XenApp Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 530 589 626
Rank change year-on-year +59 +37 -42
Contract jobs citing XenApp 45 93 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.17% 0.24%
As % of the System Software category 0.96% 1.27% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 62 132
10th Percentile £298 £263 £264
25th Percentile £320 £310 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £425 £416
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +2.10% -6.57%
75th Percentile £475 £493 £538
90th Percentile - £600 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% -11.11%
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 4,701 7,331 11,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.92% 13.08% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,266 5,173 8,348
10th Percentile £200 £200 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
75th Percentile £607 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £450
% change year-on-year -0.84% +6.44% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 248 287
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.23 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.25 £19.75 £14.75
Median hourly rate £24.18 £55.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.04% +189.47% -5.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £37.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.82 £58.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £48.40 £17.50
% change year-on-year -43.18% +176.57% -3.39%

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 1 June 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

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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 1 June 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 +60 45 £406 +1.44% 19
UK excluding London +24 34 £450 +20.00% 13
South East +11 22 £450 +40.63% 4
Work from Home +91 15 £355 -18.20% 8
London +75 11 £400 -5.94% 5
Midlands +26 10 - - 2
West Midlands +16 8 - - 2
East Midlands +13 2 - -
North of England +18 1 £375 -18.48% 3
South West +5 1 - - 4
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 (15.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (13.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.22%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 15 (33.33%) Azure
2 11 (24.44%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (17.78%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (13.33%) OneDrive
5 4 (8.89%) AWS
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.44%) Mimecast
7 1 (2.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.22%) IaaS
7 1 (2.22%) OCI
7 1 (2.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (68.89%) DNS
2 23 (51.11%) DHCP
3 20 (44.44%) Firewall
4 17 (37.78%) NetScaler
5 4 (8.89%) TCP/IP
6 3 (6.67%) LAN
6 3 (6.67%) WAN
7 2 (4.44%) FTP
7 2 (4.44%) HTTP
7 2 (4.44%) Network Security
7 2 (4.44%) SMTP
7 2 (4.44%) SNMP
7 2 (4.44%) SSH
7 2 (4.44%) SSL
7 2 (4.44%) Telnet
8 1 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) MSI
General
1 4 (8.89%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (6.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.22%) Back Office
3 1 (2.22%) Banking
3 1 (2.22%) Finance
3 1 (2.22%) Legal
3 1 (2.22%) Local Government
3 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (15.56%) Citrix Engineer
2 7 (15.56%) Senior
3 5 (11.11%) Consultant
3 5 (11.11%) Deployment Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Citrix Consultant
4 4 (8.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Citrix Support
5 3 (6.67%) Senior Citrix Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Senior Desktop Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Citrix Specialist
6 2 (4.44%) Citrix Support Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Head of Operations
6 2 (4.44%) Head of Security
6 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) Fat Client
1 3 (6.67%) Thin Client
2 2 (4.44%) Clustering
2 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.22%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.22%) LIMS
3 1 (2.22%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.22%) Replication
3 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (84.44%) Windows
2 27 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 15 (33.33%) Windows 10
4 11 (24.44%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (15.56%) Windows 7
6 6 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (8.89%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (4.44%) Linux
10 2 (4.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (44.44%) Change Management
3 15 (33.33%) Migration
4 13 (28.89%) Vulnerability Management
5 11 (24.44%) Application Packaging
5 11 (24.44%) Project Delivery
6 8 (17.78%) Patch Management
7 6 (13.33%) Configuration Management
7 6 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
7 6 (13.33%) ITIL
7 6 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (8.89%) Agile
8 4 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (8.89%) Information Security
8 4 (8.89%) Software Distribution
8 4 (8.89%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (6.67%) High Availability
9 3 (6.67%) Mentoring
9 3 (6.67%) Roadmaps
9 3 (6.67%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 28 (62.22%) PowerShell
2 6 (13.33%) VBScript
3 2 (4.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.89%) Citrix Certification
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 3 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.44%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.44%) CESG Certified Professional
3 2 (4.44%) Degree
3 2 (4.44%) MCSA
3 2 (4.44%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) GDPR
2 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (84.44%) Active Directory
2 22 (48.89%) XenDesktop
3 20 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (28.89%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (20.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 4 (8.89%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (4.44%) Hyper-V
7 2 (4.44%) VMware NSX
8 1 (2.22%) DFS Replication
8 1 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (2.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (28.89%) SCCM
2 3 (6.67%) FortiGate
3 2 (4.44%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.44%) Nessus
3 2 (4.44%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 2 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.22%) Terraform
4 1 (2.22%) WSUS
4 1 (2.22%) XenMobile
Vendors
1 45 (100.00%) Citrix
2 21 (46.67%) VMware
3 20 (44.44%) Microsoft
4 15 (33.33%) Ivanti
5 9 (20.00%) NetApp
6 6 (13.33%) Symantec
7 4 (8.89%) FireEye
7 4 (8.89%) SolarWinds
7 4 (8.89%) Tanium
8 3 (6.67%) Cisco
8 3 (6.67%) ServiceNow
9 2 (4.44%) CheckPoint
9 2 (4.44%) Splunk
10 1 (2.22%) Aruba
10 1 (2.22%) Fortinet
10 1 (2.22%) HP
10 1 (2.22%) Oracle
10 1 (2.22%) Sophos