XenApp Contracts in the UK excluding London

Citrix XenApp
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for XenApp skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XenApp over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 392 417
Rank change year-on-year +33 +25 -66
Contract jobs citing XenApp 37 55 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.23% 0.31%
As % of the System Software category 1.53% 1.55% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 38 71
10th Percentile £283 £172 £213
25th Percentile £310 £291 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £345 £400
Median % change year-on-year +15.94% -13.75% -9.09%
75th Percentile £475 £442 £513
90th Percentile - £571 £638
UK median daily rate £400 £425 £408
% change year-on-year -5.88% +4.29% -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £20.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - - -53.82%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

XenApp 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,415 3,538 4,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.79% 15.08% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,631 2,553 3,250
10th Percentile £178 £181 £158
25th Percentile £285 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.64% +7.78% +6.51%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £559
90th Percentile £650 £676 £644
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 185 239
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.25 £13.10
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.95 £46.11 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.73% +149.22% +5.11%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.88
90th Percentile £77.40 £72.25 £52.15
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -2.44%

XenApp
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing XenApp as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for XenApp in the UK excluding London

XenApp
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XenApp in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for XenApp in the UK excluding London

XenApp
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XenApp in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for XenApp in the UK excluding London

XenApp
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XenApp in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for XenApp in the UK excluding London

XenApp
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XenApp within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +25 25 £400 +29.03% 8
Midlands +40 10 - - 3
West Midlands +26 8 - - 1
East Midlands +25 2 - - 2
North of England +20 1 £375 -11.87% 1
South West +12 1 - - 6
Yorkshire - 1 £375 -
XenApp
UK

XenApp
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (13.51%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (13.51%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (21.62%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (13.51%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.70%) AWS
4 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.70%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 28 (75.68%) DNS
2 20 (54.05%) DHCP
3 15 (40.54%) Firewall
4 14 (37.84%) NetScaler
5 3 (8.11%) LAN
5 3 (8.11%) WAN
6 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) MSI
General
1 4 (10.81%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.70%) Back Office
2 1 (2.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (56.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Senior
3 5 (13.51%) Citrix Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Deployment Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Desktop Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Architect
4 4 (10.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Citrix Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Desktop Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Citrix Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Citrix Specialist
6 2 (5.41%) Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Head of Security
6 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Migration Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Fat Client
1 3 (8.11%) Thin Client
2 1 (2.70%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.70%) Clustering
2 1 (2.70%) LIMS
2 1 (2.70%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 37 (100.00%) Windows
2 25 (67.57%) Windows Server
3 18 (48.65%) Windows 10
4 14 (37.84%) Windows Server 2012
5 10 (27.03%) Windows 7
6 8 (21.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (16.22%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (16.22%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (10.81%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (5.41%) Linux
9 2 (5.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (59.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (54.05%) Change Management
3 13 (35.14%) Vulnerability Management
4 10 (27.03%) Migration
5 9 (24.32%) Application Packaging
6 8 (21.62%) Patch Management
6 8 (21.62%) Project Delivery
7 6 (16.22%) Configuration Management
7 6 (16.22%) Data Loss Prevention
7 6 (16.22%) Software Distribution
8 4 (10.81%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (8.11%) ITIL
9 3 (8.11%) Roadmaps
9 3 (8.11%) Server Building
10 2 (5.41%) Cybersecurity
10 2 (5.41%) High Availability
10 2 (5.41%) Incident Response
10 2 (5.41%) Information Security
10 2 (5.41%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 23 (62.16%) PowerShell
2 6 (16.22%) VBScript
3 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) GDPR
2 2 (5.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (91.89%) Active Directory
2 19 (51.35%) XenDesktop
3 16 (43.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (27.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (21.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (5.41%) VMware NSX
7 1 (2.70%) DFS Replication
7 1 (2.70%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (2.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (43.24%) SCCM
2 2 (5.41%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 2 (5.41%) Nessus
2 2 (5.41%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (2.70%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 37 (100.00%) Citrix
2 16 (43.24%) VMware
3 15 (40.54%) Ivanti
4 14 (37.84%) Microsoft
5 9 (24.32%) NetApp
6 6 (16.22%) Symantec
7 4 (10.81%) FireEye
7 4 (10.81%) Tanium
8 3 (8.11%) Cisco
8 3 (8.11%) ServiceNow
8 3 (8.11%) SolarWinds
9 2 (5.41%) CheckPoint
9 2 (5.41%) Splunk
10 1 (2.70%) Aruba
10 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
10 1 (2.70%) HP
10 1 (2.70%) Oracle
10 1 (2.70%) Sophos