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 20 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
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 265 227
Rank change year-on-year -4 -38 +18
Contract jobs citing Citrix 140 85 177
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 0.69% 1.01%
As % of the Vendors category 1.85% 1.50% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 60 135
10th Percentile £374 £211 £206
25th Percentile £406 £263 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £390 £375
Median % change year-on-year +6.41% +4.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £556 £514 £514
90th Percentile £641 £588 £675
England median daily rate £490 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +30.67% -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 7,557 5,669 7,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.98% 45.76% 40.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,994 3,704 4,898
10th Percentile £350 £330 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% +0.97% -4.42%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £668
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £501 £525 £517
% change year-on-year -4.67% +1.50% -3.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 95 127
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.86
25th Percentile £25.31 £22.27 £16.86
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.41% +28.89% -13.46%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.50 £35.38
90th Percentile £78.36 £66.50 £59.00
England median hourly rate £32.36 £26.32 £22.50
% change year-on-year +22.96% +16.98% -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 20 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 20 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 -17 20 £413 +10.00% 6
South London -15 1 £500 +100.00%
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 17 (12.14%) IIS
2 13 (9.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.86%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.43%) Confluence
5 1 (0.71%) Appian
5 1 (0.71%) Camunda
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (9.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) OpenText MBPM
1 1 (0.71%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 36 (25.71%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (19.29%) Azure
3 19 (13.57%) Entra ID
4 15 (10.71%) AWS
5 11 (7.86%) IaaS
6 9 (6.43%) PaaS
7 8 (5.71%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 8 (5.71%) AWS CloudTrail
8 7 (5.00%) AWS KMS
9 6 (4.29%) Google Workspace
10 4 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.86%) AWS Control Tower
10 4 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.86%) GCP
10 4 (2.86%) Mimecast
10 4 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.43%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.43%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.43%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.71%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 21 (15.00%) DNS
1 21 (15.00%) Firewall
2 20 (14.29%) VPN
3 15 (10.71%) DHCP
4 13 (9.29%) Internet
5 12 (8.57%) NetScaler
6 10 (7.14%) TCP/IP
7 8 (5.71%) SMTP
8 5 (3.57%) DMZ
8 5 (3.57%) Network Security
9 3 (2.14%) WebEx
10 2 (1.43%) FTP
10 2 (1.43%) Junos
10 2 (1.43%) MPLS
10 2 (1.43%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.71%) IPv4
11 1 (0.71%) IPv6
11 1 (0.71%) LAN
11 1 (0.71%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 23 (16.43%) Oracle Database
3 7 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.14%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.71%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 11 (7.86%) JIRA
2 10 (7.14%) MSI
2 10 (7.14%) Visual Studio
3 4 (2.86%) Selenium
4 3 (2.14%) Appium
4 3 (2.14%) Git
4 3 (2.14%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.14%) JUnit
4 3 (2.14%) TestNG
5 1 (0.71%) REST Assured
General
1 53 (37.86%) Finance
2 31 (22.14%) Banking
3 26 (18.57%) Social Skills
4 8 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (5.71%) Investment Banking
5 6 (4.29%) Financial Institution
5 6 (4.29%) Front Office
5 6 (4.29%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.14%) International Banking
7 3 (2.14%) Publishing
8 2 (1.43%) Legal
8 2 (1.43%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (27.86%) Developer
2 33 (23.57%) C# Developer
3 16 (11.43%) Citrix Engineer
4 14 (10.00%) Analyst
5 12 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.86%) Applications Developer
7 10 (7.14%) Senior
8 9 (6.43%) Consultant
9 8 (5.71%) .NET Developer
9 8 (5.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 8 (5.71%) Architect
9 8 (5.71%) C# Application Developer
9 8 (5.71%) QA Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) AWS Consultant
10 7 (5.00%) Citrix Consultant
10 7 (5.00%) Lead
10 7 (5.00%) NetApp Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) Storage Engineer
11 6 (4.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (27.86%) .NET
2 35 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 16 (11.43%) WinForms
4 15 (10.71%) WPF
5 4 (2.86%) XML
6 3 (2.14%) Web Services
7 2 (1.43%) ADO
7 2 (1.43%) ebXML
7 2 (1.43%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (0.71%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.71%) LDAP
8 1 (0.71%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.29%) Onboarding
2 11 (7.86%) Data Centre
3 9 (6.43%) PKI
4 8 (5.71%) Client/Server
4 8 (5.71%) Clustering
5 7 (5.00%) Enterprise Storage
5 7 (5.00%) Hedge funds
5 7 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.86%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.43%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.43%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.71%) BYOD
10 1 (0.71%) CMDB
10 1 (0.71%) Fat Client
10 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 102 (72.86%) Windows
2 33 (23.57%) Windows Server
3 17 (12.14%) Windows 10
4 8 (5.71%) Linux
5 7 (5.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (4.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (2.14%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.71%) Android
8 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.71%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (22.14%) Data Analysis
2 28 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 28 (20.00%) Migration
3 27 (19.29%) Change Management
4 22 (15.71%) ITIL
5 19 (13.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 17 (12.14%) Unit Testing
7 16 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (10.71%) Agile
9 14 (10.00%) Incident Management
10 11 (7.86%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (7.14%) AI
11 10 (7.14%) DevOps
12 9 (6.43%) Manual Testing
12 9 (6.43%) OO
12 9 (6.43%) OOP
12 9 (6.43%) Project Delivery
12 9 (6.43%) Service Delivery
13 8 (5.71%) CI/CD
13 8 (5.71%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 43 (30.71%) SQL
2 39 (27.86%) C#
3 34 (24.29%) PL/SQL
3 34 (24.29%) T-SQL
4 28 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 12 (8.57%) VB
5 12 (8.57%) VBA
6 6 (4.29%) Python
7 4 (2.86%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.71%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 28 (20.00%) Degree
2 17 (12.14%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.43%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.71%) Citrix Certification
4 8 (5.71%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (5.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (4.29%) CCA
6 6 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.86%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.86%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.86%) MCSA
8 2 (1.43%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.43%) MCSE
8 2 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.71%) ISEB
9 1 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (30.00%) QA
2 4 (2.86%) NCSC
3 2 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (20.71%) Active Directory
2 24 (17.14%) Virtual Desktop
3 18 (12.86%) Microsoft App-V
4 17 (12.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (10.00%) Hyper-V
6 8 (5.71%) BitLocker
6 8 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (5.00%) Docker
8 6 (4.29%) XenDesktop
9 4 (2.86%) XenApp
10 3 (2.14%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (1.43%) vSphere
12 1 (0.71%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 15 (10.71%) SCCM
2 13 (9.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (6.43%) Kubernetes
4 8 (5.71%) Terraform
4 8 (5.71%) vCenter Server
4 8 (5.71%) vMotion
5 7 (5.00%) Ansible
5 7 (5.00%) Puppet
6 4 (2.86%) SCVMM
6 4 (2.86%) WSUS
7 2 (1.43%) WMI
8 1 (0.71%) CloudForms
8 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 45 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 35 (25.00%) Oracle
3 21 (15.00%) VMware
4 11 (7.86%) Bloomberg
5 9 (6.43%) Reuters
6 8 (5.71%) NetApp
7 5 (3.57%) ION Trading
8 4 (2.86%) Cisco
8 4 (2.86%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.14%) Juniper
9 3 (2.14%) UiPath
10 2 (1.43%) Arista
10 2 (1.43%) Charles River
10 2 (1.43%) CloudEndure
10 2 (1.43%) F5
10 2 (1.43%) Google
11 1 (0.71%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.71%) OpenText
11 1 (0.71%) SevOne
11 1 (0.71%) Snow