Citrix XenApp
UK

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 609 654
Rank change year-on-year +75 +45 -96
Contract jobs citing XenApp 44 107 214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.18% 0.24%
As % of the System Software category 0.94% 1.38% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 77 131
10th Percentile £275 £198 £263
25th Percentile £308 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £408
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +4.29% -4.12%
75th Percentile £475 £450 £538
90th Percentile - £600 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £345 £400
% change year-on-year +15.94% -13.75% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £20.00 £20.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £20.00 -

All System Software Skills
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,693 7,768 11,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.81% 13.15% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,216 5,547 8,602
10th Percentile £200 £204 £200
25th Percentile £338 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.48% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -4.17% +6.67% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 277 321
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £45.75
90th Percentile £79.60 £75.20 £60.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.98 £44.93 £18.12
% change year-on-year -53.31% +148.01% +2.93%

XenApp
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for XenApp in the UK

XenApp
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for XenApp in the UK

XenApp
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XenApp over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for XenApp in the UK

XenApp
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for XenApp in the UK

XenApp
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XenApp within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England +70 43 £400 +6.67% 28
UK excluding London +43 37 £400 +15.94% 17
South East +22 24 £400 +29.03% 8
Work from Home +98 17 £310 -27.57% 10
Midlands +36 10 - - 3
West Midlands +24 8 - - 1
London +84 6 £300 -25.00% 10
South West +21 2 - - 6
East Midlands +20 2 - - 2
North of England +18 1 £375 -11.87%
Yorkshire - 1 £375 -

XenApp
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 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (11.36%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.27%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.09%) Azure
2 12 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (13.64%) OneDrive
5 2 (4.55%) AWS
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (4.55%) Mimecast
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.27%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 29 (65.91%) DNS
2 21 (47.73%) DHCP
3 18 (40.91%) Firewall
4 16 (36.36%) NetScaler
5 4 (9.09%) TCP/IP
6 3 (6.82%) LAN
6 3 (6.82%) WAN
7 2 (4.55%) FTP
7 2 (4.55%) HTTP
7 2 (4.55%) Network Security
7 2 (4.55%) SMTP
7 2 (4.55%) SNMP
7 2 (4.55%) SSH
7 2 (4.55%) SSL
7 2 (4.55%) Telnet
8 1 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) MSI
General
1 4 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.27%) Back Office
2 1 (2.27%) Legal
2 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (52.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Citrix Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Senior
3 6 (13.64%) Desktop Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Deployment Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Architect
5 4 (9.09%) Citrix Consultant
5 4 (9.09%) Consultant
5 4 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Citrix Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Desktop Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Citrix Specialist
7 2 (4.55%) Citrix Support
7 2 (4.55%) Head of Operations
7 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Consultant
7 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.82%) Fat Client
1 3 (6.82%) Thin Client
2 2 (4.55%) Clustering
2 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.27%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.27%) LIMS
3 1 (2.27%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 39 (88.64%) Windows
2 25 (56.82%) Windows Server
3 20 (45.45%) Windows 10
4 15 (34.09%) Windows Server 2012
5 10 (22.73%) Windows 7
6 9 (20.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (15.91%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (13.64%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (9.09%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (4.55%) Linux
10 2 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (43.18%) Change Management
3 13 (29.55%) Migration
4 12 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
5 10 (22.73%) Project Delivery
6 9 (20.45%) Application Packaging
7 8 (18.18%) Configuration Management
7 8 (18.18%) Patch Management
8 6 (13.64%) Data Loss Prevention
8 6 (13.64%) Software Distribution
9 5 (11.36%) Roadmaps
9 5 (11.36%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (9.09%) Agile
10 4 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (9.09%) Information Security
10 4 (9.09%) ITIL
10 4 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (6.82%) High Availability
11 3 (6.82%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 26 (59.09%) PowerShell
2 6 (13.64%) VBScript
3 2 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared
1 5 (11.36%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.55%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (4.55%) Degree
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) GDPR
2 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (86.36%) Active Directory
2 23 (52.27%) XenDesktop
3 18 (40.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (29.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (20.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 3 (6.82%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (6.82%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (4.55%) VMware NSX
8 1 (2.27%) DFS Replication
8 1 (2.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (36.36%) SCCM
2 3 (6.82%) FortiGate
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.55%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 2 (4.55%) Nessus
3 2 (4.55%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 2 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.27%) SysTrack
4 1 (2.27%) Terraform
4 1 (2.27%) WSUS
4 1 (2.27%) XenMobile
Vendors
1 44 (100.00%) Citrix
2 20 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 19 (43.18%) VMware
4 14 (31.82%) Ivanti
5 9 (20.45%) NetApp
6 7 (15.91%) Symantec
7 4 (9.09%) FireEye
7 4 (9.09%) SolarWinds
7 4 (9.09%) Tanium
8 3 (6.82%) Cisco
8 3 (6.82%) ServiceNow
9 2 (4.55%) CheckPoint
9 2 (4.55%) Splunk
10 1 (2.27%) Altiris
10 1 (2.27%) Aruba
10 1 (2.27%) Fortinet
10 1 (2.27%) McAfee
10 1 (2.27%) OpenText
10 1 (2.27%) Sophos
10 1 (2.27%) Wyse