XenApp Contract Job Trends in the North West

Citrix XenApp
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 177 - 119
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Contract jobs citing XenApp 7 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.18% - 0.083%
As % of the System Software category 1.54% - 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £226 - -
25th Percentile £279 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 454 255 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 11.49% 11.66% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 159 138
10th Percentile £185 £206 £213
25th Percentile £308 £333 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £435 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -13.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £528 £512 £584
90th Percentile £630 £640 £658
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 11
10th Percentile £38.06 - £17.00
25th Percentile £69.50 £15.50 £17.44
Median hourly rate £77.00 £18.31 £22.09
Median % change year-on-year +320.54% -17.11% +19.41%
75th Percentile £115.94 £19.25 £30.63
90th Percentile £178.75 £39.75 £83.55
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 West

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

XenApp job vacancy trend in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for XenApp in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Lancashire - 7 £300 - 4
XenApp
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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%) XenDesktop
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