XenDesktop Contracts in England

Citrix XenDesktop
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 519 605
Rank change year-on-year +46 +86 +61
Contract jobs citing XenDesktop 12 23 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.062% 0.095%
As % of the System Software category 0.39% 0.57% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 33
10th Percentile £378 £248 £263
25th Percentile £500 £275 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £288 £425
Median % change year-on-year +82.61% -32.35% -
75th Percentile £540 £310 £580
90th Percentile £569 £314 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £288 £428
% change year-on-year +82.61% -32.83% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
UK median hourly rate - - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - +48.57%

All System Software Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,088 4,031 6,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.68% 10.84% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,136 2,794 4,778
10th Percentile £213 £190 £204
25th Percentile £400 £325 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 209 243
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%
75th Percentile £64.50 £58.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.65 £72.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

XenDesktop
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for XenDesktop in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for XenDesktop in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XenDesktop in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XenDesktop in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for XenDesktop in England

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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 XenDesktop within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +44 6 £525 +72.13% 2
London +38 4 £463 +90.72% 4
Midlands +14 1 £535 -
West Midlands +7 1 £535 -
XenDesktop
UK

XenDesktop
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 (50.00%) IIS
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (25.00%) Skype for Business
3 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (8.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 2 (16.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) NetScaler
2 6 (50.00%) DNS
2 6 (50.00%) SMTP
3 2 (16.67%) Firewall
3 2 (16.67%) Skype
4 1 (8.33%) HTTP
4 1 (8.33%) SAN
4 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Citrix Specialist
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (8.33%) Messaging Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Migration Specialist
2 1 (8.33%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) SCCM Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Clustering
1 6 (50.00%) PKI
2 2 (16.67%) Blackberry
2 2 (16.67%) BYOD
2 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
2 9 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (16.67%) Change Management
2 2 (16.67%) Identity Management
2 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (8.33%) Business Case
3 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (8.33%) Disk Encryption
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 1 (8.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (8.33%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (8.33%) Project Management
3 1 (8.33%) Security Management
3 1 (8.33%) Security Patching
3 1 (8.33%) Server Building
3 1 (8.33%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Debt
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (8.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 9 (75.00%) XenApp
2 6 (50.00%) vSphere
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (8.33%) BitLocker
4 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (58.33%) WSUS
3 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (33.33%) SCCM
5 2 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (16.67%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 1 (8.33%) Backup Exec
6 1 (8.33%) NetBackup
6 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Citrix
2 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
3 8 (66.67%) VMware
4 7 (58.33%) HP
5 6 (50.00%) Dell
6 1 (8.33%) Bloomberg
6 1 (8.33%) IBM
6 1 (8.33%) NetApp
6 1 (8.33%) Reuters
6 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow