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 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 233 193 212
Rank change year-on-year -40 +19 -12
Contract jobs citing Citrix 435 810 1,191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.02% 1.39% 1.35%
As % of the Vendors category 2.38% 3.25% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 590 794
10th Percentile £193 £200 £181
25th Percentile £275 £300 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - -3.03%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £538
90th Percentile £650 £675 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £400 £374
% change year-on-year - +7.02% +2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 55 63
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.12 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.16 £14.13 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% - +3.33%
75th Percentile £21.37 £19.13 £15.75
90th Percentile £21.46 £24.40 £32.00
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 18,246 24,927 35,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.60% 42.91% 39.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,291 16,680 23,333
10th Percentile £263 £271 £293
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £635
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,108 691 877
10th Percentile £12.09 £15.21 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.79 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
% change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% +1.08%

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 7 May 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

Citrix
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Citrix over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Citrix in the UK

Citrix
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 7 May 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 -32 392 £380 -5.00% 166
UK excluding London -38 230 £400 - 119
London +14 181 £375 -6.25% 53
Work from Home -55 110 £425 +6.25% 47
East of England +5 59 £331 -42.39% 11
South East -35 54 £450 +28.57% 34
North of England -6 46 £475 -5.00% 30
Midlands -12 27 £550 +29.41% 18
Scotland +26 25 £340 +19.30% 9
West Midlands +8 24 £475 +26.67% 12
North West +4 24 £475 +22.58% 18
Yorkshire +12 20 £375 -28.57% 9
South West -11 18 £145 -63.88% 19
East Midlands -10 3 £550 -15.38% 6
North East +15 2 £575 +187.50% 4
Wales +8 1 - -

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 81 (18.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (6.21%) SharePoint
3 26 (5.98%) Skype for Business
4 18 (4.14%) IIS
5 4 (0.92%) CMS
5 4 (0.92%) Confluence
6 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 58 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (8.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.69%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 176 (40.46%) Microsoft 365
2 102 (23.45%) Azure
3 31 (7.13%) Entra ID
4 26 (5.98%) AWS
5 17 (3.91%) OneDrive
6 14 (3.22%) Azure Monitor
6 14 (3.22%) Mimecast
7 13 (2.99%) IaaS
8 11 (2.53%) Power Platform
9 9 (2.07%) SaaS
10 8 (1.84%) PaaS
11 6 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.15%) Azure Functions
12 5 (1.15%) GCP
12 5 (1.15%) Serverless
13 4 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.92%) Cloudflare
13 4 (0.92%) WhatsApp
14 2 (0.46%) Azure Sentinel
14 2 (0.46%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 82 (18.85%) Firewall
2 70 (16.09%) Wi-Fi
3 56 (12.87%) DNS
4 51 (11.72%) NetScaler
5 45 (10.34%) VPN
6 43 (9.89%) DHCP
7 31 (7.13%) WAN
8 28 (6.44%) Skype
9 26 (5.98%) LAN
9 26 (5.98%) SAN
10 17 (3.91%) Cisco ASA
11 16 (3.68%) IPsec
12 15 (3.45%) SNMP
13 13 (2.99%) BGP
13 13 (2.99%) Cisco Firepower
13 13 (2.99%) Cisco ISE
13 13 (2.99%) EIGRP
13 13 (2.99%) HSRP
13 13 (2.99%) OSPF
14 12 (2.76%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.21%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.37%) Oracle Database
3 9 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.38%) Power BI
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (2.76%) Jenkins
2 9 (2.07%) Artifactory
2 9 (2.07%) Subversion
3 8 (1.84%) JIRA
4 3 (0.69%) MSI
5 2 (0.46%) GitLab
6 1 (0.23%) Git
6 1 (0.23%) GoCD
6 1 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 101 (23.22%) Social Skills
2 75 (17.24%) Finance
3 30 (6.90%) Retail
4 27 (6.21%) Banking
5 26 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (5.98%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.22%) Legal
7 12 (2.76%) Front Office
8 11 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.53%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.38%) French Language
12 4 (0.92%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.92%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.46%) Arabic Language
13 2 (0.46%) German Language
13 2 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.46%) Local Government
13 2 (0.46%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 117 (26.90%) Analyst
2 64 (14.71%) Service Analyst
2 64 (14.71%) Service Desk Analyst
3 55 (12.64%) Support Engineer
4 51 (11.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 48 (11.03%) Senior
6 29 (6.67%) Architect
6 29 (6.67%) IT Support
7 28 (6.44%) Network Engineer
8 19 (4.37%) C# Developer
8 19 (4.37%) Desktop Engineer
8 19 (4.37%) Developer
8 19 (4.37%) IT Analyst
8 19 (4.37%) IT Engineer
9 18 (4.14%) Support Analyst
10 16 (3.68%) Citrix Engineer
10 16 (3.68%) Desktop Support
11 15 (3.45%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
12 12 (2.76%) Senior Analyst
12 12 (2.76%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.44%) .NET
2 17 (3.91%) .NET Framework
3 14 (3.22%) Middleware
4 12 (2.76%) Jinja
4 12 (2.76%) SAML
5 9 (2.07%) LDAP
5 9 (2.07%) WinForms
5 9 (2.07%) WPF
6 8 (1.84%) WCF
7 2 (0.46%) Regular Expression
8 1 (0.23%) CSS
8 1 (0.23%) HTML
8 1 (0.23%) jQuery
8 1 (0.23%) JSON
8 1 (0.23%) Keycloak
8 1 (0.23%) OAuth
8 1 (0.23%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.23%) OpenID
8 1 (0.23%) SPFx
8 1 (0.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.13%) Data Centre
2 23 (5.29%) iPhone
3 20 (4.60%) Video Conferencing
4 16 (3.68%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.76%) Clustering
6 12 (2.76%) CMDB
7 10 (2.30%) PKI
8 9 (2.07%) Blackberry
9 7 (1.61%) Fat Client
9 7 (1.61%) Thin Client
10 5 (1.15%) Handset
10 5 (1.15%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.69%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.69%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.46%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.46%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 259 (59.54%) Windows
2 98 (22.53%) Windows Server
3 88 (20.23%) Windows 10
4 34 (7.82%) Windows Server 2012
4 34 (7.82%) Windows Server 2016
5 24 (5.52%) Windows 7
6 20 (4.60%) Linux
7 17 (3.91%) Android
7 17 (3.91%) Apple iOS
8 14 (3.22%) Windows Server 2008
9 12 (2.76%) Windows Server 2003
10 11 (2.53%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (1.61%) CentOS
11 7 (1.61%) Mac OS X
12 6 (1.38%) Debian
13 4 (0.92%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.92%) Unix
14 3 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.23%) AIX
15 1 (0.23%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (33.79%) ITIL
2 90 (20.69%) Customer Service
3 70 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (14.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 55 (12.64%) Disaster Recovery
6 53 (12.18%) Incident Management
7 52 (11.95%) Change Management
8 42 (9.66%) ITSM
9 40 (9.20%) Migration
10 37 (8.51%) DevOps
11 32 (7.36%) Service Delivery
12 31 (7.13%) Project Delivery
13 27 (6.21%) Problem Management
14 26 (5.98%) High Availability
15 23 (5.29%) Cybersecurity
15 23 (5.29%) Mobile Device Management
16 21 (4.83%) Configuration Management
17 20 (4.60%) User Acceptance Testing
17 20 (4.60%) Virtual Infrastructure
18 19 (4.37%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 71 (16.32%) PowerShell
2 39 (8.97%) SQL
3 33 (7.59%) Python
4 28 (6.44%) C#
5 19 (4.37%) PL/SQL
5 19 (4.37%) T-SQL
6 17 (3.91%) VB
6 17 (3.91%) VBA
7 12 (2.76%) Perl
7 12 (2.76%) Tcl
8 9 (2.07%) C++
8 9 (2.07%) Java
8 9 (2.07%) VB.NET
9 8 (1.84%) VBScript
10 1 (0.23%) C
Qualifications
1 65 (14.94%) Security Cleared
2 55 (12.64%) SC Cleared
3 54 (12.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 49 (11.26%) MCSA
5 42 (9.66%) A+ Certification
6 38 (8.74%) Degree
7 26 (5.98%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (4.83%) CCNA
9 20 (4.60%) MCP
10 14 (3.22%) CCNP
10 14 (3.22%) DV Cleared
11 10 (2.30%) MCSE
12 8 (1.84%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (1.61%) Azure Certification
14 6 (1.38%) RHCT
15 5 (1.15%) Citrix Certification
15 5 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
16 4 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
16 4 (0.92%) CCIE
16 4 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.44%) QA
2 17 (3.91%) SLA
3 6 (1.38%) GDPR
4 4 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.69%) PMO
6 2 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 202 (46.44%) Active Directory
2 70 (16.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (9.89%) XenApp
4 28 (6.44%) Hyper-V
5 26 (5.98%) Virtual Desktop
6 24 (5.52%) XenDesktop
7 18 (4.14%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (2.99%) Firmware
9 12 (2.76%) Microsoft App-V
10 10 (2.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 9 (2.07%) Terminal Services
11 9 (2.07%) vSphere
12 7 (1.61%) BitLocker
13 6 (1.38%) KVM
14 4 (0.92%) VMware NSX
15 2 (0.46%) Docker
15 2 (0.46%) Terminal Server
15 2 (0.46%) vCloud
15 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
16 1 (0.23%) NFS
Systems Management
1 83 (19.08%) SCCM
2 33 (7.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 31 (7.13%) Ansible
4 15 (3.45%) Jamf Pro
5 10 (2.30%) vCenter Server
6 9 (2.07%) BladeLogic
6 9 (2.07%) ITRS Geneos
7 6 (1.38%) SysTrack
7 6 (1.38%) vMotion
8 5 (1.15%) Terraform
9 4 (0.92%) Kubernetes
9 4 (0.92%) Nessus
9 4 (0.92%) WSUS
10 3 (0.69%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.69%) SCOM
10 3 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.46%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 2 (0.46%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (0.46%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 165 (37.93%) Microsoft
2 90 (20.69%) VMware
3 77 (17.70%) Cisco
3 77 (17.70%) ServiceNow
4 31 (7.13%) HP
4 31 (7.13%) Oracle
5 26 (5.98%) SolarWinds
6 21 (4.83%) Apple
7 19 (4.37%) Bloomberg
8 18 (4.14%) Avaya
8 18 (4.14%) CheckPoint
8 18 (4.14%) Palo Alto
9 16 (3.68%) EMC
9 16 (3.68%) Ivanti
10 15 (3.45%) Meraki
11 14 (3.22%) Juniper
11 14 (3.22%) Red Hat
12 13 (2.99%) Aruba
12 13 (2.99%) NetApp
13 12 (2.76%) Brocade