XenDesktop Contracts in the City of London

Citrix XenDesktop
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 - 165
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs citing XenDesktop 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% - 0.12%
As % of the System Software category 1.23% - 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £299 - £453
25th Percentile £353 - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £578 - £681
90th Percentile £636 - £798
Central London median daily rate £463 - £475
% change year-on-year - - -9.52%

All System Software Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 162 258 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.11% 12.11% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 190 315
10th Percentile £231 £262 £200
25th Percentile £408 £388 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £727
90th Percentile £701 £763 £808
Central London median daily rate £525 £507 £569
% change year-on-year +3.65% -10.95% +3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £22.95 £26.88 £23.88
25th Percentile £24.38 £35.31 £27.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £40.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.75% +10.34% +36.79%
75th Percentile £108.88 £42.56 £45.31
90th Percentile £156.05 £47.18 £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £27.48 £40.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -31.31% +60.00% +7.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for XenDesktop in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XenDesktop in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for XenDesktop in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XenDesktop in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XenDesktop in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XenDesktop in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for XenDesktop in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Application Packaging
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Disk Encryption
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
1 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Patching
1 1 (50.00%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) XenApp
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) BitLocker
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (50.00%) Reuters
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) VMware