Citrix Contracts in England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Citrix over the 3 months to 22 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Citrix Systems.

Citrix UK / England
Location	3 months to 22 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	149	85	70
Rank change year-on-year	-64	-15
Contract jobs citing Citrix	751	1336	1480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	1.74%	2.70%	2.89%
As % of the Vendors category	3.97%	6.06%	6.46%
Number of daily rates quoted	430	808	864
Median daily rate	£365	£330	£340
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+10.60%	-2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£150	£188	£175
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£525	£500	£488
UK excluding London median daily rate	£350	£325	£320
% change year-on-year	+7.69%	+1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted	54	122	158
Median hourly rate	£16.25	£16.50	£18.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-1.51%	-8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.00	£12.50	£12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.50	£32.70	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£15.00	£18.50	£17.50
% change year-on-year	-18.91%	+5.71%

Citrix is in the vendor products and services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all vendor product and service related skills in contract job vacancies advertised in England.

Contract Vendor Product & Service Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for skills associated with vendor products and/or services	18909	22038	22917
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	43.93%	44.49%	44.81%
Number of daily rates quoted	11574	13847	13713
Median daily rate	£425	£405	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+4.93%	+1.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£260	£250	£230
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£575	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£363
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted	637	729	1036
Median hourly rate	£17.50	£19.00	£19.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-7.89%	-
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.00	£11.00	£11.17
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£42.50	£42.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£20.50	£18.50
% change year-on-year	-14.63%	+10.81%

Citrix
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing Citrix as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Vendors category.

Citrix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Citrix in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Citrix in England

Citrix
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Citrix in England over the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Citrix in England

Citrix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Citrix in England

Citrix
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Citrix in England over the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Citrix in England

Citrix
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix within the England region over the 3 months to 22 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-49	298	£375	-	90
South East	-29	138	£375	+5.63%	34
North West	+2	88	£350	-5.40%	33
East of England	-39	68	£375	-6.25%	26
West Midlands	-10	44	£250	-26.47%	24
South West	-29	40	£323	-7.85%	13
Yorkshire	+6	29	£325	-	13
East Midlands	-12	29	£319	+2.00%	8
North East	-24	15	£200	-25.92%	3
Midlands	-	1	£500	-	32
Citrix UK

Citrix
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 22 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Citrix also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Citrix.

1	967 (65.29%)	Windows
2	692 (46.73%)	Active Directory
3	657 (44.36%)	Microsoft
4	644 (43.48%)	VMware
5	389 (26.27%)	Windows Server
6	354 (23.90%)	VMware Infrastructure
7	330 (22.28%)	XenApp
8	329 (22.21%)	Cisco
9	298 (20.12%)	SCCM
10	277 (18.70%)	Windows 7
11	276 (18.64%)	Windows Server 2008
12	273 (18.43%)	ITIL
13	268 (18.10%)	Finance
14	262 (17.69%)	Office 365
15	237 (16.00%)	Migration

16	236 (15.94%)	Microsoft Office
17	235 (15.87%)	Security Cleared
18	227 (15.33%)	MS Exchange
19	224 (15.12%)	Windows Server 2012
20	223 (15.06%)	Firewall
21	217 (14.65%)	DNS
22	204 (13.77%)	XenDesktop
23	201 (13.57%)	SQL Server
24	200 (13.50%)	PowerShell
25	195 (13.17%)	Linux
26	189 (12.76%)	Data Centre
27	185 (12.49%)	Windows 10
27	185 (12.49%)	WAN
28	183 (12.36%)	LAN
29	178 (12.02%)	SAN

Citrix
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	227 (15.33%)	MS Exchange
2	121 (8.17%)	Skype for Business
3	111 (7.49%)	Exchange Server 2010
4	103 (6.95%)	SharePoint
5	75 (5.06%)	IIS
6	74 (5.00%)	Exchange Server 2013
7	46 (3.11%)	IBM Notes
8	42 (2.84%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
9	31 (2.09%)	Exchange Server 2007
10	25 (1.69%)	Apache
11	24 (1.62%)	SharePoint 2013
12	22 (1.49%)	Exchange Server 2003
13	17 (1.15%)	SharePoint 2010
14	9 (0.61%)	JBoss
14	9 (0.61%)	WildFly
15	8 (0.54%)	BizTalk Server
16	7 (0.47%)	OpenStack
17	6 (0.41%)	SharePoint Server
17	6 (0.41%)	Tomcat
18	5 (0.34%)	FileNet

Applications
1	236 (15.94%)	Microsoft Office
2	19 (1.28%)	Microsoft Excel
3	8 (0.54%)	Microsoft Project
4	7 (0.47%)	MS Visio
5	4 (0.27%)	Spreadsheet
6	1 (0.068%)	Acrobat
6	1 (0.068%)	Adobe Creative Suite
6	1 (0.068%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
6	1 (0.068%)	Shockwave

Business Applications
1	13 (0.88%)	Dynamics CRM
2	10 (0.68%)	Dynamics AX
2	10 (0.68%)	Eikon
3	9 (0.61%)	SAP Oil and Gas
4	4 (0.27%)	Maximo
4	4 (0.27%)	Unit4 Business World
5	2 (0.14%)	thinkFolio
6	1 (0.068%)	assyst
6	1 (0.068%)	Sophis RISQUE
6	1 (0.068%)	Visualfiles

Cloud Services
1	262 (17.69%)	Office 365
2	108 (7.29%)	Microsoft Azure
3	61 (4.12%)	Amazon AWS
4	28 (1.89%)	IaaS
5	19 (1.28%)	PaaS
6	18 (1.22%)	OneDrive
7	16 (1.08%)	Azure Active Directory
8	15 (1.01%)	SaaS
9	13 (0.88%)	Cloud Computing
10	8 (0.54%)	G Suite
11	7 (0.47%)	Yammer
12	6 (0.41%)	Mimecast
13	4 (0.27%)	GitHub
14	3 (0.20%)	Dropbox
14	3 (0.20%)	Google Drive
15	2 (0.14%)	Google Cloud Platform
15	2 (0.14%)	IBM Cloud
16	1 (0.068%)	AWS CloudFormation
16	1 (0.068%)	iTunes
16	1 (0.068%)	SoftLayer

Communications & Networking
1	223 (15.06%)	Firewall
2	217 (14.65%)	DNS
3	185 (12.49%)	WAN
4	183 (12.36%)	LAN
5	178 (12.02%)	SAN
6	167 (11.28%)	NetScaler
7	147 (9.93%)	VPN
8	144 (9.72%)	DHCP
9	108 (7.29%)	TCP/IP
10	67 (4.52%)	Wireless
11	64 (4.32%)	NAS
12	61 (4.12%)	Cisco ASA
13	60 (4.05%)	Internet
14	58 (3.92%)	Network Security
14	58 (3.92%)	Skype
15	51 (3.44%)	Cisco IOS
16	41 (2.77%)	MPLS
17	39 (2.63%)	VoIP
18	36 (2.43%)	Cisco Nexus
18	36 (2.43%)	Remote Desktop

Database & Business Intelligence
1	201 (13.57%)	SQL Server
2	40 (2.70%)	SQL Server 2012
3	28 (1.89%)	SQL Server 2008
4	21 (1.42%)	SQL Server 2005
5	13 (0.88%)	MySQL
6	12 (0.81%)	Hadoop
7	11 (0.74%)	Relational Database
8	10 (0.68%)	Big Data
8	10 (0.68%)	SQL Server 2016
9	8 (0.54%)	DB2
10	7 (0.47%)	MS Access
11	6 (0.41%)	BusinessObjects
11	6 (0.41%)	SQL Server 2014
12	3 (0.20%)	Business Intelligence Development Studio
12	3 (0.20%)	SQL Server 2000
13	2 (0.14%)	Oracle Database
13	2 (0.14%)	PostgreSQL
13	2 (0.14%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
14	1 (0.068%)	Blockchain
14	1 (0.068%)	OLTP

Development Applications
1	31 (2.09%)	MSI
2	13 (0.88%)	Visual Studio
3	12 (0.81%)	JIRA
4	6 (0.41%)	Jenkins
5	5 (0.34%)	AdminStudio
5	5 (0.34%)	VSS/SourceSafe
6	3 (0.20%)	Eclipse
6	3 (0.20%)	Git (software)
6	3 (0.20%)	Hudson
6	3 (0.20%)	InstallShield
6	3 (0.20%)	Maven
6	3 (0.20%)	Selenium
6	3 (0.20%)	Subversion
6	3 (0.20%)	Talend Open Studio
6	3 (0.20%)	Team Foundation Server
6	3 (0.20%)	Visual Studio Team System
7	2 (0.14%)	Toad
8	1 (0.068%)	Wise Package Studio

General
1	268 (18.10%)	Finance
2	107 (7.22%)	Banking
3	38 (2.57%)	Telecoms
4	35 (2.36%)	Legal
5	34 (2.30%)	Law
6	33 (2.23%)	Retail
7	25 (1.69%)	Investment Banking
8	22 (1.49%)	Manufacturing
9	19 (1.28%)	Local Government
10	14 (0.95%)	Back Office
11	11 (0.74%)	Electronics
11	11 (0.74%)	Multimedia
12	10 (0.68%)	Marketing
13	9 (0.61%)	Billing
13	9 (0.61%)	Front Office
13	9 (0.61%)	Retail Banking
14	8 (0.54%)	Financial Institution
15	6 (0.41%)	Advertising
15	6 (0.41%)	French Language
16	5 (0.34%)	Publishing

Job Titles
1	265 (17.89%)	Analyst
2	209 (14.11%)	Architect
3	134 (9.05%)	Support Engineer
4	118 (7.97%)	Desktop Support
5	104 (7.02%)	Consultant
6	103 (6.95%)	Support Analyst
7	99 (6.68%)	2nd Line Support
8	98 (6.62%)	Infrastructure Engineer
9	97 (6.55%)	Citrix Engineer
10	73 (4.93%)	Network Engineer
11	70 (4.73%)	3rd Line Support
12	66 (4.46%)	3rd Line Engineer
13	60 (4.05%)	Project Manager
14	57 (3.85%)	2nd Line Engineer
14	57 (3.85%)	Technical Architect
15	56 (3.78%)	Infrastructure Architect
16	52 (3.51%)	2nd Line Support Engineer
16	52 (3.51%)	Windows Engineer
17	49 (3.31%)	Service Analyst
18	47 (3.17%)	Service Desk Analyst

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	30 (2.03%)	Web Services
2	23 (1.55%)	Middleware
3	22 (1.49%)	.NET
4	16 (1.08%)	SAML
5	15 (1.01%)	802.1X
6	9 (0.61%)	Software Packaging
6	9 (0.61%)	XMPP
7	8 (0.54%)	Regular Expression
7	8 (0.54%)	REST
8	7 (0.47%)	SOAP
8	7 (0.47%)	XML
9	6 (0.41%)	ASP.NET
10	4 (0.27%)	.NET Framework
10	4 (0.27%)	OpenID
11	3 (0.20%)	COM
11	3 (0.20%)	HTML
11	3 (0.20%)	RESTful
11	3 (0.20%)	SailPoint
11	3 (0.20%)	WSDL
11	3 (0.20%)	XSD

Miscellaneous
1	189 (12.76%)	Data Centre
2	104 (7.02%)	Blackberry
3	90 (6.08%)	Analytical Skills
4	81 (5.47%)	Clustering
5	74 (5.00%)	Fat Client
5	74 (5.00%)	Thin Client
6	40 (2.70%)	PKI
7	37 (2.50%)	Video Conferencing
8	32 (2.16%)	BYOD
9	28 (1.89%)	iPad
10	27 (1.82%)	Management Information System
11	23 (1.55%)	Private Cloud
12	22 (1.49%)	Computer Science
13	21 (1.42%)	iPhone
13	21 (1.42%)	Smartphone
14	20 (1.35%)	Client/Server
15	17 (1.15%)	Replication
16	16 (1.08%)	CESG
17	14 (0.95%)	iSeries
18	13 (0.88%)	Mainframe

Operating Systems
1	967 (65.29%)	Windows
2	389 (26.27%)	Windows Server
3	277 (18.70%)	Windows 7
4	276 (18.64%)	Windows Server 2008
5	224 (15.12%)	Windows Server 2012
6	195 (13.17%)	Linux
7	185 (12.49%)	Windows 10
8	120 (8.10%)	Windows Server 2003
9	106 (7.16%)	Unix
10	64 (4.32%)	Windows 8
11	50 (3.38%)	Windows XP
12	49 (3.31%)	Android
13	32 (2.16%)	Solaris
14	25 (1.69%)	Mac OS
15	24 (1.62%)	Apple iOS
16	18 (1.22%)	AIX
17	17 (1.15%)	Windows Vista
18	13 (0.88%)	CentOS
18	13 (0.88%)	Mac OS X
18	13 (0.88%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Processes & Methodologies
1	273 (18.43%)	ITIL
2	237 (16.00%)	Migration
3	100 (6.75%)	Project Management
4	71 (4.79%)	Change Management
5	69 (4.66%)	Service Management
6	65 (4.39%)	High Availability
6	65 (4.39%)	TOGAF
7	62 (4.19%)	Incident Management
8	58 (3.92%)	Disaster Recovery
9	54 (3.65%)	Problem Management
10	51 (3.44%)	Load Balancing
11	46 (3.11%)	Configuration Management
12	44 (2.97%)	Agile Software Development
12	44 (2.97%)	Application Packaging
13	43 (2.90%)	PRINCE2
14	39 (2.63%)	DevOps
14	39 (2.63%)	Service Delivery
15	38 (2.57%)	Server Building
16	36 (2.43%)	Network Design
17	34 (2.30%)	Virtual Environments

Programming Languages
1	200 (13.50%)	PowerShell
2	156 (10.53%)	SQL
3	32 (2.16%)	VBScript
4	26 (1.76%)	Java
5	25 (1.69%)	VB
6	23 (1.55%)	C
7	22 (1.49%)	C#
7	22 (1.49%)	Perl
8	16 (1.08%)	PHP
9	15 (1.01%)	Python
10	10 (0.68%)	Shell Script
10	10 (0.68%)	VB.NET
11	9 (0.61%)	Bash Shell
12	5 (0.34%)	JCL
13	3 (0.20%)	C++
13	3 (0.20%)	VBA
14	2 (0.14%)	JavaScript
14	2 (0.14%)	PL/SQL
14	2 (0.14%)	T-SQL
15	1 (0.068%)	Delphi

Qualifications
1	235 (15.87%)	Security Cleared
2	167 (11.28%)	SC Cleared
3	152 (10.26%)	Microsoft Certification
4	96 (6.48%)	MCSE
5	94 (6.35%)	Cisco Certification
6	69 (4.66%)	DV Cleared
7	64 (4.32%)	CCNP
8	63 (4.25%)	MCP
9	44 (2.97%)	Citrix Certification
10	42 (2.84%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11	39 (2.63%)	CCNA
12	33 (2.23%)	CCIE
12	33 (2.23%)	Degree
13	26 (1.76%)	MCITP
13	26 (1.76%)	MCSA
14	24 (1.62%)	ITIL Certification
15	19 (1.28%)	CCSA
15	19 (1.28%)	CCSE
16	15 (1.01%)	CCA
16	15 (1.01%)	Computer Science Degree

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	60 (4.05%)	SLA
2	21 (1.42%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	12 (0.81%)	GPG13
3	12 (0.81%)	QA
4	9 (0.61%)	PCI DSS
5	8 (0.54%)	Disclosure Scotland
6	3 (0.20%)	COBIT
6	3 (0.20%)	JSP 440
7	2 (0.14%)	BS25999
7	2 (0.14%)	HL7
7	2 (0.14%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
7	2 (0.14%)	ISO 9001
7	2 (0.14%)	RMADS
8	1 (0.068%)	Cyber Essentials
8	1 (0.068%)	Cyber Essentials PLUS
8	1 (0.068%)	ISO/IEC 20000
8	1 (0.068%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8	1 (0.068%)	NIST 800
8	1 (0.068%)	PMBOK
8	1 (0.068%)	Sarbanes-Oxley

System Software
1	692 (46.73%)	Active Directory
2	354 (23.90%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	330 (22.28%)	XenApp
4	204 (13.77%)	XenDesktop
5	154 (10.40%)	Hyper-V
6	148 (9.99%)	Microsoft App-V
7	108 (7.29%)	VMware ESXi
8	90 (6.08%)	vSphere
9	47 (3.17%)	XenServer
10	41 (2.77%)	Virtual Desktop
11	24 (1.62%)	Virtual Machines
11	24 (1.62%)	Virtual Servers
12	22 (1.49%)	BitLocker
13	18 (1.22%)	VMware Workstation
14	17 (1.15%)	Citrix Presentation Server
15	14 (0.95%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
15	14 (0.95%)	Terminal Server
16	13 (0.88%)	Xen
17	11 (0.74%)	DFS Replication
17	11 (0.74%)	Oracle RAC

Systems Management
1	298 (20.12%)	SCCM
2	50 (3.38%)	SCOM
3	38 (2.57%)	NetBackup
4	36 (2.43%)	vCenter Server
5	35 (2.36%)	Microsoft Clustering
6	27 (1.82%)	AppDNA
7	25 (1.69%)	OpenView Configuration Management
8	24 (1.62%)	WSUS
9	21 (1.42%)	Symantec Enterprise Vault
9	21 (1.42%)	Tivoli
10	20 (1.35%)	Cisco CUCM
10	20 (1.35%)	Norton AntiVirus
11	19 (1.28%)	Microsoft Intune
11	19 (1.28%)	Netcool
12	18 (1.22%)	AirWatch
13	17 (1.15%)	Cisco Prime
13	17 (1.15%)	Symantec Endpoint Protection
14	13 (0.88%)	SCOrch
14	13 (0.88%)	XenMobile
15	12 (0.81%)	McAfee ePO

Vendors
1	657 (44.36%)	Microsoft
2	644 (43.48%)	VMware
3	329 (22.21%)	Cisco
4	160 (10.80%)	HP
5	85 (5.74%)	AppSense
6	81 (5.47%)	CheckPoint
7	68 (4.59%)	F5
7	68 (4.59%)	Symantec
8	67 (4.52%)	NetApp
9	64 (4.32%)	Oracle
10	62 (4.19%)	Dell
11	54 (3.65%)	Palo Alto
12	49 (3.31%)	Apple
12	49 (3.31%)	IBM
13	47 (3.17%)	Juniper
14	45 (3.04%)	EMC
14	45 (3.04%)	Lotus
15	44 (2.97%)	Veritas
16	40 (2.70%)	SolarWinds
17	39 (2.63%)	ServiceNow