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 27 August 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
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 250 220
Rank change year-on-year -65 -30 +4
Contract jobs citing Citrix 119 112 175
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.84% 1.08%
As % of the Vendors category 1.38% 1.81% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 79 120
10th Percentile £185 £250 £250
25th Percentile £404 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £408 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.43% +1.88% -11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £509 £488
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
England median daily rate £453 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +13.13% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.25 - -
Median hourly rate £15.50 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.33% +11.11% +5.02%
75th Percentile £15.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £74.00 £16.30 £16.30
% change year-on-year +353.99% - -1.21%

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 8,597 6,177 7,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.76% 46.15% 43.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,590 3,997 4,678
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -1.41% -4.91%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 126 83
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.17 £18.13
25th Percentile £20.63 £22.93 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -7.72% -24.00%
75th Percentile £63.25 £39.69 £61.34
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.50 £76.00
England median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £29.77
% change year-on-year +27.24% -15.52% -28.27%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -20 27 £456 +1.39% 3
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 (14.29%) IIS
2 11 (9.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (4.20%) Appian
3 5 (4.20%) Camunda
3 5 (4.20%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (3.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (8.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.20%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (4.20%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.68%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 2 (1.68%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 34 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (10.92%) Azure
3 11 (9.24%) AWS
4 9 (7.56%) Entra ID
5 7 (5.88%) Google Workspace
5 7 (5.88%) IaaS
6 6 (5.04%) PaaS
7 4 (3.36%) GCP
8 3 (2.52%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.84%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.84%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.84%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (0.84%) AWS KMS
9 1 (0.84%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.84%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.84%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.84%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (22.69%) VPN
2 24 (20.17%) Firewall
3 23 (19.33%) DNS
4 20 (16.81%) DHCP
5 14 (11.76%) Internet
6 11 (9.24%) TCP/IP
7 7 (5.88%) DMZ
7 7 (5.88%) Network Security
7 7 (5.88%) SMTP
8 5 (4.20%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (3.36%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (1.68%) LAN
10 2 (1.68%) MPLS
10 2 (1.68%) WebEx
11 1 (0.84%) BGP
11 1 (0.84%) OSPF
11 1 (0.84%) SSL
11 1 (0.84%) VoIP
11 1 (0.84%) WAN
11 1 (0.84%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (27.73%) SQL Server
2 25 (21.01%) Oracle Database
3 6 (5.04%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.52%) Big Data
6 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.36%) JIRA
1 4 (3.36%) REST Assured
2 3 (2.52%) Selenium
2 3 (2.52%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.68%) Appium
3 2 (1.68%) Git
3 2 (1.68%) JUnit
3 2 (1.68%) MSI
3 2 (1.68%) TestNG
General
1 44 (36.97%) Finance
2 35 (29.41%) Banking
3 29 (24.37%) Social Skills
4 12 (10.08%) Front Office
5 10 (8.40%) Investment Banking
6 9 (7.56%) Financial Institution
7 6 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.68%) Publishing
9 1 (0.84%) Legal
9 1 (0.84%) Retail
9 1 (0.84%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 36 (30.25%) Developer
2 27 (22.69%) C# Developer
3 16 (13.45%) Analyst
4 15 (12.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (9.24%) Support Engineer
6 9 (7.56%) .NET Developer
6 9 (7.56%) Desktop Support
7 8 (6.72%) C# .NET Developer
7 8 (6.72%) Consultant
7 8 (6.72%) Help Desk Analyst
7 8 (6.72%) IT Analyst
8 7 (5.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 7 (5.88%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.88%) AWS Consultant
8 7 (5.88%) Citrix Consultant
8 7 (5.88%) Desktop Engineer
8 7 (5.88%) Test Manager
9 6 (5.04%) Deskside Support
9 6 (5.04%) Network Manager
9 6 (5.04%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (30.25%) .NET
2 30 (25.21%) .NET Framework
3 15 (12.61%) WPF
4 14 (11.76%) WinForms
5 6 (5.04%) Terraform
6 4 (3.36%) RESTful
6 4 (3.36%) Web Services
7 2 (1.68%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.84%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.84%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.13%) Onboarding
2 8 (6.72%) PKI
2 8 (6.72%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (5.88%) Clustering
4 6 (5.04%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (4.20%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.52%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.52%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (2.52%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.68%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.68%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.68%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.84%) BYOD
8 1 (0.84%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.84%) iPad
8 1 (0.84%) iPhone
8 1 (0.84%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.84%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 84 (70.59%) Windows
2 28 (23.53%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.04%) Linux
4 4 (3.36%) Windows 10
4 4 (3.36%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (3.36%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (3.36%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (2.52%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.68%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.68%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.84%) Android
7 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (22.69%) Data Analysis
2 24 (20.17%) ITIL
3 22 (18.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 21 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
5 20 (16.81%) AI
6 16 (13.45%) Change Management
7 15 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (11.76%) Migration
8 14 (11.76%) OO
8 14 (11.76%) OOP
9 12 (10.08%) Agile
9 12 (10.08%) Generative AI
9 12 (10.08%) Service Delivery
10 11 (9.24%) DevOps
10 11 (9.24%) Unit Testing
11 10 (8.40%) Computer Science
12 9 (7.56%) Software Deployment
13 8 (6.72%) ITSM
13 8 (6.72%) User Experience
14 7 (5.88%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (30.25%) C#
2 32 (26.89%) SQL
3 29 (24.37%) PL/SQL
3 29 (24.37%) T-SQL
4 28 (23.53%) PowerShell
5 10 (8.40%) VB
5 10 (8.40%) VBA
6 9 (7.56%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.52%) Python
8 1 (0.84%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 24 (20.17%) Degree
2 8 (6.72%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.20%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (2.52%) MCSA
8 1 (0.84%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.84%) CCNA
8 1 (0.84%) CCNP
8 1 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.84%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.84%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.84%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (23.53%) QA
2 3 (2.52%) SLA
3 2 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.84%) NCSC
System Software
1 31 (26.05%) Active Directory
2 18 (15.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (7.56%) Hyper-V
4 9 (7.56%) Microsoft App-V
4 9 (7.56%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (5.88%) BitLocker
6 6 (5.04%) Docker
7 4 (3.36%) Terminal Services
8 2 (1.68%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.84%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (12.61%) SCCM
2 9 (7.56%) vCenter Server
3 7 (5.88%) vMotion
4 6 (5.04%) Ansible
4 6 (5.04%) Kubernetes
4 6 (5.04%) Puppet
4 6 (5.04%) WSUS
5 5 (4.20%) FortiGate
6 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.52%) Nagios
7 2 (1.68%) Nessus
8 1 (0.84%) CloudForms
8 1 (0.84%) WMI
Vendors
1 41 (34.45%) Microsoft
2 33 (27.73%) Oracle
3 20 (16.81%) VMware
4 14 (11.76%) Bloomberg
5 9 (7.56%) Reuters
5 9 (7.56%) ServiceNow
6 7 (5.88%) Cisco
6 7 (5.88%) Google
6 7 (5.88%) ION Trading
7 5 (4.20%) OpenText
8 4 (3.36%) HP
8 4 (3.36%) NetApp
8 4 (3.36%) Symantec
9 3 (2.52%) Tenable
9 3 (2.52%) UiPath
10 2 (1.68%) FXall
10 2 (1.68%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.84%) ForeScout
11 1 (0.84%) LogicMonitor
11 1 (0.84%) Palo Alto