Citrix Contract Job Trends in England

Citrix
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 26 July 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
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 239 216
Rank change year-on-year -137 -23 -31
Contract jobs citing Citrix 268 307 392
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 1.11% 1.13%
As % of the Vendors category 1.44% 2.35% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 211 260
10th Percentile £280 £153 £190
25th Percentile £406 £256 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £390 £400
Median % change year-on-year +25.64% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £537 £519
90th Percentile £619 £600 £626
UK median daily rate £490 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +22.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 20 46
10th Percentile £32.35 - £14.16
25th Percentile £73.38 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £74.00 £15.87 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +366.29% -2.64% +3.69%
75th Percentile £74.26 £18.31 £21.37
90th Percentile - £28.20 £24.11
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £16.30 £16.30
% change year-on-year +353.99% - +3.69%

All Vendors
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,581 13,049 14,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.09% 47.31% 43.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,756 8,260 9,619
10th Percentile £313 £280 £290
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% -3.10% -
75th Percentile £610 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 973 620 840
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.75 £13.31
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.71 £25.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.99% -8.55% -30.47%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.13 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.69 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.11 £25.15 £27.00
% change year-on-year +39.60% -6.85% -35.41%

Citrix
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Citrix job vacancy trend in England

Citrix
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Citrix

Citrix
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Citrix in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Citrix in England

Citrix
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Citrix

Citrix
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Citrix in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Citrix in England

Citrix
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
London -50 139 £445 +9.20% 15
South East -99 52 £570 +52.00% 8
North of England -94 33 £449 +19.60% 11
Midlands -40 26 £460 +67.09% 4
North West -41 21 £374 -27.12% 7
West Midlands -48 19 £460 +75.05% 4
South West -34 16 £550 +134.04% 5
Yorkshire -70 11 £510 +117.02% 2
East Midlands -8 7 - -
East of England -51 3 £500 +192.40% 2
North East - 1 £500 - 3
Citrix
UK

Citrix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 34 (12.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (7.46%) IIS
2 20 (7.46%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.87%) Appian
3 5 (1.87%) Camunda
3 5 (1.87%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.61%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.87%) OpenText MBPM
2 5 (1.87%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.37%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.37%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 64 (23.88%) Azure
2 63 (23.51%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (11.94%) Entra ID
4 26 (9.70%) AWS
5 10 (3.73%) IaaS
6 8 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (2.99%) Google Workspace
6 8 (2.99%) PaaS
7 7 (2.61%) GCP
8 4 (1.49%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.12%) Mimecast
9 3 (1.12%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.75%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (0.75%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (0.75%) AWS KMS
10 2 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.75%) Nutanix
10 2 (0.75%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.75%) SaaS
11 1 (0.37%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 55 (20.52%) DNS
2 44 (16.42%) VPN
3 42 (15.67%) DHCP
4 38 (14.18%) Firewall
5 23 (8.58%) Network Security
6 19 (7.09%) Internet
6 19 (7.09%) TCP/IP
7 16 (5.97%) NetScaler
8 10 (3.73%) LAN
9 9 (3.36%) WAN
10 8 (2.99%) DMZ
10 8 (2.99%) SMTP
10 8 (2.99%) VLAN
10 8 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (2.61%) BGP
11 7 (2.61%) SSL
12 6 (2.24%) IPv4
12 6 (2.24%) IPv6
12 6 (2.24%) OSPF
12 6 (2.24%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (18.66%) SQL Server
2 27 (10.07%) Oracle Database
3 7 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.12%) Big Data
5 3 (1.12%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.37%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (4.48%) JIRA
2 10 (3.73%) MSI
3 4 (1.49%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (1.49%) Git
3 4 (1.49%) Selenium
3 4 (1.49%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.12%) Appium
4 3 (1.12%) JUnit
4 3 (1.12%) REST Assured
4 3 (1.12%) TestNG
5 2 (0.75%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.37%) GitLab
6 1 (0.37%) InstallShield
General
1 74 (27.61%) Social Skills
2 59 (22.01%) Finance
3 46 (17.16%) Banking
4 25 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.10%) Front Office
6 9 (3.36%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.99%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.61%) Legal
9 5 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.12%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.12%) Publishing
12 2 (0.75%) Retail
13 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.37%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 57 (21.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 39 (14.55%) Developer
3 37 (13.81%) Citrix Engineer
4 29 (10.82%) C# Developer
5 28 (10.45%) Architect
6 26 (9.70%) Senior
7 25 (9.33%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
8 22 (8.21%) Analyst
9 20 (7.46%) Support Engineer
10 18 (6.72%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 17 (6.34%) Administrator
12 12 (4.48%) Senior Citrix Engineer
12 12 (4.48%) VMware Engineer
13 11 (4.10%) Desktop Engineer
14 10 (3.73%) IT Engineer
14 10 (3.73%) Network Engineer
15 9 (3.36%) .NET Developer
15 9 (3.36%) IT Analyst
15 9 (3.36%) Linux Engineer
15 9 (3.36%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (14.55%) .NET
2 34 (12.69%) .NET Framework
3 15 (5.60%) WPF
4 14 (5.22%) WinForms
5 5 (1.87%) SAML
6 4 (1.49%) Web Services
7 3 (1.12%) 802.1X
7 3 (1.12%) REST
7 3 (1.12%) RESTful
7 3 (1.12%) Software Packaging
7 3 (1.12%) XML
7 3 (1.12%) XMPP
8 2 (0.75%) ADO
8 2 (0.75%) ebXML
8 2 (0.75%) LDAP
8 2 (0.75%) YAML
9 1 (0.37%) FIX Protocol
9 1 (0.37%) JSON
9 1 (0.37%) OAuth
9 1 (0.37%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.84%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (7.46%) Onboarding
3 18 (6.72%) PKI
4 15 (5.60%) Blackberry
5 14 (5.22%) Data Centre
6 13 (4.85%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (3.73%) Clustering
8 8 (2.99%) Video Conferencing
8 8 (2.99%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.87%) Fat Client
10 5 (1.87%) Hedge funds
10 5 (1.87%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.87%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.87%) Thin Client
11 4 (1.49%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (1.49%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.12%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 180 (67.16%) Windows
2 64 (23.88%) Windows Server
3 28 (10.45%) Linux
4 22 (8.21%) Windows 10
5 15 (5.60%) Android
5 15 (5.60%) Apple iOS
6 11 (4.10%) Mac OS
7 8 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (2.61%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (2.24%) Debian
9 6 (2.24%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (1.49%) Windows 7
10 4 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.37%) AIX
12 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (25.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 48 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (13.81%) ITIL
4 34 (12.69%) Migration
5 32 (11.94%) Data Analysis
6 30 (11.19%) Change Management
7 26 (9.70%) AI
7 26 (9.70%) Stakeholder Management
7 26 (9.70%) User Experience
8 24 (8.96%) Agile
8 24 (8.96%) Disaster Recovery
9 20 (7.46%) DevOps
10 17 (6.34%) Incident Management
11 16 (5.97%) Generative AI
11 16 (5.97%) High Availability
12 15 (5.60%) Data Protection
12 15 (5.60%) ITSM
12 15 (5.60%) Service Management
13 14 (5.22%) OO
13 14 (5.22%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 49 (18.28%) PowerShell
2 42 (15.67%) SQL
3 39 (14.55%) C#
4 32 (11.94%) PL/SQL
4 32 (11.94%) T-SQL
5 12 (4.48%) VB
6 11 (4.10%) Python
6 11 (4.10%) VBA
7 7 (2.61%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.49%) Bash
9 3 (1.12%) Bicep
10 2 (0.75%) VBScript
11 1 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 81 (30.22%) Security Cleared
2 64 (23.88%) SC Cleared
3 34 (12.69%) Degree
4 24 (8.96%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.73%) Azure Certification
5 10 (3.73%) Citrix Certification
5 10 (3.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.99%) CCA
7 6 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.24%) ISTQB
7 6 (2.24%) MCSA
8 5 (1.87%) MCSE
9 4 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.49%) CESG Certified Professional
9 4 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.75%) CCNA
11 2 (0.75%) CCNP
12 1 (0.37%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (13.43%) QA
2 3 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.12%) SLA
3 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 77 (28.73%) Active Directory
2 56 (20.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (16.79%) Virtual Desktop
4 20 (7.46%) Hyper-V
5 18 (6.72%) Microsoft App-V
6 14 (5.22%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (3.36%) VMware NSX
8 8 (2.99%) BitLocker
8 8 (2.99%) XenDesktop
9 7 (2.61%) Docker
9 7 (2.61%) vSphere
9 7 (2.61%) XenApp
10 5 (1.87%) Terminal Services
11 3 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (1.12%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 43 (16.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 34 (12.69%) SCCM
3 16 (5.97%) WSUS
4 15 (5.60%) vCenter Server
5 11 (4.10%) Terraform
6 10 (3.73%) Kubernetes
6 10 (3.73%) vMotion
7 9 (3.36%) Ansible
8 7 (2.61%) Jamf Pro
8 7 (2.61%) Puppet
9 6 (2.24%) FortiGate
10 5 (1.87%) SCOM
11 4 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (1.12%) Nagios
12 3 (1.12%) Nessus
13 2 (0.75%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.75%) WMI
14 1 (0.37%) CloudForms
14 1 (0.37%) EMC VPLEX
14 1 (0.37%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 100 (37.31%) VMware
2 96 (35.82%) Microsoft
3 36 (13.43%) Oracle
4 24 (8.96%) Cisco
5 15 (5.60%) Bloomberg
6 14 (5.22%) MobileIron
7 11 (4.10%) Reuters
8 10 (3.73%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.99%) Apple
9 8 (2.99%) CyberArk
9 8 (2.99%) Google
10 7 (2.61%) BeyondTrust
10 7 (2.61%) ION Trading
10 7 (2.61%) Remedy
10 7 (2.61%) Zscaler
11 6 (2.24%) F5
11 6 (2.24%) NetApp
12 5 (1.87%) Meraki
12 5 (1.87%) OpenText
12 5 (1.87%) Palo Alto