XenApp Contract Job Trends in England

Citrix XenApp
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring XenApp skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 475 488
Rank change year-on-year -107 +13 +78
Contract jobs citing XenApp 11 14 43
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.027% 0.058% 0.12%
As % of the System Software category 0.26% 0.46% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 29
10th Percentile - £145 £275
25th Percentile £406 £224 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £513 £400
Median % change year-on-year -19.51% +28.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £419 £539 £475
90th Percentile £438 £542 -
UK median daily rate £413 £513 £400
% change year-on-year -19.51% +28.13% -5.88%

All System Software Skills
England

XenApp 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,198 3,045 3,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.18% 12.57% 10.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,836 2,091 2,790
10th Percentile £213 £213 £200
25th Percentile £400 £381 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% +0.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 68 208
10th Percentile £17.74 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.86 £18.13 £14.48
Median hourly rate £52.50 £31.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% +50.00% -58.00%
75th Percentile £71.00 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.80 £88.00 £75.90
UK median hourly rate £51.75 £29.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +78.45% +28.89% -58.33%

XenApp
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing XenApp relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

XenApp job vacancy trend in England

XenApp
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing XenApp.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing XenApp

XenApp
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing XenApp.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing XenApp

XenApp
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 XenApp within the England region over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. 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 -54 4 £450 -15.89% 2
West Midlands -54 4 £450 -15.89%
London -58 4 £413 +175.00%
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North of England - 2 - -
South East -62 1 - - 1
XenApp
UK

XenApp
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (36.36%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) NetScaler
2 3 (27.27%) DNS
3 2 (18.18%) DHCP
4 1 (9.09%) Firewall
4 1 (9.09%) Network Security
4 1 (9.09%) SSL
4 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
4 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (36.36%) Banking
1 4 (36.36%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) 3rd Line Support
1 4 (36.36%) Citrix Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Citrix Support
2 2 (18.18%) Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Citrix Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Citrix Expert
3 1 (9.09%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Server Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Client/Server
2 3 (27.27%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (18.18%) Clustering
3 2 (18.18%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 6 (54.55%) Windows Server
2 6 (54.55%) Windows Server 2016
2 6 (54.55%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (36.36%) Windows 10
4 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Change Management
2 3 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
2 3 (27.27%) Desktop Virtualisation
2 3 (27.27%) High Availability
2 3 (27.27%) ITIL
2 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (27.27%) Problem Management
2 3 (27.27%) User Experience
3 2 (18.18%) Application Virtualisation
3 2 (18.18%) Identity Management
3 2 (18.18%) Patch Management
3 2 (18.18%) Runbook
3 2 (18.18%) Server Hardening
3 2 (18.18%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Load Balancing
4 1 (9.09%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) CCA
1 5 (45.45%) Citrix Certification
2 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) XenDesktop
2 5 (45.45%) Hyper-V
3 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) SCCM
2 4 (36.36%) SCVMM
3 2 (18.18%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (18.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Citrix
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) F5