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 17 December 2025, 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
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 240 191
Rank change year-on-year -37 -49 +23
Contract jobs citing Citrix 104 135 233
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.72% 0.89% 1.24%
As % of the Vendors category 1.54% 2.00% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 84 182
10th Percentile £378 £252 £213
25th Percentile £404 £321 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £390 £400
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £538
90th Percentile £660 £685 £673
England median daily rate £450 £380 £375
% change year-on-year +18.42% +1.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -
England median hourly rate £31.39 £21.46 £15.65
% change year-on-year +46.25% +37.12% +0.97%

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 6,761 6,736 7,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.99% 44.29% 40.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,404 4,218 5,303
10th Percentile £336 £313 £300
25th Percentile £421 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 68 107
10th Percentile £17.74 £19.51 £16.94
25th Percentile £22.63 £23.80 £23.25
Median hourly rate £25.74 £34.75 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -25.94% -8.92% +48.41%
75th Percentile £42.55 £64.06 £60.63
90th Percentile £65.63 £84.28 £86.35
England median hourly rate £23.69 £31.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -23.58% -31.43% +73.88%

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025. 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 -19 13 £563 +60.71% 6
East London - 3 £185 -
West London - 1 £525 - 2
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 13 (12.50%) IIS
2 9 (8.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.85%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.92%) Confluence
4 2 (1.92%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.92%) WildFly
5 1 (0.96%) JBoss
5 1 (0.96%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.96%) Smallworld
Applications
1 10 (9.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.96%) OpenText MBPM
2 1 (0.96%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (29.81%) Azure
2 19 (18.27%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (10.58%) Entra ID
4 7 (6.73%) AWS
5 5 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.81%) GCP
6 4 (3.85%) Nutanix
7 3 (2.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.88%) AWS CloudTrail
7 3 (2.88%) AWS Control Tower
7 3 (2.88%) AWS KMS
7 3 (2.88%) IaaS
7 3 (2.88%) PaaS
7 3 (2.88%) SaaS
7 3 (2.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.92%) Akamai
8 2 (1.92%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.92%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.92%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (17.31%) Firewall
2 14 (13.46%) NetScaler
3 13 (12.50%) DNS
4 12 (11.54%) VPN
5 11 (10.58%) DHCP
6 10 (9.62%) Internet
7 8 (7.69%) LAN
8 6 (5.77%) WAN
9 5 (4.81%) WebEx
9 5 (4.81%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (3.85%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (2.88%) SAN
11 3 (2.88%) SD-WAN
11 3 (2.88%) VLAN
12 2 (1.92%) DMZ
12 2 (1.92%) TCP/IP
13 1 (0.96%) MPLS
13 1 (0.96%) OSPF
13 1 (0.96%) SMTP
13 1 (0.96%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 15 (14.42%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.92%) Tableau
3 2 (1.92%) Tableau Desktop
3 2 (1.92%) Tableau Server
4 1 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.96%) GIS
4 1 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (10.58%) JIRA
2 5 (4.81%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.96%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.96%) Postman
General
1 43 (41.35%) Finance
2 27 (25.96%) Social Skills
3 20 (19.23%) Banking
4 7 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.81%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.88%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.88%) Front Office
6 3 (2.88%) International Banking
6 3 (2.88%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.88%) Publishing
7 2 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.92%) Portuguese Language
8 1 (0.96%) Back Office
8 1 (0.96%) Legal
8 1 (0.96%) Local Government
8 1 (0.96%) Retail
8 1 (0.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (23.08%) Developer
2 18 (17.31%) C# Developer
3 14 (13.46%) Citrix Engineer
4 13 (12.50%) Support Engineer
5 9 (8.65%) Architect
6 7 (6.73%) C# WCF Developer
6 7 (6.73%) C# WPF Developer
6 7 (6.73%) Consultant
6 7 (6.73%) WCF Developer
6 7 (6.73%) WPF Developer
7 6 (5.77%) Programme Manager
7 6 (5.77%) QA Engineer
7 6 (5.77%) Senior
8 5 (4.81%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (4.81%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (4.81%) Applications Developer
8 5 (4.81%) Lead
8 5 (4.81%) QA Test Engineer
8 5 (4.81%) Technical Manager
8 5 (4.81%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (22.12%) .NET
2 19 (18.27%) .NET Framework
3 13 (12.50%) WPF
4 12 (11.54%) WinForms
5 7 (6.73%) WCF
6 3 (2.88%) Middleware
7 1 (0.96%) JSF
7 1 (0.96%) JSON
7 1 (0.96%) REST
7 1 (0.96%) SAML
7 1 (0.96%) SAP Basis
7 1 (0.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.73%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.77%) Hedge funds
3 5 (4.81%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.88%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.88%) PKI
5 3 (2.88%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.92%) Clustering
6 2 (1.92%) Fat Client
6 2 (1.92%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.96%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.96%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.96%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 67 (64.42%) Windows
2 16 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 11 (10.58%) Windows 10
4 7 (6.73%) Linux
5 2 (1.92%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.92%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.96%) Android
6 1 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.96%) Unix
6 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (17.31%) Data Analysis
2 18 (17.31%) Disaster Recovery
3 17 (16.35%) ITIL
4 16 (15.38%) Agile
5 15 (14.42%) Migration
6 10 (9.62%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (9.62%) Change Management
6 10 (9.62%) DevOps
6 10 (9.62%) ITSM
7 9 (8.65%) CI/CD
8 8 (7.69%) Project Delivery
8 8 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (6.73%) Unit Testing
9 7 (6.73%) Use Case
10 6 (5.77%) Data Protection
10 6 (5.77%) Manual Testing
10 6 (5.77%) Project Governance
10 6 (5.77%) Runbook
10 6 (5.77%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (31.73%) SQL
2 23 (22.12%) C#
3 20 (19.23%) PowerShell
4 19 (18.27%) PL/SQL
4 19 (18.27%) T-SQL
5 10 (9.62%) VBA
6 9 (8.65%) Python
6 9 (8.65%) VB
7 5 (4.81%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (3.85%) Java
9 2 (1.92%) Bash
10 1 (0.96%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.96%) Magik
Qualifications
1 12 (11.54%) Degree
2 7 (6.73%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.77%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (4.81%) CCNA
4 5 (4.81%) CCNP
4 5 (4.81%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (3.85%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.88%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.88%) Citrix Certification
6 3 (2.88%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.92%) CCA
7 2 (1.92%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.92%) HP ASE
7 2 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.92%) MCSE
7 2 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.96%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (24.04%) QA
2 3 (2.88%) NCSC
3 2 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.96%) GDPR
4 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.96%) MiFID
4 1 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (21.15%) Active Directory
1 22 (21.15%) Virtual Desktop
2 14 (13.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.85%) XenApp
4 3 (2.88%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.92%) Docker
5 2 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.92%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.96%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.96%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.96%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.96%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (9.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (8.65%) SCCM
3 7 (6.73%) Ansible
3 7 (6.73%) Terraform
4 3 (2.88%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 2 (1.92%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.92%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.92%) WSUS
6 1 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.96%) Puppet
6 1 (0.96%) SCVMM
6 1 (0.96%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.96%) vMotion
6 1 (0.96%) WMI
Vendors
1 28 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 26 (25.00%) Oracle
3 21 (20.19%) VMware
4 7 (6.73%) Fortinet
5 6 (5.77%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.81%) Bloomberg
6 5 (4.81%) Cisco
6 5 (4.81%) Forcepoint
6 5 (4.81%) Reuters
6 5 (4.81%) Zscaler
7 4 (3.85%) UiPath
8 3 (2.88%) Altiris
8 3 (2.88%) Infoblox
8 3 (2.88%) Ivanti
8 3 (2.88%) Meraki
8 3 (2.88%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.88%) Symantec
9 2 (1.92%) 3PAR
9 2 (1.92%) ION Trading
9 2 (1.92%) ProCurve