XenDesktop Jobs

Citrix XenDesktop
UK

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 706 855 1024
Rank change year-on-year +149 +169 -306
Permanent jobs citing XenDesktop 200 91 241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.096% 0.14%
As % of the System Software category 1.66% 0.62% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 134 82 205
10th Percentile £23,575 £30,942 £32,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £37,750 £47,915
Median % change year-on-year -0.66% -21.21% +6.48%
75th Percentile £67,344 £44,969 £53,750
90th Percentile £69,500 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £33,500 £38,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.84% -15.56% +5.88%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12,037 14,602 31,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.44% 15.40% 18.49%
Number of salaries quoted 9,350 9,782 15,548
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,638 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,687
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.23% +1.25%
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%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing XenDesktop.

Salary trend for XenDesktop in the UK

XenDesktop
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing XenDesktop over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for XenDesktop in the UK

XenDesktop
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XenDesktop within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +176 194 £37,000 -1.33% 13
London +201 112 £67,500 +80.00% 4
UK excluding London -20 88 £33,500 -11.84% 10
Work from Home +83 57 £36,000 -18.64% 4
South East +21 45 £30,000 -14.29% 2
South West -24 21 £34,250 +1.56% 3
Midlands -15 9 £52,500 +30.27% 2
West Midlands -8 8 £60,250 +42.52% 2
North of England +21 7 £27,000 -32.50% 3
Scotland -62 6 £65,000 +15.04%
Yorkshire - 5 £27,000 -
North West -29 2 £41,250 +3.13% 3
East Midlands -21 1 £52,500 +43.84%

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
1 154 (77.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (15.00%) SharePoint
3 14 (7.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 14 (7.00%) SharePoint 2013
4 2 (1.00%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (1.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (1.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (1.00%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 11 (5.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 144 (72.00%) Microsoft 365
2 55 (27.50%) Azure
3 23 (11.50%) GCP
4 19 (9.50%) AWS
5 16 (8.00%) Mimecast
6 12 (6.00%) OneDrive
7 11 (5.50%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (5.50%) Nutanix
8 8 (4.00%) Entra ID
9 6 (3.00%) WhatsApp
10 3 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 81 (40.50%) WAN
2 67 (33.50%) Wireless
3 62 (31.00%) Cisco IOS
3 62 (31.00%) SD-WAN
3 62 (31.00%) WebEx
4 33 (16.50%) Firewall
5 20 (10.00%) LAN
6 17 (8.50%) NetScaler
7 14 (7.00%) Remote Desktop
8 13 (6.50%) DHCP
8 13 (6.50%) DNS
9 10 (5.00%) SAN
10 5 (2.50%) Network Security
11 4 (2.00%) TCP/IP
11 4 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (3.00%) GitLab
1 6 (3.00%) Jenkins
General
1 75 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 48 (24.00%) Finance
3 27 (13.50%) Organisational Skills
4 17 (8.50%) Banking
5 14 (7.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.50%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.00%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.50%) Legal
10 1 (0.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 62 (31.00%) IT Support
1 62 (31.00%) IT Support Specialist
1 62 (31.00%) Support Specialist
2 39 (19.50%) Analyst
3 32 (16.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 25 (12.50%) Citrix Analyst
4 25 (12.50%) Support Engineer
5 18 (9.00%) 3rd Line Support
5 18 (9.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (9.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (8.50%) Citrix Engineer
6 17 (8.50%) Senior
6 17 (8.50%) Service Analyst
7 16 (8.00%) Service Desk Analyst
8 14 (7.00%) 1st Line Support
8 14 (7.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 14 (7.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 14 (7.00%) Technical Analyst
9 12 (6.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 11 (5.50%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 62 (31.00%) Video Conferencing
1 62 (31.00%) Wiki
2 12 (6.00%) Public Cloud
3 10 (5.00%) iPad
3 10 (5.00%) iPhone
4 7 (3.50%) Replication
5 6 (3.00%) Driving Licence
5 6 (3.00%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.00%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.50%) PKI
8 2 (1.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 169 (84.50%) Windows
2 123 (61.50%) Windows 10
3 85 (42.50%) Windows Server
4 68 (34.00%) Android
5 43 (21.50%) Windows 8
6 41 (20.50%) Windows 7
7 9 (4.50%) Apple iOS
7 9 (4.50%) Linux
8 6 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (1.50%) Unix
10 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (40.50%) Mobile Device Management
2 67 (33.50%) ITIL
3 63 (31.50%) Computer Science
4 62 (31.00%) Application Virtualisation
4 62 (31.00%) BCP
4 62 (31.00%) Business Continuity
4 62 (31.00%) Business Continuity Planning
4 62 (31.00%) Contract Negotiation
5 21 (10.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (9.50%) Server Virtualisation
7 16 (8.00%) Customer Service
8 13 (6.50%) Investment Management
9 11 (5.50%) Task Automation
10 9 (4.50%) DevOps
11 7 (3.50%) Data Security
11 7 (3.50%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (3.00%) Client Onboarding
12 6 (3.00%) Identity Access Management
12 6 (3.00%) Infrastructure Automation
13 5 (2.50%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (23.00%) SQL
2 28 (14.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.00%) Bash
3 6 (3.00%) Korn
3 6 (3.00%) Perl
3 6 (3.00%) Python
3 6 (3.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 67 (33.50%) Degree
2 63 (31.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 62 (31.00%) Master's Degree
4 27 (13.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (10.50%) MCSE
6 20 (10.00%) MCITP
7 14 (7.00%) Azure Certification
8 10 (5.00%) SC Cleared
8 10 (5.00%) Security Cleared
8 10 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 9 (4.50%) Citrix Certification
10 7 (3.50%) MCP
11 5 (2.50%) CCA
11 5 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (2.00%) CESG Certified Professional
13 2 (1.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.50%) SLA
2 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 186 (93.00%) XenApp
2 165 (82.50%) Active Directory
3 90 (45.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 71 (35.50%) Hyper-V
5 70 (35.00%) VMware ESXi
6 62 (31.00%) Microsoft App-V
7 41 (20.50%) VirtualBox
8 14 (7.00%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (3.00%) Docker
10 5 (2.50%) VMware Workstation
11 4 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (2.00%) vSphere
12 2 (1.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 106 (53.00%) SCCM
2 62 (31.00%) AirWatch
3 28 (14.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (10.50%) Terraform
5 9 (4.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 8 (4.00%) vCenter Server
7 6 (3.00%) Ansible
7 6 (3.00%) Puppet
7 6 (3.00%) Red Hat Satellite
7 6 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (2.50%) Backup Exec
8 5 (2.50%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 2 (1.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 200 (100.00%) Citrix
2 140 (70.00%) Microsoft
3 98 (49.00%) VMware
4 83 (41.50%) Cisco
5 24 (12.00%) Dell
5 24 (12.00%) Symantec
6 23 (11.50%) Google
7 19 (9.50%) HP
8 16 (8.00%) Ivanti
9 13 (6.50%) Veeam
10 10 (5.00%) Fortinet
11 9 (4.50%) Zscaler
12 6 (3.00%) Nimble Storage
12 6 (3.00%) Red Hat
12 6 (3.00%) TOWER Software
13 5 (2.50%) N-able
13 5 (2.50%) Veritas
14 4 (2.00%) Commvault
15 2 (1.00%) Sophos
15 2 (1.00%) WatchGuard