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 24 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
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 252 217
Rank change year-on-year -33 -35 +18
Contract jobs citing Citrix 142 103 194
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.74% 0.82% 1.10%
As % of the Vendors category 1.80% 1.80% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 71 142
10th Percentile £245 £225 £211
25th Percentile £404 £275 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £588 £489 £500
90th Percentile £661 £588 £650
England median daily rate £490 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +30.67% -6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £19.77
25th Percentile - - £22.77
Median hourly rate - - £25.93
75th Percentile - - £27.00
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 7,884 5,716 7,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.21% 45.42% 41.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,185 3,703 5,020
10th Percentile £350 £325 £312
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -0.47% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £738 £768 £775
England median daily rate £506 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -1.27% -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 108 132
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.89
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.55 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +24.34% +19.96% -8.46%
75th Percentile £58.92 £47.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £34.38 £26.75 £24.43
% change year-on-year +28.50% +9.50% -34.85%

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 24 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 24 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 -15 26 £413 +3.13% 2
South London -12 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
Cloud Services
1 38 (26.76%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (14.79%) 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 27 (19.01%) VPN
2 26 (18.31%) Firewall
3 24 (16.90%) DNS
4 18 (12.68%) DHCP
5 14 (9.86%) TCP/IP
6 13 (9.15%) Internet
7 10 (7.04%) NetScaler
7 10 (7.04%) Network Security
8 9 (6.34%) SMTP
9 8 (5.63%) DMZ
10 3 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.41%) FTP
11 2 (1.41%) Junos
11 2 (1.41%) MPLS
11 2 (1.41%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (1.41%) WebEx
12 1 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 1 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 1 (0.70%) HSRP
12 1 (0.70%) Multicast
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 41 (28.87%) Banking
3 32 (22.54%) Social Skills
4 10 (7.04%) Front Office
4 10 (7.04%) Investment Banking
5 7 (4.93%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (4.93%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.82%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.11%) International Banking
8 2 (1.41%) Legal
8 2 (1.41%) Publishing
8 2 (1.41%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (27.46%) Developer
2 29 (20.42%) C# Developer
3 19 (13.38%) Analyst
4 15 (10.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (9.15%) 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
8 8 (5.63%) Senior
9 7 (4.93%) 3rd Line Support
9 7 (4.93%) AWS Consultant
9 7 (4.93%) Citrix Consultant
9 7 (4.93%) Test Manager
10 6 (4.23%) C# Application Developer
10 6 (4.23%) Network Manager
10 6 (4.23%) QA Engineer
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%) ADO
6 2 (1.41%) ebXML
6 2 (1.41%) RESTful
7 1 (0.70%) 802.1X
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%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.11%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.41%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.41%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.70%) Blackberry
10 1 (0.70%) BYOD
10 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.70%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.70%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 105 (73.94%) Windows
2 32 (22.54%) Windows Server
3 16 (11.27%) Windows 10
4 9 (6.34%) Linux
5 6 (4.23%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (4.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (3.52%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (23.24%) Data Analysis
2 27 (19.01%) Change Management
3 26 (18.31%) Disaster Recovery
4 25 (17.61%) ITIL
5 24 (16.90%) Migration
6 21 (14.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 18 (12.68%) AI
8 17 (11.97%) Unit Testing
9 16 (11.27%) Agile
10 14 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (9.15%) DevOps
11 13 (9.15%) Incident Management
12 12 (8.45%) OO
12 12 (8.45%) OOP
12 12 (8.45%) Service Delivery
13 10 (7.04%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (7.04%) Software Deployment
14 9 (6.34%) Computer Science
14 9 (6.34%) Generative AI
14 9 (6.34%) Project Delivery
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 15 (10.56%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.34%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (4.93%) Citrix Certification
5 7 (4.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.23%) ISTQB
6 6 (4.23%) SC Cleared
7 5 (3.52%) CCA
8 4 (2.82%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.82%) MCSA
9 2 (1.41%) MCSE
9 2 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.70%) ISEB
10 1 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (25.35%) QA
2 2 (1.41%) SLA
3 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 32 (22.54%) Active Directory
2 20 (14.08%) Virtual Desktop
3 19 (13.38%) Microsoft App-V
4 18 (12.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (9.86%) Hyper-V
6 10 (7.04%) 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
Systems Management
1 19 (13.38%) SCCM
2 10 (7.04%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (7.04%) vCenter Server
3 9 (6.34%) vMotion
4 8 (5.63%) Ansible
4 8 (5.63%) Puppet
5 7 (4.93%) WSUS
6 5 (3.52%) Terraform
7 3 (2.11%) Nagios
7 3 (2.11%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.41%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.41%) WMI
9 1 (0.70%) CloudForms
9 1 (0.70%) Nessus
Vendors
1 46 (32.39%) Microsoft
2 35 (24.65%) Oracle
3 22 (15.49%) VMware
4 16 (11.27%) Bloomberg
5 13 (9.15%) Reuters
6 9 (6.34%) ION Trading
7 7 (4.93%) Google
8 6 (4.23%) NetApp
9 5 (3.52%) Cisco
9 5 (3.52%) OpenText
10 4 (2.82%) HP
10 4 (2.82%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.82%) Symantec
11 3 (2.11%) Juniper
11 3 (2.11%) UiPath
12 2 (1.41%) Arista
12 2 (1.41%) F5
13 1 (0.70%) SevOne
13 1 (0.70%) Snow
13 1 (0.70%) Zscaler