Citrix Hypervisor Contracts

Citrix Hypervisor (formerly XenServer)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Citrix Hypervisor skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Citrix Hypervisor over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 685 805
Rank change year-on-year +116 +120 -145
Contract jobs citing Citrix Hypervisor 10 15 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.025% 0.062%
As % of the System Software category 0.21% 0.19% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 9 44
10th Percentile - £320 £325
25th Percentile - £363 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year - -11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile - £400 £482
90th Percentile - £460 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate - £375 £428
% change year-on-year - -12.28% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £46.39 - £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.39 - -

All System Software Skills
UK

Citrix Hypervisor is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,676 7,939 12,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.74% 13.24% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,195 5,675 8,612
10th Percentile £198 £205 £200
25th Percentile £331 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.37%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £481 £450
% change year-on-year -4.28% +6.79% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 291 324
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.52 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.14 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £53.35 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.83% +166.75% -
75th Percentile £60.19 £66.00 £44.77
90th Percentile £77.95 £75.00 £60.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £40.00 £18.12
% change year-on-year -46.25% +120.81% +2.06%

Citrix Hypervisor
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Citrix Hypervisor as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Citrix Hypervisor in the UK

Citrix Hypervisor
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Citrix Hypervisor.

Daily rate trend for Citrix Hypervisor in the UK

Citrix Hypervisor
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Citrix Hypervisor.

Hourly rate trend for Citrix Hypervisor in the UK

Citrix Hypervisor
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
England +110 10 - - 3
UK excluding London +65 9 - - 3
Midlands +33 8 - -
West Midlands - 8 - -
Work from Home +115 1 - -
London +111 1 - -
South West - 1 - - 1

Citrix Hypervisor
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Azure
2 8 (80.00%) Azure Monitor
2 8 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (50.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) DNS
1 8 (80.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Citrix Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Citrix Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Desktop Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Support
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Fat Client
1 3 (30.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
1 8 (80.00%) Windows 10
1 8 (80.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Application Packaging
1 8 (80.00%) Change Management
1 8 (80.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (10.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
1 9 (90.00%) XenApp
1 9 (90.00%) XenDesktop
2 8 (80.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
1 1 (10.00%) XenMobile
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Citrix
2 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (80.00%) NetApp
4 1 (10.00%) VMware