The first part of the table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Citrix over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors currently tracked.

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

Citrix
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank788086
Rank change year-on-year
Up+2Up+6
Matching permanent IT job ads376136652294
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK3.103 %3.004 %2.409 %
As % of the Vendors category6.516 %6.402 %5.427 %
Number of salaries quoted322230711841
Average salary£40,000£40,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+6.66 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,000£25,000£23,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£38,500£37,500£35,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66 %+5.63 %
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
577175724842267
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK47.62 %46.92 %44.39 %
Number of salaries quoted486384748333833
Average salary£45,000£45,000£45,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,500£27,500£26,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£70,000£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000

Citrix
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Citrix within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Citrix Demand Trend

Citrix
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Citrix within the UK.

Citrix Salary Trend

Citrix
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Citrix over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

Citrix Salary Histogram

Citrix
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-23442£41,500+3.75 %
LondonUp+41511£45,000-
South EastDown-11717£40,000+6.66 %
City of LondonUp+16412£50,000+5.26 %
North WestDown-4294£35,000-
East of EnglandDown-20263£42,000+12.00 %
YorkshireUp+1195£35,000-12.50 %
SurreyDown-6188£40,000-
West MidlandsDown-19182£35,000-6.66 %
BerkshireUp+8152£44,000+10.00 %
ManchesterDown-6152£35,000-
South WestDown-19136£40,000+14.28 %
West YorkshireDown-5135£35,000-12.50 %
ScotlandUp+14118£37,500+1.35 %
ReadingUp+40105£45,000+12.50 %
HampshireDown-12102£37,000+9.62 %
East MidlandsDown-294£35,433+10.72 %
CheshireDown-1288£35,000-6.66 %
WalesUp+5386£37,000+39.62 %
LeedsDown-283£35,000-12.50 %
BirminghamDown-880£36,000-10.00 %
South WalesUp+4879£36,000+35.84 %
BuckinghamshireUp+2579£36,000-1.36 %
HertfordshireDown-2477£44,000+10.00 %
CambridgeshireDown-262£37,500+15.38 %
EssexDown-2960£45,000-
KentUp+4754£35,000+23.89 %
GloucestershireUp+1450£40,000+14.28 %
Milton KeynesUp+2746£35,500+1.42 %
NottinghamshireUp+546£37,000+12.12 %

Citrix
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

15206 (71.09 %)Windows
24640 (63.36 %)VMware
33809 (52.01 %)Microsoft
43342 (45.64 %)Active Directory
53031 (41.39 %)VMware Infrastructure
62619 (35.76 %)Windows Server 2008
72232 (30.48 %)Windows Server 2003
82125 (29.02 %)MS Exchange
92122 (28.98 %)XenApp
101812 (24.74 %)Microsoft Certification
111794 (24.50 %)Cisco
121776 (24.25 %)SAN
131725 (23.56 %)MS Excel
141444 (19.72 %)MCSE
151398 (19.09 %)HP
161375 (18.78 %)ITIL
171355 (18.50 %)SQL Server
181296 (17.70 %)XenDesktop
191174 (16.03 %)SQL
201128 (15.40 %)vSphere
211117 (15.25 %)Hyper-V
221086 (14.83 %)Citrix Certification
231069 (14.60 %)Exchange Server 2010
241045 (14.27 %)Firewall
25996 (13.60 %)Exchange Server 2007
26956 (13.05 %)Finance
27943 (12.88 %)MCITP
28928 (12.67 %)Windows XP
29920 (12.56 %)XenServer
30850 (11.61 %)Linux

Citrix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1189 (2.581 %).NET
2107 (1.461 %)Application Packaging
385 (1.161 %)Web Services
480 (1.092 %)ASP
569 (0.942 %)CSS
666 (0.901 %)J2EE
763 (0.860 %)WebSphere
862 (0.847 %)XML
958 (0.792 %)HTML
1050 (0.683 %)ASP.NET
1147 (0.642 %)COM
1233 (0.451 %).NET Framework
1326 (0.355 %)Software Packaging
1425 (0.341 %)Middleware
1522 (0.300 %)WSH
1621 (0.287 %)Forefront TMG
1715 (0.205 %)Regular Expression
1715 (0.205 %)Ajax
1814 (0.191 %)LAMP
1912 (0.164 %)Ruby on Rails
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12125 (29.02 %)MS Exchange
21069 (14.60 %)Exchange Server 2010
3996 (13.60 %)Exchange Server 2007
4734 (10.02 %)Exchange Server 2003
5695 (9.491 %)SharePoint
6626 (8.548 %)IIS
7271 (3.701 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
8212 (2.895 %)Apache
9136 (1.857 %)Lotus Notes
1094 (1.284 %)WebLogic
1190 (1.229 %)Lync
1278 (1.065 %)BizTalk Server
1372 (0.983 %)Tomcat
1463 (0.860 %)Exchange Server 2000
1551 (0.696 %)Office Communications Server
1650 (0.683 %)SharePoint 2010
1739 (0.533 %)Exchange Server 5.5
1835 (0.478 %)Lotus Domino
1934 (0.464 %)SharePoint Server
2027 (0.369 %)CMS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11725 (23.56 %)MS Excel
2814 (11.12 %)MS Office
3156 (2.130 %)MS Visio
467 (0.915 %)MS PowerPoint
526 (0.355 %)Office 365
620 (0.273 %)MS Project
712 (0.164 %)Google Apps
810 (0.137 %)DeltaView
96 (0.082 %)MATLAB
96 (0.082 %)Spreadsheet
104 (0.055 %)InfoPath
113 (0.041 %)Final Cut Pro
122 (0.027 %)Adobe Illustrator
122 (0.027 %)InDesign
122 (0.027 %)AutoCAD
122 (0.027 %)Photoshop
122 (0.027 %)Revit
131 (0.014 %)MicroStation
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
154 (0.737 %)Dynamics CRM
253 (0.724 %)SoftGrid
315 (0.205 %)Sage MMS
315 (0.205 %)Line 100
414 (0.191 %)Dynamics NAV
59 (0.123 %)Prophet
59 (0.123 %)Dynamics AX
68 (0.109 %)Line 500
77 (0.096 %)SunGard AvantGard
86 (0.082 %)Summit
86 (0.082 %)Oracle EBS
95 (0.068 %)SunGard APT
95 (0.068 %)FastVal
95 (0.068 %)Agresso
95 (0.068 %)SAP ERP
104 (0.055 %)HFM
104 (0.055 %)Oracle Applications
112 (0.027 %)Changepoint
112 (0.027 %)Oracle EBS R12
121 (0.014 %)Oracle iProcurement
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11776 (24.25 %)SAN
21045 (14.27 %)Firewall
3850 (11.61 %)TCP/IP
4829 (11.32 %)DNS
5786 (10.73 %)LAN
6773 (10.56 %)WAN
7624 (8.521 %)DHCP
8472 (6.445 %)NetScaler
9469 (6.404 %)VPN
10399 (5.449 %)NAS
11357 (4.875 %)Internet
12320 (4.370 %)VoIP
13234 (3.195 %)VLAN
14188 (2.567 %)Wireless
15150 (2.048 %)iSCSI
16143 (1.953 %)MPLS
17107 (1.461 %)Cisco IOS
1891 (1.243 %)Cisco ASA
1891 (1.243 %)HTTP
1990 (1.229 %)Network Security
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11355 (18.50 %)SQL Server
2287 (3.919 %)SQL Server 2008
3283 (3.865 %)SQL Server 2005
4160 (2.185 %)MySQL
583 (1.133 %)SQL Server 2000
661 (0.833 %)SQL Server Integration Services
747 (0.642 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
842 (0.574 %)Oracle 8/8i
930 (0.410 %)Data Warehouse
1026 (0.355 %)Crystal Reports
1125 (0.341 %)MS Access
1125 (0.341 %)RDBMS
1216 (0.218 %)DB2
1216 (0.218 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1314 (0.191 %)Oracle 11g
149 (0.123 %)NoSQL
149 (0.123 %)Ingres
149 (0.123 %)Oracle Reports
149 (0.123 %)DTS
157 (0.096 %)MongoDB
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1106 (1.447 %)MSI
241 (0.560 %)LoadRunner
331 (0.423 %)Team Foundation Server
421 (0.287 %)ClearCase
421 (0.287 %)JIRA
517 (0.232 %)Visual Studio
614 (0.191 %)InstallShield
713 (0.178 %)Ant
812 (0.164 %)AdminStudio
812 (0.164 %)Wise Package Studio
99 (0.123 %)WinRunner
108 (0.109 %)JMeter
108 (0.109 %)TestDirector
108 (0.109 %)TeamCity
117 (0.096 %)QuickTest Pro
117 (0.096 %)SilkPerformer
117 (0.096 %)QALoad
126 (0.082 %)Eclipse
135 (0.068 %)Rational Functional Tester
135 (0.068 %)Subversion
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1956 (13.05 %)Finance
2270 (3.687 %)Banking
3234 (3.195 %)Legal
4214 (2.922 %)Law
5204 (2.786 %)Retail
6148 (2.021 %)Telecoms
7131 (1.789 %)Back Office
874 (1.011 %)Investment Banking
967 (0.915 %)Marketing
1056 (0.765 %)Manufacturing
1153 (0.724 %)Advertising
1238 (0.519 %)Games
1330 (0.410 %)Front Office
1420 (0.273 %)Publishing
1515 (0.205 %)Financial Institution
1614 (0.191 %)Automotive
179 (0.123 %)French Language
179 (0.123 %)Retail Banking
186 (0.082 %)German Language
195 (0.068 %)Pharmaceutical
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11365 (18.64 %)Analyst
21331 (18.18 %)Consultant
3729 (9.955 %)Support Analyst
4726 (9.914 %)Support Engineer
5637 (8.699 %)Architect
6522 (7.128 %)Infrastructure Engineer
7413 (5.640 %)Technical Consultant
8402 (5.490 %)3rd Line Support
9379 (5.175 %)Administrator
10344 (4.698 %)Citrix Consultant
11295 (4.028 %)2nd Line Support
12291 (3.974 %)Systems Engineer
13289 (3.946 %)Technical Support
14284 (3.878 %)Virtualisation Consultant
14284 (3.878 %)Infrastructure Analyst
15265 (3.619 %)IT Support
16246 (3.359 %)Systems Administrator
17216 (2.950 %)Technical Analyst
18200 (2.731 %)Server Engineer
19191 (2.608 %)Citrix Engineer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1520 (7.101 %)Blackberry
2463 (6.323 %)Clustering
3246 (3.359 %)Fat Client
3246 (3.359 %)Thin Client
4171 (2.335 %)Cloud Computing
5149 (2.035 %)CLARiiON
6118 (1.611 %)Computer Science
7112 (1.529 %)Management Information System
7112 (1.529 %)Replication
891 (1.243 %)EqualLogic
977 (1.051 %)SaaS
1065 (0.888 %)Client/Server
1163 (0.860 %)Video Conferencing
1262 (0.847 %)AS400
1353 (0.724 %)Open Source
1450 (0.683 %)PDA
1549 (0.669 %)iPhone
1645 (0.615 %)Hedge funds
1645 (0.615 %)Enterprise Storage
1744 (0.601 %)Celerra
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
15206 (71.09 %)Windows
22619 (35.76 %)Windows Server 2008
32232 (30.48 %)Windows Server 2003
4928 (12.67 %)Windows XP
5850 (11.61 %)Linux
6744 (10.16 %)Windows 7
7494 (6.746 %)UNIX
8373 (5.094 %)Windows Vista
9289 (3.946 %)Windows 2000 Server
10239 (3.264 %)Solaris
11170 (2.321 %)Windows 2000
12129 (1.762 %)AIX
13122 (1.666 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14100 (1.366 %)HPUX
1545 (0.615 %)Debian
1637 (0.505 %)Windows Mobile
1730 (0.410 %)Windows NT
1829 (0.396 %)Ubuntu
1928 (0.382 %)Mac OS X
2024 (0.328 %)Mac OS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11375 (18.78 %)ITIL
2417 (5.694 %)Project Management
3387 (5.285 %)Service Delivery
4365 (4.984 %)Disaster Recovery
5245 (3.346 %)Service Management
6238 (3.250 %)Migration
7228 (3.113 %)Incident Management
8214 (2.922 %)Change Management
9206 (2.813 %)Load Balancing
10192 (2.622 %)Problem Management
11187 (2.554 %)PRINCE2
12174 (2.376 %)CRM
13161 (2.199 %)Capacity Planning
14133 (1.816 %)E-Commerce
15109 (1.488 %)Document Management
16108 (1.475 %)Capacity Management
17106 (1.447 %)Business Continuity
18102 (1.393 %)Change Control
1995 (1.297 %)Time Management
2091 (1.243 %)Technical Architecture
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11174 (16.03 %)SQL
2230 (3.141 %)VBScript
3203 (2.772 %)PowerShell
4199 (2.717 %)C#
5197 (2.690 %)Perl
6181 (2.472 %)C
7171 (2.335 %)Java
8132 (1.803 %)VB
9102 (1.393 %)C++
1074 (1.011 %)Shell Script
1173 (0.997 %)T-SQL
1257 (0.778 %)JavaScript
1352 (0.710 %)Python
1444 (0.601 %)PHP
1542 (0.574 %)Ruby
1638 (0.519 %)Bash shell
1721 (0.287 %)VB.NET
1816 (0.218 %)VBA
1915 (0.205 %)VB6
2012 (0.164 %)PL/SQL
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11812 (24.74 %)Microsoft Certification
21444 (19.72 %)MCSE
31086 (14.83 %)Citrix Certification
4943 (12.88 %)MCITP
5842 (11.50 %)CCA
6799 (10.91 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7660 (9.013 %)Cisco Certification
8473 (6.459 %)MCP
9446 (6.090 %)CCNA
10401 (5.476 %)CCEA
11399 (5.449 %)Degree
12366 (4.998 %)Security Cleared
13357 (4.875 %)MCSA
14340 (4.643 %)CCEE
15291 (3.974 %)CCIA
16275 (3.755 %)SC Cleared
17218 (2.977 %)MCTS
18160 (2.185 %)CCNP
19131 (1.789 %)ITIL Certification
20107 (1.461 %)CCAA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1376 (5.135 %)SLA
248 (0.655 %)QA
330 (0.410 %)PCI DSS
425 (0.341 %)ISO/IEC 27001
520 (0.273 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
618 (0.246 %)ISO 9001
78 (0.109 %)COBIT
86 (0.082 %)ISO/IEC 20000
94 (0.055 %)BS7799
94 (0.055 %)ISO 9000
103 (0.041 %)HL7
111 (0.014 %)DICOM
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
13342 (45.64 %)Active Directory
23031 (41.39 %)VMware Infrastructure
32122 (28.98 %)XenApp
41296 (17.70 %)XenDesktop
51128 (15.40 %)vSphere
61117 (15.25 %)Hyper-V
7920 (12.56 %)XenServer
8803 (10.97 %)VMware ESX
9414 (5.653 %)Citrix Presentation Server
10351 (4.793 %)Terminal Services
11316 (4.315 %)Xen
12290 (3.960 %)VMware ESXi
13164 (2.240 %)MetaFrame
1485 (1.161 %)ISA Server
1578 (1.065 %)VMware Server
1669 (0.942 %)vCloud
1768 (0.929 %)Terminal Server
1865 (0.888 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1955 (0.751 %)UAG
2051 (0.696 %)NFS
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1500 (6.828 %)SCCM
2322 (4.397 %)SCOM
3316 (4.315 %)Backup Exec
4257 (3.509 %)vCenter
5213 (2.909 %)NetBackup
6116 (1.584 %)WSUS
792 (1.256 %)Norton AntiVirus
888 (1.202 %)Nagios
981 (1.106 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1078 (1.065 %)Tivoli
1156 (0.765 %)MOM
1252 (0.710 %)OpenView
1351 (0.696 %)SCVMM
1449 (0.669 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1543 (0.587 %)HP Data Protector
1638 (0.519 %)McAfee ePO
1736 (0.492 %)ARCserve
1736 (0.492 %)HP SIM
1830 (0.410 %)Opalis
1925 (0.341 %)Cacti
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
14640 (63.36 %)VMware
23809 (52.01 %)Microsoft
31794 (24.50 %)Cisco
41398 (19.09 %)HP
5654 (8.931 %)NetApp
6612 (8.357 %)EMC
7482 (6.582 %)Symantec
8456 (6.227 %)Oracle
9327 (4.465 %)AppSense
10318 (4.342 %)Dell
11306 (4.179 %)IBM
12239 (3.264 %)Juniper
13223 (3.045 %)Red Hat
14198 (2.704 %)CheckPoint
15184 (2.513 %)Altiris
16157 (2.144 %)Brocade
17147 (2.007 %)Veritas
18145 (1.980 %)Lotus
19121 (1.652 %)McAfee
20106 (1.447 %)BMC