The first table below looks at the demand for CCA in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CCA 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 Qualifications for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA)
Rank 292 257 303
Rank change year-on-year
-35 +46
Permanent jobs citing CCA 26 67 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.221% 0.510% 0.205%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.931% 2.283% 0.979%
Number of salaries quoted 21 59 29
Average salary £45,500 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.00% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £40,200 £37,700
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £43,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+1.17% +6.25%
All Qualifications
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
2792 2935 3166
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 23.73% 22.34% 20.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2410 2664 2861
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £80,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
CCA
London

CCA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing CCA across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

City of London CCA Jobs Demand Trend

CCA
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing CCA across the City of London region.

City of London CCA Salary Trend

CCA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CCA across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London CCA Salary Histogram

CCA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing CCA 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 CCA.

1 45 (76.27%) Citrix Certification
2 41 (69.49%) Citrix
3 38 (64.41%) VMware
4 34 (57.63%) Windows
5 29 (49.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 29 (49.15%) XenApp
6 25 (42.37%) Active Directory
7 24 (40.68%) Microsoft
8 23 (38.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 22 (37.29%) Finance
10 21 (35.59%) Windows Server 2008
11 19 (32.20%) XenServer
11 19 (32.20%) Microsoft App-V
11 19 (32.20%) Banking
12 18 (30.51%) Investment Banking
12 18 (30.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (30.51%) XenDesktop
13 17 (28.81%) MS Exchange
14 16 (27.12%) ITIL
14 16 (27.12%) UNIX
14 16 (27.12%) SAN
14 16 (27.12%) Windows Server 2003
14 16 (27.12%) Degree
15 15 (25.42%) MCITP
15 15 (25.42%) SQL
16 14 (23.73%) FIX Protocol
16 14 (23.73%) NetScaler
17 13 (22.03%) AppSense
17 13 (22.03%) MCSE
18 11 (18.64%) Cisco Certification

CCA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing CCA 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 CCA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (23.73%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (3.390%) COM
Application Platforms
1 17 (28.81%) MS Exchange
2 10 (16.95%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (6.780%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (6.780%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.390%) Lync
5 1 (1.695%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (1.695%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 6 (10.17%) MS Excel
2 4 (6.780%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 16 (27.12%) SAN
2 14 (23.73%) NetScaler
3 8 (13.56%) DNS
4 5 (8.475%) Firewall
4 5 (8.475%) VLAN
5 3 (5.085%) NAS
6 2 (3.390%) VPN
6 2 (3.390%) WAN
6 2 (3.390%) DHCP
7 1 (1.695%) Network Security
7 1 (1.695%) Internet
7 1 (1.695%) FTP
7 1 (1.695%) HTTP
7 1 (1.695%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.695%) SMTP
7 1 (1.695%) SSL
7 1 (1.695%) LAN
7 1 (1.695%) LDAP
7 1 (1.695%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.475%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.695%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 22 (37.29%) Finance
2 19 (32.20%) Banking
3 18 (30.51%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.695%) Advertising
4 1 (1.695%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (20.34%) Consultant
2 9 (15.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (13.56%) Team Leader
3 8 (13.56%) Service Desk Team Leader
4 6 (10.17%) Technical Consultant
5 5 (8.475%) Citrix Engineer
6 4 (6.780%) Support Engineer
7 3 (5.085%) Virtualisation Consultant
7 3 (5.085%) IT Support
7 3 (5.085%) Support Consultant
7 3 (5.085%) Support Team Leader
7 3 (5.085%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 2 (3.390%) PC Support
8 2 (3.390%) PC Support Engineer
8 2 (3.390%) PC Engineer
8 2 (3.390%) Infrastructure Consultant
8 2 (3.390%) Citrix Consultant
8 2 (3.390%) 3rd Line Support
8 2 (3.390%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 2 (3.390%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Blackberry
2 7 (11.86%) Replication
3 4 (6.780%) iPhone
4 2 (3.390%) Clustering
5 1 (1.695%) HP StorageWorks
5 1 (1.695%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.695%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.695%) CLARiiON
5 1 (1.695%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.695%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 34 (57.63%) Windows
2 21 (35.59%) Windows Server 2008
3 16 (27.12%) UNIX
3 16 (27.12%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (10.17%) Linux
5 4 (6.780%) Windows XP
5 4 (6.780%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.695%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.695%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.695%) Windows 2000
6 1 (1.695%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (27.12%) ITIL
2 6 (10.17%) Service Delivery
3 5 (8.475%) Service Management
3 5 (8.475%) Problem Management
4 4 (6.780%) Project Planning
4 4 (6.780%) PRINCE2
4 4 (6.780%) ITIL V2
4 4 (6.780%) Time Management
5 3 (5.085%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (5.085%) Validation
6 2 (3.390%) Migration
7 1 (1.695%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (1.695%) Infrastructure Management
7 1 (1.695%) PRINCE
7 1 (1.695%) Information Security
7 1 (1.695%) Technical Architecture
7 1 (1.695%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.42%) SQL
2 2 (3.390%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 45 (76.27%) Citrix Certification
2 23 (38.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 18 (30.51%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (27.12%) Degree
5 15 (25.42%) MCITP
6 13 (22.03%) MCSE
7 11 (18.64%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (18.64%) CCNA
8 9 (15.25%) CCEA
9 8 (13.56%) JNCIA
9 8 (13.56%) CCIA
10 7 (11.86%) ACSP
11 6 (10.17%) MCSA
11 6 (10.17%) CCEE
12 5 (8.475%) VCP4
13 3 (5.085%) CCAA
13 3 (5.085%) MCP
13 3 (5.085%) MCTS
14 2 (3.390%) MCDST
14 2 (3.390%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.390%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (49.15%) VMware Infrastructure
1 29 (49.15%) XenApp
2 25 (42.37%) Active Directory
3 19 (32.20%) XenServer
3 19 (32.20%) Microsoft App-V
4 18 (30.51%) XenDesktop
5 11 (18.64%) vSphere
6 8 (13.56%) VMware ESX
7 7 (11.86%) VMware Server
8 5 (8.475%) Hyper-V
9 2 (3.390%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (1.695%) IAG
10 1 (1.695%) UAG
10 1 (1.695%) MetaFrame
10 1 (1.695%) Terminal Services
10 1 (1.695%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 7 (11.86%) SCCM
2 4 (6.780%) SCOM
3 2 (3.390%) AppDNA
Vendors
1 41 (69.49%) Citrix
2 38 (64.41%) VMware
3 24 (40.68%) Microsoft
4 13 (22.03%) AppSense
5 10 (16.95%) Cisco
6 5 (8.475%) IronPort
7 4 (6.780%) Juniper
7 4 (6.780%) HP
7 4 (6.780%) Apple
8 3 (5.085%) Vizioncore
8 3 (5.085%) NetApp
8 3 (5.085%) Novell
8 3 (5.085%) EMC
8 3 (5.085%) Wyse
8 3 (5.085%) PlateSpin
9 2 (3.390%) Twitter
10 1 (1.695%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.695%) Hitachi
10 1 (1.695%) IBM
10 1 (1.695%) Dell
City, London
The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will be working with a broad range of technologies such as Windows Server 2003, 2008, Exchange Server, Active Directory, Citrix etc... You will have...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
The Windows Infrastructure Engineer will be working with a broad range of technologies such as Windows server 2003, 2008, Exchange Server, Active Directory, Citrix amongst many others... You...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
Technical skills and qualification: VMware VCP 4. Citrix CCA - XenApp / XenDesktop / XenServer. Strong understanding of administering Windows 2003 & 2008 server operating systems. Strong understanding of Microsoft Terminal Services (...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
As the Infrastructure Engineer, you will be working with technologies such as XenApp 6.5, NetScaler, Active Directory, SQL and Exchange... This role involves the design, implementation and...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + Overtime, Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013