Citrix Engineer Contracts

Citrix Engineer
UK

The median Citrix Engineer daily rate in the UK is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 664 749
Rank change year-on-year +96 +85 -72
Contract jobs requiring a Citrix Engineer 16 33 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.059% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.063% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 24 80
10th Percentile £263 £327 £275
25th Percentile £275 £342 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £475 £361 £591
90th Percentile £488 £373 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £350 £428
% change year-on-year +35.71% -18.13% +6.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Citrix Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Citrix Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Citrix Engineer in the UK

Citrix Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Citrix Engineer in the UK

Citrix Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Citrix Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Citrix Engineer in the UK

Citrix Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Citrix Engineer in the UK

Citrix Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +67 14 £375 +7.14% 3
London +83 7 £300 +33.33%
UK excluding London +9 7 £475 +35.71% 3
West Midlands +21 5 - - 1
Midlands +20 5 - - 1
Work from Home +110 3 £450 +31.39%
South East -3 2 £475 +35.71% 1

Citrix Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Citrix Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Citrix Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Citrix
2 11 (68.75%) Active Directory
3 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (50.00%) Windows
3 8 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (50.00%) Windows 10
4 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
4 7 (43.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (43.75%) Azure
4 7 (43.75%) PowerShell
4 7 (43.75%) XenApp
4 7 (43.75%) DNS
4 7 (43.75%) Change Management
5 6 (37.50%) XenDesktop
6 5 (31.25%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (31.25%) Patch Management
6 5 (31.25%) NetScaler
6 5 (31.25%) OneDrive
6 5 (31.25%) Application Packaging
6 5 (31.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 5 (31.25%) NetApp
6 5 (31.25%) SharePoint
6 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (25.00%) SSL
7 4 (25.00%) Firewall
8 3 (18.75%) Finance
9 2 (12.50%) IPsec
9 2 (12.50%) Wireshark
9 2 (12.50%) Agile
9 2 (12.50%) SSH

Citrix Engineer Skill Set
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 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (31.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (43.75%) Azure
3 5 (31.25%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (31.25%) OneDrive
4 2 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) DNS
2 5 (31.25%) NetScaler
3 4 (25.00%) Firewall
3 4 (25.00%) SSL
4 2 (12.50%) DHCP
4 2 (12.50%) FTP
4 2 (12.50%) HTTP
4 2 (12.50%) IPsec
4 2 (12.50%) Network Security
4 2 (12.50%) SMTP
4 2 (12.50%) SNMP
4 2 (12.50%) SSH
4 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 2 (12.50%) tcpdump
4 2 (12.50%) Telnet
4 2 (12.50%) VPN
4 2 (12.50%) Wireshark
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Banking
2 1 (6.25%) Front Office
2 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 2 (12.50%) Shadow IT
2 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Windows
1 8 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Change Management
2 5 (31.25%) Application Packaging
2 5 (31.25%) Patch Management
3 2 (12.50%) Agile
3 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) ITIL
3 2 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (12.50%) Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 2 (12.50%) Server Management
3 2 (12.50%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 2 (12.50%) Web Filtering
3 2 (12.50%) Zero Trust
4 1 (6.25%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (6.25%) Proactive Management
4 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.25%) Task Automation
4 1 (6.25%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Active Directory
2 7 (43.75%) Virtual Desktop
2 7 (43.75%) XenApp
3 6 (37.50%) XenDesktop
4 5 (31.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (12.50%) SCCM
1 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Citrix
2 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (31.25%) NetApp
4 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 2 (12.50%) VMware
4 2 (12.50%) Zscaler