenApp
13 18 (15.79%) DHCP
14 17 (14.91%) Cisco
15 16 (14.04%) Hyper-V
16 15 (13.16%) SCOM
16 15 (13.16%) Xen
16 15 (13.16%) Firewall
17 14 (12.28%) SLA
18 13 (11.40%) VPN
18 13 (11.40%) Exchange Server 2007
19 12 (10.53%) Windows 7
19 12 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
19 12 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
19 12 (10.53%) SAN
19 12 (10.53%) MCSE
19 12 (10.53%) Windows 2000
20 11 (9.649%) Project Management

Citrix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 (2.632%) SOAP
2 2 (1.754%) Application Packaging
2 2 (1.754%) .NET
3 1 (0.877%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 34 (29.82%) MS Exchange
2 13 (11.40%) Exchange Server 2007
3 10 (8.772%) Exchange Server 2010
4 8 (7.018%) OpenStack
4 8 (7.018%) CloudStack
4 8 (7.018%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (7.018%) Windows Azure
4 8 (7.018%) SharePoint
5 7 (6.140%) Exchange Server 2003
6 5 (4.386%) IBM Notes
7 4 (3.509%) Lotus Domino
7 4 (3.509%) IIS
8 2 (1.754%) Lync
8 2 (1.754%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (1.754%) SharePoint 2010
8 2 (1.754%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 2 (1.754%) Apache
9 1 (0.877%) WorkSite
9 1 (0.877%) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications
1 27 (23.68%) MS Excel
2 22 (19.30%) MS Office
3 2 (1.754%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.754%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.754%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 22 (19.30%) DNS
2 18 (15.79%) DHCP
3 15 (13.16%) Firewall
4 13 (11.40%) VPN
5 12 (10.53%) SAN
6 10 (8.772%) TCP/IP
7 7 (6.140%) WAN
8 6 (5.263%) LAN
9 4 (3.509%) NAS
9 4 (3.509%) Wireless
9 4 (3.509%) VoIP
9 4 (3.509%) HTTP
10 3 (2.632%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (2.632%) iSCSI
10 3 (2.632%) BIG-IP
10 3 (2.632%) VLAN
10 3 (2.632%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (1.754%) Network Security
11 2 (1.754%) OSPF
11 2 (1.754%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.772%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.509%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (3.509%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (1.754%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (0.877%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (1.754%) MSI
General
1 9 (7.895%) Finance
2 3 (2.632%) Telecoms
2 3 (2.632%) Law
2 3 (2.632%) Legal
2 3 (2.632%) Banking
3 2 (1.754%) Back Office
4 1 (0.877%) Electronics
4 1 (0.877%) Manufacturing
4 1 (0.877%) Aerospace
4 1 (0.877%) Military
4 1 (0.877%) Local Government
4 1 (0.877%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (26.32%) Analyst
2 18 (15.79%) Architect
3 15 (13.16%) Service Desk Analyst
3 15 (13.16%) Service Analyst
4 12 (10.53%) Support Analyst
5 10 (8.772%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (7.895%) Technical Support
7 8 (7.018%) Technical Support Officer
7 8 (7.018%) 2nd Line Support
7 8 (7.018%) Technical Architect
8 7 (6.140%) Infrastructure Architect
9 6 (5.263%) Support Engineer
10 5 (4.386%) 1st Line Support
10 5 (4.386%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 4 (3.509%) Virtualisation Specialist
11 4 (3.509%) Technical Specialist
11 4 (3.509%) Technical Engineer
11 4 (3.509%) 1st Line Support Analyst
11 4 (3.509%) IT Support
11 4 (3.509%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.649%) SaaS
1 11 (9.649%) PaaS
1 11 (9.649%) IaaS
2 8 (7.018%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (7.018%) Cloud Computing
2 8 (7.018%) Open Source
3 7 (6.140%) Replication
4 6 (5.263%) Fat Client
4 6 (5.263%) Thin Client
5 4 (3.509%) Clustering
5 4 (3.509%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.754%) iPad
6 2 (1.754%) iPhone
6 2 (1.754%) AS400
6 2 (1.754%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.877%) Firmware
7 1 (0.877%) IVR
7 1 (0.877%) E-Learning
7 1 (0.877%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 77 (67.54%) Windows
2 41 (35.96%) Windows Server 2003
3 35 (30.70%) Windows Server 2008
4 30 (26.32%) Windows XP
5 12 (10.53%) Windows 7
5 12 (10.53%) Windows 2000
6 8 (7.018%) NetWare
7 6 (5.263%) Windows NT
7 6 (5.263%) Linux
8 5 (4.386%) Windows 2000 Server
9 4 (3.509%) Windows Vista
10 3 (2.632%) Windows 8
11 2 (1.754%) Windows Mobile
11 2 (1.754%) Windows CE
11 2 (1.754%) UNIX
12 1 (0.877%) Solaris
12 1 (0.877%) Debian
12 1 (0.877%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.877%) CentOS
12 1 (0.877%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (21.93%) ITIL
2 11 (9.649%) Project Management
3 8 (7.018%) Service Management
4 5 (4.386%) Incident Management
4 5 (4.386%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (3.509%) Problem Management
5 4 (3.509%) Service Delivery
5 4 (3.509%) E-Commerce
6 3 (2.632%) BPR
6 3 (2.632%) Time Management
6 3 (2.632%) Business Process Improvement
7 2 (1.754%) Analytics
7 2 (1.754%) Change Control
7 2 (1.754%) Business Analysis
7 2 (1.754%) Data Protection
7 2 (1.754%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (1.754%) CRM
7 2 (1.754%) PRINCE2
8 1 (0.877%) ITSM
8 1 (0.877%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.140%) PowerShell
2 6 (5.263%) VBScript
3 4 (3.509%) SQL
4 2 (1.754%) C
5 1 (0.877%) Perl
5 1 (0.877%) PHP
5 1 (0.877%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
1 12 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
1 12 (10.53%) MCSE
2 9 (7.895%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.018%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 7 (6.140%) MCITP
4 7 (6.140%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.263%) CCNA
6 5 (4.386%) MCTS
7 4 (3.509%) MCSA
8 2 (1.754%) CCA
8 2 (1.754%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (0.877%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.877%) PMP
9 1 (0.877%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.877%) CCIE
9 1 (0.877%) CCNP
9 1 (0.877%) MCP
9 1 (0.877%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.877%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.28%) SLA
2 1 (0.877%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.877%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 49 (42.98%) Active Directory
2 40 (35.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (17.54%) XenApp
4 16 (14.04%) Hyper-V
5 15 (13.16%) Xen
6 9 (7.895%) UAG
7 8 (7.018%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (7.018%) vSphere
8 5 (4.386%) VMware ESX
8 5 (4.386%) XenServer
9 4 (3.509%) XenDesktop
10 3 (2.632%) NFS
10 3 (2.632%) Terminal Services
11 2 (1.754%) ISA Server
12 1 (0.877%) Citrix Presentation Server
12 1 (0.877%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.877%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 15 (13.16%) SCOM
2 8 (7.018%) SCCM
3 7 (6.140%) ARCserve
4 5 (4.386%) McAfee ePO
4 5 (4.386%) Backup Exec
5 4 (3.509%) NetBackup
5 4 (3.509%) Unicenter
6 3 (2.632%) HP SiteScope
7 2 (1.754%) WSUS
8 1 (0.877%) OpenView
8 1 (0.877%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.877%) Cisco UCCX
8 1 (0.877%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.877%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 70 (61.40%) Microsoft
1 70 (61.40%) VMware
2 17 (14.91%) Cisco
3 10 (8.772%) NetApp
3 10 (8.772%) HP
4 8 (7.018%) Google
4 8 (7.018%) Novell
5 7 (6.140%) Blue Coat
6 5 (4.386%) Lotus
6 5 (4.386%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.386%) McAfee
6 5 (4.386%) Riverbed
7 4 (3.509%) EMC
7 4 (3.509%) CA
8 3 (2.632%) CheckPoint
8 3 (2.632%) Juniper
8 3 (2.632%) LANDesk
8 3 (2.632%) F5
9 2 (1.754%) AppSense
9 2 (1.754%) Veeam
Leeds, Yorkshire
The role entails working on a busy service desk, providing first and second line support, and taking ownership of incidents/requests. The ideal candidate will have proven commercial...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £15 - £18 per hour
Posted: 5 June 2013
Halifax, Yorkshire
BPI, BPR, SHA, SHR, SLM, TV).Experience with creating RTSM views (Instance/Pattern) and building TQL.In depth knowledge of SiteScope/System Health.Working knowledge of Windows 2003/...
Rate: £480 per day
Posted: 19 June 2013
Middlesbrough, North East
You will have an ability to work independently but within an established, busy application packaging team. During this role you will undertake the following duties: * Scripting of applications...
Mint
Rate: £25 - £30 per hour
Posted: 5 June 2013
Halifax, Yorkshire
BPI, BPR, SHA, SHR, SLM, TV).*Experience with creating RTSM views (Instance/Pattern) and building TQL.*In depth knowledge of SiteScope/System Health.*Working knowledge of Windows 2003/...
Rate: £400 - £490 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013
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