XenDesktop Contracts

Citrix XenDesktop
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 555 645
Rank change year-on-year +41 +90 +97
Contract jobs citing XenDesktop 16 32 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.052% 0.074% 0.073%
As % of the System Software category 0.43% 0.67% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 17 25
10th Percentile £291 £265 £275
25th Percentile £425 £300 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £401
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -0.12% -5.76%
75th Percentile £543 £450 £600
90th Percentile £618 £670 £623
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £350 £319
% change year-on-year +52.86% +9.80% -31.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £31.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - +19.23% +48.57%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £31.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year - +19.23% +48.57%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,750 4,799 7,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.09% 11.06% 12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,445 3,308 5,066
10th Percentile £225 £206 £200
25th Percentile £381 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £607 £638
90th Percentile £690 £688 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £479
% change year-on-year - -0.84% +6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 220 255
10th Percentile £14.49 £14.06 £15.21
25th Percentile £16.39 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £23.99 £53.35
Median % change year-on-year +16.72% -55.03% +166.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £59.20 £66.75
90th Percentile £89.85 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.88 £24.34 £31.00
% change year-on-year +125.45% -21.48% +67.57%

XenDesktop
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for XenDesktop in the UK

XenDesktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for XenDesktop in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XenDesktop over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for XenDesktop in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for XenDesktop in the UK

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Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XenDesktop within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +44 16 £525 +31.25% 24
UK excluding London +44 12 £535 +52.86% 9
South East +54 6 £525 +55.56% 5
South West +41 4 £588 -
Work from Home +33 4 £519 +29.75% 5
London +24 3 £450 +5.88% 18
North of England +8 1 £525 +23.53% 1
West Midlands +7 1 £535 -
Midlands +1 1 £535 -
Yorkshire - 1 £525 -

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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 (31.25%) IIS
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) NetScaler
2 6 (37.50%) DNS
3 5 (31.25%) SMTP
4 1 (6.25%) DHCP
4 1 (6.25%) FTP
4 1 (6.25%) HTTP
4 1 (6.25%) SAN
4 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (12.50%) Citrix Specialist
1 2 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
1 2 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Citrix Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (6.25%) Desktop Specialist
2 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) IT Manager
2 1 (6.25%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (6.25%) IT Support
2 1 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Migration Specialist
2 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM Specialist
2 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Clustering
1 5 (31.25%) PKI
2 1 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (68.75%) Windows Server
3 6 (37.50%) Windows 10
4 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (6.25%) Windows 7
6 1 (6.25%) Windows 8
6 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Scrum
3 4 (25.00%) Technical Debt
4 3 (18.75%) Business Case
4 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
4 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (12.50%) Change Management
5 2 (12.50%) Migration
5 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (6.25%) Application Packaging
6 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (6.25%) Computer Science
6 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (6.25%) Incident Management
6 1 (6.25%) ITIL
6 1 (6.25%) Load Balancing
6 1 (6.25%) Security Management
6 1 (6.25%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (31.25%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) A+ Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (6.25%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Active Directory
1 11 (68.75%) XenApp
2 7 (43.75%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (31.25%) vSphere
4 3 (18.75%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (6.25%) BitLocker
5 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (37.50%) SCCM
2 6 (37.50%) WSUS
3 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (6.25%) Backup Exec
4 1 (6.25%) NetBackup
4 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Citrix
2 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
3 8 (50.00%) VMware
4 6 (37.50%) HP
5 5 (31.25%) Dell
6 3 (18.75%) Ivanti
7 1 (6.25%) Bloomberg
7 1 (6.25%) Cisco
7 1 (6.25%) IBM
7 1 (6.25%) NetApp
7 1 (6.25%) Reuters
7 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow