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 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 234 198 219
Rank change year-on-year -36 +21 -22
Contract jobs citing Citrix 446 820 1,206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.03% 1.39% 1.36%
As % of the Vendors category 2.43% 3.24% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 598 805
10th Percentile £190 £200 £181
25th Percentile £275 £300 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -3.03%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £538
90th Percentile £650 £675 £628
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £400 £373
% change year-on-year - +7.38% -0.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 55 62
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 £32.88
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 18,383 25,346 35,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.59% 42.91% 39.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,390 16,954 23,530
10th Percentile £263 £272 £290
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £647 £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 1,115 695 889
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.21 £11.89
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.79 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.15 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.88% +97.67% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.45 £61.83
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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -26 403 £375 -6.25% 176
UK excluding London -40 236 £400 - 126
London +34 186 £375 -6.25% 59
Work from Home -53 113 £425 +6.25% 56
East of England +16 59 £331 -42.39% 12
South East -34 55 £450 +28.57% 40
North of England +2 47 £475 -5.00% 29
Midlands -15 27 £550 +29.41% 19
Scotland +22 25 £340 +19.30% 9
North West +9 25 £475 +22.58% 17
West Midlands +6 24 £475 +26.67% 12
South West 0 22 £145 -63.88% 19
Yorkshire +5 19 £328 -37.48% 9
North East +18 3 £550 +175.00% 4
East Midlands -11 3 £550 -15.38% 7
Wales +4 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 82 (18.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (5.83%) SharePoint
2 26 (5.83%) Skype for Business
3 18 (4.04%) IIS
4 4 (0.90%) CMS
4 4 (0.90%) Confluence
5 1 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 59 (13.23%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (9.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (3.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.67%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 180 (40.36%) Microsoft 365
2 107 (23.99%) Azure
3 31 (6.95%) Entra ID
4 26 (5.83%) AWS
5 17 (3.81%) OneDrive
6 14 (3.14%) Azure Monitor
6 14 (3.14%) Mimecast
7 13 (2.91%) IaaS
8 11 (2.47%) Power Platform
9 9 (2.02%) SaaS
10 8 (1.79%) PaaS
11 7 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.12%) Azure Functions
12 5 (1.12%) GCP
12 5 (1.12%) Serverless
13 4 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.90%) Cloudflare
13 4 (0.90%) Datadog
13 4 (0.90%) WhatsApp
14 2 (0.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 81 (18.16%) Firewall
2 70 (15.70%) Wi-Fi
3 57 (12.78%) DNS
4 51 (11.43%) NetScaler
5 45 (10.09%) VPN
6 44 (9.87%) DHCP
7 31 (6.95%) WAN
8 28 (6.28%) Skype
9 26 (5.83%) LAN
10 25 (5.61%) SAN
11 17 (3.81%) Cisco ASA
12 16 (3.59%) IPsec
13 15 (3.36%) SNMP
14 13 (2.91%) BGP
14 13 (2.91%) Cisco Firepower
14 13 (2.91%) Cisco ISE
14 13 (2.91%) EIGRP
14 13 (2.91%) HSRP
14 13 (2.91%) OSPF
15 12 (2.69%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.73%) SQL Server
2 21 (4.71%) Oracle Database
3 9 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.35%) Power BI
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (2.69%) Jenkins
2 9 (2.02%) Artifactory
2 9 (2.02%) Subversion
3 8 (1.79%) JIRA
4 3 (0.67%) MSI
5 2 (0.45%) GitLab
6 1 (0.22%) Git
6 1 (0.22%) GoCD
6 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 103 (23.09%) Social Skills
2 78 (17.49%) Finance
3 30 (6.73%) Retail
4 27 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.05%) Banking
4 27 (6.05%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.14%) Legal
6 13 (2.91%) Front Office
7 11 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.47%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.57%) French Language
11 5 (1.12%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.90%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.67%) Arabic Language
13 3 (0.67%) German Language
13 3 (0.67%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 119 (26.68%) Analyst
2 65 (14.57%) Service Analyst
2 65 (14.57%) Service Desk Analyst
3 56 (12.56%) Support Engineer
4 50 (11.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 49 (10.99%) Senior
6 29 (6.50%) Architect
6 29 (6.50%) IT Support
7 28 (6.28%) Network Engineer
8 22 (4.93%) Desktop Engineer
9 21 (4.71%) C# Developer
9 21 (4.71%) Developer
10 19 (4.26%) IT Analyst
10 19 (4.26%) IT Engineer
10 19 (4.26%) Support Analyst
11 17 (3.81%) Desktop Support
12 16 (3.59%) Citrix Engineer
13 15 (3.36%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
14 13 (2.91%) .NET Developer
14 13 (2.91%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (6.73%) .NET
2 19 (4.26%) .NET Framework
3 14 (3.14%) Middleware
4 12 (2.69%) Jinja
4 12 (2.69%) SAML
5 9 (2.02%) LDAP
5 9 (2.02%) WinForms
5 9 (2.02%) WPF
6 8 (1.79%) WCF
7 2 (0.45%) Regular Expression
8 1 (0.22%) CSS
8 1 (0.22%) HTML
8 1 (0.22%) jQuery
8 1 (0.22%) JSON
8 1 (0.22%) Keycloak
8 1 (0.22%) OAuth
8 1 (0.22%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.22%) OpenID
8 1 (0.22%) SPFx
8 1 (0.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.17%) Data Centre
2 23 (5.16%) iPhone
3 21 (4.71%) Video Conferencing
4 17 (3.81%) Management Information System
5 14 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.69%) Clustering
6 12 (2.69%) CMDB
7 11 (2.47%) PKI
8 9 (2.02%) Blackberry
9 7 (1.57%) Fat Client
9 7 (1.57%) Thin Client
10 5 (1.12%) Handset
10 5 (1.12%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.67%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.67%) NHS
11 3 (0.67%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 265 (59.42%) Windows
2 102 (22.87%) Windows Server
3 91 (20.40%) Windows 10
4 35 (7.85%) Windows Server 2012
5 33 (7.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 24 (5.38%) Windows 7
7 20 (4.48%) Linux
8 18 (4.04%) Android
8 18 (4.04%) Apple iOS
9 14 (3.14%) Windows Server 2008
10 12 (2.69%) Windows Server 2003
10 12 (2.69%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (1.57%) CentOS
11 7 (1.57%) Mac OS X
12 6 (1.35%) Debian
13 4 (0.90%) Unix
14 3 (0.67%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.22%) AIX
15 1 (0.22%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (33.41%) ITIL
2 92 (20.63%) Customer Service
3 71 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (13.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 57 (12.78%) Disaster Recovery
6 53 (11.88%) Incident Management
7 52 (11.66%) Change Management
8 42 (9.42%) ITSM
9 41 (9.19%) Migration
10 37 (8.30%) DevOps
11 34 (7.62%) Service Delivery
12 31 (6.95%) Project Delivery
13 29 (6.50%) Problem Management
14 26 (5.83%) High Availability
15 24 (5.38%) Mobile Device Management
16 23 (5.16%) Cybersecurity
17 21 (4.71%) Configuration Management
17 21 (4.71%) Data Analysis
18 20 (4.48%) User Acceptance Testing
18 20 (4.48%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 71 (15.92%) PowerShell
2 41 (9.19%) SQL
3 33 (7.40%) Python
4 30 (6.73%) C#
5 21 (4.71%) PL/SQL
5 21 (4.71%) T-SQL
6 19 (4.26%) VB
6 19 (4.26%) VBA
7 12 (2.69%) Perl
7 12 (2.69%) Tcl
8 11 (2.47%) VB.NET
9 9 (2.02%) C++
9 9 (2.02%) Java
10 8 (1.79%) VBScript
11 1 (0.22%) C
Qualifications
1 67 (15.02%) Security Cleared
2 56 (12.56%) SC Cleared
3 54 (12.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 49 (10.99%) MCSA
5 42 (9.42%) A+ Certification
6 39 (8.74%) Degree
7 26 (5.83%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (4.71%) CCNA
9 20 (4.48%) MCP
10 15 (3.36%) DV Cleared
11 14 (3.14%) CCNP
12 10 (2.24%) MCSE
13 8 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (1.57%) Azure Certification
15 6 (1.35%) RHCT
16 5 (1.12%) Citrix Certification
16 5 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
17 4 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
17 4 (0.90%) CCIE
17 4 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.73%) QA
2 18 (4.04%) SLA
3 6 (1.35%) GDPR
4 4 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.67%) PMO
6 2 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 206 (46.19%) Active Directory
2 71 (15.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (9.87%) XenApp
4 29 (6.50%) Hyper-V
5 28 (6.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 25 (5.61%) XenDesktop
7 19 (4.26%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (2.91%) Firmware
8 13 (2.91%) Microsoft App-V
9 10 (2.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 9 (2.02%) Terminal Services
10 9 (2.02%) vSphere
11 7 (1.57%) BitLocker
12 6 (1.35%) KVM
13 4 (0.90%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.45%) Docker
14 2 (0.45%) Terminal Server
14 2 (0.45%) vCloud
14 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
15 1 (0.22%) NFS
Systems Management
1 84 (18.83%) SCCM
2 35 (7.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 31 (6.95%) Ansible
4 15 (3.36%) Jamf Pro
5 10 (2.24%) vCenter Server
6 9 (2.02%) BladeLogic
6 9 (2.02%) ITRS Geneos
7 6 (1.35%) SysTrack
7 6 (1.35%) Terraform
7 6 (1.35%) vMotion
8 4 (0.90%) Kubernetes
8 4 (0.90%) Nessus
8 4 (0.90%) WSUS
9 3 (0.67%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.67%) SCOM
9 3 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.45%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.45%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.45%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 170 (38.12%) Microsoft
2 91 (20.40%) VMware
3 79 (17.71%) Cisco
3 79 (17.71%) ServiceNow
4 33 (7.40%) Oracle
5 31 (6.95%) HP
6 26 (5.83%) SolarWinds
7 21 (4.71%) Apple
8 20 (4.48%) Bloomberg
9 19 (4.26%) Avaya
10 18 (4.04%) CheckPoint
10 18 (4.04%) Palo Alto
11 17 (3.81%) Ivanti
12 16 (3.59%) EMC
13 15 (3.36%) Meraki
14 14 (3.14%) Juniper
14 14 (3.14%) Red Hat
15 13 (2.91%) Aruba
15 13 (2.91%) Dynatrace
15 13 (2.91%) NetApp