XenDesktop Contracts

Citrix XenDesktop
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 640 715
Rank change year-on-year +90 +75 -93
Contract jobs citing XenDesktop 23 60 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the System Software category 0.50% 0.80% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 41 84
10th Percentile £248 £263 £283
25th Percentile £275 £305 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 £428 £413
Median % change year-on-year -28.74% +3.69% +3.19%
75th Percentile £310 £568 £506
90th Percentile £355 £600 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £310 £325 £413
% change year-on-year -4.62% -21.21% +14.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £15.78
25th Percentile - - £16.89
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +48.57% +39.39%
75th Percentile - - £18.13
90th Percentile - - £19.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £26.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year - +48.57% +59.09%

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,571 7,489 11,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.74% 13.11% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,147 5,323 8,425
10th Percentile £200 £203 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -3.65% +6.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 260 305
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.40 £54.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.52% +170.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £40.75
90th Percentile £78.20 £75.77 £60.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.18 £41.88 £18.12
% change year-on-year -54.21% +131.16% -0.85%

XenDesktop
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for XenDesktop in the UK

XenDesktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for XenDesktop in the UK

XenDesktop
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing XenDesktop over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for XenDesktop in the UK

XenDesktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for XenDesktop in the UK

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Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XenDesktop within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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 +73 23 £305 -23.85% 13
UK excluding London +37 18 £310 -4.62% 5
Midlands +41 10 - - 1
Work from Home +109 9 £300 -29.91% 6
West Midlands +26 8 - - 1
South East +11 7 £310 -
London +86 5 £250 -45.95% 8
East Midlands - 2 - -
South West +16 1 - - 1

XenDesktop
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 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%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.35%) Applications Support Engineer
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%) Business Case
9 1 (4.35%) Change Control
9 1 (4.35%) CI/CD
9 1 (4.35%) High Availability
9 1 (4.35%) Root Cause Analysis
9 1 (4.35%) Scrum
9 1 (4.35%) Service Management
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