XenDesktop Contracts in England

Citrix XenDesktop
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for XenDesktop skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XenDesktop over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 517 625 669
Rank change year-on-year +108 +44 -110
Contract jobs citing XenDesktop 24 48 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.065% 0.095% 0.16%
As % of the System Software category 0.60% 0.73% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 33 70
10th Percentile £248 £263 £296
25th Percentile £275 £305 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% - +3.03%
75th Percentile £310 £580 £525
90th Percentile £314 £600 £588
UK median daily rate £288 £428 £400
% change year-on-year -32.83% +7.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £15.54
25th Percentile - - £16.28
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £17.93
Median % change year-on-year - +45.01% +42.81%
75th Percentile - - £19.17
90th Percentile - - £19.67
UK median hourly rate - £26.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year - +48.57% +39.39%

All System Software Skills
England

XenDesktop is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,030 6,581 9,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.85% 13.08% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,794 4,769 7,166
10th Percentile £190 £203 £193
25th Percentile £325 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +8.81%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £635
90th Percentile £688 £738 £706
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 237 277
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.31
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.72 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.50 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.00% +163.16% -
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £74.63 £75.20 £55.18
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -

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 1 May 2024.

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 1 May 2024. 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
Midlands - 10 - - 2
South East +11 8 £305 -1.61% 1
West Midlands - 8 - - 1
London +84 4 £243 -47.57% 2
South West +15 2 - - 6
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
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 (20.83%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (20.83%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 8 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (20.83%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.17%) AWS
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 14 (58.33%) DNS
2 12 (50.00%) NetScaler
3 6 (25.00%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) GitLab
1 1 (4.17%) MSI
General
1 3 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Citrix Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Deployment Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Architect
6 3 (12.50%) Citrix Consultant
6 3 (12.50%) Consultant
6 3 (12.50%) Senior
6 3 (12.50%) Senior Citrix Engineer
6 3 (12.50%) Senior Desktop Engineer
6 3 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (12.50%) Support Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) Citrix Specialist
7 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Consultant
7 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
7 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) Migration Consultant
7 2 (8.33%) Migration Specialist
8 1 (4.17%) Applications Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Fat Client
1 3 (12.50%) Thin Client
2 1 (4.17%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 22 (91.67%) Windows
2 15 (62.50%) Windows 10
2 15 (62.50%) Windows Server
3 6 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 6 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 6 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (20.83%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Change Management
2 9 (37.50%) Application Packaging
3 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (33.33%) Patch Management
4 6 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 6 (25.00%) Software Distribution
5 3 (12.50%) Agile
5 3 (12.50%) ITIL
5 3 (12.50%) Migration
5 3 (12.50%) Server Building
5 3 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (8.33%) Application Virtualisation
6 2 (8.33%) Business Case
6 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.33%) Release Management
6 2 (8.33%) Roadmaps
6 2 (8.33%) Technical Debt
6 2 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (4.17%) Scrum
7 1 (4.17%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 22 (91.67%) XenApp
2 20 (83.33%) Active Directory
3 10 (41.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (37.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) SCCM
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) WSUS
2 1 (4.17%) XenMobile
Vendors
1 24 (100.00%) Citrix
2 16 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 8 (33.33%) NetApp
4 4 (16.67%) FireEye
4 4 (16.67%) Tanium
4 4 (16.67%) VMware
5 3 (12.50%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.17%) Ivanti
6 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds