XenDesktop Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Citrix XenDesktop
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring XenDesktop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing XenDesktop 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 1.68% - -
As % of the System Software category 14.89% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £226 - -
25th Percentile £279 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
75th Percentile £305 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £300 - £425

All System Software Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 47 15 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 11.27% 9.20% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 7 7
10th Percentile £229 £146 £286
25th Percentile £295 £161 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -23.81% -15.66%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £701
90th Percentile £683 £700 £860
North West median daily rate £450 £446 £500
% change year-on-year +0.90% -10.80% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £50.13 - £19.89
25th Percentile £54.65 - £20.95
Median hourly rate £65.31 £41.94 £23.34
Median % change year-on-year +55.72% +79.69% -45.85%
75th Percentile £79.09 - £26.36
90th Percentile £85.49 - £27.79
North West median hourly rate £77.00 £18.87 £19.18
% change year-on-year +308.06% -1.62% +3.68%

XenDesktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

XenDesktop job vacancy trend in Lancashire

XenDesktop
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing XenDesktop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing XenDesktop

XenDesktop
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XenDesktop in Lancashire over the 6 months to 25 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for XenDesktop in Lancashire

XenDesktop
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XenDesktop within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 25 September 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
Preston - 4 £288 - 3
XenDesktop
North West

XenDesktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) NetScaler
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Citrix Engineer
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 7 (100.00%) ITIL
1 7 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 7 (100.00%) Service Management
1 7 (100.00%) User Experience
2 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Defect Management
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (100.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
1 7 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 7 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (100.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Citrix
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Nexthink