XenApp Contracts in England

Citrix XenApp
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring XenApp skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited XenApp over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 502 573
Rank change year-on-year +21 +71 +14
Contract jobs citing XenApp 15 51 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.059% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the System Software category 0.47% 1.23% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 34 42
10th Percentile £145 £283 £263
25th Percentile £250 £375 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £375
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% -14.68%
75th Percentile £538 £475 £491
90th Percentile £542 - £634
UK median daily rate £500 £438 £388
% change year-on-year +14.29% +12.90% -8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £18.20
25th Percentile - £29.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £31.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +55.00% -
75th Percentile - £32.50 £23.00
90th Percentile - - £24.80
UK median hourly rate - £31.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +55.00% -

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 3,180 4,163 6,046
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.46% 11.21% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,103 2,894 4,313
10th Percentile £225 £210 £200
25th Percentile £381 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £606 £608 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 197 217
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.13 £14.48 £17.50
Median hourly rate £28.75 £22.30 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.92% -55.40% +150.00%
75th Percentile £70.88 £58.69 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.53 £70.00 £75.70
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £23.99 £53.35
% change year-on-year +16.72% -55.03% +166.75%

XenApp
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing XenApp as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for XenApp in England

XenApp
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XenApp in England.

Daily rate trend for XenApp in England

XenApp
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XenApp in England over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XenApp in England

XenApp
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XenApp in England.

Hourly rate trend for XenApp in England

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 30 June 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
South East +38 7 £525 +16.67% 4
London +38 6 £213 -48.48% 23
North of England +8 1 £525 -
Midlands +6 1 £535 -
West Midlands +4 1 £535 -
Yorkshire - 1 £525 -
XenApp
UK

XenApp
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (40.00%) IIS
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (6.67%) nginx
3 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (13.33%) Google Workspace
4 1 (6.67%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) DNS
2 8 (53.33%) NetScaler
3 5 (33.33%) SMTP
4 3 (20.00%) DHCP
4 3 (20.00%) Firewall
5 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
6 1 (6.67%) FTP
6 1 (6.67%) HTTP
6 1 (6.67%) Internet
6 1 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (6.67%) IP Telephony
6 1 (6.67%) LAN
6 1 (6.67%) MPLS
6 1 (6.67%) NAS
6 1 (6.67%) SAN
6 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
6 1 (6.67%) Skype
6 1 (6.67%) Unified Communications
6 1 (6.67%) WAN
6 1 (6.67%) Wireless
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (13.33%) Electronics
3 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
3 2 (13.33%) Marketing
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Desktop Support
2 2 (13.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) IT Support
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) IT Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) SCCM Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Clustering
1 5 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (93.33%) Windows
2 8 (53.33%) Windows Server
3 6 (40.00%) Windows 10
4 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (20.00%) Windows 8
6 2 (13.33%) Mac OS X
6 2 (13.33%) Windows XP
7 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
7 1 (6.67%) Windows 7
7 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) ITIL
1 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (13.33%) Customer Service
2 2 (13.33%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (13.33%) Migration
2 2 (13.33%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (13.33%) Programme Management
2 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
2 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (13.33%) Server Management
3 1 (6.67%) Agile
3 1 (6.67%) Application Packaging
3 1 (6.67%) Capacity Management
3 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (6.67%) High Availability
3 1 (6.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (6.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (6.67%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) PowerShell
2 5 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) Perl
4 1 (6.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) A+ Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) MCP
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
3 1 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (73.33%) XenDesktop
3 8 (53.33%) vSphere
4 3 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (6.67%) BitLocker
6 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (40.00%) WSUS
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (26.67%) SCCM
5 2 (13.33%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (13.33%) Norton AntiVirus
5 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Citrix
2 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
3 9 (60.00%) VMware
4 7 (46.67%) Dell
4 7 (46.67%) HP
5 4 (26.67%) Cisco
6 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow
7 2 (13.33%) AVG
7 2 (13.33%) Barracuda Networks
7 2 (13.33%) Draytek
7 2 (13.33%) GFI Software
7 2 (13.33%) Google
7 2 (13.33%) Kaspersky
7 2 (13.33%) NETGEAR
7 2 (13.33%) Panasonic
7 2 (13.33%) Sage
7 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
7 2 (13.33%) Spiceworks
7 2 (13.33%) WatchGuard
7 2 (13.33%) Webroot