XenDesktop Contracts in Central London

Citrix XenDesktop
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 - 168
Rank change year-on-year - - +22
Contract jobs citing XenDesktop 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.20% - 0.10%
As % of the System Software category 1.79% - 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £299 - £453
25th Percentile £353 - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £475
75th Percentile £578 - £681
90th Percentile £636 - £798
London median daily rate £463 £243 £463
% change year-on-year +90.72% -47.57% +8.82%

All System Software Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 224 267 476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.22% 10.92% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 203 325
10th Percentile £237 £214 £213
25th Percentile £383 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% -15.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £700
90th Percentile £688 £738 £788
London median daily rate £550 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile £21.48 - £21.40
25th Percentile £21.81 £21.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £24.48 £40.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.81% +70.21% -7.84%
75th Percentile £66.71 - £24.50
90th Percentile £139.19 £46.15 £24.80
London median hourly rate £28.41 £22.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +26.27% -50.00% +83.67%

XenDesktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for XenDesktop in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for XenDesktop in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XenDesktop in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XenDesktop in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for XenDesktop in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
City of London - 4 £463 -
XenDesktop
London

XenDesktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (50.00%) Skype for Business
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Skype
2 1 (25.00%) HTTP
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Messaging Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (50.00%) BYOD
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Application Packaging
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Disk Encryption
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Security Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (25.00%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (50.00%) XenApp
3 1 (25.00%) BitLocker
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) SCCM
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (50.00%) Forefront Identity Manager
4 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Bloomberg
3 1 (25.00%) Reuters
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow