Xen Job Trends in England

Xen Project
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Xen skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 675 -
Rank change year-on-year +72 - -
Permanent jobs citing Xen 2 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.004% 0.002% -
As % of the System Software category 0.053% 0.016% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £75,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £80,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £85,000 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £80,000 -
% change year-on-year -31.25% - -

All System Software Skills
England

Xen falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,746 6,137 7,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.13% 12.79% 16.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,736 3,667 6,556
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,075 £28,775
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -

Xen
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Xen relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Xen job vacancy trend in England

Xen
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Xen.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Xen

Xen
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Xen within the England region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 2 £55,000 - 1
Xen
UK

Xen
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (100.00%) IPv4
1 2 (100.00%) IPv6
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Design Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Design Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Design Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Network Design Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Network Design
1 2 (100.00%) Network Management
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) JNCIA
1 2 (100.00%) JNCIS
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) KVM
1 2 (100.00%) RHEV
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Nagios
1 2 (100.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (100.00%) VMware