Xen Project
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Xen skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Xen over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 599 707 837
Rank change year-on-year +108 +130 -169
Contract jobs citing Xen 1 6 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.010% 0.021%
As % of the System Software category 0.021% 0.076% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £388
25th Percentile - - £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £405
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.86%
75th Percentile - - £456
90th Percentile - - £550
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £405

All System Software Skills
UK

Xen 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 4,691 7,882 12,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.76% 13.21% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,206 5,629 8,605
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% - +8.25%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £483 £450
% change year-on-year -4.69% +7.26% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 280 317
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.95 £13.20
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £53.43 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.88% +167.13% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £44.69
90th Percentile £77.90 £75.00 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £41.88 £18.12
% change year-on-year -47.46% +131.16% +2.93%

Xen
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Xen in the UK

Xen
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Xen in the UK

Xen
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Xen in the UK

Xen
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Xen within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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 +100 1 - - 7
East of England - 1 - -
UK excluding London - 1 - - 8

Xen
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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (100.00%) LPIC
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) KVM
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware