Citrix Contracts

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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 235 188 214
Rank change year-on-year -47 +26 +1
Contract jobs citing Citrix 428 781 1,186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.99% 1.39% 1.35%
As % of the Vendors category 2.34% 3.21% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 561 797
10th Percentile £206 £200 £173
25th Percentile £300 £300 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.88%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £538
90th Percentile £650 £676 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £388 £350
% change year-on-year +8.39% +10.71% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 49 62
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.93 £13.55
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.29 £14.44
Median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% - +6.90%
75th Percentile £21.37 £20.00 £16.45
90th Percentile £21.46 £25.71 £32.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.30 £14.76 £15.50
% change year-on-year +10.43% -4.77% +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 18,277 24,339 35,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.45% 43.42% 40.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,373 16,241 23,612
10th Percentile £263 £265 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 647 855
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.97 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -42.77% +92.31% +8.33%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -43 383 £400 - 129
UK excluding London -61 218 £420 +8.39% 110
London +30 182 £375 -6.25% 27
Work from Home -56 112 £463 +15.63% 45
East of England +3 53 £213 -59.52% 7
North of England -11 50 £504 +8.97% 43
South East -50 44 £450 +28.57% 22
Midlands -18 30 £475 +15.15% 18
North West +2 28 £504 +16.87% 22
Scotland +20 25 £340 +19.30% 8
West Midlands -7 24 £450 +20.00% 12
Yorkshire -1 19 £375 -28.57% 18
South West -23 15 £161 -59.69% 12
East Midlands -12 6 £475 -26.92% 6
North East +13 3 £550 +175.00% 3
Wales +7 1 - - 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 74 (17.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (6.54%) SharePoint
3 23 (5.37%) Skype for Business
4 22 (5.14%) IIS
5 4 (0.93%) CMS
5 4 (0.93%) Confluence
6 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 56 (13.08%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (9.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (3.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.70%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 167 (39.02%) Microsoft 365
2 103 (24.07%) Azure
3 29 (6.78%) AWS
4 28 (6.54%) Entra ID
5 16 (3.74%) OneDrive
6 15 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
7 11 (2.57%) IaaS
8 10 (2.34%) Mimecast
8 10 (2.34%) Power Platform
9 8 (1.87%) PaaS
10 5 (1.17%) Azure Functions
10 5 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.17%) GCP
10 5 (1.17%) SaaS
10 5 (1.17%) Serverless
11 4 (0.93%) Cloudflare
11 4 (0.93%) WhatsApp
12 3 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.70%) Azure Sentinel
13 2 (0.47%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 86 (20.09%) Firewall
2 69 (16.12%) Wi-Fi
3 63 (14.72%) NetScaler
4 53 (12.38%) DNS
5 42 (9.81%) DHCP
6 41 (9.58%) VPN
7 32 (7.48%) WAN
8 28 (6.54%) SAN
9 26 (6.07%) Cisco ASA
9 26 (6.07%) IPsec
9 26 (6.07%) LAN
10 23 (5.37%) BGP
10 23 (5.37%) Cisco Firepower
10 23 (5.37%) EIGRP
10 23 (5.37%) HSRP
10 23 (5.37%) OSPF
10 23 (5.37%) Skype
11 21 (4.91%) Cisco ISE
12 14 (3.27%) SNMP
13 12 (2.80%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.24%) SQL Server
2 22 (5.14%) Oracle Database
3 9 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (1.40%) Power BI
5 5 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (2.80%) Jenkins
2 9 (2.10%) Artifactory
2 9 (2.10%) Subversion
3 7 (1.64%) JIRA
4 3 (0.70%) MSI
5 1 (0.23%) Git
General
1 103 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 69 (16.12%) Finance
3 33 (7.71%) Public Sector
4 29 (6.78%) Banking
4 29 (6.78%) Retail
5 27 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (2.57%) Legal
7 9 (2.10%) Front Office
7 9 (2.10%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.17%) French Language
9 5 (1.17%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.93%) Local Government
11 3 (0.70%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.47%) Arabic Language
12 2 (0.47%) Back Office
12 2 (0.47%) German Language
12 2 (0.47%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 104 (24.30%) Analyst
2 56 (13.08%) Service Analyst
2 56 (13.08%) Service Desk Analyst
3 52 (12.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 48 (11.21%) Support Engineer
5 42 (9.81%) Senior
6 37 (8.64%) Network Engineer
7 28 (6.54%) Architect
8 27 (6.31%) IT Support
9 22 (5.14%) C# Developer
9 22 (5.14%) Developer
10 20 (4.67%) Desktop Engineer
11 19 (4.44%) IT Analyst
11 19 (4.44%) IT Engineer
12 15 (3.50%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
12 15 (3.50%) Support Analyst
13 14 (3.27%) Citrix Engineer
13 14 (3.27%) Desktop Support
14 12 (2.80%) Infrastructure Specialist
14 12 (2.80%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.24%) .NET
2 17 (3.97%) .NET Framework
3 14 (3.27%) Middleware
4 12 (2.80%) Jinja
4 12 (2.80%) SAML
4 12 (2.80%) WinForms
4 12 (2.80%) WPF
5 11 (2.57%) WCF
6 7 (1.64%) LDAP
7 2 (0.47%) 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%) OAuth
8 1 (0.23%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.23%) OpenID
8 1 (0.23%) SPFx
8 1 (0.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.07%) Data Centre
2 21 (4.91%) iPhone
3 20 (4.67%) Video Conferencing
4 17 (3.97%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.57%) CMDB
7 9 (2.10%) Blackberry
8 8 (1.87%) Clustering
9 7 (1.64%) Fat Client
9 7 (1.64%) Thin Client
10 6 (1.40%) PKI
11 5 (1.17%) Handset
11 5 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.17%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.70%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.70%) Product Ownership
12 3 (0.70%) Replication
13 2 (0.47%) Cloud Native
13 2 (0.47%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 255 (59.58%) Windows
2 99 (23.13%) Windows Server
3 86 (20.09%) Windows 10
4 33 (7.71%) Windows Server 2012
4 33 (7.71%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (4.44%) Linux
6 18 (4.21%) Windows 7
7 16 (3.74%) Android
7 16 (3.74%) Apple iOS
8 13 (3.04%) Windows Server 2008
9 9 (2.10%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (1.87%) CentOS
10 8 (1.87%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (1.40%) Debian
11 6 (1.40%) Mac OS X
12 4 (0.93%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.93%) Unix
13 2 (0.47%) Rocky
14 1 (0.23%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (35.51%) ITIL
2 89 (20.79%) Customer Service
3 69 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (14.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 56 (13.08%) Disaster Recovery
6 53 (12.38%) Incident Management
7 50 (11.68%) Change Management
8 47 (10.98%) ITSM
9 43 (10.05%) Migration
10 34 (7.94%) DevOps
11 32 (7.48%) Service Delivery
12 29 (6.78%) Network Management
13 25 (5.84%) Cybersecurity
13 25 (5.84%) Project Delivery
14 24 (5.61%) High Availability
14 24 (5.61%) Problem Management
15 23 (5.37%) Data Analysis
16 20 (4.67%) Mobile Device Management
17 19 (4.44%) Configuration Management
17 19 (4.44%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 68 (15.89%) PowerShell
2 43 (10.05%) SQL
3 35 (8.18%) Python
4 31 (7.24%) C#
5 22 (5.14%) PL/SQL
5 22 (5.14%) T-SQL
6 17 (3.97%) VB
6 17 (3.97%) VBA
7 12 (2.80%) Perl
7 12 (2.80%) Tcl
8 9 (2.10%) C++
8 9 (2.10%) Java
9 6 (1.40%) VB.NET
9 6 (1.40%) VBScript
10 1 (0.23%) C
Qualifications
1 65 (15.19%) Security Cleared
2 59 (13.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 57 (13.32%) SC Cleared
4 51 (11.92%) MCSA
5 41 (9.58%) A+ Certification
6 35 (8.18%) Degree
7 24 (5.61%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (4.44%) CCNA
8 19 (4.44%) MCP
9 15 (3.50%) MCSE
10 13 (3.04%) CCNP
11 9 (2.10%) DV Cleared
12 8 (1.87%) Citrix Certification
12 8 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (1.64%) Azure Certification
14 6 (1.40%) RHCT
15 4 (0.93%) CCA
15 4 (0.93%) CCIE
15 4 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
16 3 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.31%) QA
2 17 (3.97%) SLA
3 7 (1.64%) GDPR
4 5 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.70%) PMO
6 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 197 (46.03%) Active Directory
2 74 (17.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (10.51%) XenApp
4 35 (8.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 28 (6.54%) Hyper-V
6 24 (5.61%) XenDesktop
7 13 (3.04%) Firmware
7 13 (3.04%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (2.57%) Microsoft App-V
9 10 (2.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 10 (2.34%) vSphere
10 6 (1.40%) KVM
10 6 (1.40%) Terminal Services
11 5 (1.17%) BitLocker
12 4 (0.93%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
14 2 (0.47%) vCloud
15 1 (0.23%) Citrix Presentation Server
15 1 (0.23%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.23%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 75 (17.52%) SCCM
2 31 (7.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 29 (6.78%) Ansible
4 14 (3.27%) Jamf Pro
5 9 (2.10%) BladeLogic
5 9 (2.10%) ITRS Geneos
6 8 (1.87%) WSUS
7 6 (1.40%) SysTrack
7 6 (1.40%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.93%) Kubernetes
8 4 (0.93%) Nessus
8 4 (0.93%) Terraform
8 4 (0.93%) vMotion
9 3 (0.70%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.70%) SCOM
9 3 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.47%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.47%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.23%) Avamar
11 1 (0.23%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 155 (36.21%) Microsoft
2 89 (20.79%) VMware
3 79 (18.46%) Cisco
4 74 (17.29%) ServiceNow
5 36 (8.41%) SolarWinds
6 32 (7.48%) Oracle
7 27 (6.31%) Palo Alto
8 26 (6.07%) HP
9 19 (4.44%) Apple
10 18 (4.21%) Avaya
10 18 (4.21%) CheckPoint
10 18 (4.21%) Ivanti
11 14 (3.27%) EMC
11 14 (3.27%) Juniper
11 14 (3.27%) Meraki
12 13 (3.04%) Aruba
12 13 (3.04%) Bloomberg
12 13 (3.04%) NetApp
13 12 (2.80%) Brocade
14 11 (2.57%) Red Hat