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 12 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
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 102 79
Rank change year-on-year -11 -23 +57
Contract jobs citing Citrix 23 21 52
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.96% 1.23% 2.39%
As % of the Vendors category 2.39% 2.73% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 33
10th Percentile £213 £253 £250
25th Percentile £406 £263 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £350 £350
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% - -35.78%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £419
90th Percentile £668 £670 £553
Central London median daily rate £413 £350 £350
% change year-on-year +17.86% - -28.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.82 - -
Median hourly rate £22.27 - £27.00
75th Percentile £23.71 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £22.27 - £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 963 768 935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.16% 44.96% 42.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 465 689
10th Percentile £357 £314 £325
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -1.79% -1.75%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £755 £762 £788
Central London median daily rate £538 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -0.46% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 8
10th Percentile - £22.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £25.25 £15.19
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.00 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +42.53% -56.50%
75th Percentile £25.77 £53.75 £24.56
90th Percentile £42.65 £100.00 £63.53
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £29.07 £21.75
% change year-on-year -20.33% +33.66% -42.00%

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 12 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 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) AWS
2 8 (34.78%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (26.09%) Entra ID
4 4 (17.39%) Azure
5 2 (8.70%) GCP
5 2 (8.70%) IaaS
5 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
5 2 (8.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (34.78%) DNS
2 7 (30.43%) VPN
3 5 (21.74%) DHCP
4 2 (8.70%) Firewall
4 2 (8.70%) SMTP
4 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.35%) Internet
5 1 (4.35%) IPv4
5 1 (4.35%) IPv6
5 1 (4.35%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle Database
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (8.70%) Big Data
3 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) MSI
General
1 3 (13.04%) Banking
1 3 (13.04%) Finance
2 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
2 1 (4.35%) Front Office
2 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) AWS Consultant
1 7 (30.43%) Citrix Consultant
1 7 (30.43%) Consultant
2 4 (17.39%) C# Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Citrix Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (13.04%) Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 2 (8.70%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Desktop Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Desktop Support
4 2 (8.70%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Support
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) .NET
1 4 (17.39%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (8.70%) Clustering
2 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.70%) PKI
3 1 (4.35%) BYOD
3 1 (4.35%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.35%) CMDB
3 1 (4.35%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.35%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 16 (69.57%) Windows
2 7 (30.43%) Windows Server
3 3 (13.04%) Mac OS
4 2 (8.70%) Linux
4 2 (8.70%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Migration
2 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (17.39%) Data Analysis
3 4 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (17.39%) Unit Testing
4 3 (13.04%) Application Packaging
4 3 (13.04%) Customer Service
5 2 (8.70%) AI
5 2 (8.70%) Business Continuity
5 2 (8.70%) Change Control
5 2 (8.70%) Change Management
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) Incident Management
5 2 (8.70%) ITIL
5 2 (8.70%) Machine Learning
5 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (8.70%) Software Deployment
6 1 (4.35%) ITSM
6 1 (4.35%) Runbook
6 1 (4.35%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) C#
2 4 (17.39%) PL/SQL
2 4 (17.39%) T-SQL
3 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) CCA
3 1 (4.35%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) QA
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) Active Directory
2 5 (21.74%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (17.39%) Hyper-V
4 3 (13.04%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (8.70%) BitLocker
5 2 (8.70%) Docker
5 2 (8.70%) Terminal Services
5 2 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (4.35%) XenApp
6 1 (4.35%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) SCCM
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.70%) Ansible
3 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.70%) Nagios
3 2 (8.70%) Puppet
3 2 (8.70%) vCenter Server
3 2 (8.70%) vMotion
4 1 (4.35%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle
3 3 (13.04%) Bloomberg
3 3 (13.04%) VMware
4 2 (8.70%) Google
4 2 (8.70%) HP
4 2 (8.70%) Symantec
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco
5 1 (4.35%) ION Trading
5 1 (4.35%) Reuters
5 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow