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 30 July 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
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 254 203
Rank change year-on-year -47 -51 +22
Contract jobs citing Citrix 139 117 201
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 0.86% 1.22%
As % of the Vendors category 1.66% 1.88% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 82 143
10th Percentile £194 £250 £218
25th Percentile £404 £350 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £401 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% +0.34% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £488 £517
90th Percentile £638 £587 £650
England median daily rate £500 £390 £400
% change year-on-year +28.21% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.02%
England median hourly rate £74.00 £15.87 £16.30
% change year-on-year +366.29% -2.64% +3.69%

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 8,383 6,223 7,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.88% 45.77% 42.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,477 4,058 4,813
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £738 £757 £763
England median daily rate £510 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 119 88
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £17.75
25th Percentile £20.69 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -14.06%
75th Percentile £58.21 £42.25 £60.31
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £35.53 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +41.27% -10.18% -29.20%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -9 31 £413 -8.33% 2
South London -19 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 18 (12.95%) IIS
2 15 (10.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.32%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.60%) Appian
4 5 (3.60%) Camunda
4 5 (3.60%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (8.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.60%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (3.60%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.72%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.72%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 38 (27.34%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (15.11%) Azure
3 12 (8.63%) AWS
3 12 (8.63%) Entra ID
4 10 (7.19%) IaaS
5 8 (5.76%) PaaS
6 7 (5.04%) GCP
6 7 (5.04%) Google Workspace
7 3 (2.16%) Mimecast
7 3 (2.16%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (1.44%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (1.44%) AWS KMS
8 2 (1.44%) Nutanix
8 2 (1.44%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.72%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (0.72%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.72%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 28 (20.14%) DNS
1 28 (20.14%) VPN
2 27 (19.42%) Firewall
3 22 (15.83%) DHCP
4 15 (10.79%) Internet
5 12 (8.63%) TCP/IP
6 10 (7.19%) Network Security
7 8 (5.76%) SMTP
8 7 (5.04%) DMZ
8 7 (5.04%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (2.88%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (2.16%) LAN
10 3 (2.16%) MPLS
10 3 (2.16%) NetScaler
11 2 (1.44%) BGP
11 2 (1.44%) FTP
11 2 (1.44%) Junos
11 2 (1.44%) OSPF
11 2 (1.44%) WAN
12 1 (0.72%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (28.06%) SQL Server
2 27 (19.42%) Oracle Database
3 7 (5.04%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.16%) Big Data
5 3 (2.16%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.72%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (5.76%) JIRA
2 7 (5.04%) MSI
3 4 (2.88%) REST Assured
3 4 (2.88%) Selenium
4 3 (2.16%) Appium
4 3 (2.16%) Git
4 3 (2.16%) JUnit
4 3 (2.16%) TestNG
4 3 (2.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (33.09%) Finance
2 38 (27.34%) Banking
3 31 (22.30%) Social Skills
4 11 (7.91%) Front Office
5 10 (7.19%) Investment Banking
6 9 (6.47%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.44%) Legal
9 2 (1.44%) Publishing
10 1 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.72%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.72%) Retail
10 1 (0.72%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (27.34%) Developer
2 29 (20.86%) C# Developer
3 18 (12.95%) Analyst
4 16 (11.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (8.63%) Support Engineer
6 9 (6.47%) .NET Developer
6 9 (6.47%) Citrix Engineer
7 8 (5.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 8 (5.76%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (5.76%) C# .NET Developer
7 8 (5.76%) Consultant
7 8 (5.76%) Help Desk Analyst
7 8 (5.76%) IT Analyst
8 7 (5.04%) Applications Developer
8 7 (5.04%) AWS Consultant
8 7 (5.04%) Citrix Consultant
8 7 (5.04%) Desktop Engineer
8 7 (5.04%) Senior
8 7 (5.04%) Test Manager
9 6 (4.32%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (27.34%) .NET
2 32 (23.02%) .NET Framework
3 16 (11.51%) WPF
4 15 (10.79%) WinForms
5 4 (2.88%) RESTful
5 4 (2.88%) Web Services
6 2 (1.44%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.44%) ADO
6 2 (1.44%) ebXML
6 2 (1.44%) XML
7 1 (0.72%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.72%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.07%) Onboarding
2 10 (7.19%) Data Centre
2 10 (7.19%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.47%) PKI
4 8 (5.76%) Clustering
5 6 (4.32%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (2.88%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.88%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (2.88%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.44%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.44%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.44%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.72%) BYOD
8 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.72%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.72%) iPad
8 1 (0.72%) iPhone
8 1 (0.72%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.72%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 101 (72.66%) Windows
2 30 (21.58%) Windows Server
3 8 (5.76%) Windows 10
4 7 (5.04%) Linux
5 5 (3.60%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (3.60%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (2.88%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (2.16%) Mac OS
7 3 (2.16%) Windows 7
7 3 (2.16%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.72%) Android
8 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (20.86%) Data Analysis
2 25 (17.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 23 (16.55%) Disaster Recovery
3 23 (16.55%) Migration
4 22 (15.83%) ITIL
5 21 (15.11%) AI
6 19 (13.67%) Change Management
7 15 (10.79%) Agile
7 15 (10.79%) OO
7 15 (10.79%) OOP
8 14 (10.07%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (9.35%) DevOps
10 12 (8.63%) Generative AI
10 12 (8.63%) Unit Testing
11 11 (7.91%) Incident Management
11 11 (7.91%) Service Delivery
12 10 (7.19%) Computer Science
13 9 (6.47%) Software Deployment
13 9 (6.47%) User Experience
14 8 (5.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 38 (27.34%) C#
2 36 (25.90%) SQL
3 31 (22.30%) PL/SQL
3 31 (22.30%) T-SQL
4 30 (21.58%) PowerShell
5 11 (7.91%) VB
5 11 (7.91%) VBA
6 7 (5.04%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.88%) Python
8 1 (0.72%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 25 (17.99%) Degree
2 10 (7.19%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.76%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.32%) ISTQB
5 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (2.16%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.16%) Citrix Certification
7 3 (2.16%) MCSA
8 2 (1.44%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.72%) CCA
9 1 (0.72%) CCNA
9 1 (0.72%) CCNP
9 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.72%) ISEB
9 1 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (23.02%) QA
2 3 (2.16%) SLA
3 2 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.72%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (25.90%) Active Directory
2 19 (13.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (12.95%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (10.79%) Microsoft App-V
5 11 (7.91%) Hyper-V
6 10 (7.19%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (5.76%) BitLocker
8 7 (5.04%) Docker
9 4 (2.88%) Terminal Services
10 3 (2.16%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (1.44%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.72%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.72%) vSphere
12 1 (0.72%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 17 (12.23%) SCCM
2 10 (7.19%) vCenter Server
3 9 (6.47%) Kubernetes
4 8 (5.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (5.76%) vMotion
5 7 (5.04%) Ansible
5 7 (5.04%) Puppet
6 6 (4.32%) Terraform
6 6 (4.32%) WSUS
7 5 (3.60%) FortiGate
8 3 (2.16%) Nagios
9 2 (1.44%) Nessus
9 2 (1.44%) WMI
10 1 (0.72%) CloudForms
10 1 (0.72%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 48 (34.53%) Microsoft
2 35 (25.18%) Oracle
3 25 (17.99%) VMware
4 14 (10.07%) Bloomberg
5 10 (7.19%) Reuters
6 8 (5.76%) Cisco
7 7 (5.04%) Google
7 7 (5.04%) ION Trading
8 6 (4.32%) ServiceNow
9 5 (3.60%) NetApp
9 5 (3.60%) OpenText
10 4 (2.88%) HP
10 4 (2.88%) Juniper
10 4 (2.88%) Symantec
11 3 (2.16%) UiPath
12 2 (1.44%) Arista
12 2 (1.44%) F5
12 2 (1.44%) Tenable
12 2 (1.44%) Zscaler
13 1 (0.72%) Fortinet