The first table below looks at the demand for XenDesktop skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XenDesktop 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix XenDesktop
Rank 90 84 83
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -1
Permanent jobs citing XenDesktop 2 9 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.189% 0.672% 1.167%
As % of the System Software category 3.509% 11.54% 21.95%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Average salary - £45,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
- -5.26%
All System Software
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
57 78 82
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 5.393% 5.821% 5.318%
Number of salaries quoted 35 54 45
Average salary £29,500 £33,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.94% -33.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £53,000 £50,000 £63,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +2.63%
XenDesktop
Scotland

XenDesktop
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh XenDesktop Jobs Demand Trend

XenDesktop
Salary Trend

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

Edinburgh XenDesktop Salary Trend

XenDesktop
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing XenDesktop 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 XenDesktop.

1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) EMC
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) Symantec
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Fujitsu
1 2 (100.00%) SCOM
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) CLARiiON
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Brocade
2 1 (50.00%) Xen
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003

XenDesktop
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (50.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) EMC
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) Symantec
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Fujitsu
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Brocade
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Windows Server 2008R2 / Windows Server 2003... Experience in the following technologies is highly desirable; Microsoft SQL Server 2008 App Sense Performance, Application and Environment Manager, EMC CLARiiON / NetApp,...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: offer competitive package
Posted: 14 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Experience in the following technologies is highly desirable; Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Citrix Technologies (including Xen Desktop 5.6, Xen Aapp v5/6, EdgSight, Zone Data Collector, Web...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: offer competitive package
Posted: 14 May 2013