XenDesktop Contracts in England

Citrix XenDesktop
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for XenDesktop skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XenDesktop over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 514 605 654
Rank change year-on-year +91 +49 -85
Contract jobs citing XenDesktop 23 46 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.063% 0.095% 0.17%
As % of the System Software category 0.58% 0.74% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 30 71
10th Percentile £248 £263 £308
25th Percentile £275 £301 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 £401 £425
Median % change year-on-year -23.85% -5.76% -
75th Percentile £310 £595 £525
90th Percentile £355 £604 £588
UK median daily rate £305 £428 £413
% change year-on-year -28.74% +3.69% +3.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £15.54
25th Percentile - - £16.28
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £17.93
Median % change year-on-year - +45.01% +42.81%
75th Percentile - - £19.17
90th Percentile - - £19.67
UK median hourly rate - £26.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year - +48.57% +39.39%

All System Software Skills
England

XenDesktop is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,963 6,230 9,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.89% 12.93% 13.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,773 4,509 7,061
10th Percentile £200 £200 £198
25th Percentile £338 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £631
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 221 267
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.52 £13.31
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £72.38 £75.99 £53.20
UK median hourly rate £22.30 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.70% +170.00% -9.09%

XenDesktop
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing XenDesktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for XenDesktop in England

XenDesktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XenDesktop in England.

Daily rate trend for XenDesktop in England

XenDesktop
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XenDesktop in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for XenDesktop in England

XenDesktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XenDesktop in England.

Hourly rate trend for XenDesktop in England

XenDesktop
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XenDesktop within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +36 10 - - 3
West Midlands +33 8 - - 3
South East +4 7 £310 -
London +87 5 £250 -45.95% 9
East Midlands - 2 - -
South West +8 1 - - 2
XenDesktop
UK

XenDesktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (21.74%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.35%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) Azure Monitor
2 8 (34.78%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (21.74%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.35%) AWS
4 1 (4.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (4.35%) IaaS
4 1 (4.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (60.87%) DNS
2 12 (52.17%) NetScaler
3 6 (26.09%) DHCP
4 1 (4.35%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
1 1 (4.35%) MSI
General
1 3 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Citrix Engineer
1 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Deployment Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Desktop Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Consultant
4 3 (13.04%) Citrix Consultant
4 3 (13.04%) Senior
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Citrix Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Desktop Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Citrix Specialist
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (8.70%) Migration Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Migration Specialist
5 2 (8.70%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Fat Client
1 3 (13.04%) Thin Client
2 1 (4.35%) Clustering
2 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (91.30%) Windows
2 14 (60.87%) Windows Server
3 13 (56.52%) Windows 10
4 5 (21.74%) Windows 7
5 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Change Management
2 9 (39.13%) Application Packaging
3 8 (34.78%) Patch Management
4 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (26.09%) Configuration Management
5 6 (26.09%) Software Distribution
6 4 (17.39%) Migration
7 3 (13.04%) ITIL
7 3 (13.04%) Server Building
7 3 (13.04%) Vulnerability Management
8 2 (8.70%) Agile
8 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (8.70%) Release Management
9 1 (4.35%) Change Control
9 1 (4.35%) High Availability
9 1 (4.35%) Mobile Device Management
9 1 (4.35%) Root Cause Analysis
9 1 (4.35%) Scrum
9 1 (4.35%) Service Management
9 1 (4.35%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
2 2 (8.70%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 21 (91.30%) XenApp
2 19 (82.61%) Active Directory
3 10 (43.48%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (39.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (8.70%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) SCCM
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) WSUS
2 1 (4.35%) XenMobile
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Citrix
2 15 (65.22%) Microsoft
3 8 (34.78%) NetApp
4 4 (17.39%) FireEye
4 4 (17.39%) Tanium
4 4 (17.39%) VMware
5 3 (13.04%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.35%) Ivanti
6 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds