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 January 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
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 263 188
Rank change year-on-year -4 -75 +45
Contract jobs citing Citrix 107 97 228
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.74% 0.69% 1.25%
As % of the Vendors category 1.60% 1.58% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 58 176
10th Percentile £403 £188 £214
25th Percentile £406 £263 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £380
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -1.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £593 £467 £524
90th Percentile £685 £557 £650
England median daily rate £450 £360 £365
% change year-on-year +25.00% -1.37% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.82 - £24.43
Median hourly rate £22.27 - £24.86
75th Percentile £23.71 - £25.28
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.27 £18.13 £14.00
% change year-on-year +22.81% +29.50% -9.68%

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 6,680 6,150 7,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.26% 43.86% 40.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,387 3,809 5,019
10th Percentile £340 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £542 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -1.46% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 68 123
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.86 £15.29
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £19.09
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.17 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% -4.08% +30.00%
75th Percentile £42.55 £59.25 £50.38
90th Percentile £67.81 £80.75 £85.65
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -20.83% -25.00% +23.08%

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 January 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 17 January 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 -13 12 £625 +78.57% 6
East London - 3 £185 - 1
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 12 (11.21%) IIS
2 7 (6.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.80%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.87%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.87%) WildFly
5 1 (0.93%) Confluence
5 1 (0.93%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (9.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.74%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 28 (26.17%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (22.43%) Azure
3 11 (10.28%) Entra ID
4 5 (4.67%) AWS
4 5 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.74%) Google Workspace
6 3 (2.80%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.80%) AWS CloudTrail
6 3 (2.80%) AWS Control Tower
6 3 (2.80%) AWS KMS
6 3 (2.80%) IaaS
6 3 (2.80%) PaaS
6 3 (2.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.87%) Akamai
7 2 (1.87%) GCP
7 2 (1.87%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.87%) SaaS
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.93%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 23 (21.50%) NetScaler
2 19 (17.76%) Firewall
3 14 (13.08%) VPN
4 13 (12.15%) DNS
5 10 (9.35%) DHCP
6 9 (8.41%) Internet
7 7 (6.54%) LAN
8 5 (4.67%) WAN
9 4 (3.74%) DMZ
9 4 (3.74%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (3.74%) TCP/IP
9 4 (3.74%) WebEx
9 4 (3.74%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (2.80%) SMTP
10 3 (2.80%) VLAN
11 2 (1.87%) SAN
11 2 (1.87%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.93%) IPv4
12 1 (0.93%) IPv6
12 1 (0.93%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (28.97%) SQL Server
2 14 (13.08%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (9.35%) JIRA
2 9 (8.41%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.80%) Jenkins
General
1 48 (44.86%) Finance
2 26 (24.30%) Banking
2 26 (24.30%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.61%) International Banking
5 5 (4.67%) Front Office
5 5 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.67%) Investment Banking
5 5 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.80%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.80%) Publishing
8 2 (1.87%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.93%) Back Office
9 1 (0.93%) Legal
9 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.93%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 26 (24.30%) Developer
2 22 (20.56%) C# Developer
3 19 (17.76%) Citrix Engineer
4 11 (10.28%) Senior
5 10 (9.35%) Support Engineer
6 9 (8.41%) Architect
7 8 (7.48%) Citrix Support
8 6 (5.61%) Applications Developer
8 6 (5.61%) C# WCF Developer
8 6 (5.61%) C# WPF Developer
8 6 (5.61%) Programme Manager
8 6 (5.61%) QA Engineer
8 6 (5.61%) Senior Citrix Engineer
8 6 (5.61%) WCF Developer
8 6 (5.61%) WPF Developer
9 5 (4.67%) Consultant
9 5 (4.67%) Lead
9 5 (4.67%) QA Test Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) Technical Programme Manager
9 5 (4.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (24.30%) .NET
2 22 (20.56%) .NET Framework
3 13 (12.15%) WPF
4 12 (11.21%) WinForms
5 6 (5.61%) WCF
6 2 (1.87%) Middleware
7 1 (0.93%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.93%) SAP Basis
7 1 (0.93%) Web Services
7 1 (0.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.54%) Hedge funds
2 6 (5.61%) Client/Server
2 6 (5.61%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.61%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (5.61%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.74%) Clustering
3 4 (3.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (3.74%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.74%) PKI
4 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.87%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.87%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.93%) CMDB
6 1 (0.93%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.93%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 75 (70.09%) Windows
2 20 (18.69%) Windows Server
3 19 (17.76%) Windows 10
4 6 (5.61%) Linux
5 4 (3.74%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.74%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (2.80%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.93%) Android
7 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (18.69%) Disaster Recovery
1 20 (18.69%) ITIL
2 19 (17.76%) Data Analysis
2 19 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (16.82%) Change Management
4 14 (13.08%) Migration
5 13 (12.15%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (12.15%) Project Delivery
6 12 (11.21%) Agile
7 10 (9.35%) DevOps
7 10 (9.35%) ITSM
7 10 (9.35%) Unit Testing
8 9 (8.41%) CI/CD
8 9 (8.41%) Data Protection
9 7 (6.54%) Mentoring
10 6 (5.61%) Incident Management
10 6 (5.61%) Manual Testing
10 6 (5.61%) Project Governance
10 6 (5.61%) Runbook
10 6 (5.61%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 35 (32.71%) SQL
2 26 (24.30%) C#
3 22 (20.56%) PL/SQL
3 22 (20.56%) T-SQL
4 21 (19.63%) PowerShell
5 10 (9.35%) VBA
6 9 (8.41%) Python
6 9 (8.41%) VB
7 4 (3.74%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (2.80%) Java
9 1 (0.93%) Bash
Qualifications
1 20 (18.69%) Degree
2 12 (11.21%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.48%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.54%) CCA
4 7 (6.54%) Citrix Certification
5 5 (4.67%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.74%) CCNA
6 4 (3.74%) CCNP
6 4 (3.74%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (3.74%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.74%) MCSE
7 3 (2.80%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.87%) HP ASE
8 2 (1.87%) MCSA
8 2 (1.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.93%) MCP
9 1 (0.93%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (26.17%) QA
2 3 (2.80%) NCSC
3 2 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.93%) MiFID
4 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (23.36%) Virtual Desktop
2 20 (18.69%) Active Directory
3 14 (13.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (7.48%) Hyper-V
5 6 (5.61%) XenApp
6 4 (3.74%) Docker
6 4 (3.74%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (3.74%) XenDesktop
7 3 (2.80%) BitLocker
7 3 (2.80%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (1.87%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.93%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (12.15%) SCCM
2 9 (8.41%) Ansible
3 7 (6.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (6.54%) Terraform
4 4 (3.74%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.74%) SCVMM
5 3 (2.80%) Puppet
5 3 (2.80%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 3 (2.80%) vCenter Server
5 3 (2.80%) vMotion
5 3 (2.80%) WSUS
6 2 (1.87%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (28.97%) Microsoft
2 27 (25.23%) Oracle
3 18 (16.82%) VMware
4 7 (6.54%) Bloomberg
4 7 (6.54%) Reuters
5 6 (5.61%) Fortinet
6 4 (3.74%) Cisco
6 4 (3.74%) Forcepoint
6 4 (3.74%) ION Trading
6 4 (3.74%) Ivanti
6 4 (3.74%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.74%) UiPath
6 4 (3.74%) Zscaler
7 3 (2.80%) Altiris
7 3 (2.80%) Infoblox
7 3 (2.80%) NetApp
7 3 (2.80%) Symantec
8 2 (1.87%) 3PAR
8 2 (1.87%) Meraki
8 2 (1.87%) ProCurve