Xen Project
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Xen skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Xen over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 875 961 1183
Rank change year-on-year +86 +222 -310
Permanent jobs citing Xen 9 14 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.014% 0.036%
As % of the System Software category 0.075% 0.090% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 9 12 16
10th Percentile - £28,125 £38,438
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £62,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,250 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% -20.83% +50.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £97,813
90th Percentile £122,500 - £106,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £63,750 £43,125
% change year-on-year -3.92% +47.83% -21.59%

All System Software Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 11,984 15,477 29,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.99% 15.56% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,447 10,129 15,665
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Xen over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Xen in the UK

Xen
Top 5 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 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +80 7 £70,000 -1.75% 12
London +111 4 £75,000 -0.99% 6
UK excluding London -14 4 £61,250 -3.92% 8
South East - 2 £50,000 - 2
Scotland - 2 £93,750 - 2

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 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Storage
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Internet
1 3 (33.33%) LAN
1 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 3 (33.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (33.33%) Banking
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Senior
1 3 (33.33%) Senior IT Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Senior IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Virtualisation Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Open Source
2 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Software Deployment
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) KVM
2 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 3 (33.33%) QEMU
2 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (33.33%) XenApp
3 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 3 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) Citrix
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (22.22%) Forcepoint
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco