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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 232 187 216
Rank change year-on-year -45 +29 -10
Contract jobs citing Citrix 429 798 1,194
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.01% 1.39% 1.35%
As % of the Vendors category 2.37% 3.24% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 568 803
10th Percentile £197 £202 £176
25th Percentile £275 £304 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -0.06% +0.06% -4.76%
75th Percentile £525 £580 £530
90th Percentile £650 £675 £623
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £400 £340
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 57 62
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.17 £13.28
25th Percentile £14.16 £14.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% - +3.33%
75th Percentile £21.37 £20.00 £15.75
90th Percentile £21.46 £25.71 £32.88
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 18,083 24,657 35,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.51% 43.06% 40.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,274 16,502 23,585
10th Percentile £263 £270 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £644 £638
90th Percentile £738 £740 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £468
% change year-on-year - +6.95% +7.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,114 666 891
10th Percentile £12.05 £15.11 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £33.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -34.97% +73.68% +0.89%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -29 388 £400 - 171
UK excluding London -56 224 £400 - 134
London +21 180 £375 -6.25% 47
Work from Home -57 110 £440 +10.00% 55
East of England +12 56 £331 -42.39% 14
South East -41 50 £450 +28.57% 28
North of England -6 45 £475 -5.00% 52
Midlands -22 30 £450 +5.88% 17
West Midlands +5 25 £350 -6.67% 12
Scotland +22 24 £340 +17.44% 8
North West -4 24 £475 +7.04% 27
Yorkshire +1 19 £375 -28.57% 21
South West -17 18 £145 -63.88% 17
East Midlands -9 5 £450 -30.77% 5
North East +13 2 £575 +187.50% 4
Wales +9 1 - - 2

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 78 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (5.83%) SharePoint
2 25 (5.83%) Skype for Business
3 20 (4.66%) IIS
4 4 (0.93%) CMS
4 4 (0.93%) Confluence
5 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 60 (13.99%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (8.86%) 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
1 170 (39.63%) Microsoft 365
2 104 (24.24%) Azure
3 29 (6.76%) Entra ID
4 26 (6.06%) AWS
5 16 (3.73%) OneDrive
6 14 (3.26%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (3.03%) IaaS
8 12 (2.80%) Mimecast
9 10 (2.33%) Power Platform
10 8 (1.86%) PaaS
11 6 (1.40%) SaaS
12 5 (1.17%) Azure Functions
12 5 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.17%) GCP
12 5 (1.17%) Serverless
13 4 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.93%) Cloudflare
14 3 (0.70%) WhatsApp
15 2 (0.47%) Azure Sentinel
15 2 (0.47%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 85 (19.81%) Firewall
2 69 (16.08%) Wi-Fi
3 56 (13.05%) NetScaler
4 54 (12.59%) DNS
5 42 (9.79%) DHCP
5 42 (9.79%) VPN
6 30 (6.99%) WAN
7 27 (6.29%) Skype
8 26 (6.06%) SAN
9 25 (5.83%) LAN
10 23 (5.36%) Cisco ASA
10 23 (5.36%) IPsec
11 20 (4.66%) BGP
11 20 (4.66%) Cisco Firepower
11 20 (4.66%) EIGRP
11 20 (4.66%) HSRP
11 20 (4.66%) OSPF
12 19 (4.43%) Cisco ISE
13 15 (3.50%) SNMP
14 13 (3.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.53%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.43%) Oracle Database
3 9 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.40%) Power BI
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (2.80%) Jenkins
2 9 (2.10%) Artifactory
2 9 (2.10%) Subversion
3 8 (1.86%) JIRA
4 3 (0.70%) MSI
5 1 (0.23%) Git
5 1 (0.23%) GitLab
5 1 (0.23%) GoCD
5 1 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 94 (21.91%) Social Skills
2 69 (16.08%) Finance
3 30 (6.99%) Public Sector
4 29 (6.76%) Retail
5 27 (6.29%) Banking
6 26 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (2.56%) Legal
7 11 (2.56%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.33%) Front Office
9 8 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.63%) French Language
11 5 (1.17%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.93%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.70%) Local Government
14 2 (0.47%) Arabic Language
14 2 (0.47%) Back Office
14 2 (0.47%) German Language
14 2 (0.47%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 111 (25.87%) Analyst
2 61 (14.22%) Service Analyst
2 61 (14.22%) Service Desk Analyst
3 51 (11.89%) Support Engineer
4 50 (11.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 45 (10.49%) Senior
6 34 (7.93%) Network Engineer
7 28 (6.53%) Architect
7 28 (6.53%) IT Support
8 20 (4.66%) IT Engineer
9 19 (4.43%) C# Developer
9 19 (4.43%) Desktop Engineer
9 19 (4.43%) Developer
9 19 (4.43%) IT Analyst
10 15 (3.50%) Desktop Support
10 15 (3.50%) Support Analyst
11 14 (3.26%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
11 14 (3.26%) Citrix Engineer
12 12 (2.80%) Consultant
12 12 (2.80%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.53%) .NET
2 16 (3.73%) .NET Framework
3 14 (3.26%) Middleware
4 12 (2.80%) Jinja
4 12 (2.80%) SAML
5 11 (2.56%) WinForms
5 11 (2.56%) WPF
6 10 (2.33%) WCF
7 8 (1.86%) LDAP
8 2 (0.47%) Regular Expression
9 1 (0.23%) CSS
9 1 (0.23%) HTML
9 1 (0.23%) jQuery
9 1 (0.23%) JSON
9 1 (0.23%) Keycloak
9 1 (0.23%) OAuth
9 1 (0.23%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.23%) OpenID
9 1 (0.23%) SPFx
9 1 (0.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.29%) Data Centre
2 23 (5.36%) iPhone
3 20 (4.66%) Video Conferencing
4 15 (3.50%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.80%) CMDB
5 12 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.10%) Blackberry
6 9 (2.10%) Clustering
7 7 (1.63%) Fat Client
7 7 (1.63%) PKI
7 7 (1.63%) Thin Client
8 5 (1.17%) Handset
8 5 (1.17%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.70%) Driving Licence
10 3 (0.70%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.70%) Replication
11 2 (0.47%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 2 (0.47%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 254 (59.21%) Windows
2 98 (22.84%) Windows Server
3 87 (20.28%) Windows 10
4 34 (7.93%) Windows Server 2012
5 33 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 21 (4.90%) Linux
6 21 (4.90%) Windows 7
7 17 (3.96%) Android
7 17 (3.96%) Apple iOS
8 13 (3.03%) Windows Server 2008
9 10 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (2.10%) Windows Server 2003
11 7 (1.63%) CentOS
11 7 (1.63%) Mac OS X
12 6 (1.40%) Debian
13 5 (1.17%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.93%) Unix
15 3 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.23%) AIX
16 1 (0.23%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (34.03%) ITIL
2 87 (20.28%) Customer Service
3 68 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (14.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 55 (12.82%) Disaster Recovery
6 52 (12.12%) Incident Management
7 51 (11.89%) Change Management
8 45 (10.49%) ITSM
9 41 (9.56%) Migration
10 36 (8.39%) DevOps
11 30 (6.99%) Service Delivery
12 28 (6.53%) Project Delivery
13 26 (6.06%) Network Management
14 25 (5.83%) High Availability
14 25 (5.83%) Problem Management
15 22 (5.13%) Cybersecurity
16 21 (4.90%) Configuration Management
16 21 (4.90%) Mobile Device Management
17 20 (4.66%) User Acceptance Testing
18 19 (4.43%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 69 (16.08%) PowerShell
2 41 (9.56%) SQL
3 34 (7.93%) Python
4 28 (6.53%) C#
5 19 (4.43%) PL/SQL
5 19 (4.43%) T-SQL
6 16 (3.73%) VB
6 16 (3.73%) VBA
7 12 (2.80%) Perl
7 12 (2.80%) Tcl
8 9 (2.10%) C++
8 9 (2.10%) Java
9 8 (1.86%) VBScript
10 6 (1.40%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.23%) C
Qualifications
1 67 (15.62%) Security Cleared
2 58 (13.52%) SC Cleared
3 56 (13.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 49 (11.42%) MCSA
5 42 (9.79%) A+ Certification
6 36 (8.39%) Degree
7 26 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (4.66%) CCNA
9 19 (4.43%) MCP
10 14 (3.26%) CCNP
11 12 (2.80%) DV Cleared
11 12 (2.80%) MCSE
12 7 (1.63%) Azure Certification
12 7 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (1.40%) RHCT
14 5 (1.17%) Citrix Certification
15 4 (0.93%) CCIE
15 4 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
16 3 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
16 3 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.29%) QA
2 16 (3.73%) SLA
3 6 (1.40%) 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%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 200 (46.62%) Active Directory
2 70 (16.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (10.02%) XenApp
4 28 (6.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 25 (5.83%) Hyper-V
6 22 (5.13%) XenDesktop
7 14 (3.26%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (3.03%) Firmware
9 10 (2.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 10 (2.33%) Microsoft App-V
10 8 (1.86%) vSphere
11 7 (1.63%) Terminal Services
12 6 (1.40%) BitLocker
12 6 (1.40%) KVM
13 4 (0.93%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.47%) Docker
14 2 (0.47%) Terminal Server
14 2 (0.47%) vCloud
14 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
15 1 (0.23%) NFS
Systems Management
1 81 (18.88%) SCCM
2 33 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 31 (7.23%) Ansible
4 15 (3.50%) Jamf Pro
5 9 (2.10%) BladeLogic
5 9 (2.10%) ITRS Geneos
6 7 (1.63%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.40%) WSUS
8 5 (1.17%) SCOM
8 5 (1.17%) SysTrack
8 5 (1.17%) Terraform
8 5 (1.17%) vMotion
9 4 (0.93%) Kubernetes
9 4 (0.93%) Nessus
10 3 (0.70%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.47%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 2 (0.47%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.47%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.23%) XenMobile
Vendors
1 155 (36.13%) Microsoft
2 90 (20.98%) VMware
3 80 (18.65%) Cisco
4 76 (17.72%) ServiceNow
5 33 (7.69%) SolarWinds
6 29 (6.76%) Oracle
7 26 (6.06%) HP
8 24 (5.59%) Palo Alto
9 21 (4.90%) Apple
10 18 (4.20%) Avaya
10 18 (4.20%) CheckPoint
10 18 (4.20%) Ivanti
11 17 (3.96%) Bloomberg
12 16 (3.73%) EMC
13 14 (3.26%) Juniper
13 14 (3.26%) Meraki
13 14 (3.26%) Red Hat
14 13 (3.03%) Aruba
14 13 (3.03%) NetApp
15 12 (2.80%) Brocade