Citrix Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Citrix
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring knowledge or experience of Citrix products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Citrix over the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 54 83
Rank change year-on-year -21 +29 -23
Contract jobs citing Citrix 21 29 27
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.33% 2.63% 1.58%
As % of the Vendors category 2.98% 5.46% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 5
10th Percentile - £82 -
25th Percentile £126 £135 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £127 £224 £250
Median % change year-on-year -43.46% -10.50% +47.73%
75th Percentile £172 £312 £475
90th Percentile - £365 £505
England median daily rate £450 £375 £375
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 19
10th Percentile - £14.99 £13.29
25th Percentile - £19.84 £13.65
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% +53.29% -9.68%
75th Percentile - - £14.16
90th Percentile - - £15.00
England median hourly rate £22.27 £18.13 £14.16
% change year-on-year +22.81% +28.04% -8.65%

All Vendors
East of England

Citrix falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 705 531 709
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 44.73% 48.14% 41.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 224 401
10th Percentile £198 £227 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% +4.71%
75th Percentile £618 £600 £594
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.53% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 99 105
10th Percentile £16.00 - £13.29
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £19.91 £20.00 £33.44
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -40.19% +28.62%
75th Percentile £42.50 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.00 £85.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -20.58% -32.96% +62.73%

Citrix
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Citrix relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Citrix job vacancy trend in the East of England

Citrix
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Citrix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Citrix

Citrix
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Citrix in the East of England over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Citrix in the East of England

Citrix
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Citrix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Citrix

Citrix
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix within the East of England region over the 6 months to 4 January 2026. 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
Norfolk -9 14 £127 -
Cambridgeshire -10 5 £500 - 1
Hertfordshire -31 2 - - 1
Citrix
England

Citrix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.52%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
2 2 (9.52%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 4 (19.05%) LAN
3 3 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (9.52%) DHCP
4 2 (9.52%) DNS
4 2 (9.52%) Firewall
5 1 (4.76%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (47.62%) Oracle Database
1 10 (47.62%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) GitLab
General
1 14 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Polish Language
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (85.71%) Analyst
2 17 (80.95%) Technical Analyst
3 14 (66.67%) Support Analyst
3 14 (66.67%) Technical Support
3 14 (66.67%) Technical Support Analyst
4 7 (33.33%) IT Analyst
5 4 (19.05%) IT Support
5 4 (19.05%) IT Support Analyst
6 3 (14.29%) Service Analyst
6 3 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (14.29%) Technical Services Analyst
7 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Senior
7 2 (9.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) Citrix Specialist
8 1 (4.76%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) NHS
2 2 (9.52%) PKI
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 18 (85.71%) Windows
2 10 (47.62%) AIX
2 10 (47.62%) Windows 10
2 10 (47.62%) Windows 7
2 10 (47.62%) Windows Server 2003
2 10 (47.62%) Windows Server 2016
3 7 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (9.52%) Linux
4 2 (9.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Proactive Monitoring
2 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (19.05%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (19.05%) ITIL
3 4 (19.05%) Security Patching
4 3 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 3 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 3 (14.29%) Mathematics
4 3 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
5 2 (9.52%) DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (9.52%) Task Automation
5 2 (9.52%) Zero Trust
6 1 (4.76%) Architectural Design
6 1 (4.76%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
1 2 (9.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (19.05%) Degree
2 4 (19.05%) HNC
2 4 (19.05%) HND
2 4 (19.05%) MCP
2 4 (19.05%) MCSE
3 3 (14.29%) A+ Certification
3 3 (14.29%) MCSA
4 1 (4.76%) CEH
4 1 (4.76%) CISSP
4 1 (4.76%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.76%) NIST
1 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
1 2 (9.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 14 (66.67%) Oracle
3 6 (28.57%) IBM
4 4 (19.05%) VMware
5 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow
6 2 (9.52%) Google
6 2 (9.52%) Wyse
7 1 (4.76%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (4.76%) NVIDIA
7 1 (4.76%) Tenable