Citrix Contracts in the Thames Valley

Citrix
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 111 116
Rank change year-on-year +25 +5 -7
Contract jobs citing Citrix 16 34 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.06% 1.27% 1.19%
As % of the Vendors category 2.02% 2.64% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 26 30
10th Percentile £344 £278 £250
25th Percentile £375 £303 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £425 £555
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -23.42% +18.40%
75th Percentile £539 £568 £684
90th Percentile £583 £625 £729
South East median daily rate £400 £450 £350
% change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -12.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £65.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -56.92% +251.35% -

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 794 1,287 1,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 52.55% 47.92% 48.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 799 975
10th Percentile £350 £205 £300
25th Percentile £441 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.75% +3.90%
75th Percentile £627 £600 £619
90th Percentile £695 £688 £706
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 71 47
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile £14.20 £22.59 £23.50
Median hourly rate £24.66 £52.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.03% +7.14% +276.92%
75th Percentile £46.30 £61.60 £66.21
90th Percentile £67.50 £63.29 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Citrix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Citrix in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Citrix in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Citrix in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Citrix in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Citrix in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Citrix in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Citrix in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Berkshire +8 9 £525 +50.00% 4
Buckinghamshire +21 6 £375 -31.82% 3
Oxfordshire +5 1 - - 2
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) IIS
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) NetScaler
2 5 (31.25%) DNS
2 5 (31.25%) SMTP
3 2 (12.50%) LAN
3 2 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (6.25%) Firewall
4 1 (6.25%) Internet
4 1 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (6.25%) IP Telephony
4 1 (6.25%) Junos
4 1 (6.25%) MPLS
4 1 (6.25%) NAS
4 1 (6.25%) SAN
4 1 (6.25%) Skype
4 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.25%) Unified Communications
4 1 (6.25%) WAN
4 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) MS Access
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Electronics
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Citrix Specialist
2 3 (18.75%) IT Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Citrix Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Test Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Service Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Test Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Juniper Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Middleware
1 2 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Clustering
1 5 (31.25%) PKI
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (81.25%) Windows
2 11 (68.75%) Windows Server
3 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (25.00%) Windows 10
5 2 (12.50%) Unix
6 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (18.75%) ITIL
2 3 (18.75%) Server Building
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Functional Testing
3 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
3 2 (12.50%) Integration Testing
3 2 (12.50%) Logistics
3 2 (12.50%) Manual Testing
3 2 (12.50%) Mathematics
3 2 (12.50%) Microservices
3 2 (12.50%) Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
3 2 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
3 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 2 (12.50%) Test Planning
3 2 (12.50%) Validation
3 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) PowerShell
2 5 (31.25%) Shell Script
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Python
4 1 (6.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) A+ Certification
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) MCSA
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (43.75%) XenApp
3 6 (37.50%) vSphere
3 6 (37.50%) XenDesktop
4 4 (25.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Clustering
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (31.25%) WSUS
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) FortiGate
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (37.50%) VMware
3 5 (31.25%) Dell
3 5 (31.25%) HP
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco
4 2 (12.50%) F5
4 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
5 1 (6.25%) Juniper
5 1 (6.25%) SAP