Citrix Engineer Contracts

Citrix Engineer
UK

The median Citrix Engineer daily rate in the UK is £300 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 687 750
Rank change year-on-year +103 +63 -122
Contract jobs requiring a Citrix Engineer 16 29 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.049% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.052% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 22 95
10th Percentile £260 £332 £275
25th Percentile £275 £345 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -17.65% +3.03%
75th Percentile £475 £357 £694
90th Percentile £535 £454 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate - £350 £400
% change year-on-year - -12.39% -5.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

Citrix Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Citrix Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Citrix Engineer in the UK

Citrix Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Citrix Engineer in the UK

Citrix Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Citrix Engineer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Citrix Engineer in the UK

Citrix Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Citrix Engineer in the UK

Citrix Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +106 14 £300 -14.29% 2
London +115 8 £300 -29.41% 1
UK excluding London +42 6 - - 1
Midlands - 5 - -
West Midlands - 5 - -
Work from Home +119 4 £450 +31.39% 2
East of England +15 1 - -

Citrix Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Citrix Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Citrix Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Citrix
2 12 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
4 10 (62.50%) Windows
5 9 (56.25%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (50.00%) PowerShell
6 8 (50.00%) Azure
6 8 (50.00%) DNS
6 8 (50.00%) Change Management
6 8 (50.00%) Windows 10
6 8 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
7 7 (43.75%) XenApp
7 7 (43.75%) XenDesktop
8 6 (37.50%) NetScaler
8 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (37.50%) Patch Management
9 5 (31.25%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (31.25%) OneDrive
9 5 (31.25%) SharePoint
9 5 (31.25%) Firewall
9 5 (31.25%) NetApp
9 5 (31.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 5 (31.25%) Application Packaging
10 4 (25.00%) Finance
10 4 (25.00%) SSL
10 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
11 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
11 3 (18.75%) VMware

Citrix Engineer Skill Set
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 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (31.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (31.25%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (31.25%) OneDrive
4 2 (12.50%) AWS
5 1 (6.25%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) DNS
2 6 (37.50%) NetScaler
3 5 (31.25%) Firewall
4 4 (25.00%) SSL
5 2 (12.50%) DHCP
5 2 (12.50%) FTP
5 2 (12.50%) HTTP
5 2 (12.50%) IPsec
5 2 (12.50%) Network Security
5 2 (12.50%) SMTP
5 2 (12.50%) SNMP
5 2 (12.50%) SSH
5 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
5 2 (12.50%) tcpdump
5 2 (12.50%) Telnet
5 2 (12.50%) VPN
5 2 (12.50%) Wireshark
6 1 (6.25%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 2 (12.50%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Change Management
2 6 (37.50%) Patch Management
3 5 (31.25%) Application Packaging
4 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (18.75%) Agile
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
6 2 (12.50%) ITIL
6 2 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (12.50%) Migration
6 2 (12.50%) Server Management
6 2 (12.50%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 2 (12.50%) Web Filtering
6 2 (12.50%) Zero Trust
7 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
7 1 (6.25%) Contingency Planning
7 1 (6.25%) Data Loss Prevention
7 1 (6.25%) DevOps
7 1 (6.25%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 1 (6.25%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
System Software
1 12 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (43.75%) XenApp
3 7 (43.75%) XenDesktop
4 5 (31.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) SCCM
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Citrix
2 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
3 5 (31.25%) NetApp
4 3 (18.75%) VMware
5 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
5 2 (12.50%) Zscaler