Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
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The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Citrix over the 6 months to 23 May 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Citrix Systems.

Citrix
England > London
6 months to
23 May 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 228 239 176
Rank change year-on-year +11 -63 0
Contract jobs citing Citrix 465 256 298
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.21% 1.05% 1.50%
As % of the Vendors category 3.22% 2.75% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 195 237
10th Percentile £200 £200 £159
25th Percentile £321 £348 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +13.33% -1.32%
75th Percentile £548 £523 £488
90th Percentile £638 £595 £575
England median daily rate £400 £400 £350
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 6
10th Percentile £22.25 £12.38 £13.48
25th Percentile £25.63 £13.31 £16.73
Median hourly rate £32.50 £13.88 £19.35
Median % change year-on-year +134.23% -28.29% -5.21%
75th Percentile £41.88 £19.06 £20.75
90th Percentile £46.75 £38.05 £21.00
England median hourly rate £15.50 £15.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +3.33% -23.08% +10.17%

Citrix is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in London.

All Vendors
London
Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 14,453 9,309 7,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.76% 38.34% 38.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,284 6,192 5,221
10th Percentile £356 £330 £263
25th Percentile £461 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £675 £625 £600
90th Percentile £775 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £480 £455
% change year-on-year +9.38% +5.49% -2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 112 119
10th Percentile £17.06 £13.89 £12.49
25th Percentile £23.91 £18.25 £17.63
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.65 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.33% +11.04% +14.29%
75th Percentile £49.25 £50.44 £33.03
90th Percentile £52.54 £66.35 £47.83
England median hourly rate £21.35 £20.50 £18.60
% change year-on-year +4.15% +10.22% +1.92%

Citrix
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Citrix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Citrix in London

Citrix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Citrix in London.

Daily rate trend for Citrix in London

Citrix
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Citrix in London over the 6 months to 23 May 2022.

Daily rate histogram for Citrix in London

Citrix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Citrix in London.

Hourly rate trend for Citrix in London

Citrix
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Citrix in London over the 6 months to 23 May 2022.

Hourly rate histogram for Citrix in London

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 23 May 2022. 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 -23 72 £400 -4.19% 25
West London -2 7 £208 -58.08% 4
South London -17 5 £315 -47.50% 1
North London -3 1 £418 +169.68% 1
East London -9 1 £325 -37.80% 3
Citrix
England

For the 6 months to 23 May 2022, IT contractor jobs citing Citrix also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region with a requirement for Citrix.

1 313 (67.31%) Windows
2 247 (53.12%) Active Directory
3 238 (51.18%) Microsoft
4 199 (42.80%) VMware
4 199 (42.80%) Azure
5 178 (38.28%) Microsoft 365
6 147 (31.61%) Finance
7 131 (28.17%) Windows Server
8 126 (27.10%) VMware Infrastructure
9 111 (23.87%) ITIL
10 97 (20.86%) XenApp
10 97 (20.86%) SCCM
11 95 (20.43%) Social Skills
12 94 (20.22%) Windows 10
13 80 (17.20%) Cisco
14 78 (16.77%) Firewall
15 77 (16.56%) PowerShell
16 75 (16.13%) Linux
17 71 (15.27%) Migration
18 70 (15.05%) XenDesktop
19 69 (14.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 67 (14.41%) Microsoft Intune
21 65 (13.98%) DNS
22 61 (13.12%) MS Exchange
22 61 (13.12%) SQL
22 61 (13.12%) Azure Active Directory
23 53 (11.40%) Microsoft Office
24 51 (10.97%) Oracle
24 51 (10.97%) SQL Server
25 49 (10.54%) Project Delivery

Citrix
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 61 (13.12%) MS Exchange
2 43 (9.25%) SharePoint
3 20 (4.30%) WebSphere
4 18 (3.87%) IIS
5 13 (2.80%) Skype for Business
6 9 (1.94%) Confluence
6 9 (1.94%) Exchange Server 2010
7 5 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2007
8 3 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.43%) Apache
9 2 (0.43%) CMS
9 2 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.43%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2003
10 1 (0.22%) MTS
10 1 (0.22%) nginx
10 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.22%) Site Server
Applications
1 53 (11.40%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.51%) Markit EDM
1 7 (1.51%) thinkFolio
2 2 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.43%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.22%) SnowdropKCS
Cloud Services
1 199 (42.80%) Azure
2 178 (38.28%) Microsoft 365
3 61 (13.12%) Azure Active Directory
4 36 (7.74%) SaaS
5 35 (7.53%) AWS
6 27 (5.81%) Mimecast
7 20 (4.30%) IaaS
8 19 (4.09%) OneDrive
9 18 (3.87%) PaaS
10 12 (2.58%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (2.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 10 (2.15%) GCP
12 9 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.08%) Nutanix
13 5 (1.08%) Power Automate
14 4 (0.86%) AWS Direct Connect
14 4 (0.86%) NuGet
15 3 (0.65%) Azure Storage
16 2 (0.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 78 (16.77%) Firewall
2 65 (13.98%) DNS
3 47 (10.11%) WAN
4 41 (8.82%) DHCP
5 40 (8.60%) LAN
6 38 (8.17%) VPN
7 32 (6.88%) NetScaler
8 30 (6.45%) SAN
9 25 (5.38%) MPLS
10 20 (4.30%) Network Security
10 20 (4.30%) Wi-Fi
11 18 (3.87%) Wireless
12 14 (3.01%) Kerberos
13 13 (2.80%) DMZ
14 11 (2.37%) BGP
15 9 (1.94%) Junos
15 9 (1.94%) SD-WAN
16 8 (1.72%) Cisco ISE
16 8 (1.72%) Cisco Nexus
16 8 (1.72%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (10.97%) SQL Server
2 24 (5.16%) Oracle Database
3 13 (2.80%) DB2
4 5 (1.08%) KDB
5 4 (0.86%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.43%) Power BI
7 1 (0.22%) Amazon DynamoDB
7 1 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.22%) DTS
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.22%) MySQL
7 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.22%) Redis
7 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.22%) Squirro
Development Applications
1 9 (1.94%) JIRA
2 6 (1.29%) Git (software)
3 5 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.86%) MSBuild
4 4 (0.86%) MSTest
4 4 (0.86%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (0.86%) Visual Studio
4 4 (0.86%) Visual Studio Team System
5 3 (0.65%) InstallShield
5 3 (0.65%) MSI
6 1 (0.22%) GCC
6 1 (0.22%) JMeter
6 1 (0.22%) LoadRunner
General
1 147 (31.61%) Finance
2 95 (20.43%) Social Skills
3 31 (6.67%) Banking
4 19 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (2.80%) Legal
6 12 (2.58%) Law
6 12 (2.58%) Public Sector
7 9 (1.94%) Front Office
8 6 (1.29%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.86%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.65%) Back Office
11 3 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.65%) Local Government
11 3 (0.65%) Publishing
11 3 (0.65%) Retail
12 2 (0.43%) Advertising
12 2 (0.43%) Marketing
12 2 (0.43%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 76 (16.34%) Analyst
2 69 (14.84%) Architect
3 63 (13.55%) Support Engineer
4 51 (10.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 45 (9.68%) Citrix Engineer
6 40 (8.60%) Infrastructure Architect
7 32 (6.88%) 2nd Line Support
8 30 (6.45%) Support Analyst
9 26 (5.59%) Developer
10 24 (5.16%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 23 (4.95%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 23 (4.95%) C# Developer
11 23 (4.95%) IT Analyst
12 22 (4.73%) .NET Developer
12 22 (4.73%) C# .NET Developer
12 22 (4.73%) Desktop Support
12 22 (4.73%) Service Analyst
13 21 (4.52%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 19 (4.09%) IT Engineer
14 19 (4.09%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (6.45%) .NET
2 15 (3.23%) .NET Framework
3 12 (2.58%) WebSphere MQ
4 10 (2.15%) Middleware
5 6 (1.29%) SailPoint
6 5 (1.08%) 802.1X
6 5 (1.08%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (1.08%) Web Services
7 2 (0.43%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.43%) HTML
8 1 (0.22%) ADO
8 1 (0.22%) Angular 2
8 1 (0.22%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.22%) D3.js
8 1 (0.22%) Flash
8 1 (0.22%) Flask
8 1 (0.22%) LEMP Stack
8 1 (0.22%) React
8 1 (0.22%) Underscore.js
8 1 (0.22%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.39%) Data Centre
2 18 (3.87%) Management Information System
3 16 (3.44%) PKI
3 16 (3.44%) Private Cloud
3 16 (3.44%) User Experience
4 13 (2.80%) Blackberry
4 13 (2.80%) Fat Client
4 13 (2.80%) Hedge funds
4 13 (2.80%) Thin Client
5 11 (2.37%) iPhone
6 9 (1.94%) Clustering
6 9 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (1.94%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.72%) BYOD
7 8 (1.72%) iPad
7 8 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
7 8 (1.72%) Replication
7 8 (1.72%) Smartphone
8 7 (1.51%) Equities
8 7 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 313 (67.31%) Windows
2 131 (28.17%) Windows Server
3 94 (20.22%) Windows 10
4 75 (16.13%) Linux
5 38 (8.17%) Unix
6 30 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (5.38%) Android
7 25 (5.38%) Windows Server 2012
8 23 (4.95%) Windows Server 2008
9 22 (4.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 17 (3.66%) Apple iOS
11 16 (3.44%) Windows 7
12 14 (3.01%) Windows Server 2019
13 11 (2.37%) Mac OS
14 5 (1.08%) VMS
15 4 (0.86%) CentOS
15 4 (0.86%) Solaris
15 4 (0.86%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.43%) Ubuntu
16 2 (0.43%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (23.87%) ITIL
2 71 (15.27%) Migration
3 69 (14.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 49 (10.54%) Project Delivery
5 43 (9.25%) Asset Management
6 42 (9.03%) Change Management
7 35 (7.53%) Patch Management
8 34 (7.31%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (7.10%) Project Management
10 31 (6.67%) Agile
10 31 (6.67%) Incident Management
10 31 (6.67%) Mobile Device Management
11 30 (6.45%) DevOps
11 30 (6.45%) Service Management
12 26 (5.59%) Problem Management
13 25 (5.38%) Data Analysis
14 24 (5.16%) ITSM
14 24 (5.16%) Service Delivery
15 19 (4.09%) Disaster Recovery
15 19 (4.09%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (16.56%) PowerShell
2 61 (13.12%) SQL
3 35 (7.53%) Python
4 32 (6.88%) C#
5 29 (6.24%) T-SQL
6 24 (5.16%) PL/SQL
7 13 (2.80%) C
8 10 (2.15%) VBScript
9 8 (1.72%) Perl
10 7 (1.51%) VB
11 6 (1.29%) Java
12 5 (1.08%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.86%) JavaScript
14 3 (0.65%) C++
14 3 (0.65%) PHP
15 2 (0.43%) Bash
15 2 (0.43%) Lisp
15 2 (0.43%) VBA
16 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 31 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (5.59%) Degree
3 19 (4.09%) TOGAF Certification
4 18 (3.87%) Security Cleared
5 17 (3.66%) CCNA
5 17 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (3.01%) CCNP
6 14 (3.01%) SC Cleared
7 11 (2.37%) MCSE
8 9 (1.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 9 (1.94%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.94%) RHCA
9 8 (1.72%) Citrix Certification
9 8 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 7 (1.51%) JNCIA
10 7 (1.51%) MCSA
11 6 (1.29%) CCA
12 5 (1.08%) MCP
13 4 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.86%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.31%) SLA
2 19 (4.09%) QA
3 9 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (0.86%) GRC
4 4 (0.86%) ISO 22301
4 4 (0.86%) PMO
5 2 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.43%) DICOM
5 2 (0.43%) GDPR
5 2 (0.43%) HL7
6 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 247 (53.12%) Active Directory
2 126 (27.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 97 (20.86%) XenApp
4 70 (15.05%) XenDesktop
5 41 (8.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 38 (8.17%) VMware ESXi
7 36 (7.74%) vSphere
8 33 (7.10%) Microsoft App-V
9 22 (4.73%) NFS
10 17 (3.66%) Hyper-V
11 15 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
12 13 (2.80%) BitLocker
13 9 (1.94%) Firmware
14 8 (1.72%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 7 (1.51%) Terminal Services
15 7 (1.51%) VMware NSX
16 4 (0.86%) Docker
16 4 (0.86%) LXC
16 4 (0.86%) MetaFrame
16 4 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 97 (20.86%) SCCM
2 67 (14.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 31 (6.67%) Ansible
4 26 (5.59%) Terraform
5 20 (4.30%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (4.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 18 (3.87%) Prometheus
8 14 (3.01%) Grafana
9 11 (2.37%) AirWatch
9 11 (2.37%) SCOM
10 10 (2.15%) WSUS
10 10 (2.15%) ZABBIX
11 7 (1.51%) Control-M
11 7 (1.51%) Kubernetes
11 7 (1.51%) NetBackup
11 7 (1.51%) SCOrch
12 6 (1.29%) FortiGate
12 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Clustering
12 6 (1.29%) Puppet
13 5 (1.08%) Nagios
Vendors
1 238 (51.18%) Microsoft
2 199 (42.80%) VMware
3 80 (17.20%) Cisco
4 51 (10.97%) Oracle
5 44 (9.46%) HP
6 35 (7.53%) Ivanti
7 32 (6.88%) IBM
8 31 (6.67%) ServiceNow
9 25 (5.38%) CheckPoint
10 23 (4.95%) Okta
10 23 (4.95%) Palo Alto
11 21 (4.52%) Juniper
12 20 (4.30%) NetApp
13 18 (3.87%) Dell
13 18 (3.87%) Red Hat
14 17 (3.66%) SolarWinds
14 17 (3.66%) Splunk
15 16 (3.44%) Apple
15 16 (3.44%) F5
16 14 (3.01%) TOWER Software