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 16 June 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
16 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 243 226
Rank change year-on-year -111 -17 -47
Contract jobs citing Citrix 265 265 386
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 1.07% 1.03%
As % of the Vendors category 1.52% 2.26% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 180 244
10th Percentile £300 £150 £202
25th Percentile £406 £250 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +30.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £588 £525 £525
90th Percentile £638 £595 £650
UK median daily rate £483 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +28.67% -6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 50
10th Percentile £21.40 - £14.00
25th Percentile £38.88 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £74.00 £15.44 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +379.27% -5.28% +5.16%
75th Percentile £74.26 £17.65 £21.37
90th Percentile - £18.31 £21.46
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 17,383 11,725 15,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.57% 47.48% 41.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,145 7,436 9,942
10th Percentile £313 £278 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £517
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -0.87% -1.52%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 930 525 1,057
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.26
25th Percentile £19.09 £17.79 £14.48
Median hourly rate £33.99 £27.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.89% +12.50% -39.32%
75th Percentile £62.00 £53.50 £59.95
90th Percentile £80.21 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £25.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +33.25% +7.14% -44.00%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -34 144 £425 +8.97% 21
South East -74 56 £565 +50.67% 15
Midlands -51 22 £425 +136.11% 8
North of England -89 22 £300 +27.66% 8
North West -36 18 £190 -58.92% 5
South West -23 17 £550 +134.04% 4
West Midlands -58 15 £425 +108.59% 4
East Midlands -17 7 - - 4
East of England -51 5 £368 +287.87% 1
Yorkshire -76 4 £455 +136.36%
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 29 (10.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (6.04%) IIS
3 14 (5.28%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.13%) Appian
4 3 (1.13%) Camunda
4 3 (1.13%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (4.91%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.51%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.13%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (1.13%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 63 (23.77%) Microsoft 365
2 60 (22.64%) Azure
3 32 (12.08%) Entra ID
4 28 (10.57%) AWS
5 13 (4.91%) IaaS
6 11 (4.15%) PaaS
7 10 (3.77%) Google Workspace
8 7 (2.64%) GCP
9 6 (2.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 6 (2.26%) AWS CloudTrail
10 5 (1.89%) AWS KMS
10 5 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.51%) Mimecast
11 4 (1.51%) Nutanix
12 3 (1.13%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.13%) OpenShift
12 3 (1.13%) Power Platform
13 2 (0.75%) SaaS
14 1 (0.38%) AWS CloudFormation
14 1 (0.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (19.25%) DNS
2 40 (15.09%) VPN
3 38 (14.34%) DHCP
4 33 (12.45%) Firewall
5 21 (7.92%) TCP/IP
6 20 (7.55%) NetScaler
6 20 (7.55%) Network Security
7 16 (6.04%) Internet
8 11 (4.15%) SMTP
9 8 (3.02%) LAN
9 8 (3.02%) VLAN
10 7 (2.64%) DMZ
10 7 (2.64%) FTP
10 7 (2.64%) IPv4
10 7 (2.64%) IPv6
10 7 (2.64%) WAN
11 6 (2.26%) Skype
12 5 (1.89%) WebEx
13 4 (1.51%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (1.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (19.25%) SQL Server
2 23 (8.68%) Oracle Database
3 9 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.13%) Big Data
5 3 (1.13%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (4.91%) MSI
2 11 (4.15%) JIRA
3 8 (3.02%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.51%) Selenium
5 3 (1.13%) Appium
5 3 (1.13%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (1.13%) Git
5 3 (1.13%) JUnit
5 3 (1.13%) TestNG
6 2 (0.75%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.38%) GitLab
7 1 (0.38%) GoCD
7 1 (0.38%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 77 (29.06%) Social Skills
2 63 (23.77%) Finance
3 49 (18.49%) Banking
4 25 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.15%) Investment Banking
6 10 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.77%) Front Office
7 8 (3.02%) Legal
7 8 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.64%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.64%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.13%) International Banking
10 3 (1.13%) Publishing
11 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.75%) Retail
11 2 (0.75%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.38%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 57 (21.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 42 (15.85%) Citrix Engineer
3 37 (13.96%) Developer
4 29 (10.94%) C# Developer
5 28 (10.57%) Analyst
6 27 (10.19%) Senior
7 25 (9.43%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
8 23 (8.68%) Architect
9 17 (6.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (5.66%) Senior Citrix Engineer
10 15 (5.66%) Support Engineer
11 13 (4.91%) Administrator
12 10 (3.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 10 (3.77%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (3.77%) IT Analyst
13 9 (3.40%) Applications Developer
13 9 (3.40%) Help Desk Analyst
13 9 (3.40%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (3.40%) VMware Engineer
13 9 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.96%) .NET
2 33 (12.45%) .NET Framework
3 13 (4.91%) WPF
4 12 (4.53%) WinForms
5 4 (1.51%) SAML
5 4 (1.51%) Software Packaging
5 4 (1.51%) Web Services
5 4 (1.51%) XML
6 3 (1.13%) XMPP
7 2 (0.75%) ADO
7 2 (0.75%) ebXML
7 2 (0.75%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.75%) LDAP
7 2 (0.75%) REST
7 2 (0.75%) RESTful
8 1 (0.38%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.38%) JSON
8 1 (0.38%) OAuth
8 1 (0.38%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.38%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.30%) Onboarding
2 20 (7.55%) PKI
3 19 (7.17%) Data Centre
4 18 (6.79%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (5.66%) Blackberry
5 15 (5.66%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (4.53%) Clustering
7 9 (3.40%) Client/Server
8 8 (3.02%) Video Conferencing
8 8 (3.02%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.26%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (2.26%) Hedge funds
10 5 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.89%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.89%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.51%) Fat Client
11 4 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.51%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.51%) Thin Client
12 3 (1.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 180 (67.92%) Windows
2 63 (23.77%) Windows Server
3 33 (12.45%) Windows 10
4 30 (11.32%) Linux
5 15 (5.66%) Android
5 15 (5.66%) Apple iOS
6 12 (4.53%) Mac OS
7 10 (3.77%) Windows Server 2003
7 10 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (3.02%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (2.26%) Debian
10 4 (1.51%) Windows 7
10 4 (1.51%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.13%) AIX
12 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.38%) CentOS
13 1 (0.38%) VMS
13 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (24.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 46 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (14.34%) Migration
4 37 (13.96%) ITIL
5 32 (12.08%) Data Analysis
6 31 (11.70%) Change Management
7 26 (9.81%) Disaster Recovery
8 24 (9.06%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (8.68%) AI
10 19 (7.17%) Agile
10 19 (7.17%) User Experience
11 18 (6.79%) Incident Management
12 17 (6.42%) Data Protection
12 17 (6.42%) Unit Testing
13 16 (6.04%) Customer Service
14 15 (5.66%) DevOps
14 15 (5.66%) ITSM
14 15 (5.66%) Mobile Device Management
15 13 (4.91%) Project Delivery
15 13 (4.91%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (19.62%) PowerShell
2 43 (16.23%) SQL
3 37 (13.96%) C#
4 31 (11.70%) PL/SQL
4 31 (11.70%) T-SQL
5 11 (4.15%) VB
6 10 (3.77%) Python
6 10 (3.77%) VBA
7 4 (1.51%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.13%) Bicep
9 2 (0.75%) VBScript
10 1 (0.38%) Bash
10 1 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 76 (28.68%) Security Cleared
2 62 (23.40%) SC Cleared
3 44 (16.60%) Degree
4 19 (7.17%) DV Cleared
5 14 (5.28%) Citrix Certification
5 14 (5.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (4.53%) CCA
7 10 (3.77%) Azure Certification
8 8 (3.02%) MCSE
9 7 (2.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 7 (2.64%) MCSA
10 6 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.89%) ISTQB
12 4 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.13%) CESG Certified Professional
13 3 (1.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.75%) HNC
14 2 (0.75%) HND
14 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (13.96%) QA
2 3 (1.13%) SLA
3 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 69 (26.04%) Active Directory
2 57 (21.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (15.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 23 (8.68%) Microsoft App-V
5 22 (8.30%) Hyper-V
6 13 (4.91%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (4.15%) XenDesktop
8 10 (3.77%) BitLocker
8 10 (3.77%) XenApp
9 9 (3.40%) Docker
9 9 (3.40%) VMware NSX
10 8 (3.02%) vSphere
11 4 (1.51%) Terminal Services
12 3 (1.13%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
14 1 (0.38%) NFS
Systems Management
1 42 (15.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (13.21%) SCCM
3 17 (6.42%) WSUS
4 14 (5.28%) vCenter Server
5 12 (4.53%) vMotion
6 11 (4.15%) Ansible
6 11 (4.15%) Kubernetes
7 9 (3.40%) Puppet
7 9 (3.40%) Terraform
8 5 (1.89%) SCOM
9 4 (1.51%) SCVMM
10 3 (1.13%) Nagios
10 3 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.75%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.75%) WMI
12 1 (0.38%) CloudForms
12 1 (0.38%) EMC VPLEX
12 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.38%) FreeIPA
Vendors
1 97 (36.60%) VMware
2 95 (35.85%) Microsoft
3 37 (13.96%) Oracle
4 16 (6.04%) Bloomberg
5 15 (5.66%) Cisco
6 14 (5.28%) MobileIron
7 13 (4.91%) Reuters
7 13 (4.91%) ServiceNow
8 9 (3.40%) ION Trading
8 9 (3.40%) Remedy
9 8 (3.02%) Google
9 8 (3.02%) NetApp
10 4 (1.51%) HP
10 4 (1.51%) Symantec
11 3 (1.13%) Juniper
11 3 (1.13%) OpenText
11 3 (1.13%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.13%) UiPath
11 3 (1.13%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.75%) Tanium
52 Citrix jobs in England