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 5 September 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
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 93 76
Rank change year-on-year -21 -17 +40
Contract jobs citing Citrix 25 27 50
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.10% 1.52% 2.44%
As % of the Vendors category 2.53% 3.10% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 32
10th Percentile £226 £199 £253
25th Percentile £406 £259 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +28.57% -33.33%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £459
90th Percentile £668 £685 £613
Central London median daily rate £413 £450 £350
% change year-on-year -8.33% +28.57% -30.00%
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 990 871 904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.46% 49.04% 44.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 573 599
10th Percentile £338 £316 £350
25th Percentile £445 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £656 £675 £666
90th Percentile £750 £750 £753
Central London median daily rate £538 £537 £550
% change year-on-year +0.14% -2.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.88 £23.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £22.83 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.11% +28.33% -25.52%
75th Percentile £29.78 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.48 £65.21 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.44% +7.67% -25.52%

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 5 September 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 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (12.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (12.00%) GCP
3 3 (12.00%) IaaS
3 3 (12.00%) OpenShift
3 3 (12.00%) PaaS
4 2 (8.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (40.00%) VPN
2 9 (36.00%) DHCP
2 9 (36.00%) DNS
3 7 (28.00%) Firewall
4 3 (12.00%) SMTP
4 3 (12.00%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (8.00%) DMZ
5 2 (8.00%) LAN
5 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (4.00%) BGP
6 1 (4.00%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (4.00%) Internet
6 1 (4.00%) MPLS
6 1 (4.00%) OSPF
6 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
6 1 (4.00%) VoIP
6 1 (4.00%) WAN
6 1 (4.00%) Wireless
6 1 (4.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Oracle Database
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (12.00%) Big Data
2 3 (12.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) MSI
General
1 6 (24.00%) Banking
2 5 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.00%) Front Office
4 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) AWS Consultant
1 7 (28.00%) Citrix Consultant
1 7 (28.00%) Consultant
2 4 (16.00%) C# Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Support Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 3 (12.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (12.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Desktop Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) .NET
1 4 (16.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (8.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Clustering
1 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (12.00%) PKI
1 3 (12.00%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) BYOD
3 1 (4.00%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 17 (68.00%) Windows
2 10 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (12.00%) Linux
4 2 (8.00%) Mac OS
5 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Migration
2 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (16.00%) Data Analysis
3 4 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (16.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (12.00%) AI
4 3 (12.00%) DevOps
4 3 (12.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (12.00%) Software Deployment
5 2 (8.00%) Business Continuity
5 2 (8.00%) Change Control
5 2 (8.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (8.00%) ITIL
5 2 (8.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (8.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (8.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (4.00%) Identity Management
6 1 (4.00%) Risk Management
6 1 (4.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) C#
1 4 (16.00%) PL/SQL
1 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (16.00%) SQL
1 4 (16.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) CCNA
3 1 (4.00%) CCNP
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) QA
2 2 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 11 (44.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (16.00%) Hyper-V
4 4 (16.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (12.00%) BitLocker
5 3 (12.00%) Docker
5 3 (12.00%) Terminal Services
5 3 (12.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) vCenter Server
2 4 (16.00%) SCCM
3 3 (12.00%) Ansible
3 3 (12.00%) FortiGate
3 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (12.00%) Nagios
3 3 (12.00%) Puppet
3 3 (12.00%) vMotion
4 2 (8.00%) Nessus
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (32.00%) VMware
3 5 (20.00%) Cisco
4 4 (16.00%) Oracle
5 3 (12.00%) Bloomberg
5 3 (12.00%) Google
5 3 (12.00%) HP
5 3 (12.00%) Symantec
6 2 (8.00%) Tenable
6 2 (8.00%) Zscaler
7 1 (4.00%) Forcepoint
7 1 (4.00%) ForeScout
7 1 (4.00%) ION Trading
7 1 (4.00%) Juniper
7 1 (4.00%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (4.00%) Meraki
7 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
7 1 (4.00%) Reuters
7 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow