NetScaler Contracts in the UK excluding London

Citrix NetScaler
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring NetScaler skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NetScaler over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 352 403
Rank change year-on-year +50 +51 +49
Contract jobs citing NetScaler 38 40 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.86% 1.21% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 21 28
10th Percentile £363 £413 £413
25th Percentile £400 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +0.49% +28.13%
75th Percentile £588 £540 £688
90th Percentile - £578 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% +37.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

NetScaler falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,044 3,310 3,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 15.99% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,242 1,883 2,194
10th Percentile £200 £205 £210
25th Percentile £313 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £483 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.63% +1.58% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £637 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -2.50% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 355 304
10th Percentile £13.97 £13.25 -
25th Percentile £15.33 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £30.00 £45.88 £18.22
Median % change year-on-year -34.61% +151.88% -15.28%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.22 £70.66 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -6.25% +116.22% -32.73%

NetScaler
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing NetScaler as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for NetScaler in the UK excluding London

NetScaler
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NetScaler in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for NetScaler in the UK excluding London

NetScaler
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NetScaler in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NetScaler in the UK excluding London

NetScaler
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NetScaler in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for NetScaler in the UK excluding London

NetScaler
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NetScaler within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
North of England +16 21 £575 +11.92%
North West +15 21 £575 +11.65%
South East +59 11 £500 -9.09% 3
West Midlands +11 3 £535 -
Midlands +10 3 £535 -
South West +45 2 £588 - 5
East of England +33 1 - -
NetScaler
UK

NetScaler
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (15.79%) IIS
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (31.58%) Azure
2 2 (5.26%) AWS
3 1 (2.63%) Akamai
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (50.00%) WAN
2 17 (44.74%) Firewall
3 16 (42.11%) Cisco ISE
4 15 (39.47%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (18.42%) DNS
6 6 (15.79%) LAN
6 6 (15.79%) SMTP
7 5 (13.16%) BGP
7 5 (13.16%) IPsec
7 5 (13.16%) OSPF
7 5 (13.16%) VPN
8 4 (10.53%) Broadband
8 4 (10.53%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (10.53%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (10.53%) Converged Networks
8 4 (10.53%) HSRP
8 4 (10.53%) Network Security
9 3 (7.89%) SSL
10 2 (5.26%) Internet
10 2 (5.26%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Hudson
General
1 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
1 3 (7.89%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.26%) Legal
3 1 (2.63%) Banking
3 1 (2.63%) Finance
3 1 (2.63%) Retail
3 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (55.26%) Network Engineer
2 9 (23.68%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (5.26%) Administrator
3 2 (5.26%) Citrix Expert
3 2 (5.26%) Citrix Specialist
3 2 (5.26%) Citrix Subject Matter Expert
3 2 (5.26%) Senior
3 2 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (5.26%) Subject Matter Expert
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Architect
4 1 (2.63%) Citrix Architect
4 1 (2.63%) Citrix Technical Architect
4 1 (2.63%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (2.63%) IT Support
4 1 (2.63%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (2.63%) Senior Design Engineer
4 1 (2.63%) Senior Firewall Engineer
4 1 (2.63%) Senior Network Design Engineer
4 1 (2.63%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (44.74%) 802.1X
2 2 (5.26%) Middleware
3 1 (2.63%) HTML
3 1 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (39.47%) Data Centre
2 6 (15.79%) Clustering
2 6 (15.79%) PKI
3 1 (2.63%) FMCG
3 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (31.58%) Windows
2 11 (28.95%) Windows Server
3 6 (15.79%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.63%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (55.26%) Load Balancing
2 17 (44.74%) Network Management
3 16 (42.11%) Network Design
4 12 (31.58%) Network Architecture
5 10 (26.32%) Impact Assessments
6 4 (10.53%) Roadmaps
7 3 (7.89%) Agile
7 3 (7.89%) Process Improvement
7 3 (7.89%) Technical Debt
7 3 (7.89%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (5.26%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (5.26%) Mobile Device Management
8 2 (5.26%) Network Load Balancing
8 2 (5.26%) Regulatory Compliance
8 2 (5.26%) Release Management
8 2 (5.26%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (5.26%) Scrum
9 1 (2.63%) Business Strategy
9 1 (2.63%) Technology Strategy
9 1 (2.63%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.95%) PowerShell
2 6 (15.79%) Shell Script
3 2 (5.26%) Perl
3 2 (5.26%) Python
4 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (60.53%) SC Cleared
1 23 (60.53%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.16%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (10.53%) CCNA
4 1 (2.63%) A+ Certification
4 1 (2.63%) CCDP
4 1 (2.63%) Degree
4 1 (2.63%) MCP
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (31.58%) Active Directory
2 9 (23.68%) XenDesktop
3 8 (21.05%) XenApp
4 7 (18.42%) vSphere
5 4 (10.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Clustering
2 6 (15.79%) WSUS
3 3 (7.89%) SCCM
3 3 (7.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (57.89%) Cisco
2 20 (52.63%) Palo Alto
3 16 (42.11%) Citrix
4 15 (39.47%) Meraki
5 10 (26.32%) Microsoft
6 9 (23.68%) VMware
7 8 (21.05%) Dell
7 8 (21.05%) HP
8 2 (5.26%) F5
8 2 (5.26%) IBM
8 2 (5.26%) Ivanti
9 1 (2.63%) Arista
9 1 (2.63%) Blue Coat
9 1 (2.63%) Juniper
9 1 (2.63%) Riverbed
9 1 (2.63%) Zscaler