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 18 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
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 268 226
Rank change year-on-year +5 -42 0
Contract jobs citing Citrix 144 82 177
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 0.66% 1.01%
As % of the Vendors category 1.91% 1.44% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 58 135
10th Percentile £348 £204 £206
25th Percentile £404 £263 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £390 £375
Median % change year-on-year +6.41% +4.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £541 £521 £514
90th Percentile £641 £589 £675
England median daily rate £485 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +29.33% -6.25% -
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 7,537 5,708 7,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.99% 45.62% 40.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,979 3,741 4,898
10th Percentile £350 £331 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £546 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% +0.09% -3.54%
75th Percentile £638 £667 £668
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 93 127
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.86
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.27 £16.86
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +29.20% -16.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.50 £35.38
90th Percentile £78.55 £67.00 £59.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.39 £22.50
% change year-on-year +23.14% +17.30% -40.00%

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 18 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 18 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 -15 21 £413 +10.00% 6
East London -7 1 £185 -68.86% 1
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 (11.11%) IIS
2 14 (9.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.39%) Confluence
5 1 (0.69%) JBoss
5 1 (0.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (9.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.86%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 37 (25.69%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (18.75%) Azure
3 19 (13.19%) Entra ID
4 15 (10.42%) AWS
5 11 (7.64%) IaaS
6 9 (6.25%) PaaS
7 8 (5.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 8 (5.56%) AWS CloudTrail
8 7 (4.86%) AWS KMS
9 6 (4.17%) Google Workspace
10 5 (3.47%) GCP
11 4 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.78%) AWS Control Tower
11 4 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.78%) Mimecast
11 4 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (1.39%) Nutanix
12 2 (1.39%) OneDrive
12 2 (1.39%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 22 (15.28%) Firewall
2 21 (14.58%) DNS
3 20 (13.89%) VPN
4 15 (10.42%) DHCP
5 13 (9.03%) Internet
5 13 (9.03%) NetScaler
6 10 (6.94%) TCP/IP
7 8 (5.56%) SMTP
8 5 (3.47%) DMZ
8 5 (3.47%) Network Security
8 5 (3.47%) WebEx
9 2 (1.39%) FTP
9 2 (1.39%) Junos
9 2 (1.39%) MPLS
9 2 (1.39%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.69%) BGP
10 1 (0.69%) IPv4
10 1 (0.69%) OSPF
10 1 (0.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (28.47%) SQL Server
2 22 (15.28%) Oracle Database
3 7 (4.86%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.08%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.69%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (9.72%) JIRA
2 10 (6.94%) MSI
2 10 (6.94%) Visual Studio
3 4 (2.78%) Selenium
4 3 (2.08%) Appium
4 3 (2.08%) Git
4 3 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.08%) JUnit
4 3 (2.08%) TestNG
General
1 54 (37.50%) Finance
2 29 (20.14%) Banking
3 27 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 8 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (5.56%) Investment Banking
5 6 (4.17%) Front Office
5 6 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.47%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.08%) International Banking
8 3 (2.08%) Publishing
9 2 (1.39%) Legal
9 2 (1.39%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (25.69%) Developer
2 32 (22.22%) C# Developer
3 20 (13.89%) Citrix Engineer
4 14 (9.72%) Analyst
5 12 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (8.33%) QA Engineer
6 11 (7.64%) Applications Developer
7 10 (6.94%) Senior
8 9 (6.25%) Architect
8 9 (6.25%) Consultant
8 9 (6.25%) QA Test Engineer
8 9 (6.25%) Test Engineer
9 8 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 8 (5.56%) C# Application Developer
10 7 (4.86%) .NET Developer
10 7 (4.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) AWS Consultant
10 7 (4.86%) Lead
10 7 (4.86%) NetApp Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (25.69%) .NET
2 34 (23.61%) .NET Framework
3 15 (10.42%) WinForms
4 14 (9.72%) WPF
5 4 (2.78%) XML
6 2 (1.39%) ADO
6 2 (1.39%) ebXML
6 2 (1.39%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.39%) Web Services
7 1 (0.69%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.03%) Onboarding
2 11 (7.64%) Data Centre
3 9 (6.25%) Hedge funds
3 9 (6.25%) PKI
4 8 (5.56%) Client/Server
4 8 (5.56%) Clustering
5 7 (4.86%) Enterprise Storage
5 7 (4.86%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.47%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.47%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.39%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.39%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.69%) Blackberry
10 1 (0.69%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.69%) Thin Client
10 1 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 103 (71.53%) Windows
2 33 (22.92%) Windows Server
3 17 (11.81%) Windows 10
4 8 (5.56%) Linux
5 7 (4.86%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (4.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (2.08%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.69%) Android
8 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.69%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (20.83%) Data Analysis
2 28 (19.44%) Disaster Recovery
2 28 (19.44%) Migration
3 26 (18.06%) Change Management
4 22 (15.28%) ITIL
5 19 (13.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 17 (11.81%) Unit Testing
7 16 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (9.72%) Agile
8 14 (9.72%) Incident Management
9 13 (9.03%) Manual Testing
10 12 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (6.25%) Data Protection
11 9 (6.25%) DevOps
11 9 (6.25%) Project Delivery
11 9 (6.25%) Service Delivery
12 8 (5.56%) CI/CD
12 8 (5.56%) Test Automation
13 7 (4.86%) OOP
13 7 (4.86%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 42 (29.17%) SQL
2 37 (25.69%) C#
3 33 (22.92%) PL/SQL
3 33 (22.92%) T-SQL
4 28 (19.44%) PowerShell
5 13 (9.03%) VBA
6 12 (8.33%) VB
7 6 (4.17%) Python
8 4 (2.78%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 27 (18.75%) Degree
2 17 (11.81%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.56%) Citrix Certification
4 8 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (4.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (4.17%) CCA
6 6 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.78%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.78%) MCSA
8 2 (1.39%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.39%) MCSE
8 2 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.69%) CCIE
9 1 (0.69%) CCNP
9 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.69%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (31.94%) QA
2 4 (2.78%) NCSC
3 3 (2.08%) SLA
4 2 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 30 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 25 (17.36%) Virtual Desktop
3 18 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
3 18 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (9.72%) Hyper-V
5 8 (5.56%) BitLocker
5 8 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (4.86%) Docker
7 6 (4.17%) XenDesktop
8 4 (2.78%) XenApp
9 3 (2.08%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (1.39%) vSphere
11 1 (0.69%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (10.42%) SCCM
2 13 (9.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (6.25%) Kubernetes
4 8 (5.56%) Terraform
4 8 (5.56%) vCenter Server
4 8 (5.56%) vMotion
5 7 (4.86%) Ansible
5 7 (4.86%) Puppet
6 4 (2.78%) SCVMM
6 4 (2.78%) WSUS
7 2 (1.39%) WMI
8 1 (0.69%) CloudForms
8 1 (0.69%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 46 (31.94%) Microsoft
2 34 (23.61%) Oracle
3 22 (15.28%) VMware
4 11 (7.64%) Bloomberg
5 9 (6.25%) Reuters
6 8 (5.56%) NetApp
7 5 (3.47%) Cisco
7 5 (3.47%) ION Trading
8 4 (2.78%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.08%) Google
9 3 (2.08%) Juniper
9 3 (2.08%) UiPath
10 2 (1.39%) Arista
10 2 (1.39%) Charles River
10 2 (1.39%) CloudEndure
10 2 (1.39%) F5
11 1 (0.69%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.69%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.69%) SevOne
11 1 (0.69%) Snow