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 15 June 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
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 254 223
Rank change year-on-year -21 -31 +12
Contract jobs citing Citrix 145 96 191
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.77% 0.78% 1.08%
As % of the Vendors category 1.85% 1.72% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 68 143
10th Percentile £248 £222 £211
25th Percentile £404 £263 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £390 £375
Median % change year-on-year +8.97% +4.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £581 £476 £500
90th Percentile £650 £584 £650
England median daily rate £490 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +30.67% -6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £19.11
25th Percentile £20.82 - £21.10
Median hourly rate £22.27 - £24.86
75th Percentile £23.71 - £26.14
90th Percentile - - £26.66
England median hourly rate £74.00 £15.44 £16.30
% change year-on-year +379.27% -5.28% +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 7,827 5,585 7,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.40% 45.30% 41.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,148 3,611 4,995
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -0.09% -4.23%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £738 £766 £775
England median daily rate £505 £513 £517
% change year-on-year -1.46% -0.87% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 103 133
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.91
25th Percentile £22.97 £22.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.60 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +24.13% +20.17% -8.46%
75th Percentile £52.81 £45.63 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.99 £27.13 £24.10
% change year-on-year +25.31% +12.55% -38.24%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 26 £413 +17.86% 2
South London -8 1 £500 +92.31%
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 16 (11.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (9.66%) IIS
3 4 (2.76%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.07%) Appian
4 3 (2.07%) Camunda
4 3 (2.07%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.83%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.07%) OpenText MBPM
1 3 (2.07%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 41 (28.28%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (15.86%) Azure
3 16 (11.03%) Entra ID
4 15 (10.34%) AWS
5 13 (8.97%) IaaS
6 11 (7.59%) PaaS
7 9 (6.21%) Google Workspace
8 7 (4.83%) GCP
9 5 (3.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 5 (3.45%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (2.76%) AWS KMS
10 4 (2.76%) Mimecast
11 3 (2.07%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.38%) Nutanix
12 2 (1.38%) OneDrive
12 2 (1.38%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.69%) AWS Control Tower
13 1 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
13 1 (0.69%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 28 (19.31%) VPN
2 26 (17.93%) Firewall
3 25 (17.24%) DNS
4 18 (12.41%) DHCP
5 14 (9.66%) TCP/IP
6 13 (8.97%) Internet
7 12 (8.28%) NetScaler
8 10 (6.90%) SMTP
9 9 (6.21%) Network Security
10 7 (4.83%) DMZ
11 2 (1.38%) FTP
11 2 (1.38%) Junos
11 2 (1.38%) MPLS
11 2 (1.38%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (1.38%) WebEx
11 2 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.69%) IP Telephony
12 1 (0.69%) OSPF
12 1 (0.69%) VLAN
12 1 (0.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (28.28%) SQL Server
2 22 (15.17%) Oracle Database
3 9 (6.21%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.07%) Big Data
5 3 (2.07%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.69%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (6.90%) MSI
2 8 (5.52%) JIRA
2 8 (5.52%) Visual Studio
3 4 (2.76%) Selenium
4 3 (2.07%) Appium
4 3 (2.07%) Git
4 3 (2.07%) JUnit
4 3 (2.07%) TestNG
5 2 (1.38%) REST Assured
General
1 50 (34.48%) Finance
2 38 (26.21%) Banking
3 32 (22.07%) Social Skills
4 11 (7.59%) Investment Banking
5 10 (6.90%) Front Office
6 8 (5.52%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (4.83%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.76%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.07%) International Banking
10 2 (1.38%) Legal
10 2 (1.38%) Publishing
10 2 (1.38%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (25.52%) Developer
2 29 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 20 (13.79%) Analyst
4 15 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (9.66%) Citrix Engineer
6 10 (6.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 10 (6.90%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (6.90%) IT Analyst
6 10 (6.90%) Senior
7 9 (6.21%) Applications Developer
7 9 (6.21%) Consultant
7 9 (6.21%) Help Desk Analyst
7 9 (6.21%) Support Engineer
8 8 (5.52%) 3rd Line Support
9 7 (4.83%) AWS Consultant
9 7 (4.83%) Citrix Consultant
10 6 (4.14%) C# Application Developer
10 6 (4.14%) NetApp Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) QA Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (25.52%) .NET
2 33 (22.76%) .NET Framework
3 13 (8.97%) WPF
4 12 (8.28%) WinForms
5 4 (2.76%) Web Services
5 4 (2.76%) XML
6 2 (1.38%) ADO
6 2 (1.38%) ebXML
6 2 (1.38%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.38%) RESTful
7 1 (0.69%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.72%) Onboarding
2 14 (9.66%) Data Centre
3 11 (7.59%) PKI
4 10 (6.90%) Clustering
5 9 (6.21%) Client/Server
6 8 (5.52%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (5.52%) Video Conferencing
7 6 (4.14%) Enterprise Storage
7 6 (4.14%) Hedge funds
8 5 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.07%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.38%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.38%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.38%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.69%) Blackberry
11 1 (0.69%) BYOD
11 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.69%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 107 (73.79%) Windows
2 32 (22.07%) Windows Server
3 17 (11.72%) Windows 10
4 10 (6.90%) Linux
5 7 (4.83%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (4.83%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (4.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.76%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.69%) Android
8 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.69%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (21.38%) Data Analysis
2 27 (18.62%) Change Management
3 26 (17.93%) Disaster Recovery
3 26 (17.93%) ITIL
4 24 (16.55%) Migration
5 22 (15.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 17 (11.72%) AI
6 17 (11.72%) Unit Testing
7 15 (10.34%) Agile
8 14 (9.66%) Incident Management
8 14 (9.66%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (7.59%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (7.59%) DevOps
9 11 (7.59%) Service Delivery
10 10 (6.90%) OO
10 10 (6.90%) OOP
10 10 (6.90%) Software Deployment
11 9 (6.21%) Project Delivery
12 8 (5.52%) Data Protection
12 8 (5.52%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (27.59%) SQL
2 37 (25.52%) C#
3 35 (24.14%) PowerShell
4 31 (21.38%) PL/SQL
4 31 (21.38%) T-SQL
5 10 (6.90%) VB
5 10 (6.90%) VBA
6 6 (4.14%) Python
7 4 (2.76%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 34 (23.45%) Degree
2 17 (11.72%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.90%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.52%) Citrix Certification
4 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (4.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 7 (4.83%) SC Cleared
6 6 (4.14%) CCA
6 6 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.45%) ISTQB
8 4 (2.76%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.76%) MCSA
9 2 (1.38%) MCSE
9 2 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.69%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.69%) ISEB
10 1 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (24.83%) QA
2 2 (1.38%) SLA
3 1 (0.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 34 (23.45%) Active Directory
2 22 (15.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 20 (13.79%) Microsoft App-V
4 18 (12.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (11.03%) Hyper-V
6 10 (6.90%) BitLocker
6 10 (6.90%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (6.21%) Docker
8 6 (4.14%) XenDesktop
9 4 (2.76%) Terminal Services
9 4 (2.76%) XenApp
10 3 (2.07%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (1.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (13.79%) SCCM
2 12 (8.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (7.59%) Kubernetes
4 10 (6.90%) vCenter Server
4 10 (6.90%) vMotion
5 9 (6.21%) Ansible
5 9 (6.21%) Puppet
6 7 (4.83%) WSUS
7 5 (3.45%) Terraform
8 4 (2.76%) SCVMM
9 3 (2.07%) Nagios
10 2 (1.38%) WMI
11 1 (0.69%) CloudForms
11 1 (0.69%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 50 (34.48%) Microsoft
2 33 (22.76%) Oracle
3 22 (15.17%) VMware
4 16 (11.03%) Bloomberg
5 13 (8.97%) Reuters
6 9 (6.21%) ION Trading
7 7 (4.83%) Google
7 7 (4.83%) NetApp
8 5 (3.45%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.76%) Cisco
9 4 (2.76%) HP
9 4 (2.76%) Symantec
10 3 (2.07%) Juniper
10 3 (2.07%) OpenText
10 3 (2.07%) UiPath
11 2 (1.38%) Arista
11 2 (1.38%) Charles River
11 2 (1.38%) F5
12 1 (0.69%) SevOne
12 1 (0.69%) Snow