XenDesktop Contract Job Trends

Citrix XenDesktop
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring XenDesktop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 666 546 532
Rank change year-on-year -120 -14 +75
Contract jobs citing XenDesktop 9 9 45
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.027% 0.12%
As % of the System Software category 0.17% 0.24% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 29
10th Percentile £198 £344 £270
25th Percentile £239 £416 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £500 £380
Median % change year-on-year -42.50% +31.58% +4.11%
75th Percentile £341 £556 £450
90th Percentile £407 £603 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £288 £525 £355
% change year-on-year -45.24% +47.89% +13.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £29.50
Median hourly rate - - £31.00
75th Percentile - - £32.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £31.00

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 5,349 3,814 4,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.99% 11.62% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,535 2,424 3,071
10th Percentile £225 £230 £220
25th Percentile £400 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 109 142
10th Percentile £15.79 £13.75 £14.06
25th Percentile £22.41 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +59.42% +42.68% -49.45%
75th Percentile £74.00 £80.00 £59.58
90th Percentile £85.00 £91.50 £73.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.37 £65.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -8.67% +136.36% +11.70%

XenDesktop
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing XenDesktop relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

XenDesktop job vacancy trend in the UK

XenDesktop
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing XenDesktop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing XenDesktop

XenDesktop
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XenDesktop over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for XenDesktop in the UK

XenDesktop
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing XenDesktop.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing XenDesktop

XenDesktop
Top 9 Contract Job 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 19 August 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
England -118 9 £288 -42.50% 6
UK excluding London -82 8 £288 -45.24% 5
Work from Home -63 4 £450 -1.37% 3
North of England -75 4 £275 -47.62% 2
Midlands - 4 £450 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £450 - 1
North West - 3 £275 - 2
Yorkshire -43 1 - -
London -75 1 - - 1

XenDesktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (22.22%) IIS
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (11.11%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) NetScaler
2 2 (22.22%) DHCP
2 2 (22.22%) DNS
General
1 4 (44.44%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Citrix Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Citrix Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Server Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (22.22%) Clustering
2 2 (22.22%) PKI
3 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (88.89%) Windows Server
3 4 (44.44%) Windows 10
4 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) ITIL
1 5 (55.56%) User Experience
2 4 (44.44%) Desktop Virtualisation
3 3 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) Service Management
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (22.22%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (22.22%) Defect Management
4 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 2 (22.22%) Identity Management
4 2 (22.22%) Patch Management
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
4 2 (22.22%) Runbook
4 2 (22.22%) Server Hardening
4 2 (22.22%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) XenApp
2 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (33.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 3 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (22.22%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (22.22%) SysTrack
2 2 (22.22%) WSUS
3 1 (11.11%) WMI
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Citrix
2 6 (66.67%) VMware
3 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
4 2 (22.22%) Nexthink
5 1 (11.11%) Bloomberg
5 1 (11.11%) Reuters
5 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 1 (11.11%) Snow