XenDesktop Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Citrix XenDesktop
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring XenDesktop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 553 526
Rank change year-on-year +47 -27 +137
Permanent jobs citing XenDesktop 3 13 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.007% 0.036% 0.14%
As % of the System Software category 0.11% 0.30% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3 13 42
10th Percentile - - £23,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £33,500 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -6.94% -20.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 £39,250 £47,250
90th Percentile £63,750 £62,900 £67,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +80.56% -20.00%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

XenDesktop 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 2,767 4,341 5,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.53% 12.08% 16.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,936 2,468 4,569
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,704 £27,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £50,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £62,125 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -

XenDesktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing XenDesktop relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

XenDesktop job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

XenDesktop
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

XenDesktop
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing XenDesktop in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for XenDesktop in the UK excluding London

XenDesktop
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 XenDesktop within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Yorkshire - 2 £32,500 -
North of England - 2 £32,500 - 1
Scotland - 1 £67,500 -
XenDesktop
UK

XenDesktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (66.67%) Acrobat
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
General
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) IT Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) IT Support
1 2 (66.67%) IT Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Support Team Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Team Leader
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Asset Management
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) IT Asset Management
1 2 (66.67%) Preventative Maintenance
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Application Packaging
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Dell
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix