Citrix Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Citrix
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of Citrix products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Citrix over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Citrix Systems.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 92 91
Rank change year-on-year -23 -1 +36
Contract jobs citing Citrix 12 28 44
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.65% 1.38% 1.79%
As % of the Vendors category 1.32% 3.18% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 28
10th Percentile £184 £258 £339
25th Percentile £196 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £350 £393
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -10.83% -17.37%
75th Percentile £685 £494 £538
90th Percentile - £582 £615
Central London median daily rate £563 £350 £400
% change year-on-year +60.71% -12.50% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.82 - -
Median hourly rate £22.27 - -
75th Percentile £23.71 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £22.27 - -

All Vendors
City of London

Citrix falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 907 880 1,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.27% 43.29% 42.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 543 746
10th Percentile £332 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £457 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +0.09% -0.90%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 6
10th Percentile £20.02 £17.05 -
25th Percentile £20.50 £41.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £85.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -52.35% +309.64% +1.22%
75th Percentile £44.72 £112.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £54.00 £137.50 £63.13
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £57.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.70% +202.63% -7.32%

Citrix
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Citrix relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Citrix job vacancy trend in the City of London

Citrix
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Citrix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Citrix

Citrix
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Citrix in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Citrix in the City of London

Citrix
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Citrix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Citrix

Citrix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) LAN
2 3 (25.00%) VPN
2 3 (25.00%) WAN
2 3 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (16.67%) DNS
4 1 (8.33%) BGP
4 1 (8.33%) DHCP
4 1 (8.33%) IPv4
4 1 (8.33%) IPv6
4 1 (8.33%) MPLS
4 1 (8.33%) OSPF
4 1 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Citrix Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Junior
3 1 (8.33%) Junior Desktop Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Junior Desktop Support
3 1 (8.33%) Junior Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Junior Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Architect
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Subject Matter Expert
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) CMDB
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) Fat Client
1 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) Thin Client
1 1 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (8.33%) Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (25.00%) ITIL
2 3 (25.00%) Security Patching
2 3 (25.00%) Software Deployment
3 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 2 (16.67%) ITSM
3 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Runbook
4 1 (8.33%) Business Strategy
4 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Operations
4 1 (8.33%) FinOps
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Tech Ops
4 1 (8.33%) Ticket Management
4 1 (8.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
1 3 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) CCNA
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) CCNP
2 1 (8.33%) MCP
2 1 (8.33%) MCSA
2 1 (8.33%) MCSE
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (8.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) VMware
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (25.00%) Altiris
3 3 (25.00%) Ivanti
3 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (25.00%) Symantec
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco
4 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
5 1 (8.33%) ForeScout
5 1 (8.33%) Infoblox
5 1 (8.33%) Juniper
5 1 (8.33%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (8.33%) Meraki
5 1 (8.33%) Remedy
5 1 (8.33%) SAP