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 8 May 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
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 264 223
Rank change year-on-year +2 -41 +16
Contract jobs citing Citrix 145 83 182
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 0.67% 1.03%
As % of the Vendors category 1.92% 1.47% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 60 141
10th Percentile £381 £211 £200
25th Percentile £404 £263 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £390 £375
Median % change year-on-year +6.41% +4.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £502 £514 £500
90th Percentile £638 £588 £650
England median daily rate £450 £375 £385
% change year-on-year +20.00% -2.60% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £19.11
25th Percentile £20.82 - £21.10
Median hourly rate £22.27 - £24.86
75th Percentile £23.71 - £26.14
90th Percentile - - £26.66
England median hourly rate £74.00 £16.19 £16.30
% change year-on-year +357.07% -0.67% +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 7,547 5,660 7,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.44% 45.43% 40.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,983 3,719 4,948
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £665
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 93 133
10th Percentile £18.56 £15.97 £13.85
25th Percentile £22.79 £22.27 £16.86
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.41% +28.89% -23.40%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.50 £36.00
90th Percentile £77.42 £67.00 £57.50
England median hourly rate £31.93 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +20.72% +17.56% -43.75%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -19 18 £413 +3.13% 3
East London -4 3 £185 -68.86% 3
South London - 1 £500 -
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 (11.03%) IIS
2 15 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.38%) Confluence
5 1 (0.69%) JBoss
5 1 (0.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (8.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 39 (26.90%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (18.62%) Azure
3 16 (11.03%) Entra ID
4 14 (9.66%) AWS
5 11 (7.59%) IaaS
6 9 (6.21%) PaaS
7 8 (5.52%) Google Workspace
8 7 (4.83%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 7 (4.83%) AWS CloudTrail
9 6 (4.14%) AWS KMS
10 5 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.45%) GCP
11 4 (2.76%) Mimecast
12 3 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.07%) AWS Control Tower
12 3 (2.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (1.38%) Nutanix
13 2 (1.38%) OneDrive
13 2 (1.38%) Power Platform
14 1 (0.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (17.24%) Firewall
2 20 (13.79%) DNS
2 20 (13.79%) VPN
3 15 (10.34%) NetScaler
4 13 (8.97%) DHCP
4 13 (8.97%) Internet
5 10 (6.90%) TCP/IP
6 8 (5.52%) SMTP
7 7 (4.83%) DMZ
8 5 (3.45%) WebEx
9 3 (2.07%) Network Security
9 3 (2.07%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (1.38%) FTP
10 2 (1.38%) Junos
10 2 (1.38%) MPLS
10 2 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.69%) BGP
11 1 (0.69%) Intranet
11 1 (0.69%) LAN
11 1 (0.69%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (29.66%) SQL Server
2 22 (15.17%) Oracle Database
3 7 (4.83%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.07%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.69%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (9.66%) JIRA
2 10 (6.90%) MSI
2 10 (6.90%) Visual Studio
3 4 (2.76%) Selenium
4 3 (2.07%) Appium
4 3 (2.07%) Git
4 3 (2.07%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.07%) JUnit
4 3 (2.07%) TestNG
General
1 55 (37.93%) Finance
2 30 (20.69%) Banking
3 29 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 10 (6.90%) Investment Banking
5 9 (6.21%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (5.52%) Front Office
7 6 (4.14%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.45%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.76%) Publishing
10 3 (2.07%) International Banking
11 2 (1.38%) Legal
11 2 (1.38%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (26.90%) Developer
2 32 (22.07%) C# Developer
3 20 (13.79%) Citrix Engineer
4 14 (9.66%) Analyst
5 12 (8.28%) Applications Developer
5 12 (8.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (8.28%) QA Engineer
6 11 (7.59%) Senior
7 9 (6.21%) Consultant
7 9 (6.21%) QA Test Engineer
7 9 (6.21%) Test Engineer
8 8 (5.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 8 (5.52%) Architect
8 8 (5.52%) C# Application Developer
8 8 (5.52%) IT Analyst
9 7 (4.83%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (4.83%) AWS Consultant
9 7 (4.83%) Citrix Consultant
9 7 (4.83%) Lead
9 7 (4.83%) NetApp Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (26.90%) .NET
2 34 (23.45%) .NET Framework
3 16 (11.03%) WPF
4 15 (10.34%) WinForms
5 4 (2.76%) XML
6 2 (1.38%) ADO
6 2 (1.38%) ebXML
6 2 (1.38%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.38%) Web Services
7 1 (0.69%) LDAP
7 1 (0.69%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.59%) Data Centre
1 11 (7.59%) Onboarding
2 10 (6.90%) PKI
3 9 (6.21%) Client/Server
3 9 (6.21%) Clustering
3 9 (6.21%) Hedge funds
4 7 (4.83%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.45%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.38%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.38%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.69%) Blackberry
9 1 (0.69%) CMDB
9 1 (0.69%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.69%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 106 (73.10%) Windows
2 32 (22.07%) Windows Server
3 17 (11.72%) Windows 10
4 8 (5.52%) Linux
4 8 (5.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (4.83%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (4.83%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.69%) Android
6 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.69%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (20.69%) Data Analysis
2 28 (19.31%) Change Management
2 28 (19.31%) Migration
3 27 (18.62%) Disaster Recovery
4 23 (15.86%) ITIL
5 19 (13.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 18 (12.41%) Agile
7 17 (11.72%) Business Intelligence
7 17 (11.72%) Unit Testing
8 15 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (8.97%) Manual Testing
10 12 (8.28%) DevOps
10 12 (8.28%) Incident Management
11 10 (6.90%) CI/CD
12 9 (6.21%) Data Protection
12 9 (6.21%) Project Delivery
12 9 (6.21%) Service Delivery
13 8 (5.52%) Service Management
13 8 (5.52%) Test Automation
14 7 (4.83%) AI
Programming Languages
1 45 (31.03%) SQL
2 39 (26.90%) C#
3 33 (22.76%) PL/SQL
3 33 (22.76%) T-SQL
4 31 (21.38%) PowerShell
5 13 (8.97%) VBA
6 12 (8.28%) VB
7 6 (4.14%) Python
8 3 (2.07%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 27 (18.62%) Degree
2 17 (11.72%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.21%) Citrix Certification
3 9 (6.21%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.52%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (4.83%) CCA
5 7 (4.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.76%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.76%) MCSA
8 3 (2.07%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.38%) MCSE
9 2 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.69%) CCIE
10 1 (0.69%) CCNP
10 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.69%) ISEB
10 1 (0.69%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (31.72%) QA
2 3 (2.07%) NCSC
3 2 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.38%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 23 (15.86%) Virtual Desktop
3 18 (12.41%) Microsoft App-V
3 18 (12.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (9.66%) Hyper-V
5 9 (6.21%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (5.52%) BitLocker
7 7 (4.83%) Docker
7 7 (4.83%) XenDesktop
8 6 (4.14%) XenApp
9 2 (1.38%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (1.38%) vSphere
10 1 (0.69%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (13.10%) SCCM
2 14 (9.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (6.21%) Kubernetes
4 8 (5.52%) Terraform
4 8 (5.52%) vCenter Server
4 8 (5.52%) vMotion
5 7 (4.83%) Ansible
5 7 (4.83%) Puppet
6 6 (4.14%) WSUS
7 5 (3.45%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.38%) WMI
9 1 (0.69%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 47 (32.41%) Microsoft
2 35 (24.14%) Oracle
3 22 (15.17%) VMware
4 11 (7.59%) Bloomberg
4 11 (7.59%) Reuters
5 8 (5.52%) NetApp
6 7 (4.83%) ION Trading
7 5 (3.45%) Cisco
7 5 (3.45%) UiPath
8 4 (2.76%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.07%) Google
9 3 (2.07%) Juniper
10 2 (1.38%) Arista
10 2 (1.38%) Charles River
10 2 (1.38%) CloudEndure
10 2 (1.38%) F5
10 2 (1.38%) HP
11 1 (0.69%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.69%) SevOne
11 1 (0.69%) Snow