XenApp Contracts

Citrix XenApp
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring XenApp skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited XenApp over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 543 589
Rank change year-on-year +28 +46 +67
Contract jobs citing XenApp 14 44 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.10% 0.18%
As % of the System Software category 0.39% 0.95% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 28 75
10th Percentile £145 £275 £190
25th Percentile £177 £308 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% -5.88% +4.29%
75th Percentile £539 £475 £450
90th Percentile £542 - £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £400 £345
% change year-on-year +31.25% +15.94% -13.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £18.43
25th Percentile - - £19.44
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
75th Percentile - - £21.50
90th Percentile - - £24.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £20.00

All System Software Skills
UK

XenApp 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,609 4,632 7,709
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.40% 10.74% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,457 3,170 5,501
10th Percentile £213 £200 £204
25th Percentile £400 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £481
% change year-on-year +2.70% -3.76% +6.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 233 276
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £15.25
25th Percentile £15.44 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.94 £22.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.18% -58.33% +170.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.60 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £20.98 £46.11
% change year-on-year +33.49% -54.51% +154.51%

XenApp
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for XenApp in the UK

XenApp
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for XenApp in the UK

XenApp
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XenApp over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XenApp in the UK

XenApp
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for XenApp in the UK

XenApp
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XenApp within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
England +42 13 £525 +31.25% 14
UK excluding London +26 9 £525 +31.25% 8
South East +25 7 £525 +31.25% 4
London +49 5 £150 -50.00% 6
Work from Home +28 3 £538 +73.55% 2
Midlands +10 1 £535 - 2
West Midlands +6 1 £535 - 2
Wales - 1 £200 -

XenApp
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 7 (50.00%) IIS
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (7.14%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (7.14%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (7.14%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (7.14%) nginx
3 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (7.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) Google Workspace
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) DNS
2 8 (57.14%) NetScaler
3 6 (42.86%) SMTP
4 4 (28.57%) Firewall
5 2 (14.29%) DHCP
5 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
6 1 (7.14%) HTTP
6 1 (7.14%) Internet
6 1 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (7.14%) IP Telephony
6 1 (7.14%) LAN
6 1 (7.14%) MPLS
6 1 (7.14%) NAS
6 1 (7.14%) SAN
6 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
6 1 (7.14%) Skype
6 1 (7.14%) Unified Communications
6 1 (7.14%) WAN
6 1 (7.14%) Wireless
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
3 2 (14.29%) Electronics
3 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 2 (14.29%) Marketing
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (21.43%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 2 (14.29%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Desktop Support
2 2 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Citrix Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Support
3 1 (7.14%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) SCCM Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Support Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Clustering
1 6 (42.86%) PKI
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (92.86%) Windows
2 9 (64.29%) Windows Server
3 7 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (35.71%) Windows 10
5 3 (21.43%) Windows XP
6 2 (14.29%) Mac OS X
6 2 (14.29%) Windows 8
7 1 (7.14%) Mac OS
7 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (7.14%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
1 2 (14.29%) Customer Service
1 2 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (14.29%) ITIL
1 2 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (14.29%) Programme Management
1 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
1 2 (14.29%) Server Management
2 1 (7.14%) Business Case
2 1 (7.14%) Disk Encryption
2 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 1 (7.14%) Inventory Management
2 1 (7.14%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
2 1 (7.14%) Technical Debt
2 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (7.14%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) PowerShell
2 6 (42.86%) Shell Script
3 4 (28.57%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Perl
4 1 (7.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) A+ Certification
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) MCP
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 9 (64.29%) vSphere
2 9 (64.29%) XenDesktop
3 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (7.14%) BitLocker
5 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (7.14%) Terminal Services
5 1 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (50.00%) WSUS
3 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (28.57%) SCCM
5 2 (14.29%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (14.29%) Norton AntiVirus
5 2 (14.29%) Terraform
6 1 (7.14%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Citrix
2 11 (78.57%) Microsoft
2 11 (78.57%) VMware
3 8 (57.14%) Dell
3 8 (57.14%) HP
4 3 (21.43%) Cisco
4 3 (21.43%) ServiceNow
5 2 (14.29%) Aerohive Networks
5 2 (14.29%) AVG
5 2 (14.29%) Barracuda Networks
5 2 (14.29%) Draytek
5 2 (14.29%) GFI Software
5 2 (14.29%) Google
5 2 (14.29%) Kaspersky
5 2 (14.29%) NETGEAR
5 2 (14.29%) Panasonic
5 2 (14.29%) SolarWinds
5 2 (14.29%) Spiceworks
5 2 (14.29%) WatchGuard
5 2 (14.29%) Webroot