The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Citrix over the 3 months to 21 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 Vendors for the Aberdeen region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Citrix Systems.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix
Rank 20 27 28
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +1
Permanent jobs citing Citrix 26 24 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 7.536% 5.634% 4.215%
As % of the Vendors category 11.66% 10.39% 7.857%
Number of salaries quoted 14 21 9
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £30,000 £20,400
10% offered a salary of more than £49,250 £45,000 £40,600
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.59% +2.66%
All Vendors
Aberdeen
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
223 231 140
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 64.64% 54.23% 53.64%
Number of salaries quoted 172 169 113
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,850 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £58,500 £52,500 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Citrix
Scotland

Citrix
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Aberdeen Citrix Jobs Demand Trend

Citrix
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Citrix across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen Citrix Salary Trend

Citrix
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Citrix across the Aberdeen region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Aberdeen Citrix Salary Histogram

Citrix
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Citrix.

1 44 (86.27%) Windows
1 44 (86.27%) VMware
2 37 (72.55%) Microsoft
3 35 (68.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (64.71%) Windows Server 2008
5 30 (58.82%) SAN
6 29 (56.86%) Windows Server 2003
7 27 (52.94%) Active Directory
8 25 (49.02%) MS Exchange
9 23 (45.10%) SCCM
10 20 (39.22%) DNS
11 18 (35.29%) ITIL
12 15 (29.41%) Service Delivery
12 15 (29.41%) Cisco
13 13 (25.49%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (25.49%) IIS
14 12 (23.53%) DHCP
14 12 (23.53%) Exchange Server 2010
15 11 (21.57%) XenApp
15 11 (21.57%) SLA
15 11 (21.57%) MCSE
15 11 (21.57%) MS Excel
15 11 (21.57%) SQL
15 11 (21.57%) MCITP
16 10 (19.61%) Degree
16 10 (19.61%) WSUS
16 10 (19.61%) Disaster Recovery
16 10 (19.61%) CommVault
16 10 (19.61%) CCNA
16 10 (19.61%) Cisco Certification

Citrix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Citrix. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (3.922%) Application Packaging
1 2 (3.922%) .NET
2 1 (1.961%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 25 (49.02%) MS Exchange
2 13 (25.49%) IIS
3 12 (23.53%) Exchange Server 2010
4 8 (15.69%) Site Server
4 8 (15.69%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (7.843%) Lync
5 4 (7.843%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (1.961%) Lotus Notes
6 1 (1.961%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (21.57%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 30 (58.82%) SAN
2 20 (39.22%) DNS
3 12 (23.53%) DHCP
4 7 (13.73%) TCP/IP
4 7 (13.73%) NAS
5 6 (11.76%) WAN
5 6 (11.76%) LAN
6 4 (7.843%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (7.843%) NetScaler
7 3 (5.882%) VoIP
8 2 (3.922%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.922%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (3.922%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.961%) Data Mining
General
1 4 (7.843%) Finance
2 2 (3.922%) Back Office
3 1 (1.961%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.961%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 18 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (19.61%) Consultant
3 9 (17.65%) Analyst
4 8 (15.69%) IT Consultant
4 8 (15.69%) Technical Consultant
5 7 (13.73%) Support Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 6 (11.76%) Team Leader
6 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure Team Leader
7 4 (7.843%) Server Engineer
7 4 (7.843%) Server Support
8 3 (5.882%) Server Support Engineer
9 2 (3.922%) VMware Support Engineer
9 2 (3.922%) VMware Engineer
9 2 (3.922%) 3rd Line Server Support
9 2 (3.922%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
9 2 (3.922%) Support Consultant
9 2 (3.922%) 3rd Line Support
9 2 (3.922%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (3.922%) Senior Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.69%) Clustering
2 4 (7.843%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (7.843%) Fat Client
2 4 (7.843%) Thin Client
3 1 (1.961%) CMDB
3 1 (1.961%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 44 (86.27%) Windows
2 33 (64.71%) Windows Server 2008
3 29 (56.86%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (15.69%) Linux
5 5 (9.804%) Windows 7
6 4 (7.843%) Windows XP
7 2 (3.922%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (35.29%) ITIL
2 15 (29.41%) Service Delivery
3 10 (19.61%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (19.61%) Capacity Planning
3 10 (19.61%) Capacity Management
4 7 (13.73%) Performance Management
5 6 (11.76%) Project Management
6 4 (7.843%) Change Management
6 4 (7.843%) Security Management
6 4 (7.843%) Load Balancing
7 3 (5.882%) Problem Management
7 3 (5.882%) Resource Management
7 3 (5.882%) Service Management
7 3 (5.882%) Network Architecture
7 3 (5.882%) Change Control
7 3 (5.882%) Demand Management
8 2 (3.922%) Time Management
8 2 (3.922%) PRINCE2
9 1 (1.961%) Systems Analysis
9 1 (1.961%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (21.57%) SQL
2 8 (15.69%) Perl
2 8 (15.69%) PHP
3 2 (3.922%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.961%) VB
4 1 (1.961%) VB.NET
4 1 (1.961%) VBA
4 1 (1.961%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (25.49%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (21.57%) MCSE
2 11 (21.57%) MCITP
3 10 (19.61%) Degree
3 10 (19.61%) CCNA
3 10 (19.61%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (13.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 7 (13.73%) CCA
4 7 (13.73%) Citrix Certification
5 4 (7.843%) MCTS
6 2 (3.922%) MCP
6 2 (3.922%) CNE
6 2 (3.922%) Novell Certification
6 2 (3.922%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.961%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.961%) HND
7 1 (1.961%) MCSA
7 1 (1.961%) CCNP
7 1 (1.961%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (21.57%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (68.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (52.94%) Active Directory
3 11 (21.57%) XenApp
4 6 (11.76%) XenServer
4 6 (11.76%) Hyper-V
5 5 (9.804%) VMware Workstation
5 5 (9.804%) vSphere
6 2 (3.922%) VMware Server
7 1 (1.961%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 1 (1.961%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 23 (45.10%) SCCM
2 10 (19.61%) WSUS
3 7 (13.73%) Backup Exec
4 4 (7.843%) SCOM
5 3 (5.882%) NetBackup
6 2 (3.922%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (1.961%) Business Desktop Deployment
Vendors
1 44 (86.27%) VMware
2 37 (72.55%) Microsoft
3 15 (29.41%) Cisco
4 10 (19.61%) CommVault
5 8 (15.69%) EMC
5 8 (15.69%) NetApp
6 3 (5.882%) Dell
7 2 (3.922%) HP
7 2 (3.922%) Symantec
8 1 (1.961%) Lotus
8 1 (1.961%) Oracle
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