NetScaler Job Trends

Citrix NetScaler
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring NetScaler skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 630 676 648
Rank change year-on-year +46 -28 +297
Permanent jobs citing NetScaler 21 35 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.035% 0.063% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.22% 0.48% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 15 28 57
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,313 £45,800 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -12.69% +15.56%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,375 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £99,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,625 £48,800 £46,500
% change year-on-year +1.69% +4.95% -2.11%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,650 7,299 7,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.31% 13.22% 14.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,954 3,825 6,131
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -32.00% +11.11% -

NetScaler
Job Vacancy Trend

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

NetScaler job vacancy trend in the UK

NetScaler
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NetScaler.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NetScaler

NetScaler
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NetScaler over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for NetScaler in the UK

NetScaler
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NetScaler within the UK over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +61 20 £58,750 +3.52% 15
London +30 16 £60,000 -37.50% 8
Work from Home +67 5 £100,000 +70.94% 2
UK excluding London +49 5 £49,625 +1.69% 9
South East +29 3 £56,750 -5.42% 3
Wales - 1 £41,000 -
East of England - 1 £42,500 - 3

NetScaler
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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) IIS
2 1 (4.76%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.76%) WebSphere
2 1 (4.76%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (19.05%) AWS Direct Connect
3 4 (19.05%) Entra ID
3 4 (19.05%) SaaS
3 4 (19.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (38.10%) Firewall
1 8 (38.10%) SD-WAN
1 8 (38.10%) WAN
2 7 (33.33%) VPN
3 5 (23.81%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (19.05%) BGP
4 4 (19.05%) Cisco Firepower
4 4 (19.05%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (19.05%) IPsec
4 4 (19.05%) LAN
4 4 (19.05%) MPLS
4 4 (19.05%) NX-OS
4 4 (19.05%) OSPF
4 4 (19.05%) VXLAN
4 4 (19.05%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (19.05%) Wireless
4 4 (19.05%) WLAN
5 3 (14.29%) DHCP
5 3 (14.29%) DNS
5 3 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 4 (19.05%) Banking
2 3 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Advertising
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Citrix Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Senior
4 5 (23.81%) Senior Citrix Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Cisco Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Firewall Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Network Operations Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Support Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Active Directory Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Support
7 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) .NET
1 1 (4.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Data Centre
2 4 (19.05%) Management Information System
3 2 (9.52%) Clustering
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Windows
1 9 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 3 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (38.10%) ITIL
3 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (23.81%) Kalman Filter
5 4 (19.05%) Cloud Security
5 4 (19.05%) Network Segmentation
5 4 (19.05%) Runbook
5 4 (19.05%) Zero Trust
6 3 (14.29%) Information Security
6 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
7 2 (9.52%) Converged Infrastructure
7 2 (9.52%) High Availability
7 2 (9.52%) IT Governance
7 2 (9.52%) Patch Management
7 2 (9.52%) Preventative Maintenance
7 2 (9.52%) Problem Management
7 2 (9.52%) Service Management
7 2 (9.52%) Storage Management
8 1 (4.76%) Change Management
8 1 (4.76%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.52%) SQL
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) C#
3 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 3 (14.29%) Citrix Certification
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.76%) CCA
3 1 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (4.76%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) SLA
2 2 (9.52%) PCI DSS
2 2 (9.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) Active Directory
2 4 (19.05%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 3 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (9.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (9.52%) VMware NSX
4 2 (9.52%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (14.29%) Ansible
2 3 (14.29%) SCCM
3 2 (9.52%) Dell DRAC
3 2 (9.52%) vCenter Server
3 2 (9.52%) VxRail
4 1 (4.76%) AirWatch
4 1 (4.76%) Nessus
4 1 (4.76%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (57.14%) Citrix
2 10 (47.62%) CheckPoint
2 10 (47.62%) Cisco
3 9 (42.86%) Meraki
4 8 (38.10%) Fortinet
5 7 (33.33%) VMware
6 6 (28.57%) ServiceNow
7 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
7 5 (23.81%) SolarWinds
8 4 (19.05%) Aruba
8 4 (19.05%) Dynatrace
8 4 (19.05%) Palo Alto
9 3 (14.29%) F5
9 3 (14.29%) HP
9 3 (14.29%) Nexthink
9 3 (14.29%) Veeam
10 2 (9.52%) Dell
10 2 (9.52%) NetApp
10 2 (9.52%) Pure Storage
11 1 (4.76%) Tenable