XenDesktop Contracts in the South West

Citrix XenDesktop
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 150 162
Rank change year-on-year +35 +12 +2
Contract jobs citing XenDesktop 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.22% 0.030% 0.058%
As % of the System Software category 1.56% 0.23% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £564 - -
25th Percentile £566 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - -
75th Percentile £616 - -
90th Percentile £621 - -
England median daily rate £525 £400 £388
% change year-on-year +31.25% +3.16% -13.83%

All System Software Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 256 427 490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.25% 12.98% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 309 361
10th Percentile £208 £196 £200
25th Percentile £316 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +4.88% +5.13%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £623
90th Percentile £688 £672 £719
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 26 38
10th Percentile £16.34 - £13.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £40.00 £16.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.35% +12.08% +24.30%
75th Percentile £78.70 £85.00 £73.13
90th Percentile £79.48 £90.00 £88.25
England median hourly rate £29.50 £22.23 £50.00
% change year-on-year +32.73% -55.55% +150.00%

XenDesktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing XenDesktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for XenDesktop in the South West

XenDesktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XenDesktop in the South West.

Daily rate trend for XenDesktop in the South West

XenDesktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XenDesktop in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for XenDesktop in the South West

XenDesktop
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XenDesktop within the South West region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Bristol +19 4 £588 -
XenDesktop
England

XenDesktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) NetScaler
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Desktop Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Debt
3 2 (50.00%) Business Case
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Change Control
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
4 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
2 3 (75.00%) Ivanti
3 2 (50.00%) VMware
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft