Xen Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Xen Project
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Xen skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 203 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Xen 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.022% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £388 £450 -
% change year-on-year -13.89% - -

All System Software Skills
North of England

Xen 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 700 473 679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.10% 13.21% 14.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 287 504
10th Percentile £186 £177 £185
25th Percentile £330 £289 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +3.53% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £538
90th Percentile £600 £631 £634
England median daily rate £500 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 45
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.04 £15.75
25th Percentile £16.91 £17.44 £16.54
Median hourly rate £21.25 £22.09 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +16.26% -14.61%
75th Percentile £51.19 £25.39 £23.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £32.15 £61.20
England median hourly rate £47.50 £31.75 £42.04
% change year-on-year +49.61% -24.47% +68.15%

Xen
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Xen relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Xen job vacancy trend in the North of England

Xen
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Xen.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Xen

Xen
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Xen within the North of England region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Xen
England

Xen
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 (100.00%) CICS
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) FCoE
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) MVS
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Server Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) KVM
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) SRDF
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Pure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) VMware