Citrix Contract Job Trends in London

Citrix
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 289 253 218
Rank change year-on-year -36 -35 +11
Contract jobs citing Citrix 142 105 192
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.74% 0.82% 1.09%
As % of the Vendors category 1.79% 1.82% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 72 140
10th Percentile £243 £228 £217
25th Percentile £404 £268 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £550 £483 £500
90th Percentile £646 £587 £650
England median daily rate £490 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +30.67% -6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £20.44
25th Percentile - - £24.43
Median hourly rate - - £27.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £74.00 £15.44 £16.30
% change year-on-year +379.27% -5.28% +5.16%

All Vendors
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,915 5,774 7,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.30% 45.34% 41.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,200 3,741 5,024
10th Percentile £350 £325 £312
25th Percentile £425 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -0.37% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £738 £766 £775
England median daily rate £508 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -0.98% -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 110 129
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.60 £17.78
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.55 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +24.34% +19.96% -16.49%
75th Percentile £58.92 £48.44 £36.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £27.13 £24.50
% change year-on-year +29.03% +10.71% -34.67%

Citrix
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Citrix job vacancy trend in London

Citrix
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Citrix

Citrix
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Citrix in London over the 6 months to 27 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Citrix in London

Citrix
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Citrix

Citrix
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix within the London region over the 6 months to 27 June 2026. 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
Central London -18 29 £413 +3.13% 1
South London -8 1 £500 +92.31%
Citrix
England

Citrix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 16 (11.27%) IIS
1 16 (11.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.52%) Appian
2 5 (3.52%) Camunda
2 5 (3.52%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (2.82%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (7.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.52%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (3.52%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.70%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.70%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 36 (25.35%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (15.49%) Azure
3 15 (10.56%) AWS
4 14 (9.86%) Entra ID
5 12 (8.45%) IaaS
6 10 (7.04%) PaaS
7 9 (6.34%) Google Workspace
8 7 (4.93%) GCP
9 5 (3.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 5 (3.52%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (2.82%) AWS KMS
10 4 (2.82%) Mimecast
11 3 (2.11%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.41%) Nutanix
12 2 (1.41%) OneDrive
12 2 (1.41%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.70%) AWS Control Tower
13 1 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.70%) Azure Monitor
13 1 (0.70%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 30 (21.13%) Firewall
2 29 (20.42%) VPN
3 26 (18.31%) DNS
4 20 (14.08%) DHCP
5 14 (9.86%) Internet
5 14 (9.86%) TCP/IP
6 10 (7.04%) Network Security
7 9 (6.34%) DMZ
7 9 (6.34%) SMTP
8 7 (4.93%) NetScaler
9 5 (3.52%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (2.11%) LAN
10 3 (2.11%) MPLS
11 2 (1.41%) BGP
11 2 (1.41%) FTP
11 2 (1.41%) Junos
11 2 (1.41%) OSPF
11 2 (1.41%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (1.41%) WAN
11 2 (1.41%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (29.58%) SQL Server
2 25 (17.61%) Oracle Database
3 8 (5.63%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (3.52%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.11%) Big Data
5 3 (2.11%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.70%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (7.04%) MSI
2 8 (5.63%) JIRA
3 7 (4.93%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.82%) Selenium
5 3 (2.11%) Appium
5 3 (2.11%) Git
5 3 (2.11%) JUnit
5 3 (2.11%) TestNG
6 2 (1.41%) REST Assured
General
1 48 (33.80%) Finance
2 38 (26.76%) Banking
3 33 (23.24%) Social Skills
4 11 (7.75%) Front Office
5 10 (7.04%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.93%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.93%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.82%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.41%) Legal
9 2 (1.41%) Publishing
9 2 (1.41%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.70%) International Banking
10 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (27.46%) Developer
2 29 (20.42%) C# Developer
3 20 (14.08%) Analyst
4 15 (10.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (7.75%) Citrix Engineer
6 10 (7.04%) IT Analyst
7 9 (6.34%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 9 (6.34%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (6.34%) Applications Developer
7 9 (6.34%) Help Desk Analyst
7 9 (6.34%) Support Engineer
8 8 (5.63%) Consultant
9 7 (4.93%) AWS Consultant
9 7 (4.93%) Citrix Consultant
9 7 (4.93%) Test Manager
10 6 (4.23%) .NET Developer
10 6 (4.23%) C# Application Developer
10 6 (4.23%) Network Manager
10 6 (4.23%) QA Engineer
10 6 (4.23%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (27.46%) .NET
2 35 (24.65%) .NET Framework
3 13 (9.15%) WPF
4 12 (8.45%) WinForms
5 3 (2.11%) Web Services
5 3 (2.11%) XML
6 2 (1.41%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.41%) ADO
6 2 (1.41%) ebXML
6 2 (1.41%) RESTful
7 1 (0.70%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.70%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.70%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.56%) Onboarding
2 14 (9.86%) Data Centre
3 10 (7.04%) PKI
3 10 (7.04%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (6.34%) Clustering
5 8 (5.63%) Client/Server
5 8 (5.63%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (4.23%) Hedge funds
7 5 (3.52%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (2.11%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.41%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.41%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.70%) BYOD
10 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.70%) Fat Client
10 1 (0.70%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.70%) iPhone
10 1 (0.70%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 105 (73.94%) Windows
2 33 (23.24%) Windows Server
3 14 (9.86%) Windows 10
4 9 (6.34%) Linux
5 7 (4.93%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (4.23%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (4.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (2.11%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.70%) Android
8 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.70%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (23.24%) Data Analysis
2 27 (19.01%) Change Management
3 26 (18.31%) Disaster Recovery
4 24 (16.90%) ITIL
4 24 (16.90%) Migration
5 23 (16.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (13.38%) AI
7 17 (11.97%) Unit Testing
8 16 (11.27%) Agile
9 14 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (9.15%) DevOps
10 13 (9.15%) Incident Management
10 13 (9.15%) Service Delivery
11 12 (8.45%) OO
11 12 (8.45%) OOP
12 10 (7.04%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (7.04%) Generative AI
12 10 (7.04%) Software Deployment
13 9 (6.34%) Computer Science
14 8 (5.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 41 (28.87%) SQL
2 39 (27.46%) C#
3 34 (23.94%) PowerShell
4 33 (23.24%) PL/SQL
4 33 (23.24%) T-SQL
5 10 (7.04%) VB
5 10 (7.04%) VBA
6 6 (4.23%) Python
7 4 (2.82%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.70%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 33 (23.24%) Degree
2 14 (9.86%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.34%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (4.23%) Citrix Certification
5 6 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.23%) ISTQB
5 6 (4.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (3.52%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.82%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.82%) CCA
7 4 (2.82%) MCSA
8 2 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.70%) CCNA
9 1 (0.70%) CCNP
9 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (25.35%) QA
2 2 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.41%) SLA
3 1 (0.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 34 (23.94%) Active Directory
2 20 (14.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (13.38%) Microsoft App-V
4 17 (11.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (9.86%) Hyper-V
6 11 (7.75%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (6.34%) BitLocker
8 8 (5.63%) Docker
9 5 (3.52%) XenDesktop
10 4 (2.82%) Terminal Services
11 3 (2.11%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (2.11%) XenApp
12 2 (1.41%) vSphere
13 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (14.79%) SCCM
2 11 (7.75%) vCenter Server
3 10 (7.04%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (6.34%) vMotion
5 8 (5.63%) Ansible
5 8 (5.63%) Puppet
6 7 (4.93%) WSUS
7 5 (3.52%) Terraform
8 4 (2.82%) FortiGate
9 3 (2.11%) Nagios
9 3 (2.11%) SCVMM
10 2 (1.41%) Nessus
10 2 (1.41%) WMI
11 1 (0.70%) CloudForms
Vendors
1 46 (32.39%) Microsoft
2 35 (24.65%) Oracle
3 25 (17.61%) VMware
4 17 (11.97%) Bloomberg
5 13 (9.15%) Reuters
6 9 (6.34%) ION Trading
7 8 (5.63%) Cisco
8 7 (4.93%) Google
9 6 (4.23%) NetApp
10 5 (3.52%) OpenText
10 5 (3.52%) ServiceNow
11 4 (2.82%) HP
11 4 (2.82%) Juniper
11 4 (2.82%) Symantec
12 3 (2.11%) UiPath
13 2 (1.41%) Arista
13 2 (1.41%) F5
13 2 (1.41%) Tenable
13 2 (1.41%) Zscaler
14 1 (0.70%) ForeScout