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 31 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
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 259 192
Rank change year-on-year -16 -67 +44
Contract jobs citing Citrix 110 91 232
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.74% 0.66% 1.25%
As % of the Vendors category 1.61% 1.49% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 52 180
10th Percentile £404 £193 £224
25th Percentile £406 £263 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £375 £380
Median % change year-on-year +10.67% -1.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £593 £466 £525
90th Percentile £685 £570 £653
England median daily rate £450 £375 £368
% change year-on-year +20.00% +2.04% -8.13%
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 £22.88 £18.13 £14.00
% change year-on-year +26.21% +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 6,824 6,111 7,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.07% 44.16% 40.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,476 3,755 5,132
10th Percentile £340 £315 £275
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -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 101 72 152
10th Percentile £17.98 £21.50 £13.85
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £17.78
Median hourly rate £25.77 £32.75 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.31% +10.08% +19.00%
75th Percentile £41.94 £59.25 £43.88
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.68 £77.38
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year -21.67% -1.64% -6.15%

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 31 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 31 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 -21 10 £625 +78.57% 5
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 13 (11.82%) IIS
2 8 (7.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.73%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.91%) JBoss
4 1 (0.91%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.64%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 28 (25.45%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (19.09%) Azure
3 11 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 7 (6.36%) AWS
5 6 (5.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 6 (5.45%) AWS CloudTrail
6 5 (4.55%) AWS KMS
6 5 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.64%) Google Workspace
7 4 (3.64%) IaaS
7 4 (3.64%) PaaS
8 3 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.73%) AWS Control Tower
8 3 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.82%) Akamai
9 2 (1.82%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.82%) SaaS
10 1 (0.91%) GCP
10 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.91%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 21 (19.09%) NetScaler
2 17 (15.45%) Firewall
3 13 (11.82%) DNS
3 13 (11.82%) VPN
4 10 (9.09%) DHCP
4 10 (9.09%) Internet
5 6 (5.45%) LAN
6 5 (4.55%) WebEx
7 4 (3.64%) DMZ
7 4 (3.64%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (3.64%) TCP/IP
7 4 (3.64%) WAN
8 3 (2.73%) SMTP
8 3 (2.73%) VLAN
8 3 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.82%) SAN
9 2 (1.82%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.91%) IPv4
10 1 (0.91%) IPv6
10 1 (0.91%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 15 (13.64%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (10.00%) Visual Studio
2 9 (8.18%) JIRA
3 4 (3.64%) MSI
4 3 (2.73%) Jenkins
General
1 47 (42.73%) Finance
2 27 (24.55%) Social Skills
3 26 (23.64%) Banking
4 6 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.45%) International Banking
5 5 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.55%) Investment Banking
5 5 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.64%) Front Office
7 3 (2.73%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.73%) Publishing
8 2 (1.82%) Legal
9 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 30 (27.27%) Developer
2 25 (22.73%) C# Developer
3 19 (17.27%) Citrix Engineer
4 13 (11.82%) Senior
5 10 (9.09%) Support Engineer
6 8 (7.27%) Architect
6 8 (7.27%) Citrix Support
7 7 (6.36%) Applications Developer
8 6 (5.45%) Analyst
8 6 (5.45%) C# WCF Developer
8 6 (5.45%) C# WPF Developer
8 6 (5.45%) Programme Manager
8 6 (5.45%) QA Engineer
8 6 (5.45%) Senior Citrix Engineer
8 6 (5.45%) WCF Developer
8 6 (5.45%) WPF Developer
9 5 (4.55%) QA Test Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Technical Manager
9 5 (4.55%) Technical Programme Manager
9 5 (4.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (27.27%) .NET
2 26 (23.64%) .NET Framework
3 14 (12.73%) WPF
4 13 (11.82%) WinForms
5 6 (5.45%) WCF
6 2 (1.82%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.82%) Web Services
6 2 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.18%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.36%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (6.36%) Hedge funds
3 6 (5.45%) Client/Server
3 6 (5.45%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.64%) Clustering
5 4 (3.64%) PKI
6 3 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.73%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (2.73%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.82%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.91%) Blackberry
8 1 (0.91%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.91%) CMDB
8 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 78 (70.91%) Windows
2 21 (19.09%) Windows Server
3 18 (16.36%) Windows 10
4 6 (5.45%) Linux
5 4 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (2.73%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.91%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (20.91%) Data Analysis
2 22 (20.00%) Change Management
2 22 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 21 (19.09%) ITIL
4 18 (16.36%) Migration
5 17 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (11.82%) Unit Testing
8 12 (10.91%) Project Delivery
9 11 (10.00%) Agile
9 11 (10.00%) DevOps
10 10 (9.09%) Data Protection
11 9 (8.18%) CI/CD
12 7 (6.36%) Incident Management
12 7 (6.36%) Mentoring
12 7 (6.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 6 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 6 (5.45%) Manual Testing
13 6 (5.45%) Project Governance
14 5 (4.55%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 39 (35.45%) SQL
2 30 (27.27%) C#
3 25 (22.73%) PL/SQL
3 25 (22.73%) T-SQL
4 21 (19.09%) PowerShell
5 11 (10.00%) VBA
6 10 (9.09%) Python
6 10 (9.09%) VB
7 3 (2.73%) Java
8 1 (0.91%) Bash
Qualifications
1 22 (20.00%) Degree
2 13 (11.82%) Security Cleared
3 9 (8.18%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.36%) CCA
4 7 (6.36%) Citrix Certification
5 5 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.64%) CCNA
6 4 (3.64%) CCNP
6 4 (3.64%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.64%) MCSE
7 3 (2.73%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.82%) HP ASE
8 2 (1.82%) MCSA
8 2 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.91%) CCDP
9 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.91%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (29.09%) QA
2 3 (2.73%) NCSC
3 2 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.91%) MiFID
4 1 (0.91%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (22.73%) Virtual Desktop
2 19 (17.27%) Active Directory
3 14 (12.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (6.36%) Hyper-V
4 7 (6.36%) Microsoft App-V
5 6 (5.45%) XenApp
6 5 (4.55%) XenDesktop
7 4 (3.64%) Docker
7 4 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (2.73%) BitLocker
9 2 (1.82%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.91%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.91%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (11.82%) SCCM
2 9 (8.18%) Ansible
2 9 (8.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (6.36%) Terraform
4 4 (3.64%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.64%) SCVMM
5 3 (2.73%) Puppet
5 3 (2.73%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 3 (2.73%) vCenter Server
5 3 (2.73%) vMotion
5 3 (2.73%) WSUS
6 2 (1.82%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (26.36%) Microsoft
2 28 (25.45%) Oracle
3 18 (16.36%) VMware
4 6 (5.45%) Bloomberg
4 6 (5.45%) Reuters
5 4 (3.64%) Cisco
5 4 (3.64%) ION Trading
5 4 (3.64%) Ivanti
5 4 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.64%) UiPath
5 4 (3.64%) Zscaler
6 3 (2.73%) Altiris
6 3 (2.73%) NetApp
6 3 (2.73%) Symantec
7 2 (1.82%) Charles River
7 2 (1.82%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.82%) Infoblox
7 2 (1.82%) Meraki
7 2 (1.82%) Nokia
7 2 (1.82%) ProCurve