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 14 March 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
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 274 191
Rank change year-on-year 0 -83 +39
Contract jobs citing Citrix 140 81 225
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.86% 0.63% 1.23%
As % of the Vendors category 1.93% 1.40% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 50 181
10th Percentile £379 £189 £210
25th Percentile £404 £261 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £383 £368
Median % change year-on-year +8.50% +4.08% -8.13%
75th Percentile £578 £419 £501
90th Percentile £638 £528 £675
England median daily rate £475 £390 £375
% change year-on-year +21.79% +4.00% -11.76%
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 £74.26 £16.19 £16.30
% change year-on-year +358.68% -0.67% +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 7,263 5,780 7,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.40% 44.66% 40.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,779 3,721 5,000
10th Percentile £350 £325 £281
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £548
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.37% -3.78%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £751 £763
England median daily rate £503 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.29% +1.94% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 82 145
10th Percentile £18.02 £20.90 £13.59
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.80 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.14 £31.42 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.83% +25.69% -2.76%
75th Percentile £41.75 £57.06 £41.25
90th Percentile £66.52 £80.43 £69.80
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.90% +21.80% -28.57%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -16 10 £488 +39.29% 3
East London - 3 £185 - 2
South London - 1 £500 -
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 14 (10.00%) IIS
1 14 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.43%) Confluence
4 1 (0.71%) JBoss
4 1 (0.71%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 39 (27.86%) Microsoft 365
2 28 (20.00%) Azure
3 16 (11.43%) Entra ID
4 10 (7.14%) IaaS
5 8 (5.71%) PaaS
6 7 (5.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 7 (5.00%) AWS
6 7 (5.00%) AWS CloudTrail
7 6 (4.29%) AWS KMS
8 5 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.57%) GCP
9 4 (2.86%) Google Workspace
9 4 (2.86%) Mimecast
9 4 (2.86%) Nutanix
10 3 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.14%) AWS Control Tower
10 3 (2.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.43%) Akamai
11 2 (1.43%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 25 (17.86%) Firewall
2 24 (17.14%) NetScaler
3 22 (15.71%) DNS
4 18 (12.86%) VPN
5 15 (10.71%) DHCP
6 12 (8.57%) Internet
7 7 (5.00%) SMTP
8 6 (4.29%) LAN
8 6 (4.29%) TCP/IP
9 5 (3.57%) WebEx
10 4 (2.86%) DMZ
10 4 (2.86%) Network Security
10 4 (2.86%) VLAN
10 4 (2.86%) WAN
10 4 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.43%) FTP
11 2 (1.43%) Junos
11 2 (1.43%) MPLS
11 2 (1.43%) SAN
11 2 (1.43%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (29.29%) SQL Server
2 20 (14.29%) Oracle Database
3 6 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.14%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.71%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (10.00%) JIRA
2 11 (7.86%) Visual Studio
3 10 (7.14%) MSI
4 4 (2.86%) Selenium
5 3 (2.14%) Appium
5 3 (2.14%) Git
5 3 (2.14%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.14%) JUnit
5 3 (2.14%) TestNG
General
1 53 (37.86%) Finance
2 32 (22.86%) Banking
3 30 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 9 (6.43%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.29%) International Banking
5 6 (4.29%) Investment Banking
5 6 (4.29%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.86%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.86%) Front Office
6 4 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Legal
7 3 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Publishing
8 1 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.71%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 35 (25.00%) Developer
2 30 (21.43%) C# Developer
3 26 (18.57%) Citrix Engineer
4 15 (10.71%) Senior
5 12 (8.57%) QA Engineer
6 10 (7.14%) Analyst
6 10 (7.14%) Applications Developer
7 9 (6.43%) Architect
7 9 (6.43%) Citrix Support
7 9 (6.43%) QA Test Engineer
7 9 (6.43%) Support Engineer
7 9 (6.43%) Test Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (5.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 7 (5.00%) C# Application Developer
9 7 (5.00%) Lead
9 7 (5.00%) Senior Citrix Engineer
10 6 (4.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.29%) NetApp Engineer
10 6 (4.29%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (25.00%) .NET
2 31 (22.14%) .NET Framework
3 15 (10.71%) WPF
4 14 (10.00%) WinForms
5 4 (2.86%) WCF
5 4 (2.86%) XML
6 2 (1.43%) ADO
6 2 (1.43%) ebXML
6 2 (1.43%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.43%) Web Services
7 1 (0.71%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.43%) Data Centre
2 9 (6.43%) Hedge funds
3 8 (5.71%) Clustering
3 8 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (5.71%) PKI
4 7 (5.00%) Client/Server
5 6 (4.29%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (4.29%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.57%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.43%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.71%) Blackberry
9 1 (0.71%) CMDB
9 1 (0.71%) iPad
9 1 (0.71%) iPhone
9 1 (0.71%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 103 (73.57%) Windows
2 31 (22.14%) Windows Server
3 20 (14.29%) Windows 10
4 9 (6.43%) Linux
5 6 (4.29%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (4.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.71%) Android
7 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.71%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.71%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (20.00%) Change Management
1 28 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 27 (19.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 24 (17.14%) ITIL
3 24 (17.14%) Migration
4 17 (12.14%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (12.14%) Unit Testing
5 14 (10.00%) Agile
5 14 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (9.29%) Manual Testing
6 13 (9.29%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (9.29%) Project Delivery
7 12 (8.57%) CI/CD
7 12 (8.57%) DevOps
8 11 (7.86%) Data Protection
8 11 (7.86%) Incident Management
9 9 (6.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (5.71%) Test Automation
11 7 (5.00%) Problem Management
11 7 (5.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 44 (31.43%) SQL
2 35 (25.00%) C#
3 30 (21.43%) PL/SQL
3 30 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 30 (21.43%) T-SQL
4 12 (8.57%) VBA
5 11 (7.86%) Python
5 11 (7.86%) VB
6 1 (0.71%) Bash
Qualifications
1 24 (17.14%) Degree
2 17 (12.14%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.43%) Citrix Certification
5 8 (5.71%) CCA
6 7 (5.00%) DV Cleared
7 6 (4.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.86%) CCNP
9 4 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.14%) AWS Certification
10 3 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.14%) Azure Certification
10 3 (2.14%) CCNA
10 3 (2.14%) MCSE
11 2 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.43%) HP ASE
11 2 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (30.71%) QA
2 3 (2.14%) NCSC
3 2 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.43%) SLA
4 1 (0.71%) MiFID
System Software
1 29 (20.71%) Virtual Desktop
2 28 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 17 (12.14%) Microsoft App-V
3 17 (12.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (8.57%) Hyper-V
5 8 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (5.00%) BitLocker
6 7 (5.00%) Docker
6 7 (5.00%) XenDesktop
7 6 (4.29%) XenApp
8 2 (1.43%) VMware Workstation
8 2 (1.43%) vSphere
9 1 (0.71%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (10.00%) SCCM
3 12 (8.57%) Ansible
4 9 (6.43%) Kubernetes
5 8 (5.71%) Terraform
6 7 (5.00%) vCenter Server
6 7 (5.00%) vMotion
7 6 (4.29%) Puppet
8 5 (3.57%) SCVMM
9 3 (2.14%) FortiGate
9 3 (2.14%) WSUS
10 2 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.43%) WMI
Vendors
1 43 (30.71%) Microsoft
2 33 (23.57%) Oracle
3 22 (15.71%) VMware
4 8 (5.71%) Bloomberg
4 8 (5.71%) Reuters
5 7 (5.00%) NetApp
6 6 (4.29%) Cisco
7 5 (3.57%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.86%) ION Trading
8 4 (2.86%) UiPath
8 4 (2.86%) Zscaler
9 3 (2.14%) Fortinet
9 3 (2.14%) Juniper
10 2 (1.43%) Charles River
10 2 (1.43%) Google
10 2 (1.43%) HP
10 2 (1.43%) Infoblox
10 2 (1.43%) Nokia
10 2 (1.43%) ProCurve
10 2 (1.43%) Red Hat