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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 462 522
Rank change year-on-year -80 +60 +105
Contract jobs citing XenApp 6 57 47
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.019% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the System Software category 0.15% 1.57% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 38 38
10th Percentile £257 £275 £263
25th Percentile £365 £325 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £365
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -4.11% -10.43%
75th Percentile £513 £504 £413
90th Percentile £582 £700 £558
UK median daily rate £450 £350 £365
% change year-on-year +28.57% -4.11% -14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £31.00 -
UK median hourly rate £15.33 £26.75 -
% change year-on-year -42.69% - -

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 3,924 3,625 4,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.60% 11.86% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,593 2,324 3,348
10th Percentile £213 £213 £195
25th Percentile £400 £380 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% +3.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £688 £724 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 80 228
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.46 £18.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £43.08 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.08% +11.18% +53.47%
75th Percentile £74.26 £66.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £91.50 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £33.39 £31.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year +7.69% -29.14% +73.27%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XenApp in England over the 6 months to 4 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XenApp in England

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 4 December 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
London -30 5 £450 +7.46% 1
North of England -43 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
1 4 (66.67%) NetScaler
2 3 (50.00%) DHCP
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) Network Security
4 1 (16.67%) SSL
4 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Citrix Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Citrix Expert
1 1 (16.67%) Citrix Support
1 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Senior
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Wintel Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Service Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Wintel Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
1 1 (16.67%) Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
2 1 (16.67%) User Experience
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CCA
1 2 (33.33%) Citrix Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) MCP
2 1 (16.67%) MCSA
2 1 (16.67%) MCSE
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) XenDesktop
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Citrix
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
4 1 (16.67%) F5
4 1 (16.67%) HP