XenDesktop Contracts in London

Citrix XenDesktop
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 349 387 473
Rank change year-on-year +38 +86 +60
Contract jobs citing XenDesktop 4 4 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.032% 0.022% 0.074%
As % of the System Software category 0.29% 0.23% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 14
10th Percentile £299 £230 £263
25th Percentile £353 £233 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £243 £463
Median % change year-on-year +90.72% -47.57% +8.82%
75th Percentile £578 £248 £600
90th Percentile £636 £249 £642
England median daily rate £525 £288 £425
% change year-on-year +82.61% -32.35% -

All System Software Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,384 1,777 3,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.03% 9.97% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 973 1,262 2,297
10th Percentile £300 £213 £250
25th Percentile £438 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +2.22%
75th Percentile £671 £615 £688
90th Percentile £800 £719 £775
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 35 42
10th Percentile £22.64 £17.23 £15.73
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.50 £22.85
Median hourly rate £28.41 £22.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.27% -50.00% +83.67%
75th Percentile £35.75 £25.00 £73.63
90th Percentile £91.50 £48.89 £85.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

XenDesktop
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for XenDesktop in London

XenDesktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for XenDesktop in London

XenDesktop
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for XenDesktop in London

XenDesktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for XenDesktop in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XenDesktop within the London 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
Central London - 4 £463 -
XenDesktop
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (50.00%) Skype for Business
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Skype
2 1 (25.00%) HTTP
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Messaging Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (50.00%) BYOD
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Application Packaging
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Disk Encryption
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Security Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (25.00%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (50.00%) XenApp
3 1 (25.00%) BitLocker
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) SCCM
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (50.00%) Forefront Identity Manager
4 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Bloomberg
3 1 (25.00%) Reuters
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow