The first table below looks at the demand for XenServer skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XenServer over the 3 months to 24 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 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix XenServer
Rank 105 105 94
Rank change year-on-year
0 -11
Contract jobs citing XenServer 5 7 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.269% 0.313% 0.219%
As % of the System Software category 2.688% 3.431% 2.581%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 2
Average daily rate £406 £185 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+119.59% -52.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £385 £265 £330
% change year-on-year
+45.28% -19.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -27.27%
All System Software
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
186 204 155
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 10.01% 9.132% 8.475%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 71 54
Average daily rate £350 £320 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.37% -8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £138 £138 £181
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £418 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 50 34
Average hourly rate £15.50 £14.00 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.71% -9.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.56 £10.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £30.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
XenServer
England

XenServer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire XenServer Jobs Demand Trend

XenServer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire XenServer Daily Rate Trend

XenServer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XenServer within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
West Yorkshire - 5 £406 -
North Yorkshire - 1 - -
XenServer
England

XenServer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing XenServer 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 XenServer.

1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
2 4 (80.00%) XenApp
3 3 (60.00%) XenDesktop
3 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (60.00%) vSphere
3 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (60.00%) Windows
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (40.00%) IIS
4 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (40.00%) AppSense
4 2 (40.00%) Thin Client
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (40.00%) Fat Client
4 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (20.00%) Brocade
5 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (20.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 1 (20.00%) CentOS
5 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (20.00%) Syncsort
5 1 (20.00%) E-Learning

XenServer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing XenServer 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 XenServer. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) IIS
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (20.00%) SSH
1 1 (20.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) SMTP
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) FTP
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2012
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (20.00%) Data Mining
General
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Designer
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Citrix Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (20.00%) Solutions Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Thin Client
1 2 (40.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (20.00%) E-Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) CentOS
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Debian
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) VBScript
2 1 (20.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (20.00%) MCP
1 1 (20.00%) MCSE
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) XenApp
2 3 (60.00%) XenDesktop
2 3 (60.00%) vSphere
2 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (20.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) AppSense
4 1 (20.00%) Brocade
4 1 (20.00%) Syncsort
4 1 (20.00%) F5
4 1 (20.00%) Juniper
4 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft