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 27 June 2026, 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
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 96 68
Rank change year-on-year -10 -28 +65
Contract jobs citing Citrix 27 24 55
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.11% 1.37% 2.56%
As % of the Vendors category 2.71% 3.00% 5.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 15 34
10th Percentile £227 £255 £250
25th Percentile £406 £263 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +14.29% -39.13%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £414
90th Percentile £668 £665 £551
Central London median daily rate £413 £400 £350
% change year-on-year +3.13% +14.29% -35.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £27.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £27.00

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 995 800 952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.96% 45.74% 44.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 491 694
10th Percentile £368 £313 £338
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% -2.61%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £682
90th Percentile £750 £751 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £545 £550
% change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 9
10th Percentile - £22.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.75 £16.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.72% +54.00% -37.93%
75th Percentile £28.39 £63.75 £27.00
90th Percentile £42.30 £93.11 £51.35
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -25.29% +37.78% -10.00%

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 27 June 2026.

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 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) AWS
2 6 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (14.81%) Entra ID
4 3 (11.11%) Azure
4 3 (11.11%) GCP
4 3 (11.11%) IaaS
4 3 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 3 (11.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (40.74%) DNS
2 10 (37.04%) VPN
3 9 (33.33%) DHCP
4 7 (25.93%) Firewall
5 3 (11.11%) SMTP
5 3 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (7.41%) DMZ
6 2 (7.41%) LAN
6 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
7 1 (3.70%) BGP
7 1 (3.70%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (3.70%) Internet
7 1 (3.70%) MPLS
7 1 (3.70%) NetScaler
7 1 (3.70%) OSPF
7 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
7 1 (3.70%) WAN
7 1 (3.70%) Wireless
7 1 (3.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 5 (18.52%) Oracle Database
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (11.11%) Big Data
3 3 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) MSI
General
1 4 (14.81%) Banking
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.70%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) AWS Consultant
1 7 (25.93%) Citrix Consultant
1 7 (25.93%) Consultant
2 5 (18.52%) C# Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Developer
3 4 (14.81%) 3rd Line Support
3 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Support Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 3 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Citrix Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Server Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) .NET
1 5 (18.52%) .NET Framework
2 2 (7.41%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Clustering
1 3 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 3 (11.11%) PKI
1 3 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) BYOD
3 1 (3.70%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.70%) Fat Client
3 1 (3.70%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 19 (70.37%) Windows
2 11 (40.74%) Windows Server
3 3 (11.11%) Linux
4 2 (7.41%) Mac OS
4 2 (7.41%) Windows 10
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 8 (29.63%) Migration
2 5 (18.52%) Data Analysis
2 5 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (18.52%) Unit Testing
3 3 (11.11%) AI
3 3 (11.11%) DevOps
3 3 (11.11%) Machine Learning
3 3 (11.11%) Software Deployment
4 2 (7.41%) Application Packaging
4 2 (7.41%) Business Continuity
4 2 (7.41%) Change Control
4 2 (7.41%) Change Management
4 2 (7.41%) Customer Service
4 2 (7.41%) Incident Management
4 2 (7.41%) ITIL
4 2 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (7.41%) Project Delivery
4 2 (7.41%) Service Delivery
4 2 (7.41%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) C#
2 5 (18.52%) PL/SQL
2 5 (18.52%) T-SQL
3 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) CCA
4 1 (3.70%) CCNA
4 1 (3.70%) CCNP
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.70%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) QA
2 2 (7.41%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 12 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 7 (25.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (18.52%) Hyper-V
3 5 (18.52%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (14.81%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (14.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (11.11%) BitLocker
5 3 (11.11%) Docker
5 3 (11.11%) Terminal Services
6 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.70%) XenApp
6 1 (3.70%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) SCCM
1 5 (18.52%) vCenter Server
2 3 (11.11%) Ansible
2 3 (11.11%) FortiGate
2 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.11%) Nagios
2 3 (11.11%) Puppet
2 3 (11.11%) vMotion
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (7.41%) Nessus
4 1 (3.70%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (29.63%) VMware
3 5 (18.52%) Cisco
3 5 (18.52%) Oracle
4 3 (11.11%) Bloomberg
4 3 (11.11%) Google
4 3 (11.11%) HP
4 3 (11.11%) Symantec
5 2 (7.41%) Tenable
5 2 (7.41%) Zscaler
6 1 (3.70%) Forcepoint
6 1 (3.70%) ForeScout
6 1 (3.70%) ION Trading
6 1 (3.70%) Juniper
6 1 (3.70%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (3.70%) Meraki
6 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.70%) Reuters
6 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow