XenDesktop Contracts in England

Citrix XenDesktop
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring XenDesktop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited XenDesktop over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 520 582
Rank change year-on-year +56 +62 +78
Contract jobs citing XenDesktop 16 29 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.063% 0.078% 0.089%
As % of the System Software category 0.50% 0.69% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 25
10th Percentile £291 £260 £275
25th Percentile £425 £300 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £350 £401
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -12.61% -11.00%
75th Percentile £543 £450 £600
90th Percentile £618 £570 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £350 £401
% change year-on-year +50.00% -12.61% -5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £31.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - +19.23% +63.93%
UK median hourly rate - £31.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year - +19.23% +48.57%

All System Software Skills
England

XenDesktop falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,171 4,192 6,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.54% 11.24% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,099 2,909 4,314
10th Percentile £220 £208 £200
25th Percentile £381 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £606 £608 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 198 212
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.44 £14.74 £17.69
Median hourly rate £28.75 £22.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.64% -55.30% +150.00%
75th Percentile £70.88 £58.69 £66.38
90th Percentile £88.53 £70.20 £76.45
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £23.99 £54.00
% change year-on-year +16.72% -55.57% +170.00%

XenDesktop
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing XenDesktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for XenDesktop in England

XenDesktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XenDesktop in England.

Daily rate trend for XenDesktop in England

XenDesktop
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XenDesktop in England over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XenDesktop in England

XenDesktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XenDesktop in England.

Hourly rate trend for XenDesktop in England

XenDesktop
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 XenDesktop within the England region over the 6 months to 27 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +46 6 £525 +55.56% 1
South West +47 4 £588 -
London +30 3 £450 +12.50% 2
West Midlands +9 1 £535 -
North of England +6 1 £525 - 1
Midlands +4 1 £535 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £525 -
XenDesktop
UK

XenDesktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) IIS
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) NetScaler
2 6 (37.50%) DNS
3 5 (31.25%) SMTP
4 1 (6.25%) DHCP
4 1 (6.25%) FTP
4 1 (6.25%) HTTP
4 1 (6.25%) SAN
4 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (12.50%) Citrix Specialist
1 2 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
1 2 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Citrix Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (6.25%) Desktop Specialist
2 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) IT Manager
2 1 (6.25%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (6.25%) IT Support
2 1 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Migration Specialist
2 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM Specialist
2 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Clustering
1 5 (31.25%) PKI
2 1 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (68.75%) Windows Server
3 6 (37.50%) Windows 10
4 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (6.25%) Windows 7
6 1 (6.25%) Windows 8
6 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Scrum
3 4 (25.00%) Technical Debt
4 3 (18.75%) Business Case
4 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
4 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (12.50%) Change Management
5 2 (12.50%) Migration
5 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (6.25%) Application Packaging
6 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (6.25%) Computer Science
6 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (6.25%) Incident Management
6 1 (6.25%) ITIL
6 1 (6.25%) Load Balancing
6 1 (6.25%) Security Management
6 1 (6.25%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (31.25%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) A+ Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (6.25%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Active Directory
1 11 (68.75%) XenApp
2 7 (43.75%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (31.25%) vSphere
4 3 (18.75%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (6.25%) BitLocker
5 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (37.50%) SCCM
2 6 (37.50%) WSUS
3 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (6.25%) Backup Exec
4 1 (6.25%) NetBackup
4 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Citrix
2 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
3 8 (50.00%) VMware
4 6 (37.50%) HP
5 5 (31.25%) Dell
6 3 (18.75%) Ivanti
7 1 (6.25%) Bloomberg
7 1 (6.25%) Cisco
7 1 (6.25%) IBM
7 1 (6.25%) NetApp
7 1 (6.25%) Reuters
7 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
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