NetScaler Contracts

Citrix NetScaler
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for NetScaler skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NetScaler over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 502 615 737
Rank change year-on-year +113 +122 -137
Contract jobs citing NetScaler 73 67 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.35% 0.94% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 40 67
10th Percentile £393 £413 £279
25th Percentile £450 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £408
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +34.97% -11.41%
75th Percentile £563 £678 £463
90th Percentile £625 £700 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £513 £423
% change year-on-year +0.49% +21.30% -8.15%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

NetScaler is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NetScaler in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for NetScaler in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NetScaler over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NetScaler in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for NetScaler in the UK

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Top 14 Contract 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 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 +94 66 £513 -8.07% 18
UK excluding London +38 40 £515 +0.49% 10
Work from Home +127 39 £515 -9.25% 11
London +99 23 £525 -7.89% 7
North of England +25 17 £514 +14.17% 3
North West +22 16 £515 +14.44% 3
Midlands +25 10 - - 2
South East +12 10 £550 -21.43% 4
West Midlands +14 8 - - 2
East Midlands - 2 - -
Scotland +35 1 - -
South West +4 1 - - 1
East of England +4 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £375 -

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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 6 (8.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (6.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.37%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 24 (32.88%) Azure
2 9 (12.33%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (10.96%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (8.22%) AWS
5 5 (6.85%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.37%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.37%) OCI
6 1 (1.37%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 31 (42.47%) Firewall
2 25 (34.25%) Cisco ASA
2 25 (34.25%) Cisco ISE
3 24 (32.88%) BGP
3 24 (32.88%) IPsec
3 24 (32.88%) OSPF
4 23 (31.51%) Cisco Firepower
4 23 (31.51%) EIGRP
4 23 (31.51%) HSRP
5 17 (23.29%) Wi-Fi
6 15 (20.55%) DNS
7 12 (16.44%) SNMP
7 12 (16.44%) Spanning Tree
8 7 (9.59%) VPN
8 7 (9.59%) WAN
9 6 (8.22%) DHCP
9 6 (8.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 4 (5.48%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 3 (4.11%) LAN
12 2 (2.74%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
General
1 16 (21.92%) Public Sector
2 4 (5.48%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.74%) Finance
4 1 (1.37%) Back Office
4 1 (1.37%) Banking
4 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.37%) Legal
4 1 (1.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 30 (41.10%) Network Engineer
2 19 (26.03%) Architect
3 15 (20.55%) Senior
4 9 (12.33%) Senior Network Engineer
5 8 (10.96%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Citrix Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Deployment Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Desktop Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Citrix Consultant
7 4 (5.48%) Consultant
7 4 (5.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Citrix Architect
8 3 (4.11%) Network Architect
8 3 (4.11%) SCCM Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Senior Citrix Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Senior Desktop Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.74%) Senior Architect
9 2 (2.74%) VMware Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.44%) Jinja
2 11 (15.07%) SAML
3 4 (5.48%) 802.1X
3 4 (5.48%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.59%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.85%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.11%) Fat Client
3 3 (4.11%) Thin Client
4 2 (2.74%) Clustering
5 1 (1.37%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.37%) LIMS
5 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (28.77%) Windows
2 16 (21.92%) Windows Server
3 13 (17.81%) Windows 10
4 3 (4.11%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (4.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.74%) Windows 7
5 2 (2.74%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.99%) Network Management
2 23 (31.51%) Change Management
3 21 (28.77%) ITSM
4 16 (21.92%) ITIL
5 12 (16.44%) DevOps
5 12 (16.44%) User Acceptance Testing
6 11 (15.07%) Build Automation
7 10 (13.70%) Application Packaging
7 10 (13.70%) Migration
8 9 (12.33%) Patch Management
9 8 (10.96%) Load Balancing
10 5 (6.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (6.85%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (5.48%) Network Design
11 4 (5.48%) User Experience
12 3 (4.11%) Application Virtualisation
12 3 (4.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 2 (2.74%) Strategic Thinking
13 2 (2.74%) Task Automation
13 2 (2.74%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.55%) PowerShell
2 14 (19.18%) Python
3 12 (16.44%) Perl
3 12 (16.44%) Tcl
4 4 (5.48%) ActionScript
5 2 (2.74%) SQL
6 1 (1.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (38.36%) Security Cleared
2 26 (35.62%) SC Cleared
3 12 (16.44%) CCNA
3 12 (16.44%) CCNP
3 12 (16.44%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (6.85%) Citrix Certification
5 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (4.11%) Degree
7 2 (2.74%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.74%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (2.74%) MCSA
7 2 (2.74%) MCSE
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.37%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.37%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (24.66%) Active Directory
2 17 (23.29%) XenApp
3 15 (20.55%) XenDesktop
4 13 (17.81%) Firmware
4 13 (17.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (12.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (10.96%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 5 (6.85%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (6.85%) vSphere
8 4 (5.48%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (4.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (2.74%) Hyper-V
10 2 (2.74%) VMware NSX
11 1 (1.37%) DFS Replication
11 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (16.44%) Ansible
2 7 (9.59%) SCCM
3 1 (1.37%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.37%) SysTrack
3 1 (1.37%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 63 (86.30%) Citrix
2 31 (42.47%) Cisco
3 29 (39.73%) Palo Alto
4 28 (38.36%) SolarWinds
5 20 (27.40%) Microsoft
6 10 (13.70%) F5
6 10 (13.70%) VMware
7 9 (12.33%) NetApp
8 6 (8.22%) Meraki
9 2 (2.74%) Ivanti
9 2 (2.74%) Juniper
9 2 (2.74%) Nexthink
9 2 (2.74%) Splunk
10 1 (1.37%) Aruba
10 1 (1.37%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.37%) Fortinet
10 1 (1.37%) HP
10 1 (1.37%) Oracle
10 1 (1.37%) Sophos
10 1 (1.37%) Symantec