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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 452 502
Rank change year-on-year -76 +50 +95
Contract jobs citing XenApp 7 33 50
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.022% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the System Software category 0.18% 1.02% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 23 35
10th Percentile £296 £263 £275
25th Percentile £406 £293 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £350 £365
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -4.11% -8.75%
75th Percentile £461 £380 £412
90th Percentile £551 £514 £545
UK median daily rate £413 £350 £365
% change year-on-year +17.86% -4.11% -14.12%

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 3,978 3,221 4,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.53% 11.95% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,708 2,081 3,057
10th Percentile £213 £205 £189
25th Percentile £400 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £601
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 77 193
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.58 £15.04
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.94 £28.41 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.62% -43.18% +47.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.50 £69.62
90th Percentile £89.78 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £27.96 £55.00
% change year-on-year +69.92% -49.17% +61.76%

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 15 January 2026.

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 15 January 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
London -30 6 £413 +50.00%
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North of England - 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 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (57.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) NetScaler
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) SSL
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (57.14%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) 3rd Line Support
1 4 (57.14%) Citrix Support
2 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix Expert
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Wintel Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Client/Server
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Windows 10
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Change Management
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) CCA
1 5 (71.43%) Citrix Certification
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) CCNA
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) MCP
3 1 (14.29%) MCSA
3 1 (14.29%) MCSE
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) XenDesktop
2 4 (57.14%) Hyper-V
3 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) SCCM
2 4 (57.14%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Citrix
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
3 1 (14.29%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) HP