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 4 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
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 236 229
Rank change year-on-year -111 -7 -45
Contract jobs citing Citrix 277 290 400
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 1.10% 1.07%
As % of the Vendors category 1.54% 2.32% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 197 258
10th Percentile £292 £153 £198
25th Percentile £406 £256 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £390 £400
Median % change year-on-year +25.64% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £580 £538 £518
90th Percentile £638 £600 £625
UK median daily rate £483 £390 £400
% change year-on-year +23.72% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 20 49
10th Percentile £23.80 - £14.16
25th Percentile £71.50 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £74.00 £15.87 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +366.29% -2.64% +5.16%
75th Percentile £74.26 £18.31 £21.37
90th Percentile - £28.20 £25.58
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £16.30 £16.30
% change year-on-year +353.99% - +5.16%

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 17,953 12,491 15,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.83% 47.42% 42.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,399 7,913 10,118
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £517
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -0.87% -1.52%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £626
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £501 £514
% change year-on-year +0.14% -2.63% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 971 576 1,048
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.84 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.40 £17.50 £14.84
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.25% +2.00% -30.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.93 £60.72
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.65
% change year-on-year +35.15% +2.03% -39.14%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -35 142 £425 +6.25% 26
South East -77 57 £570 +52.00% 13
North of England -89 30 £447 +52.82% 11
Midlands -45 26 £450 +71.43% 5
North West -35 20 £447 -12.78% 6
West Midlands -57 19 £450 +71.43% 4
South West -28 17 £550 +134.04% 6
Yorkshire -75 9 £510 +117.02% 2
East Midlands -11 7 - - 1
East of England -50 6 £500 +275.94% 5
North East - 1 £500 - 4
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 33 (11.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (7.22%) IIS
3 16 (5.78%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.81%) Appian
4 5 (1.81%) Camunda
4 5 (1.81%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.53%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.81%) OpenText MBPM
2 5 (1.81%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.36%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.36%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 64 (23.10%) Azure
2 61 (22.02%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (12.27%) Entra ID
4 29 (10.47%) AWS
5 12 (4.33%) IaaS
6 10 (3.61%) PaaS
7 9 (3.25%) Google Workspace
8 7 (2.53%) GCP
9 6 (2.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 6 (2.17%) AWS CloudTrail
9 6 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.81%) AWS KMS
11 4 (1.44%) Mimecast
11 4 (1.44%) Nutanix
11 4 (1.44%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.08%) OpenShift
12 3 (1.08%) Power Platform
13 2 (0.72%) SaaS
14 1 (0.36%) AWS CloudFormation
14 1 (0.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 56 (20.22%) DNS
2 46 (16.61%) VPN
3 44 (15.88%) DHCP
4 42 (15.16%) Firewall
5 23 (8.30%) Network Security
6 21 (7.58%) TCP/IP
7 19 (6.86%) Internet
8 17 (6.14%) NetScaler
9 11 (3.97%) LAN
10 10 (3.61%) SMTP
11 9 (3.25%) DMZ
11 9 (3.25%) WAN
12 8 (2.89%) VLAN
13 7 (2.53%) BGP
13 7 (2.53%) SSL
14 6 (2.17%) FTP
14 6 (2.17%) IPv4
14 6 (2.17%) IPv6
14 6 (2.17%) OSPF
14 6 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (19.13%) SQL Server
2 28 (10.11%) Oracle Database
3 8 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.08%) Big Data
5 3 (1.08%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (4.69%) MSI
2 12 (4.33%) JIRA
3 6 (2.17%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.44%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (1.44%) Selenium
5 3 (1.08%) Appium
5 3 (1.08%) Git
5 3 (1.08%) JUnit
5 3 (1.08%) TestNG
6 2 (0.72%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.36%) GitLab
7 1 (0.36%) GoCD
7 1 (0.36%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 79 (28.52%) Social Skills
2 59 (21.30%) Finance
3 45 (16.25%) Banking
4 24 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.33%) Front Office
6 9 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.25%) Investment Banking
6 9 (3.25%) Legal
7 7 (2.53%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.53%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.08%) Publishing
11 2 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.72%) Retail
12 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.36%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.36%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 58 (20.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 40 (14.44%) Developer
3 38 (13.72%) Citrix Engineer
4 30 (10.83%) C# Developer
5 28 (10.11%) Architect
6 27 (9.75%) Analyst
7 26 (9.39%) Senior
8 25 (9.03%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (6.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (6.50%) Support Engineer
10 17 (6.14%) Administrator
11 12 (4.33%) Senior Citrix Engineer
12 11 (3.97%) VMware Engineer
13 9 (3.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 9 (3.25%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (3.25%) Applications Developer
13 9 (3.25%) IT Analyst
13 9 (3.25%) Linux Engineer
13 9 (3.25%) Network Engineer
13 9 (3.25%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (14.44%) .NET
2 36 (13.00%) .NET Framework
3 14 (5.05%) WPF
4 13 (4.69%) WinForms
5 5 (1.81%) SAML
6 4 (1.44%) Software Packaging
7 3 (1.08%) 802.1X
7 3 (1.08%) Web Services
7 3 (1.08%) XML
7 3 (1.08%) XMPP
8 2 (0.72%) ADO
8 2 (0.72%) ebXML
8 2 (0.72%) LDAP
8 2 (0.72%) REST
8 2 (0.72%) RESTful
9 1 (0.36%) FIX Protocol
9 1 (0.36%) JSON
9 1 (0.36%) OAuth
9 1 (0.36%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.36%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.58%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (7.22%) Onboarding
3 19 (6.86%) Data Centre
3 19 (6.86%) PKI
4 15 (5.42%) Blackberry
5 12 (4.33%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (3.97%) Clustering
7 9 (3.25%) Video Conferencing
8 8 (2.89%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.17%) Client/Server
9 6 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.17%) Hedge funds
10 5 (1.81%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (1.81%) Fat Client
10 5 (1.81%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.81%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.81%) Thin Client
11 4 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.44%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 188 (67.87%) Windows
2 70 (25.27%) Windows Server
3 30 (10.83%) Linux
4 26 (9.39%) Windows 10
5 15 (5.42%) Android
5 15 (5.42%) Apple iOS
6 12 (4.33%) Mac OS
7 10 (3.61%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (3.25%) Windows Server 2003
9 8 (2.89%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (2.17%) Debian
11 5 (1.81%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (1.44%) Windows 7
13 3 (1.08%) AIX
14 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.36%) CentOS
15 1 (0.36%) VMS
15 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (24.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 48 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (13.72%) ITIL
3 38 (13.72%) Migration
4 34 (12.27%) Data Analysis
5 33 (11.91%) Change Management
6 26 (9.39%) Disaster Recovery
7 25 (9.03%) Agile
7 25 (9.03%) Stakeholder Management
8 23 (8.30%) AI
9 20 (7.22%) User Experience
10 19 (6.86%) DevOps
11 18 (6.50%) Incident Management
12 16 (5.78%) Unit Testing
13 15 (5.42%) High Availability
13 15 (5.42%) Mobile Device Management
14 14 (5.05%) Data Protection
14 14 (5.05%) ITSM
14 14 (5.05%) Service Delivery
14 14 (5.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 50 (18.05%) PowerShell
2 45 (16.25%) SQL
3 40 (14.44%) C#
4 34 (12.27%) PL/SQL
4 34 (12.27%) T-SQL
5 12 (4.33%) VB
6 11 (3.97%) VBA
7 10 (3.61%) Python
8 5 (1.81%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.08%) Bicep
10 2 (0.72%) Bash
10 2 (0.72%) VBScript
11 1 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 85 (30.69%) Security Cleared
2 67 (24.19%) SC Cleared
3 37 (13.36%) Degree
4 23 (8.30%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.97%) Azure Certification
5 11 (3.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (3.61%) Citrix Certification
7 8 (2.89%) CCA
8 6 (2.17%) ISTQB
8 6 (2.17%) MCSA
8 6 (2.17%) MCSE
9 5 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (1.08%) CESG Certified Professional
11 3 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.72%) CCNA
12 2 (0.72%) CCNP
12 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (13.72%) QA
2 3 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.08%) SLA
3 1 (0.36%) NCSC
System Software
1 78 (28.16%) Active Directory
2 62 (22.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (14.08%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (7.94%) Hyper-V
4 22 (7.94%) Microsoft App-V
5 15 (5.42%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (3.25%) BitLocker
6 9 (3.25%) VMware NSX
6 9 (3.25%) XenDesktop
7 8 (2.89%) Docker
7 8 (2.89%) vSphere
7 8 (2.89%) XenApp
8 5 (1.81%) Terminal Services
9 3 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.08%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.36%) NFS
Systems Management
1 46 (16.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 37 (13.36%) SCCM
3 17 (6.14%) WSUS
4 16 (5.78%) vCenter Server
5 11 (3.97%) vMotion
6 10 (3.61%) Ansible
6 10 (3.61%) Kubernetes
7 9 (3.25%) Terraform
8 8 (2.89%) Puppet
9 6 (2.17%) SCOM
10 5 (1.81%) FortiGate
10 5 (1.81%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (1.08%) Nagios
12 3 (1.08%) Nessus
13 2 (0.72%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.72%) SCVMM
13 2 (0.72%) WMI
14 1 (0.36%) CloudForms
14 1 (0.36%) FreeIPA
Vendors
1 106 (38.27%) VMware
2 95 (34.30%) Microsoft
3 40 (14.44%) Oracle
4 23 (8.30%) Cisco
5 16 (5.78%) Bloomberg
6 14 (5.05%) MobileIron
7 12 (4.33%) Reuters
7 12 (4.33%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.89%) Google
8 8 (2.89%) ION Trading
9 7 (2.53%) NetApp
9 7 (2.53%) Remedy
9 7 (2.53%) Zscaler
10 6 (2.17%) Apple
10 6 (2.17%) CyberArk
10 6 (2.17%) F5
11 5 (1.81%) BeyondTrust
11 5 (1.81%) Meraki
11 5 (1.81%) OpenText
11 5 (1.81%) Palo Alto