XenApp Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Citrix XenApp
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring XenApp skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 184 165
Rank change year-on-year -67 -19 +31
Contract jobs citing XenApp 8 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.10% 0.025% 0.048%
As % of the System Software category 0.87% 0.18% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £226 - -
25th Percentile £279 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +23.53% +13.33%
75th Percentile £305 - £438
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £300 £250 £400
% change year-on-year +20.00% -37.50% +9.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £29.50
Median hourly rate - - £31.00
75th Percentile - - £32.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £31.00

All System Software Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 923 561 479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.07% 13.83% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 366 311
10th Percentile £193 £200 £200
25th Percentile £321 £340 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £449 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.33% -5.58% +7.95%
75th Percentile £538 £534 £576
90th Percentile £638 £610 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 16
10th Percentile £23.85 - £14.16
25th Percentile £27.67 £15.50 £17.33
Median hourly rate £68.50 £18.31 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +274.11% -12.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £80.19 £19.25 £25.32
90th Percentile £178.75 £39.75 £58.03
England median hourly rate £63.48 £34.50 £28.75
% change year-on-year +84.00% +20.00% -37.74%

XenApp
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

XenApp job vacancy trend in the North of England

XenApp
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

XenApp
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XenApp in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for XenApp in the North of England

XenApp
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing XenApp.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing XenApp

XenApp
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 XenApp within the North of England region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
North West - 7 £300 - 5
Yorkshire -37 1 - - 4
XenApp
England

XenApp
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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Citrix Engineer
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 7 (87.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) User Experience
2 7 (87.50%) Customer Service
2 7 (87.50%) ITIL
2 7 (87.50%) Root Cause Analysis
2 7 (87.50%) Service Management
3 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
5 2 (25.00%) Defect Management
6 1 (12.50%) Agile
6 1 (12.50%) AI
6 1 (12.50%) Change Management
6 1 (12.50%) Desktop Virtualisation
6 1 (12.50%) DevOps
6 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (12.50%) ITSM
6 1 (12.50%) LLM
6 1 (12.50%) Migration
6 1 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (87.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 7 (87.50%) Hyper-V
2 7 (87.50%) XenDesktop
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) SysTrack
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Citrix
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Nexthink