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 March 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 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 280 204
Rank change year-on-year -37 -76 -21
Contract jobs citing Citrix 273 205 436
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 0.84% 1.16%
As % of the Vendors category 1.67% 1.78% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 110 289
10th Percentile £269 £180 £188
25th Percentile £404 £263 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £390 £388
Median % change year-on-year +21.79% +0.65% -8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £498 £525
90th Percentile £638 £573 £675
UK median daily rate £470 £390 £385
% change year-on-year +20.51% +1.30% -9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 45
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £20.75 £15.22 £14.00
Median hourly rate £74.26 £17.16 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +332.75% +5.28% +5.16%
75th Percentile - £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile - - £24.66
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £18.13 £16.30
% change year-on-year +309.60% +11.23% +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 16,331 11,539 16,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.96% 47.21% 42.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,660 7,401 10,280
10th Percentile £309 £293 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.28%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £513
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.49% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 870 399 942
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.26 £12.14
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.93 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.40 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.76% +22.82% -29.28%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £52.78
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -13.28% +18.37% -31.94%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +13 138 £415 +6.41% 20
South East -49 42 £495 +41.43% 27
North of England -77 40 £500 +5.26% 4
North West -35 32 £550 +10.00% 3
South West -11 20 £550 +17.02% 2
East of England -25 16 £127 - 1
Midlands -66 16 £488 +236.21% 8
East Midlands -30 8 £500 +177.78% 1
West Midlands -72 8 £450 +210.34% 7
North East -15 6 £513 +173.33% 1
Yorkshire -59 4 £500 +1.27% 1
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 30 (10.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (9.52%) SharePoint
3 15 (5.49%) IIS
4 2 (0.73%) Confluence
5 1 (0.37%) JBoss
5 1 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (8.42%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (5.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.83%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (3.66%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 72 (26.37%) Microsoft 365
2 63 (23.08%) Azure
3 56 (20.51%) Entra ID
4 20 (7.33%) AWS
5 12 (4.40%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 12 (4.40%) AWS CloudTrail
6 11 (4.03%) AWS KMS
6 11 (4.03%) GCP
7 10 (3.66%) IaaS
8 8 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.93%) PaaS
9 7 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.56%) AWS Control Tower
9 7 (2.56%) Google Workspace
9 7 (2.56%) Nutanix
9 7 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.47%) Mimecast
10 4 (1.47%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.10%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (15.02%) DNS
2 39 (14.29%) Firewall
3 35 (12.82%) NetScaler
4 30 (10.99%) VPN
5 26 (9.52%) DHCP
6 16 (5.86%) WebEx
7 14 (5.13%) Internet
7 14 (5.13%) TCP/IP
8 12 (4.40%) FTP
9 10 (3.66%) Skype
10 9 (3.30%) LAN
10 9 (3.30%) SMTP
11 8 (2.93%) Network Security
12 7 (2.56%) WAN
12 7 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (2.20%) VLAN
14 5 (1.83%) BGP
15 4 (1.47%) DMZ
15 4 (1.47%) Software-Defined Networking
15 4 (1.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (17.95%) SQL Server
2 27 (9.89%) Oracle Database
3 7 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.10%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.37%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (5.86%) JIRA
1 16 (5.86%) MSI
2 11 (4.03%) Visual Studio
3 4 (1.47%) Selenium
4 3 (1.10%) Appium
4 3 (1.10%) Git
4 3 (1.10%) InstallShield
4 3 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.10%) JUnit
4 3 (1.10%) TestNG
5 2 (0.73%) GitLab
6 1 (0.37%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.37%) GoCD
6 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 88 (32.23%) Social Skills
2 70 (25.64%) Finance
3 47 (17.22%) Banking
4 32 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.33%) Legal
6 17 (6.23%) Public Sector
7 14 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.20%) International Banking
9 6 (2.20%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.83%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.83%) Front Office
11 4 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.47%) Publishing
12 3 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.10%) Polish Language
13 2 (0.73%) Local Government
14 1 (0.37%) Back Office
14 1 (0.37%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (13.92%) Architect
2 35 (12.82%) Developer
3 33 (12.09%) Analyst
3 33 (12.09%) Citrix Engineer
4 30 (10.99%) C# Developer
5 27 (9.89%) Senior
6 24 (8.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (5.49%) Lead
8 14 (5.13%) Senior Citrix Engineer
9 12 (4.40%) QA Engineer
9 12 (4.40%) Technical Analyst
10 10 (3.66%) 1st Line Support
10 10 (3.66%) Applications Developer
10 10 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (3.66%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (3.66%) Test Engineer
10 10 (3.66%) Wintel Analyst
11 9 (3.30%) Administrator
11 9 (3.30%) QA Test Engineer
12 8 (2.93%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.82%) .NET
2 31 (11.36%) .NET Framework
3 15 (5.49%) WPF
4 14 (5.13%) WinForms
5 11 (4.03%) XMPP
6 5 (1.83%) Software Packaging
7 4 (1.47%) REST
7 4 (1.47%) WCF
7 4 (1.47%) XML
8 2 (0.73%) ADO
8 2 (0.73%) ebXML
8 2 (0.73%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (0.73%) JSON
8 2 (0.73%) LDAP
8 2 (0.73%) Web Services
9 1 (0.37%) 802.1X
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.37%) Middleware
9 1 (0.37%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.79%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.49%) Blackberry
2 15 (5.49%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.03%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (4.03%) PKI
4 9 (3.30%) Hedge funds
5 8 (2.93%) Clustering
6 7 (2.56%) Client/Server
6 7 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.20%) Enterprise Storage
7 6 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.83%) Fat Client
8 5 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.83%) Thin Client
8 5 (1.83%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.73%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 195 (71.43%) Windows
2 68 (24.91%) Windows Server
3 49 (17.95%) Windows 10
4 23 (8.42%) Linux
5 18 (6.59%) Windows Server 2003
6 15 (5.49%) Android
6 15 (5.49%) Apple iOS
6 15 (5.49%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (4.03%) Mac OS
9 10 (3.66%) Windows 7
10 9 (3.30%) AIX
11 7 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (1.47%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.73%) VMS
13 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.37%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (20.15%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (14.65%) ITIL
3 37 (13.55%) Migration
4 36 (13.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 35 (12.82%) Change Management
6 31 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 29 (10.62%) Data Analysis
8 28 (10.26%) Disaster Recovery
9 23 (8.42%) ITSM
10 21 (7.69%) Data Protection
10 21 (7.69%) User Experience
11 20 (7.33%) Agile
11 20 (7.33%) Mobile Device Management
12 19 (6.96%) Customer Service
12 19 (6.96%) Platform Engineering
12 19 (6.96%) Project Delivery
12 19 (6.96%) Roadmaps
13 18 (6.59%) Identity Access Management
13 18 (6.59%) Service Management
14 17 (6.23%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 69 (25.27%) PowerShell
2 49 (17.95%) SQL
3 35 (12.82%) C#
4 30 (10.99%) PL/SQL
4 30 (10.99%) T-SQL
5 23 (8.42%) Python
6 16 (5.86%) Bash
7 14 (5.13%) VB
8 12 (4.40%) VBA
9 10 (3.66%) Perl
10 4 (1.47%) VBScript
11 2 (0.73%) Bicep
12 1 (0.37%) Java
Qualifications
1 74 (27.11%) Security Cleared
2 64 (23.44%) SC Cleared
3 42 (15.38%) Degree
4 14 (5.13%) Citrix Certification
5 13 (4.76%) CCNP
5 13 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (4.76%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.40%) CCA
7 11 (4.03%) CCNA
7 11 (4.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (3.66%) CCDP
9 7 (2.56%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (2.56%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.83%) MCSE
12 4 (1.47%) MCSA
13 3 (1.10%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (16.12%) QA
2 7 (2.56%) NCSC
3 6 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.83%) GDPR
4 5 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.73%) SLA
6 1 (0.37%) MiFID
System Software
1 89 (32.60%) Active Directory
2 58 (21.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (17.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (8.06%) Microsoft App-V
5 15 (5.49%) Hyper-V
6 10 (3.66%) XenDesktop
7 9 (3.30%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (3.30%) XenApp
8 7 (2.56%) BitLocker
8 7 (2.56%) Docker
9 5 (1.83%) vSphere
10 3 (1.10%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.73%) NFS
11 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.73%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.73%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 62 (22.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 39 (14.29%) SCCM
3 17 (6.23%) Terraform
4 12 (4.40%) Ansible
5 9 (3.30%) Kubernetes
5 9 (3.30%) vCenter Server
6 7 (2.56%) vMotion
7 6 (2.20%) Puppet
8 5 (1.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (1.83%) SCVMM
9 3 (1.10%) PaperCut
9 3 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.10%) WSUS
10 2 (0.73%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.73%) WMI
11 1 (0.37%) EMC VPLEX
11 1 (0.37%) FreeIPA
11 1 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.37%) SCOM
Vendors
1 126 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 83 (30.40%) VMware
3 44 (16.12%) Oracle
4 29 (10.62%) Cisco
5 16 (5.86%) ServiceNow
6 14 (5.13%) MobileIron
7 12 (4.40%) Red Hat
8 10 (3.66%) Google
8 10 (3.66%) Remedy
9 9 (3.30%) NetApp
10 8 (2.93%) Bloomberg
10 8 (2.93%) IBM
10 8 (2.93%) Reuters
11 6 (2.20%) CloudEndure
12 4 (1.47%) ION Trading
12 4 (1.47%) UiPath
13 3 (1.10%) Autodesk
13 3 (1.10%) Dell
13 3 (1.10%) Fortinet
13 3 (1.10%) Juniper