XenApp Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Citrix XenApp
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring XenApp skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 102 107
Rank change year-on-year -56 +5 +15
Contract jobs citing XenApp 4 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.12% 0.071% 0.41%
As % of the System Software category 1.12% 0.49% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £535 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.89% - -
England median daily rate £413 £525 £406
% change year-on-year -21.43% +29.23% +1.50%

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 357 203 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.07% 14.40% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 139 137
10th Percentile £213 £165 £187
25th Percentile £325 £291 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £538 £638 £600
90th Percentile £600 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 5
10th Percentile £42.50 £16.09 £14.59
25th Percentile £54.45 £17.40 £15.65
Median hourly rate £63.14 £18.13 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +248.23% +13.31% -4.23%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.09 £19.95
90th Percentile £75.75 £34.82 £22.23
England median hourly rate £52.75 £28.21 £22.15
% change year-on-year +87.02% +27.34% -57.51%

XenApp
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing XenApp relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

XenApp job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

XenApp
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing XenApp.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing XenApp

XenApp
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing XenApp.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing XenApp

XenApp
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XenApp within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Warwickshire -15 2 £450 -15.89%
Birmingham - 2 - -
XenApp
England

XenApp
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (50.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) NetScaler
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Server Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Application Virtualisation
1 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (50.00%) Runbook
1 2 (50.00%) Server Hardening
1 2 (50.00%) User Experience
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) XenDesktop
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
1 2 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) VMware