Xen Contracts in Scotland

Xen Project
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Xen skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Xen 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 115 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Xen 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.062% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.54% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £550 - -

All System Software Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 184 308 441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.32% 13.89% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 190 326
10th Percentile £221 £192 £194
25th Percentile £410 £324 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £579 £538
90th Percentile £589 £650 £629
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 2
10th Percentile - - £24.34
25th Percentile - £60.00 £29.66
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.50 £40.68
Median % change year-on-year +15.70% +48.72% -8.58%
75th Percentile - £60.75 £50.80
90th Percentile - - £55.57
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

Xen
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Xen as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Xen in Scotland

Xen
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Xen in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Xen in Scotland

Xen
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Xen within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh - 1 - -
Xen
UK

Xen
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) VMware