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 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
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 260 231
Rank change year-on-year -61 -29 -7
Contract jobs citing Citrix 124 112 176
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 0.83% 1.08%
As % of the Vendors category 1.45% 1.80% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 79 122
10th Percentile £185 £250 £250
25th Percentile £404 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £408 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% +1.88% -11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £509 £488
90th Percentile £641 £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 8,551 6,214 7,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.63% 46.09% 43.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,566 4,020 4,685
10th Percentile £349 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -4.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
England median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 128 82
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £18.13
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.98 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -6.90% -21.53%
75th Percentile £62.75 £39.06 £61.39
90th Percentile £82.00 £63.40 £76.13
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -28.24%

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 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 24 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 -19 26 £413 -8.33% 5
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 (14.52%) IIS
2 14 (11.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (4.03%) Appian
3 5 (4.03%) Camunda
3 5 (4.03%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (8.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.03%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (4.03%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.61%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 2 (1.61%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 36 (29.03%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (10.48%) Azure
3 11 (8.87%) AWS
4 9 (7.26%) Entra ID
5 8 (6.45%) IaaS
6 7 (5.65%) Google Workspace
7 6 (4.84%) PaaS
8 4 (3.23%) GCP
9 3 (2.42%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.61%) Mimecast
10 2 (1.61%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.81%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.81%) AWS CloudTrail
11 1 (0.81%) AWS Control Tower
11 1 (0.81%) AWS KMS
11 1 (0.81%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.81%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (21.77%) VPN
2 25 (20.16%) Firewall
3 24 (19.35%) DNS
4 20 (16.13%) DHCP
5 15 (12.10%) Internet
6 11 (8.87%) TCP/IP
7 7 (5.65%) DMZ
7 7 (5.65%) Network Security
7 7 (5.65%) SMTP
8 5 (4.03%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (3.23%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (2.42%) MPLS
11 2 (1.61%) LAN
11 2 (1.61%) WebEx
12 1 (0.81%) OSPF
12 1 (0.81%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.81%) SSL
12 1 (0.81%) VoIP
12 1 (0.81%) WAN
12 1 (0.81%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (28.23%) SQL Server
2 27 (21.77%) Oracle Database
3 6 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.42%) Big Data
6 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (4.84%) JIRA
2 4 (3.23%) REST Assured
2 4 (3.23%) Selenium
3 3 (2.42%) Appium
3 3 (2.42%) Git
3 3 (2.42%) JUnit
3 3 (2.42%) TestNG
3 3 (2.42%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.81%) MSI
General
1 46 (37.10%) Finance
2 36 (29.03%) Banking
3 30 (24.19%) Social Skills
4 12 (9.68%) Front Office
5 10 (8.06%) Investment Banking
6 9 (7.26%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.61%) Publishing
9 1 (0.81%) Legal
9 1 (0.81%) Retail
9 1 (0.81%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (30.65%) Developer
2 29 (23.39%) C# Developer
3 16 (12.90%) Analyst
4 15 (12.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (9.68%) Support Engineer
6 9 (7.26%) .NET Developer
6 9 (7.26%) Desktop Support
7 8 (6.45%) C# .NET Developer
7 8 (6.45%) Consultant
7 8 (6.45%) Help Desk Analyst
7 8 (6.45%) IT Analyst
8 7 (5.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) AWS Consultant
8 7 (5.65%) Citrix Consultant
8 7 (5.65%) Citrix Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) Desktop Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) Test Manager
9 6 (4.84%) Network Manager
9 6 (4.84%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (30.65%) .NET
2 32 (25.81%) .NET Framework
3 16 (12.90%) WPF
4 15 (12.10%) WinForms
5 6 (4.84%) Terraform
6 4 (3.23%) RESTful
6 4 (3.23%) Web Services
7 2 (1.61%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.81%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.81%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.52%) Onboarding
2 10 (8.06%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (6.45%) PKI
4 7 (5.65%) Clustering
5 6 (4.84%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.84%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (3.23%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.42%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.42%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.61%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.61%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.61%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.81%) BYOD
9 1 (0.81%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.81%) iPad
9 1 (0.81%) iPhone
9 1 (0.81%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 88 (70.97%) Windows
2 30 (24.19%) Windows Server
3 6 (4.84%) Linux
4 5 (4.03%) Windows 10
5 4 (3.23%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (2.42%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.61%) Windows 7
7 2 (1.61%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.81%) Android
8 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (23.39%) Data Analysis
2 24 (19.35%) ITIL
3 23 (18.55%) Disaster Recovery
4 22 (17.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (16.94%) AI
6 16 (12.90%) Change Management
7 15 (12.10%) Migration
7 15 (12.10%) OO
7 15 (12.10%) OOP
8 14 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (10.48%) Service Delivery
10 12 (9.68%) Agile
10 12 (9.68%) Generative AI
10 12 (9.68%) Unit Testing
11 11 (8.87%) DevOps
12 10 (8.06%) Computer Science
13 9 (7.26%) Software Deployment
14 8 (6.45%) Incident Management
14 8 (6.45%) ITSM
14 8 (6.45%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 38 (30.65%) C#
2 34 (27.42%) SQL
3 31 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 31 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 30 (24.19%) PowerShell
5 11 (8.87%) VB
5 11 (8.87%) VBA
6 9 (7.26%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.23%) Python
8 1 (0.81%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 24 (19.35%) Degree
2 8 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.65%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.03%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (2.42%) MCSA
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.81%) CCNA
8 1 (0.81%) CCNP
8 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.81%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.81%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.81%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (25.81%) QA
2 4 (3.23%) SLA
3 2 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.81%) NCSC
System Software
1 32 (25.81%) Active Directory
2 18 (14.52%) Virtual Desktop
2 18 (14.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.26%) Hyper-V
3 9 (7.26%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (6.45%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (5.65%) BitLocker
6 6 (4.84%) Docker
7 4 (3.23%) Terminal Services
8 3 (2.42%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.81%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.81%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 16 (12.90%) SCCM
2 9 (7.26%) vCenter Server
3 7 (5.65%) vMotion
4 6 (4.84%) Ansible
4 6 (4.84%) Kubernetes
4 6 (4.84%) Puppet
4 6 (4.84%) WSUS
5 5 (4.03%) FortiGate
6 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.42%) Nagios
7 2 (1.61%) Nessus
7 2 (1.61%) WMI
8 1 (0.81%) CloudForms
Vendors
1 42 (33.87%) Microsoft
2 35 (28.23%) Oracle
3 22 (17.74%) VMware
4 15 (12.10%) Bloomberg
5 10 (8.06%) Reuters
5 10 (8.06%) ServiceNow
6 7 (5.65%) Cisco
6 7 (5.65%) Google
6 7 (5.65%) ION Trading
7 5 (4.03%) OpenText
8 4 (3.23%) HP
8 4 (3.23%) NetApp
8 4 (3.23%) Symantec
9 3 (2.42%) Tenable
9 3 (2.42%) UiPath
10 2 (1.61%) FXall
10 2 (1.61%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.81%) ForeScout
11 1 (0.81%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.81%) Snow