Xen Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Xen Project
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Xen skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 554 648 593
Rank change year-on-year +94 -55 +244
Permanent jobs citing Xen 2 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.006% 0.004% 0.008%
As % of the System Software category 0.048% 0.037% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile - £70,375 £38,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £76,563 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £93,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +87.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £111,563 £58,750
90th Percentile - £118,125 £61,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £77,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -29.03% +47.62% -4.55%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,143 5,422 5,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.11% 9.84% 16.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,287 3,431 4,741
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £49,500 £49,565
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% -0.13% -0.87%
75th Percentile £61,875 £62,500 £67,070
90th Percentile £76,840 £75,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -

Xen
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Xen as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Xen in the UK excluding London

Xen
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Xen.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Xen

Xen
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Xen within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. 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 - 3
Xen
UK

Xen
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

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