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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 670 545 510
Rank change year-on-year -125 -35 +103
Contract jobs citing XenDesktop 9 9 49
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.028% 0.13%
As % of the System Software category 0.17% 0.24% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 31
10th Percentile £207 £344 £275
25th Percentile £263 £416 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +42.86% -4.11%
75th Percentile £305 £556 £450
90th Percentile £392 £603 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £525 £350
% change year-on-year -42.86% +50.00% +7.69%
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 5,347 3,817 4,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.95% 11.67% 11.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,520 2,412 3,030
10th Percentile £220 £225 £220
25th Percentile £400 £385 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £590 £594 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £493
% change year-on-year - -3.65% +3.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 112 136
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.75 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.38 £18.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £58.12 £31.39 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +85.18% +30.83% -52.02%
75th Percentile £74.00 £80.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £91.50 £70.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.17 £63.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.25% +160.78% -9.81%

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 28 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 8 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 28 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
UK excluding London -99 9 £300 -42.86% 4
England -105 9 £300 -40.00% 4
North of England -61 5 £288 -45.24% 1
Work from Home -58 4 £450 -1.37% 2
Midlands - 4 £450 - 1
North West - 4 £288 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £450 - 1
Yorkshire -44 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
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) NetScaler
2 2 (22.22%) DHCP
2 2 (22.22%) DNS
General
1 3 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
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%) 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
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (44.44%) Windows 10
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) ITIL
1 6 (66.67%) User Experience
2 4 (44.44%) Customer Service
2 4 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (44.44%) Service Management
3 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 3 (33.33%) Desktop Virtualisation
4 2 (22.22%) Application Virtualisation
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%) Problem Management
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Runbook
4 2 (22.22%) Server Hardening
4 2 (22.22%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) XenApp
2 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (44.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 4 (44.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (22.22%) SCCM
1 2 (22.22%) SysTrack
1 2 (22.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Citrix
2 6 (66.67%) VMware
3 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
4 2 (22.22%) Nexthink