Citrix
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Citrix products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Citrix over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 229 195 218
Rank change year-on-year -34 +23 -18
Contract jobs citing Citrix 459 823 1,220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.06% 1.38% 1.37%
As % of the Vendors category 2.49% 3.21% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 605 812
10th Percentile £190 £200 £182
25th Percentile £262 £301 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -1.23%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £538
90th Percentile £654 £675 £630
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £400 £360
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -1.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 53 64
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.29 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.16 £14.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% - +3.33%
75th Percentile £21.37 £18.50 £15.75
90th Percentile £21.46 £23.75 £31.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% - +3.33%

All Vendors
UK

Citrix is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,438 25,649 35,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.89% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 17,207 23,532
10th Percentile £263 £270 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 699 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%

Citrix
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Citrix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Citrix in the UK

Citrix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Citrix in the UK

Citrix
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Citrix over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Citrix in the UK

Citrix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Citrix in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Citrix over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Citrix in the UK

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Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England -8 417 £375 -6.25% 146
UK excluding London -35 242 £400 - 112
London +26 194 £375 -6.25% 48
Work from Home -49 115 £420 +5.00% 49
South East -28 59 £450 +28.57% 41
East of England +17 58 £331 -39.77% 7
North of England -1 49 £475 -5.00% 23
Midlands -22 27 £450 +5.88% 14
North West -4 26 £475 +22.58% 13
West Midlands +15 25 £350 -6.67% 11
Scotland +12 24 £333 +14.85% 10
South West 0 23 £145 -63.88% 16
Yorkshire +3 19 £328 -37.48% 8
North East +22 4 £341 +70.25% 3
Wales +7 2 £208 +1.22%
East Midlands -15 2 £550 -15.38% 3

Citrix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 89 (19.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (6.32%) SharePoint
3 28 (6.10%) Skype for Business
4 19 (4.14%) IIS
5 5 (1.09%) Confluence
6 4 (0.87%) CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 63 (13.73%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (9.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (3.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.65%) Adobe Premiere
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 187 (40.74%) Microsoft 365
2 111 (24.18%) Azure
3 33 (7.19%) Entra ID
4 26 (5.66%) AWS
5 19 (4.14%) OneDrive
6 15 (3.27%) Mimecast
7 14 (3.05%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (2.83%) IaaS
9 11 (2.40%) Power Platform
10 9 (1.96%) SaaS
11 8 (1.74%) PaaS
12 7 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.09%) Azure Functions
13 5 (1.09%) GCP
13 5 (1.09%) Serverless
14 4 (0.87%) Cloudflare
14 4 (0.87%) Datadog
14 4 (0.87%) WhatsApp
15 2 (0.44%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 84 (18.30%) Firewall
2 69 (15.03%) Wi-Fi
3 58 (12.64%) DNS
4 50 (10.89%) NetScaler
5 46 (10.02%) VPN
6 45 (9.80%) DHCP
7 33 (7.19%) WAN
8 32 (6.97%) Skype
9 28 (6.10%) LAN
10 26 (5.66%) SAN
11 17 (3.70%) Cisco ASA
12 16 (3.49%) IPsec
13 15 (3.27%) SNMP
14 13 (2.83%) BGP
14 13 (2.83%) Cisco Firepower
14 13 (2.83%) Cisco ISE
14 13 (2.83%) EIGRP
14 13 (2.83%) HSRP
14 13 (2.83%) OSPF
15 12 (2.61%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (7.19%) SQL Server
2 23 (5.01%) Oracle Database
3 9 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.31%) Power BI
6 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (2.61%) Jenkins
2 9 (1.96%) Artifactory
2 9 (1.96%) JIRA
2 9 (1.96%) Subversion
3 3 (0.65%) MSI
4 2 (0.44%) GitLab
5 1 (0.22%) Git
5 1 (0.22%) GoCD
5 1 (0.22%) Hudson
5 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 106 (23.09%) Social Skills
2 81 (17.65%) Finance
3 30 (6.54%) Retail
4 29 (6.32%) Public Sector
5 28 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (6.10%) Banking
6 15 (3.27%) Legal
7 14 (3.05%) Front Office
8 11 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.40%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.74%) French Language
11 5 (1.09%) German Language
11 5 (1.09%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.87%) Arabic Language
12 4 (0.87%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.87%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.44%) Local Government
14 1 (0.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 118 (25.71%) Analyst
2 64 (13.94%) Service Analyst
2 64 (13.94%) Service Desk Analyst
3 59 (12.85%) Support Engineer
4 52 (11.33%) Senior
5 48 (10.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 33 (7.19%) IT Support
7 30 (6.54%) Architect
8 28 (6.10%) Network Engineer
9 23 (5.01%) C# Developer
9 23 (5.01%) Desktop Engineer
9 23 (5.01%) Developer
10 21 (4.58%) IT Engineer
10 21 (4.58%) Support Analyst
11 20 (4.36%) IT Analyst
12 17 (3.70%) Desktop Support
13 15 (3.27%) .NET Developer
13 15 (3.27%) C# .NET Developer
13 15 (3.27%) Citrix Engineer
14 14 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (6.97%) .NET
2 21 (4.58%) .NET Framework
3 14 (3.05%) Middleware
4 12 (2.61%) Jinja
4 12 (2.61%) SAML
5 9 (1.96%) LDAP
5 9 (1.96%) WinForms
5 9 (1.96%) WPF
6 8 (1.74%) WCF
7 2 (0.44%) Regular Expression
8 1 (0.22%) CSS
8 1 (0.22%) HTML
8 1 (0.22%) jQuery
8 1 (0.22%) JSON
8 1 (0.22%) Keycloak
8 1 (0.22%) OAuth
8 1 (0.22%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.22%) OpenID
8 1 (0.22%) SPFx
8 1 (0.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.41%) Data Centre
2 24 (5.23%) iPhone
3 23 (5.01%) Video Conferencing
4 20 (4.36%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.61%) Clustering
6 12 (2.61%) CMDB
6 12 (2.61%) PKI
7 9 (1.96%) Blackberry
8 7 (1.53%) Fat Client
8 7 (1.53%) Thin Client
9 5 (1.09%) Handset
9 5 (1.09%) NHS
9 5 (1.09%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.87%) Driving Licence
10 4 (0.87%) Private Cloud
10 4 (0.87%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.65%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 274 (59.69%) Windows
2 103 (22.44%) Windows Server
3 95 (20.70%) Windows 10
4 35 (7.63%) Windows Server 2012
5 34 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 25 (5.45%) Windows 7
7 22 (4.79%) Linux
8 20 (4.36%) Android
9 19 (4.14%) Apple iOS
10 14 (3.05%) Windows Server 2008
11 12 (2.61%) Windows Server 2003
11 12 (2.61%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (1.74%) Mac OS X
13 7 (1.53%) CentOS
14 6 (1.31%) Debian
15 4 (0.87%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.87%) Unix
16 3 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 1 (0.22%) AIX
17 1 (0.22%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (32.68%) ITIL
2 91 (19.83%) Customer Service
3 72 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
4 60 (13.07%) Disaster Recovery
5 59 (12.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 53 (11.55%) Incident Management
7 51 (11.11%) Change Management
8 44 (9.59%) ITSM
9 40 (8.71%) Migration
10 38 (8.28%) DevOps
11 34 (7.41%) Service Delivery
12 32 (6.97%) Problem Management
13 31 (6.75%) Project Delivery
14 28 (6.10%) Mobile Device Management
15 26 (5.66%) High Availability
16 24 (5.23%) Cybersecurity
17 23 (5.01%) Data Analysis
18 22 (4.79%) Virtual Infrastructure
19 21 (4.58%) Configuration Management
20 20 (4.36%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 70 (15.25%) PowerShell
2 43 (9.37%) SQL
3 33 (7.19%) Python
4 32 (6.97%) C#
5 23 (5.01%) PL/SQL
5 23 (5.01%) T-SQL
6 21 (4.58%) VB
6 21 (4.58%) VBA
7 13 (2.83%) VB.NET
8 12 (2.61%) Perl
8 12 (2.61%) Tcl
9 9 (1.96%) C++
9 9 (1.96%) Java
10 8 (1.74%) VBScript
11 1 (0.22%) C
Qualifications
1 69 (15.03%) Security Cleared
2 55 (11.98%) SC Cleared
3 51 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 48 (10.46%) MCSA
5 43 (9.37%) Degree
6 42 (9.15%) A+ Certification
7 26 (5.66%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (4.58%) CCNA
9 20 (4.36%) MCP
10 18 (3.92%) DV Cleared
11 14 (3.05%) CCNP
12 9 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
12 9 (1.96%) MCSE
13 7 (1.53%) Azure Certification
14 6 (1.31%) RHCT
15 5 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
16 4 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
16 4 (0.87%) CCIE
16 4 (0.87%) Citrix Certification
16 4 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.97%) QA
2 21 (4.58%) SLA
3 6 (1.31%) GDPR
4 4 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.65%) PMO
6 2 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 213 (46.41%) Active Directory
2 72 (15.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (9.59%) XenApp
4 30 (6.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 29 (6.32%) Hyper-V
6 24 (5.23%) XenDesktop
7 19 (4.14%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (2.83%) Firmware
8 13 (2.83%) Microsoft App-V
9 10 (2.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 9 (1.96%) Terminal Services
10 9 (1.96%) vSphere
11 7 (1.53%) BitLocker
12 6 (1.31%) KVM
13 4 (0.87%) Docker
13 4 (0.87%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.44%) Terminal Server
14 2 (0.44%) vCloud
14 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
15 1 (0.22%) NFS
Systems Management
1 89 (19.39%) SCCM
2 39 (8.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 31 (6.75%) Ansible
4 15 (3.27%) Jamf Pro
5 10 (2.18%) vCenter Server
6 9 (1.96%) BladeLogic
6 9 (1.96%) ITRS Geneos
7 6 (1.31%) SysTrack
7 6 (1.31%) Terraform
7 6 (1.31%) vMotion
8 5 (1.09%) SCOM
9 4 (0.87%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (0.87%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.87%) Kubernetes
9 4 (0.87%) Nessus
10 3 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.65%) WSUS
11 2 (0.44%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (0.44%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 176 (38.34%) Microsoft
2 95 (20.70%) VMware
3 82 (17.86%) Cisco
4 81 (17.65%) ServiceNow
5 35 (7.63%) Oracle
6 32 (6.97%) HP
7 27 (5.88%) SolarWinds
8 22 (4.79%) Apple
9 21 (4.58%) Avaya
9 21 (4.58%) Bloomberg
10 19 (4.14%) CheckPoint
10 19 (4.14%) EMC
11 18 (3.92%) Palo Alto
12 17 (3.70%) Ivanti
13 15 (3.27%) Meraki
14 14 (3.05%) Juniper
14 14 (3.05%) Red Hat
15 13 (2.83%) Aruba
15 13 (2.83%) Dynatrace
15 13 (2.83%) NetApp