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 20 February 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
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 258 195
Rank change year-on-year -73 -63 -12
Contract jobs citing Citrix 260 239 459
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.92% 1.22%
As % of the Vendors category 1.66% 1.98% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 119 305
10th Percentile £231 £182 £190
25th Percentile £404 £261 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £375 £375
Median % change year-on-year +22.33% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £518 £551
90th Percentile £638 £575 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £375 £368
% change year-on-year +20.00% +2.04% -8.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 37
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.08 £13.29
25th Percentile £19.56 £15.22 £14.00
Median hourly rate £48.88 £18.13 £14.80
Median % change year-on-year +169.61% +22.50% -4.52%
75th Percentile £74.26 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile - - £33.73
UK median hourly rate £48.88 £21.46 £15.23
% change year-on-year +127.77% +40.95% -1.77%

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 15,639 12,079 16,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.89% 46.55% 43.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,181 7,403 10,442
10th Percentile £302 £281 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £523
% change year-on-year -4.31% - -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 808 348 862
10th Percentile £15.33 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £20.00 £15.45
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.78 £27.14
Median % change year-on-year -22.60% +13.41% -18.99%
75th Percentile £58.65 £65.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £73.90 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.00 £26.72
% change year-on-year -17.24% +8.53% -19.64%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -14 131 £415 +10.67% 23
North of England -69 41 £500 +8.11% 12
South East -31 38 £475 +35.71% 20
North West -29 34 £550 +15.79% 5
Midlands -50 19 £475 +227.59% 7
East of England -34 16 £127 - 2
South West -12 14 £550 +2.80% 4
East Midlands -16 12 £490 +172.22% 2
West Midlands -54 7 £425 +193.10% 5
North East -16 6 £513 +173.33% 4
Yorkshire -62 3 £500 - 4
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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 26 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 26 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 16 (6.15%) IIS
3 3 (1.15%) Confluence
4 1 (0.38%) JBoss
4 1 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (8.85%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.92%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (4.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 75 (28.85%) Microsoft 365
2 71 (27.31%) Azure
3 59 (22.69%) Entra ID
4 30 (11.54%) AWS
5 16 (6.15%) GCP
6 12 (4.62%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 12 (4.62%) AWS CloudTrail
7 11 (4.23%) AWS KMS
8 8 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.69%) AWS Control Tower
9 7 (2.69%) Google Workspace
9 7 (2.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (2.31%) IaaS
10 6 (2.31%) Nutanix
10 6 (2.31%) PaaS
11 4 (1.54%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.15%) SaaS
13 2 (0.77%) Akamai
13 2 (0.77%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 39 (15.00%) DNS
2 37 (14.23%) Firewall
3 32 (12.31%) NetScaler
4 31 (11.92%) VPN
5 27 (10.38%) DHCP
6 15 (5.77%) WebEx
7 13 (5.00%) Internet
7 13 (5.00%) TCP/IP
8 12 (4.62%) FTP
9 11 (4.23%) LAN
9 11 (4.23%) VLAN
9 11 (4.23%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (3.85%) Skype
11 7 (2.69%) Network Security
11 7 (2.69%) Remote Desktop
11 7 (2.69%) WAN
12 6 (2.31%) SMTP
13 5 (1.92%) BGP
14 4 (1.54%) DMZ
14 4 (1.54%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (18.08%) SQL Server
2 23 (8.85%) Oracle Database
3 7 (2.69%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.15%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (5.38%) MSI
2 13 (5.00%) JIRA
3 11 (4.23%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.15%) InstallShield
4 3 (1.15%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.77%) GitLab
6 1 (0.38%) GoCD
6 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 93 (35.77%) Social Skills
2 74 (28.46%) Finance
3 42 (16.15%) Banking
4 23 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (7.31%) Legal
6 17 (6.54%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (6.15%) Public Sector
8 10 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.31%) International Banking
11 5 (1.92%) Front Office
11 5 (1.92%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.54%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.54%) Publishing
13 3 (1.15%) Polish Language
14 2 (0.77%) Local Government
15 1 (0.38%) Military
15 1 (0.38%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 35 (13.46%) Analyst
2 31 (11.92%) Architect
2 31 (11.92%) Developer
3 26 (10.00%) C# Developer
4 21 (8.08%) Citrix Engineer
4 21 (8.08%) Senior
5 17 (6.54%) Lead
6 14 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (4.62%) Support Engineer
7 12 (4.62%) Technical Analyst
8 11 (4.23%) 1st Line Support
8 11 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (3.85%) Wintel Analyst
10 9 (3.46%) Applications Developer
10 9 (3.46%) Citrix Support
10 9 (3.46%) Programme Manager
10 9 (3.46%) Technical Support
11 8 (3.08%) Administrator
11 8 (3.08%) Senior Citrix Engineer
12 7 (2.69%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (11.92%) .NET
2 27 (10.38%) .NET Framework
3 15 (5.77%) WPF
4 14 (5.38%) WinForms
5 10 (3.85%) XMPP
6 5 (1.92%) Software Packaging
6 5 (1.92%) WCF
7 4 (1.54%) REST
7 4 (1.54%) XML
8 2 (0.77%) ADO
8 2 (0.77%) ebXML
8 2 (0.77%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (0.77%) JSON
8 2 (0.77%) Middleware
8 2 (0.77%) Web Services
9 1 (0.38%) 802.1X
9 1 (0.38%) LDAP
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.23%) Data Centre
2 14 (5.38%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.08%) Blackberry
3 8 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (3.08%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.08%) PKI
4 7 (2.69%) Client/Server
5 6 (2.31%) Clustering
5 6 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (1.92%) Hedge funds
6 5 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.92%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (1.54%) Fat Client
7 4 (1.54%) Thin Client
8 3 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.77%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.77%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 180 (69.23%) Windows
2 57 (21.92%) Windows Server
3 50 (19.23%) Windows 10
4 21 (8.08%) Linux
5 16 (6.15%) Windows Server 2003
6 15 (5.77%) Mac OS
7 14 (5.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (3.85%) Windows 7
10 9 (3.46%) AIX
11 7 (2.69%) Android
11 7 (2.69%) Apple iOS
11 7 (2.69%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (1.54%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.77%) VMS
13 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.38%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (16.15%) Migration
3 40 (15.38%) ITIL
4 35 (13.46%) Change Management
5 30 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 26 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 26 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 24 (9.23%) Data Analysis
7 24 (9.23%) ITSM
8 23 (8.85%) Roadmaps
9 22 (8.46%) Data Protection
9 22 (8.46%) User Experience
10 20 (7.69%) Agile
10 20 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (7.31%) Customer Service
12 18 (6.92%) Identity Access Management
12 18 (6.92%) Platform Engineering
12 18 (6.92%) Project Delivery
12 18 (6.92%) Service Management
13 17 (6.54%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 63 (24.23%) PowerShell
2 45 (17.31%) SQL
3 31 (11.92%) C#
4 26 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 26 (10.00%) T-SQL
5 22 (8.46%) Python
6 21 (8.08%) Bash
7 14 (5.38%) VB
8 12 (4.62%) VBA
9 10 (3.85%) Perl
10 3 (1.15%) Java
10 3 (1.15%) VBScript
11 2 (0.77%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 64 (24.62%) Security Cleared
2 56 (21.54%) SC Cleared
3 41 (15.77%) Degree
4 15 (5.77%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (5.38%) CCNP
6 13 (5.00%) CCNA
7 12 (4.62%) Citrix Certification
8 11 (4.23%) CCA
8 11 (4.23%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (3.85%) CCDP
10 7 (2.69%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (2.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 6 (2.31%) MCSE
12 5 (1.92%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.92%) MCSA
13 4 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (1.15%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.69%) QA
2 10 (3.85%) GDPR
2 10 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.69%) NCSC
4 6 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.15%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) MiFID
6 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 92 (35.38%) Active Directory
2 63 (24.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (18.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 17 (6.54%) Microsoft App-V
5 12 (4.62%) Hyper-V
6 8 (3.08%) XenApp
7 7 (2.69%) XenDesktop
8 6 (2.31%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (2.31%) vSphere
9 5 (1.92%) Docker
10 4 (1.54%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.77%) NFS
11 2 (0.77%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.77%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 58 (22.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (17.31%) SCCM
3 17 (6.54%) Terraform
4 12 (4.62%) Ansible
5 8 (3.08%) Kubernetes
6 6 (2.31%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (1.92%) SCVMM
8 4 (1.54%) Puppet
8 4 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.54%) vMotion
9 3 (1.15%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.15%) PaperCut
9 3 (1.15%) WSUS
10 2 (0.77%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
11 1 (0.38%) EMC VPLEX
11 1 (0.38%) FreeIPA
11 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.38%) SCOM
Vendors
1 121 (46.54%) Microsoft
2 81 (31.15%) VMware
3 40 (15.38%) Oracle
4 30 (11.54%) Cisco
5 15 (5.77%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.23%) Red Hat
6 11 (4.23%) Remedy
7 9 (3.46%) Google
7 9 (3.46%) IBM
8 7 (2.69%) MobileIron
9 6 (2.31%) Bloomberg
9 6 (2.31%) CloudEndure
9 6 (2.31%) Reuters
10 5 (1.92%) NetApp
11 4 (1.54%) Dell
11 4 (1.54%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.54%) ION Trading
11 4 (1.54%) Ivanti
11 4 (1.54%) UiPath
11 4 (1.54%) Zscaler