NetScaler Contract Job Trends

Citrix NetScaler
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring NetScaler skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 540 477 534
Rank change year-on-year -63 +57 +151
Contract jobs citing NetScaler 44 67 71
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.11% 1.54% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 33 50
10th Percentile £350 £266 £435
25th Percentile £438 £350 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.44% -25.00% +8.50%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £627
90th Percentile £588 £588 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £517 £454 £600
% change year-on-year +13.88% -24.38% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £22.50 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,975 4,337 6,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.79% 12.69% 13.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,590 2,546 3,755
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £356 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £587 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 152 340
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.32 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.26 £22.24 £22.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% -31.82% +34.05%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.63 £75.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £39.25 £56.49
% change year-on-year +8.28% -30.52% +25.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NetScaler relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

NetScaler job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NetScaler.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NetScaler

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NetScaler over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NetScaler in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NetScaler.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NetScaler

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Top 11 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 December 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
England -48 41 £508 +12.78% 31
UK excluding London -57 23 £517 +13.88% 28
North of England -62 19 £519 +9.16% 8
London -7 17 £450 +5.88% 8
North West -40 16 £520 +9.47% 1
Work from Home -15 5 £519 +88.55% 6
Yorkshire -40 3 £500 +81.82% 7
Midlands -39 2 £500 +9.29% 4
East Midlands - 2 £500 - 2
East of England -23 1 £500 +81.82% 6
South East -29 1 - - 6

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (6.82%) WebSphere
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.55%) WebLogic
2 2 (4.55%) WildFly
3 1 (2.27%) JBoss
3 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.91%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (11.36%) Azure
3 3 (6.82%) AWS
4 2 (4.55%) Akamai
4 2 (4.55%) GCP
4 2 (4.55%) Nutanix
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 22 (50.00%) Firewall
2 16 (36.36%) WAN
3 14 (31.82%) Wi-Fi
4 13 (29.55%) Cisco ISE
5 6 (13.64%) DNS
6 5 (11.36%) DHCP
7 3 (6.82%) TCP/IP
8 2 (4.55%) LAN
8 2 (4.55%) SD-WAN
8 2 (4.55%) VPN
8 2 (4.55%) Wireless
9 1 (2.27%) Cisco Wireless
9 1 (2.27%) DMZ
9 1 (2.27%) InfiniBand
9 1 (2.27%) Internet
9 1 (2.27%) Network Security
9 1 (2.27%) NGN
9 1 (2.27%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (2.27%) SSL
9 1 (2.27%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Hudson
General
1 9 (20.45%) Banking
2 8 (18.18%) Finance
3 6 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
5 4 (9.09%) Legal
6 3 (6.82%) International Banking
7 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.27%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 15 (34.09%) Network Engineer
2 8 (18.18%) Architect
3 7 (15.91%) Senior
4 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Citrix Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Network Architect
6 3 (6.82%) Citrix Expert
6 3 (6.82%) Citrix Specialist
6 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Citrix Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) 3rd Line Support
7 2 (4.55%) Citrix Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Citrix Support
7 2 (4.55%) Consultant
7 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Lead
7 2 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Technical Consultant
8 1 (2.27%) Desktop Support
8 1 (2.27%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (29.55%) 802.1X
2 2 (4.55%) Middleware
3 1 (2.27%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.27%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (34.09%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.55%) Private Cloud
2 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.27%) Clustering
3 1 (2.27%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.27%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (27.27%) Windows
2 6 (13.64%) Windows Server
3 4 (9.09%) Windows 10
4 3 (6.82%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.27%) Linux
6 1 (2.27%) Unix
6 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (36.36%) Load Balancing
2 13 (29.55%) Impact Assessments
2 13 (29.55%) Network Architecture
3 12 (27.27%) Network Design
3 12 (27.27%) Network Management
4 10 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (15.91%) Project Delivery
6 5 (11.36%) High Availability
6 5 (11.36%) ITIL
7 4 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (9.09%) Mentoring
7 4 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (6.82%) Change Management
8 3 (6.82%) Data Protection
8 3 (6.82%) ITSM
8 3 (6.82%) Problem Management
8 3 (6.82%) Technical Debt
9 2 (4.55%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.82%) Python
3 1 (2.27%) Perl
3 1 (2.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (38.64%) Security Cleared
2 15 (34.09%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) CCA
3 3 (6.82%) Citrix Certification
4 2 (4.55%) CCIE
4 2 (4.55%) CCNP
4 2 (4.55%) CCSM
4 2 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.55%) Degree
4 2 (4.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (4.55%) VCDX
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) MCSE
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 10 (22.73%) Virtual Desktop
2 7 (15.91%) Active Directory
2 7 (15.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (9.09%) XenApp
4 3 (6.82%) XenDesktop
5 2 (4.55%) Docker
5 2 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (4.55%) VMware NSX
5 2 (4.55%) vSphere
6 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Ansible
2 4 (9.09%) SCCM
2 4 (9.09%) Terraform
3 2 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.27%) Grafana
4 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.27%) Salt
4 1 (2.27%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 26 (59.09%) Citrix
2 20 (45.45%) Cisco
3 18 (40.91%) Palo Alto
4 16 (36.36%) Meraki
5 7 (15.91%) VMware
6 5 (11.36%) F5
7 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
8 3 (6.82%) CheckPoint
8 3 (6.82%) Oracle
8 3 (6.82%) ServiceNow
9 2 (4.55%) Globalscape
9 2 (4.55%) Google
9 2 (4.55%) Infoblox
9 2 (4.55%) Nokia
9 2 (4.55%) Splunk
9 2 (4.55%) Veeam
9 2 (4.55%) Zscaler
10 1 (2.27%) Aruba
10 1 (2.27%) HP
10 1 (2.27%) IBM