What has happened to the UK job market for Citrix consulting/Architect/ Engineering/3rd line roles ? I used to get constant messages on linkedin from recruiters and see multiple roles advertised but I don't get nothing nowadays is the job market that bad ATM or is it time to retrain in something else ?

Market is flat. Election had a lot to do with it apparently. I doubt very much business confidence is up after the first few months of this new government either

Companies moving away from Citrix is my guess. Didnt Citrix pretty much killed their own consulting department + external partners.

There's still plenty of Citrix out there, a number are looking at AVD but not a whole lot of heavy movement yet. Like I said, a lot of factors affecting the job market - IR35, government policies, general economic downturn, etc.

But havent the Citrix market been slow in UK for years now? I have had email notification enabled for Citrix as keywords in Jobserve, and before it feels like it was way way more Citrix roles compare to what you see now days. and I mean not just in the last month, I mean 2023 aswell as this year.

No, I was rushed off my feet from 2019 through 2023

Have a couple of friends that worked for CCS 3rd party for years, they where super busy until christmas last year, when Citrix pretty much stopped everything via CCS partners.

There has been a massive decline in the amount of Citrix roles I see on job boards such as jobserve/indeed and linkedin jobs since 2023 /2024. I also don't see any AVD roles either

IR35 don't help anything, especially now the NI has gone up, and rates decreasing

Yes, the AVD project must be done all inhouse or with consulting companies with AVD perm people, Because like you say, its not really any roles advertised for it, but I can see all the AVD event is packed with people.

I have job alerts for VDI engineer, VDI architect, as well as Citrix architect and Citrix engineer and while it may have lightened up a small amount, there's still a lot. More and more AVD vs Citrix though, as that's the trend where everyone is moving. But Im also looking at US vs UK

I just got an email for a Citrix Engineer in NEW England. Actually, 2

Yes, it seems to be more Citrix work in US vs Europe.

We migrated 2.5k from Citrix to AVD. Everything was Microsoft funded via Alchemy. 4 hours sprint meeting per day for 2-3 months. That's probably why we don't see bigger projects at job boards.

Yeah, it is shitty everywhere