XenDesktop Contracts in the UK excluding London

Citrix XenDesktop
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 424 451
Rank change year-on-year +58 +27 -64
Contract jobs citing XenDesktop 19 32 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.093% 0.14% 0.18%
As % of the System Software category 0.78% 0.90% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 21 35
10th Percentile - £263 £221
25th Percentile £275 £305 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -28.24% - +18.06%
75th Percentile £310 £500 £488
90th Percentile £322 £600 £588
UK median daily rate £288 £428 £400
% change year-on-year -32.83% +7.00% -1.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £15.53
25th Percentile - - £16.27
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +48.57% +59.09%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £26.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year - +48.57% +39.39%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,424 3,545 4,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.81% 15.08% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,633 2,562 3,279
10th Percentile £178 £181 £158
25th Percentile £281 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £483 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% +7.26% +6.16%
75th Percentile £586 £588 £560
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 194 187 240
10th Percentile £14.02 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.73 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.98 £46.11 £18.31
Median % change year-on-year -54.51% +151.84% +4.02%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.81
90th Percentile £79.40 £71.50 £51.95
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -

XenDesktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for XenDesktop in the UK excluding London

XenDesktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for XenDesktop in the UK excluding London

XenDesktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for XenDesktop in the UK excluding London

XenDesktop
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 XenDesktop within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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 +3 8 £305 -1.61% 1
West Midlands - 8 - - 1
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
South West +16 1 - - 4
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XenDesktop
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 (26.32%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (26.32%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Azure
1 8 (42.11%) Azure Monitor
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (26.32%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (73.68%) DNS
2 11 (57.89%) NetScaler
3 6 (31.58%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) MSI
General
1 3 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Citrix Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Deployment Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Desktop Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Senior
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Citrix Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Desktop Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Citrix Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Citrix Specialist
5 2 (10.53%) Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Support
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Migration Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Migration Specialist
5 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Fat Client
1 3 (15.79%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (73.68%) Windows 10
2 14 (73.68%) Windows Server
3 6 (31.58%) Windows 7
4 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Change Management
2 9 (47.37%) Application Packaging
3 8 (42.11%) Patch Management
4 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (31.58%) Configuration Management
5 6 (31.58%) Software Distribution
6 3 (15.79%) Server Building
6 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Management
7 2 (10.53%) Migration
7 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (5.26%) Agile
8 1 (5.26%) Application Virtualisation
8 1 (5.26%) Business Case
8 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
8 1 (5.26%) Roadmaps
8 1 (5.26%) Scrum
8 1 (5.26%) Software Deployment
8 1 (5.26%) Technical Debt
8 1 (5.26%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (5.26%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 19 (100.00%) XenApp
2 17 (89.47%) Active Directory
3 9 (47.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (42.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) Citrix
2 11 (57.89%) Microsoft
3 8 (42.11%) NetApp
4 4 (21.05%) FireEye
4 4 (21.05%) Tanium
5 3 (15.79%) ServiceNow
5 3 (15.79%) VMware
6 1 (5.26%) Ivanti