The first table below looks at the demand for MetaFrame skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MetaFrame 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 of the System Software category for the Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix MetaFrame Server
Rank 187 165 175
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +10
Permanent jobs citing MetaFrame 2 11 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.049% 0.302% 0.026%
As % of the System Software category 0.690% 3.014% 0.331%
Number of salaries quoted 2 11 1
Average salary £40,500 £27,000 £28,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.00% -3.57%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -6.66%
All System Software
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
290 365 302
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 7.078% 10.02% 7.746%
Number of salaries quoted 235 343 269
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -1.51%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £23,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £59,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,946 £39,000 £37,875
% change year-on-year
-0.13% +2.97%
MetaFrame
North West

MetaFrame
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester MetaFrame Jobs Demand Trend

MetaFrame
Salary Trend

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

Manchester MetaFrame Salary Trend

MetaFrame
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MetaFrame within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 21 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Wigan +8 2 £40,500 +62.00%
MetaFrame
North West

MetaFrame
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing MetaFrame 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 MetaFrame.

1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) vSphere
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (80.00%) MS Exchange
3 3 (60.00%) IIS
3 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (40.00%) HP
4 2 (40.00%) EMC
4 2 (40.00%) NetWare
4 2 (40.00%) DNS
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (40.00%) SAN
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) Oracle
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (40.00%) Linux
4 2 (40.00%) CLARiiON
4 2 (40.00%) Clustering
4 2 (40.00%) ZENworks
4 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (40.00%) WSUS
4 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (40.00%) UNIX
4 2 (40.00%) Windows 2000 Server
4 2 (40.00%) XenApp
4 2 (40.00%) Brocade

MetaFrame
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing MetaFrame 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 MetaFrame. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (60.00%) IIS
3 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Server Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Support Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) CLARiiON
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (40.00%) NetWare
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) UNIX
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) vSphere
2 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) XenApp
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (20.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) ZENworks
1 2 (40.00%) WSUS
1 2 (40.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) EMC
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Brocade
3 1 (20.00%) McAfee
3 1 (20.00%) Symantec