Xen Project
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Xen skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Xen over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 737 807 842
Rank change year-on-year +70 +35 +351
Permanent jobs citing Xen 3 9 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.010% 0.007%
As % of the System Software category 0.046% 0.10% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 5
10th Percentile £48,250 - £39,750
25th Percentile £49,375 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £73,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.81% +47.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £54,375 £94,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £54,750 £122,500 £74,950
UK excluding London median annual salary - £61,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +22.50% +33.33%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 6,576 8,595 11,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.72% 9.99% 15.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,824 6,039 8,535
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -11.50% +2.54%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £48,675
% change year-on-year -10.53% -2.41% -2.65%

Xen
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Xen as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Xen in the UK

Xen
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Xen.

Salary trend for Xen in the UK

Xen
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Xen within the UK over the 6 months to 15 August 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
London +56 3 £52,500 -34.38%
England +51 3 £52,500 -16.00% 7
Work from Home - 1 £55,000 - 5

Xen
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (66.67%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) IaaS
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (66.67%) PaaS
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) LAMP
1 2 (66.67%) LAPP Stack
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Unix
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 2 (66.67%) Cost Reduction
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Release Management
1 2 (66.67%) Resource Management
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) Service Design
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) KVM
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) CFEngine
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Bloomberg
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) FactSet
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Tradeweb