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 March 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 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 272 194
Rank change year-on-year +9 -78 +44
Contract jobs citing Citrix 141 73 213
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.85% 0.58% 1.18%
As % of the Vendors category 1.92% 1.28% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 46 171
10th Percentile £379 £186 £206
25th Percentile £404 £278 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £390 £375
Median % change year-on-year +6.41% +4.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £556 £419 £501
90th Percentile £638 £525 £675
England median daily rate £475 £390 £380
% change year-on-year +21.79% +2.63% -7.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £18.44
25th Percentile £20.82 - £19.44
Median hourly rate £22.27 - £21.58
75th Percentile £23.71 - £23.67
90th Percentile - - £24.64
England median hourly rate £74.13 £16.19 £16.30
% change year-on-year +357.88% -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 7,340 5,695 7,280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.19% 44.94% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,840 3,704 4,974
10th Percentile £350 £325 £281
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -4.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £756 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 83 144
10th Percentile £18.03 £18.50 £13.55
25th Percentile £20.91 £23.80 £16.97
Median hourly rate £27.00 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% +24.00% -2.76%
75th Percentile £41.75 £52.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £65.95 £72.50 £79.65
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.17% +24.25% -31.56%

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 March 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 March 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 10 £488 +14.71% 5
East London - 3 £185 -
South London - 1 £500 -
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 14 (9.93%) IIS
2 13 (9.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.13%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.42%) Confluence
5 1 (0.71%) JBoss
5 1 (0.71%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.67%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 41 (29.08%) Microsoft 365
2 28 (19.86%) Azure
3 16 (11.35%) Entra ID
4 10 (7.09%) IaaS
5 8 (5.67%) PaaS
6 7 (4.96%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 7 (4.96%) AWS
6 7 (4.96%) AWS CloudTrail
6 7 (4.96%) Google Workspace
7 6 (4.26%) AWS KMS
8 5 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.55%) GCP
9 4 (2.84%) Mimecast
10 3 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.13%) AWS Control Tower
10 3 (2.13%) Nutanix
10 3 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.42%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.42%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (17.73%) Firewall
2 23 (16.31%) NetScaler
3 18 (12.77%) DNS
3 18 (12.77%) VPN
4 12 (8.51%) Internet
5 11 (7.80%) DHCP
6 9 (6.38%) TCP/IP
7 7 (4.96%) SMTP
8 6 (4.26%) DMZ
9 5 (3.55%) WebEx
10 3 (2.13%) LAN
10 3 (2.13%) Network Security
10 3 (2.13%) WAN
11 2 (1.42%) FTP
11 2 (1.42%) Junos
11 2 (1.42%) MPLS
11 2 (1.42%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.71%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (29.08%) SQL Server
2 20 (14.18%) Oracle Database
3 6 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.13%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.71%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (9.93%) JIRA
2 11 (7.80%) Visual Studio
3 10 (7.09%) MSI
4 4 (2.84%) Selenium
5 3 (2.13%) Appium
5 3 (2.13%) Git
5 3 (2.13%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.13%) JUnit
5 3 (2.13%) TestNG
General
1 56 (39.72%) Finance
2 34 (24.11%) Banking
3 30 (21.28%) Social Skills
4 9 (6.38%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (5.67%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.96%) Front Office
7 6 (4.26%) International Banking
7 6 (4.26%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.55%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.84%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.13%) Legal
10 3 (2.13%) Publishing
11 2 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.42%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (24.82%) Developer
2 30 (21.28%) C# Developer
3 24 (17.02%) Citrix Engineer
4 15 (10.64%) Senior
5 13 (9.22%) Analyst
6 12 (8.51%) QA Engineer
7 10 (7.09%) Applications Developer
8 9 (6.38%) Architect
8 9 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (6.38%) QA Test Engineer
8 9 (6.38%) Test Engineer
9 7 (4.96%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 7 (4.96%) C# Application Developer
9 7 (4.96%) Citrix Support
9 7 (4.96%) IT Analyst
9 7 (4.96%) Lead
9 7 (4.96%) Senior Citrix Engineer
9 7 (4.96%) Support Engineer
10 6 (4.26%) 3rd Line Support
10 6 (4.26%) Help Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (24.82%) .NET
2 31 (21.99%) .NET Framework
3 15 (10.64%) WPF
4 14 (9.93%) WinForms
5 4 (2.84%) WCF
5 4 (2.84%) XML
6 2 (1.42%) ADO
6 2 (1.42%) ebXML
6 2 (1.42%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.42%) Web Services
7 1 (0.71%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.93%) Data Centre
2 10 (7.09%) Onboarding
3 9 (6.38%) Hedge funds
4 8 (5.67%) Client/Server
4 8 (5.67%) Clustering
4 8 (5.67%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (5.67%) PKI
5 6 (4.26%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (3.55%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.84%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.42%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.71%) Blackberry
9 1 (0.71%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.71%) CMDB
9 1 (0.71%) iPad
9 1 (0.71%) iPhone
9 1 (0.71%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 106 (75.18%) Windows
2 30 (21.28%) Windows Server
3 20 (14.18%) Windows 10
4 8 (5.67%) Linux
5 6 (4.26%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (4.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (3.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.71%) Android
7 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.71%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.71%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (20.57%) Change Management
2 28 (19.86%) Data Analysis
3 27 (19.15%) Disaster Recovery
3 27 (19.15%) ITIL
4 24 (17.02%) Migration
5 17 (12.06%) Business Intelligence
5 17 (12.06%) Unit Testing
6 16 (11.35%) Agile
7 15 (10.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 15 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (9.22%) Manual Testing
8 13 (9.22%) Project Delivery
9 12 (8.51%) Data Protection
10 11 (7.80%) DevOps
10 11 (7.80%) Incident Management
11 10 (7.09%) CI/CD
12 8 (5.67%) Test Automation
13 7 (4.96%) Application Packaging
13 7 (4.96%) Problem Management
13 7 (4.96%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (30.50%) SQL
2 35 (24.82%) C#
3 31 (21.99%) PowerShell
4 30 (21.28%) PL/SQL
4 30 (21.28%) T-SQL
5 12 (8.51%) VBA
6 11 (7.80%) VB
7 8 (5.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 27 (19.15%) Degree
2 16 (11.35%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.09%) Citrix Certification
4 9 (6.38%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.67%) CCA
5 8 (5.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 8 (5.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (4.96%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.84%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.13%) AWS Certification
9 3 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.13%) MCSA
9 3 (2.13%) MCSE
10 2 (1.42%) CCNP
10 2 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.71%) CCSM
11 1 (0.71%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (30.50%) QA
2 3 (2.13%) NCSC
3 2 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.42%) SLA
4 1 (0.71%) MiFID
System Software
1 30 (21.28%) Virtual Desktop
2 27 (19.15%) Active Directory
3 17 (12.06%) Microsoft App-V
4 15 (10.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (8.51%) Hyper-V
6 8 (5.67%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (4.96%) BitLocker
7 7 (4.96%) XenDesktop
8 6 (4.26%) Docker
8 6 (4.26%) XenApp
9 2 (1.42%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (1.42%) vSphere
10 1 (0.71%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (12.06%) SCCM
2 15 (10.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (7.09%) Ansible
4 8 (5.67%) Kubernetes
4 8 (5.67%) Terraform
5 7 (4.96%) vCenter Server
5 7 (4.96%) vMotion
6 6 (4.26%) Puppet
7 5 (3.55%) SCVMM
7 5 (3.55%) WSUS
8 2 (1.42%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.42%) WMI
Vendors
1 47 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 33 (23.40%) Oracle
3 20 (14.18%) VMware
4 11 (7.80%) Bloomberg
4 11 (7.80%) Reuters
5 7 (4.96%) NetApp
6 6 (4.26%) ION Trading
7 5 (3.55%) Cisco
7 5 (3.55%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.84%) UiPath
9 3 (2.13%) Google
9 3 (2.13%) Juniper
10 2 (1.42%) Arista
10 2 (1.42%) Charles River
10 2 (1.42%) CloudEndure
10 2 (1.42%) F5
10 2 (1.42%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.42%) HP
11 1 (0.71%) Snow
11 1 (0.71%) Zscaler