Citrix Hypervisor Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Citrix Hypervisor (formerly XenServer)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Citrix Hypervisor skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 342 386
Rank change year-on-year -70 +44 +92
Contract jobs citing Citrix Hypervisor 1 4 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.030% 0.086%
As % of the System Software category 0.040% 0.20% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 9
10th Percentile - £352 -
25th Percentile £425 £370 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £538
90th Percentile - £560 £540
UK median daily rate £450 £400 £438
% change year-on-year +12.50% -8.57% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £46.39
UK median hourly rate - - £46.39
% change year-on-year - - +13.06%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

Citrix Hypervisor 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,480 1,988 2,646
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.24% 14.93% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,725 1,309 1,759
10th Percentile £185 £188 £170
25th Percentile £313 £321 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £473 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% +5.00% -5.26%
75th Percentile £569 £588 £575
90th Percentile £642 £656 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £485
% change year-on-year -3.85% +7.22% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 65 199
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.26 £14.06
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.00 £16.86
Median hourly rate £41.94 £37.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.84% -14.29% +68.27%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% -18.75% -

Citrix Hypervisor
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Citrix Hypervisor relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Citrix Hypervisor job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Citrix Hypervisor
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Citrix Hypervisor.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Citrix Hypervisor

Citrix Hypervisor
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Citrix Hypervisor.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Citrix Hypervisor

Citrix Hypervisor
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix Hypervisor within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 February 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
South East -31 1 £450 +12.50% 4
Citrix Hypervisor
UK

Citrix Hypervisor
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Korn
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat