NetScaler Contracts

Citrix NetScaler
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for NetScaler skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NetScaler over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 661 705
Rank change year-on-year +130 +44 -133
Contract jobs citing NetScaler 67 58 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.097% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.19% 0.79% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 34 102
10th Percentile £415 £274 £193
25th Percentile £466 £413 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year -6.35% +37.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £584 £638 £525
90th Percentile £650 £688 £620
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £550 £390
% change year-on-year -6.36% +41.03% -11.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

NetScaler is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NetScaler in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for NetScaler in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NetScaler over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NetScaler in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for NetScaler in the UK

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Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NetScaler within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +134 56 £515 -6.36% 6
UK excluding London +82 46 £515 -6.36% 5
Work from Home +133 29 £515 -6.35% 7
London +95 17 £575 +15.00% 1
North of England +45 16 £514 -9.87% 1
North West +27 15 £515 -9.65%
South East +26 11 £550 -18.52% 2
Midlands +27 9 - - 1
Scotland +37 8 £780 +52.20%
West Midlands +33 8 - - 1
South West +21 1 - - 1
East of England +15 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £375 - 1

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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 (7.46%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (7.46%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.49%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 23 (34.33%) Azure
2 11 (16.42%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (11.94%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (8.96%) OneDrive
5 5 (7.46%) AWS
6 1 (1.49%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.49%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 22 (32.84%) Firewall
2 17 (25.37%) Cisco ISE
2 17 (25.37%) Wi-Fi
3 16 (23.88%) Cisco ASA
4 14 (20.90%) BGP
4 14 (20.90%) IPsec
4 14 (20.90%) OSPF
5 13 (19.40%) Cisco Firepower
5 13 (19.40%) DNS
5 13 (19.40%) EIGRP
5 13 (19.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 13 (19.40%) HSRP
6 12 (17.91%) SNMP
6 12 (17.91%) Spanning Tree
7 8 (11.94%) VPN
8 7 (10.45%) HTTP
8 7 (10.45%) SSL
8 7 (10.45%) TCP/IP
8 7 (10.45%) WAN
9 4 (5.97%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Git
1 7 (10.45%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (19.40%) Public Sector
2 9 (13.43%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.94%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (8.96%) Finance
5 3 (4.48%) Banking
6 1 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Back Office
6 1 (1.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (31.34%) Network Engineer
2 19 (28.36%) Architect
3 15 (22.39%) Senior
4 9 (13.43%) Senior Network Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Developer
6 6 (8.96%) Citrix Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Deployment Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Desktop Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Java Developer
7 5 (7.46%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Python Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Citrix Architect
9 3 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Linux Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Network Architect
9 3 (4.48%) SCCM Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Senior Citrix Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Senior Desktop Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.48%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.91%) Jinja
2 11 (16.42%) SAML
3 7 (10.45%) REST
4 4 (5.97%) 802.1X
4 4 (5.97%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.97%) JSON
4 4 (5.97%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.94%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.46%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.48%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.48%) Fat Client
3 3 (4.48%) Thin Client
4 2 (2.99%) Clustering
5 1 (1.49%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.49%) LIMS
5 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (26.87%) Windows
2 14 (20.90%) Windows 10
3 11 (16.42%) Windows Server
4 7 (10.45%) Linux
4 7 (10.45%) Unix
5 3 (4.48%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (4.48%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.99%) Windows 7
6 2 (2.99%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.33%) Change Management
2 17 (25.37%) Network Management
3 15 (22.39%) ITIL
4 14 (20.90%) Migration
5 12 (17.91%) DevOps
5 12 (17.91%) ITSM
5 12 (17.91%) User Acceptance Testing
6 11 (16.42%) Build Automation
7 9 (13.43%) Load Balancing
7 9 (13.43%) Patch Management
8 8 (11.94%) Application Packaging
9 7 (10.45%) CI/CD
9 7 (10.45%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (7.46%) Low Latency
10 5 (7.46%) Ultra-Low Latency
11 4 (5.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (5.97%) Network Design
12 3 (4.48%) Application Virtualisation
12 3 (4.48%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 21 (31.34%) Python
2 19 (28.36%) Perl
3 14 (20.90%) PowerShell
4 12 (17.91%) Tcl
5 7 (10.45%) Bash
5 7 (10.45%) Java
6 4 (5.97%) ActionScript
6 4 (5.97%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.99%) SQL
8 1 (1.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 20 (29.85%) Security Cleared
2 19 (28.36%) SC Cleared
3 12 (17.91%) CCNA
3 12 (17.91%) CCNP
3 12 (17.91%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.99%) Degree
5 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.49%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.49%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (22.39%) Active Directory
1 15 (22.39%) XenApp
2 13 (19.40%) Firmware
2 13 (19.40%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (17.91%) XenDesktop
4 8 (11.94%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 7 (10.45%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (7.46%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (7.46%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (5.97%) vSphere
8 3 (4.48%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (2.99%) VMware NSX
10 1 (1.49%) DFS Replication
10 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (17.91%) Ansible
2 6 (8.96%) SCCM
3 1 (1.49%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.49%) SysTrack
3 1 (1.49%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.49%) WSUS
Vendors
1 50 (74.63%) Citrix
2 22 (32.84%) Cisco
3 20 (29.85%) Palo Alto
4 19 (28.36%) SolarWinds
5 18 (26.87%) F5
6 17 (25.37%) Microsoft
7 9 (13.43%) NetApp
8 8 (11.94%) VMware
9 7 (10.45%) Meraki
10 2 (2.99%) Ivanti
10 2 (2.99%) Juniper
10 2 (2.99%) Nexthink
10 2 (2.99%) Splunk
10 2 (2.99%) Symantec
11 1 (1.49%) CheckPoint
11 1 (1.49%) Dell
11 1 (1.49%) HP
11 1 (1.49%) McAfee
11 1 (1.49%) Oracle
11 1 (1.49%) Sophos