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 8 May 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
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 252 220
Rank change year-on-year -72 -32 -30
Contract jobs citing Citrix 277 234 396
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.97% 1.07%
As % of the Vendors category 1.64% 2.04% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 155 251
10th Percentile £345 £150 £180
25th Percentile £406 £235 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £385
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -2.60% -3.75%
75th Percentile £575 £531 £525
90th Percentile £638 £588 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £375 £385
% change year-on-year +20.00% -2.60% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 27 57
10th Percentile £21.59 - £14.00
25th Percentile £49.75 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £74.00 £16.19 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +357.07% -0.67% +5.16%
75th Percentile £74.26 £18.22 £21.37
90th Percentile - £21.46 £21.46
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £16.80 £16.30
% change year-on-year +340.48% +3.07% +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 16,864 11,486 15,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.62% 47.40% 42.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,959 7,396 9,846
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £408 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.80%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £711 £725 £749
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 884 461 1,000
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.84 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.57 £17.50 £14.27
Median hourly rate £31.93 £26.45 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.72% +17.56% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £57.33
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.11 £26.04 £22.50
% change year-on-year +23.32% +15.73% -48.50%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +2 145 £415 +6.41% 18
South East -76 50 £536 +34.10% 12
North of England -68 32 £410 +74.47% 3
Midlands -58 26 £436 +200.69% 4
North West -33 23 £300 -42.86% 3
South West -29 18 £550 +134.04% 3
West Midlands -54 16 £425 +193.10% 2
East Midlands -19 10 £468 +160.00% 2
East of England -51 6 £212 - 3
Yorkshire -62 6 £500 +233.33%
North East -14 3 £188 -
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 31 (11.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (7.94%) SharePoint
3 19 (6.86%) IIS
4 2 (0.72%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (7.58%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (5.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.81%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (3.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 71 (25.63%) Microsoft 365
2 69 (24.91%) Azure
3 49 (17.69%) Entra ID
4 31 (11.19%) AWS
5 12 (4.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 12 (4.33%) AWS CloudTrail
6 11 (3.97%) AWS KMS
6 11 (3.97%) GCP
6 11 (3.97%) IaaS
7 10 (3.61%) Google Workspace
8 9 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (3.25%) PaaS
9 7 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.53%) AWS Control Tower
9 7 (2.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (2.17%) Nutanix
11 4 (1.44%) Mimecast
11 4 (1.44%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.08%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (18.77%) DNS
2 38 (13.72%) VPN
3 37 (13.36%) Firewall
4 36 (13.00%) DHCP
5 24 (8.66%) NetScaler
6 19 (6.86%) TCP/IP
7 17 (6.14%) Internet
8 15 (5.42%) Network Security
9 12 (4.33%) FTP
10 10 (3.61%) Skype
10 10 (3.61%) SMTP
11 9 (3.25%) WebEx
12 8 (2.89%) LAN
12 8 (2.89%) VLAN
13 7 (2.53%) DMZ
13 7 (2.53%) IPv4
13 7 (2.53%) IPv6
14 6 (2.17%) SSL
14 6 (2.17%) WAN
15 4 (1.44%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (19.86%) SQL Server
2 24 (8.66%) Oracle Database
3 7 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.08%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (6.50%) JIRA
2 14 (5.05%) MSI
3 10 (3.61%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.44%) Selenium
5 3 (1.08%) Appium
5 3 (1.08%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (1.08%) Git
5 3 (1.08%) JUnit
5 3 (1.08%) TestNG
6 2 (0.72%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.36%) GitLab
7 1 (0.36%) GoCD
7 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 81 (29.24%) Social Skills
2 73 (26.35%) Finance
3 47 (16.97%) Banking
4 24 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.42%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.33%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.61%) Investment Banking
7 10 (3.61%) Legal
8 9 (3.25%) Front Office
9 6 (2.17%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.81%) Publishing
11 4 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.08%) International Banking
13 2 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.72%) Retail
13 2 (0.72%) Spanish Language
14 1 (0.36%) Back Office
14 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.36%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 42 (15.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 39 (14.08%) Citrix Engineer
2 39 (14.08%) Developer
3 36 (13.00%) Architect
4 32 (11.55%) C# Developer
5 28 (10.11%) Analyst
6 24 (8.66%) Senior
7 16 (5.78%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (4.69%) Lead
8 13 (4.69%) Senior Citrix Engineer
9 12 (4.33%) Applications Developer
9 12 (4.33%) QA Engineer
9 12 (4.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (4.33%) Test Engineer
10 11 (3.97%) IT Engineer
11 10 (3.61%) 1st Line Support
11 10 (3.61%) Wintel Analyst
12 9 (3.25%) Administrator
12 9 (3.25%) Consultant
12 9 (3.25%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (14.08%) .NET
2 34 (12.27%) .NET Framework
3 16 (5.78%) WPF
4 15 (5.42%) WinForms
5 5 (1.81%) Software Packaging
6 4 (1.44%) SAML
6 4 (1.44%) XML
6 4 (1.44%) XMPP
7 3 (1.08%) LDAP
7 3 (1.08%) REST
8 2 (0.72%) ADO
8 2 (0.72%) ebXML
8 2 (0.72%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (0.72%) JSON
8 2 (0.72%) Web Services
9 1 (0.36%) Middleware
9 1 (0.36%) OAuth
9 1 (0.36%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.36%) OpenID
9 1 (0.36%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.50%) Data Centre
2 17 (6.14%) Onboarding
2 17 (6.14%) PKI
3 16 (5.78%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (5.42%) Blackberry
5 11 (3.97%) Clustering
5 11 (3.97%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (3.25%) Client/Server
6 9 (3.25%) Hedge funds
7 8 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.53%) Enterprise Storage
8 7 (2.53%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.53%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
10 5 (1.81%) Fat Client
10 5 (1.81%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.81%) Thin Client
11 4 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.08%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 194 (70.04%) Windows
2 68 (24.55%) Windows Server
3 45 (16.25%) Windows 10
4 19 (6.86%) Linux
5 15 (5.42%) Android
5 15 (5.42%) Apple iOS
6 14 (5.05%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (4.69%) Mac OS
8 11 (3.97%) Windows Server 2003
8 11 (3.97%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.81%) Windows 7
10 4 (1.44%) AIX
10 4 (1.44%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.08%) Debian
11 3 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.36%) CentOS
12 1 (0.36%) VMS
12 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (19.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 50 (18.05%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (15.16%) Migration
4 41 (14.80%) ITIL
5 33 (11.91%) Change Management
6 31 (11.19%) Data Analysis
7 30 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
8 28 (10.11%) Disaster Recovery
9 25 (9.03%) Agile
10 23 (8.30%) User Experience
11 20 (7.22%) Data Protection
12 18 (6.50%) Incident Management
13 17 (6.14%) AI
13 17 (6.14%) Application Packaging
13 17 (6.14%) Business Intelligence
13 17 (6.14%) Customer Service
13 17 (6.14%) DevOps
13 17 (6.14%) ITSM
13 17 (6.14%) Roadmaps
13 17 (6.14%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 57 (20.58%) PowerShell
2 50 (18.05%) SQL
3 39 (14.08%) C#
4 33 (11.91%) PL/SQL
4 33 (11.91%) T-SQL
5 14 (5.05%) VB
6 13 (4.69%) VBA
7 9 (3.25%) Python
8 6 (2.17%) Bash
9 3 (1.08%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.08%) VBScript
10 2 (0.72%) Bicep
11 1 (0.36%) Java
11 1 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 71 (25.63%) Security Cleared
2 60 (21.66%) SC Cleared
3 41 (14.80%) Degree
4 15 (5.42%) DV Cleared
5 13 (4.69%) Citrix Certification
6 11 (3.97%) CCA
6 11 (3.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.25%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.53%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (2.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.81%) MCSE
11 4 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.44%) MCSA
12 3 (1.08%) CCNP
12 3 (1.08%) CESG Certified Professional
13 2 (0.72%) CCIE
13 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (16.97%) QA
2 7 (2.53%) NCSC
3 6 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.81%) GDPR
4 5 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (27.44%) Active Directory
2 64 (23.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (14.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (7.94%) Microsoft App-V
5 21 (7.58%) Hyper-V
6 13 (4.69%) XenApp
6 13 (4.69%) XenDesktop
7 9 (3.25%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (2.89%) BitLocker
9 7 (2.53%) Docker
10 6 (2.17%) VMware NSX
11 5 (1.81%) vSphere
12 2 (0.72%) NFS
12 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.72%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.36%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 58 (20.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (15.52%) SCCM
3 16 (5.78%) Terraform
3 16 (5.78%) WSUS
4 9 (3.25%) Ansible
4 9 (3.25%) Kubernetes
4 9 (3.25%) vCenter Server
5 8 (2.89%) vMotion
6 7 (2.53%) Puppet
7 5 (1.81%) SCVMM
7 5 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.08%) PaperCut
9 2 (0.72%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.72%) SCOM
9 2 (0.72%) WMI
10 1 (0.36%) EMC VPLEX
10 1 (0.36%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.36%) FreeIPA
10 1 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 110 (39.71%) Microsoft
2 92 (33.21%) VMware
3 41 (14.80%) Oracle
4 22 (7.94%) Cisco
5 14 (5.05%) MobileIron
6 13 (4.69%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.97%) Bloomberg
7 11 (3.97%) Reuters
8 10 (3.61%) Google
8 10 (3.61%) NetApp
8 10 (3.61%) Remedy
9 7 (2.53%) ION Trading
10 6 (2.17%) CloudEndure
11 5 (1.81%) UiPath
12 3 (1.08%) Autodesk
12 3 (1.08%) F5
12 3 (1.08%) IBM
12 3 (1.08%) Juniper
12 3 (1.08%) Zscaler
13 2 (0.72%) HP