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 6 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
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 261 229
Rank change year-on-year -22 -32 +2
Contract jobs citing Citrix 144 92 181
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 0.76% 1.03%
As % of the Vendors category 1.87% 1.66% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 65 136
10th Percentile £280 £218 £210
25th Percentile £404 £263 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £390 £375
Median % change year-on-year +8.85% +4.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £478 £503
90th Percentile £646 £591 £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 7,713 5,533 7,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.53% 45.58% 41.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,081 3,573 4,961
10th Percentile £350 £325 £306
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +0.47% -4.44%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £505 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -1.94% - -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 103 134
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.93
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.39 £17.20
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.60 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +24.13% +20.17% -11.85%
75th Percentile £52.25 £42.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.99 £27.40 £23.80
% change year-on-year +24.03% +15.13% -39.82%

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 6 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 6 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 -14 24 £413 +17.86% 5
South London -11 1 £500 +100.00%
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 15 (10.42%) IIS
1 15 (10.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.08%) Appian
3 3 (2.08%) Camunda
3 3 (2.08%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.86%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.08%) OpenText MBPM
1 3 (2.08%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 41 (28.47%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (16.67%) Azure
3 18 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 15 (10.42%) AWS
5 13 (9.03%) IaaS
6 11 (7.64%) PaaS
7 9 (6.25%) Google Workspace
8 6 (4.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 6 (4.17%) AWS CloudTrail
8 6 (4.17%) GCP
9 5 (3.47%) AWS KMS
10 4 (2.78%) Mimecast
11 2 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.39%) AWS Control Tower
11 2 (1.39%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.39%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.39%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.39%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 27 (18.75%) VPN
2 26 (18.06%) Firewall
3 25 (17.36%) DNS
4 18 (12.50%) DHCP
5 14 (9.72%) TCP/IP
6 13 (9.03%) Internet
7 12 (8.33%) NetScaler
8 10 (6.94%) SMTP
9 8 (5.56%) Network Security
10 7 (4.86%) DMZ
11 2 (1.39%) FTP
11 2 (1.39%) Junos
11 2 (1.39%) MPLS
11 2 (1.39%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (1.39%) WebEx
11 2 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 1 (0.69%) GLBP
12 1 (0.69%) HSRP
12 1 (0.69%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (27.78%) SQL Server
2 22 (15.28%) Oracle Database
3 9 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.08%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.39%) Big Data
7 1 (0.69%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (6.94%) MSI
2 8 (5.56%) JIRA
2 8 (5.56%) Visual Studio
3 4 (2.78%) Selenium
4 3 (2.08%) Appium
4 3 (2.08%) Git
4 3 (2.08%) JUnit
4 3 (2.08%) TestNG
5 1 (0.69%) REST Assured
General
1 50 (34.72%) Finance
2 36 (25.00%) Banking
3 31 (21.53%) Social Skills
4 11 (7.64%) Investment Banking
5 9 (6.25%) Front Office
6 8 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.47%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.47%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.08%) International Banking
10 2 (1.39%) Legal
10 2 (1.39%) Publishing
10 2 (1.39%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (25.00%) Developer
2 28 (19.44%) C# Developer
3 19 (13.19%) Analyst
4 14 (9.72%) Citrix Engineer
4 14 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (6.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 10 (6.94%) Applications Developer
5 10 (6.94%) Senior
6 9 (6.25%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (6.25%) Consultant
6 9 (6.25%) IT Analyst
7 8 (5.56%) Help Desk Analyst
7 8 (5.56%) Support Engineer
8 7 (4.86%) 3rd Line Support
8 7 (4.86%) AWS Consultant
8 7 (4.86%) C# Application Developer
8 7 (4.86%) Citrix Consultant
8 7 (4.86%) NetApp Engineer
8 7 (4.86%) Storage Engineer
9 6 (4.17%) Citrix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (25.00%) .NET
2 33 (22.92%) .NET Framework
3 13 (9.03%) WPF
4 12 (8.33%) WinForms
5 4 (2.78%) XML
6 3 (2.08%) Web Services
7 2 (1.39%) ADO
7 2 (1.39%) ebXML
7 2 (1.39%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (0.69%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.69%) LDAP
8 1 (0.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.81%) Onboarding
2 13 (9.03%) Data Centre
3 11 (7.64%) PKI
4 10 (6.94%) Clustering
5 9 (6.25%) Client/Server
6 8 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
7 7 (4.86%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (4.17%) Hedge funds
9 5 (3.47%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (2.08%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.39%) Fixed Income
11 2 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (1.39%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.39%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.69%) Blackberry
12 1 (0.69%) BYOD
12 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.69%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 106 (73.61%) Windows
2 31 (21.53%) Windows Server
3 17 (11.81%) Windows 10
4 10 (6.94%) Linux
5 8 (5.56%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (4.86%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (2.78%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.69%) Android
9 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.69%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (21.53%) Data Analysis
2 27 (18.75%) Change Management
3 26 (18.06%) Disaster Recovery
3 26 (18.06%) ITIL
3 26 (18.06%) Migration
4 21 (14.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 16 (11.11%) Unit Testing
6 15 (10.42%) Agile
6 15 (10.42%) AI
6 15 (10.42%) Incident Management
7 14 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (7.64%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (7.64%) Service Delivery
9 10 (6.94%) DevOps
10 9 (6.25%) OO
10 9 (6.25%) OOP
10 9 (6.25%) Project Delivery
10 9 (6.25%) Software Deployment
11 8 (5.56%) Data Protection
11 8 (5.56%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (27.78%) SQL
2 36 (25.00%) C#
3 34 (23.61%) PowerShell
4 31 (21.53%) PL/SQL
4 31 (21.53%) T-SQL
5 11 (7.64%) VB
5 11 (7.64%) VBA
6 6 (4.17%) Python
7 4 (2.78%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 32 (22.22%) Degree
2 18 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.94%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.56%) Citrix Certification
4 8 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (4.17%) CCA
6 6 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.78%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.78%) ISTQB
7 4 (2.78%) MCSA
8 2 (1.39%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.39%) MCSE
8 2 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.69%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.69%) ISEB
9 1 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (1.39%) NCSC
2 2 (1.39%) SLA
3 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 33 (22.92%) Active Directory
2 24 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 20 (13.89%) Microsoft App-V
4 19 (13.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (11.11%) Hyper-V
6 10 (6.94%) BitLocker
6 10 (6.94%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (6.25%) Docker
8 6 (4.17%) XenDesktop
9 4 (2.78%) XenApp
10 3 (2.08%) Terminal Services
10 3 (2.08%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (1.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (13.19%) SCCM
2 13 (9.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (7.64%) Kubernetes
4 10 (6.94%) vCenter Server
4 10 (6.94%) vMotion
5 9 (6.25%) Ansible
5 9 (6.25%) Puppet
6 7 (4.86%) WSUS
7 6 (4.17%) Terraform
8 4 (2.78%) SCVMM
9 2 (1.39%) Nagios
9 2 (1.39%) WMI
10 1 (0.69%) CloudForms
10 1 (0.69%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 49 (34.03%) Microsoft
2 32 (22.22%) Oracle
3 23 (15.97%) VMware
4 15 (10.42%) Bloomberg
5 12 (8.33%) Reuters
6 8 (5.56%) ION Trading
6 8 (5.56%) NetApp
7 6 (4.17%) Google
8 5 (3.47%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.78%) Cisco
10 3 (2.08%) HP
10 3 (2.08%) Juniper
10 3 (2.08%) OpenText
10 3 (2.08%) Symantec
10 3 (2.08%) UiPath
11 2 (1.39%) Arista
11 2 (1.39%) Charles River
11 2 (1.39%) F5
12 1 (0.69%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.69%) Ivanti