XenDesktop Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Citrix XenDesktop
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring XenDesktop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited XenDesktop 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 299 335 449
Rank change year-on-year +36 +114 +118
Contract jobs citing XenDesktop 5 10 28
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.065% 0.11%
As % of the System Software category 0.43% 0.69% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 21
10th Percentile £434 £256 £263
25th Percentile £477 £275 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £300 £428
Median % change year-on-year +73.00% -29.91% +0.71%
75th Percentile £539 £310 £568
90th Percentile £539 - £600
UK median daily rate £525 £288 £428
% change year-on-year +82.61% -32.83% +7.00%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

XenDesktop 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%

XenDesktop
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

XenDesktop trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

XenDesktop
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

XenDesktop daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

XenDesktop
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 (40.00%) IIS
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (40.00%) Skype for Business
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) NetScaler
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) SMTP
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) SAN
3 1 (20.00%) Skype
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Citrix Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Migration Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
1 2 (40.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (20.00%) BYOD
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Business Case
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Server Virtualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (60.00%) XenApp
2 2 (40.00%) vSphere
3 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (40.00%) WSUS
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (20.00%) Backup Exec
3 1 (20.00%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (20.00%) NetBackup
3 1 (20.00%) SCCM
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) HP
3 3 (60.00%) VMware
4 2 (40.00%) Dell
5 1 (20.00%) IBM
5 1 (20.00%) NetApp