XenApp Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Citrix XenApp
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 328 428
Rank change year-on-year +27 +100 +110
Contract jobs citing XenApp 3 17 49
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.11% 0.19%
As % of the System Software category 0.26% 1.17% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 35
10th Percentile £508 £275 £263
25th Percentile £519 £294 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £310 £428
Median % change year-on-year +73.55% -27.57% +6.93%
75th Percentile £539 £475 £461
90th Percentile £540 - £600
UK median daily rate £525 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +31.25% -5.88% +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
UK median hourly rate - - £20.00

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

XenApp falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,169 1,452 3,207
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.80% 9.46% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 868 1,058 2,296
10th Percentile £358 £263 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -3.84% -
75th Percentile £625 £618 £633
90th Percentile £775 £677 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 34 101
10th Percentile £25.25 £15.50 £19.00
25th Percentile £52.44 £15.88 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.50 £43.32 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.20% -33.35% +165.31%
75th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £70.25
90th Percentile £92.50 £84.57 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

XenApp
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing XenApp as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

XenApp trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

XenApp
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing XenApp.

XenApp daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

XenApp
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing XenApp.

XenApp hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

XenApp
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (66.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) NetScaler
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) SMTP
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Migration Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Business Case
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) XenDesktop
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (66.67%) WSUS
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) Dell
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) VMware