XenDesktop Contracts with Work from Home Options

Citrix XenDesktop
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for XenDesktop skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XenDesktop over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 442 559
Rank change year-on-year +103 +117 -108
Contract jobs citing XenDesktop 9 31 66
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.058% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the System Software category 0.61% 0.94% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 25 40
10th Percentile £256 £263 £348
25th Percentile £275 - £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £428 £425
Median % change year-on-year -29.91% +0.71% +8.97%
75th Percentile £310 £580 £488
90th Percentile - £600 £588
UK median daily rate £288 £428 £400
% change year-on-year -32.83% +7.00% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.53
25th Percentile - - £16.27
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £26.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year - +48.57% +59.09%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

XenDesktop is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,482 3,296 5,590
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.53% 12.51% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,078 2,368 4,144
10th Percentile £263 £300 £331
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £610 £631 £625
90th Percentile £684 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 105 103
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.11 £14.27
25th Percentile £17.00 £47.50 £17.63
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +165.31% -38.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.50 £53.13
90th Percentile £73.00 £81.60 £65.91
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -55.00% +150.00% -

XenDesktop
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing XenDesktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

XenDesktop trend for jobs with a WFH option

XenDesktop
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing XenDesktop.

XenDesktop daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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 1 (11.11%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) DHCP
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) NetScaler
General
1 3 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix Technical Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Technical Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (55.56%) Windows 10
2 5 (55.56%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
3 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (33.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 6 (66.67%) Software Distribution
3 3 (33.33%) Change Management
3 3 (33.33%) Server Building
3 3 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 1 (11.11%) Agile
5 1 (11.11%) Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Change Control
5 1 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (11.11%) High Availability
5 1 (11.11%) ITIL
5 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (11.11%) RBAC
5 1 (11.11%) Release Management
5 1 (11.11%) Re-Platforming
5 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) XenApp
2 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
3 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) SysTrack
2 1 (11.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Citrix
2 5 (55.56%) VMware
3 3 (33.33%) FireEye
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 3 (33.33%) Tanium
4 1 (11.11%) Altiris
4 1 (11.11%) Dell
4 1 (11.11%) McAfee
4 1 (11.11%) OpenText
4 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
4 1 (11.11%) Symantec
4 1 (11.11%) Wyse