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 30 January 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
30 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 273 193
Rank change year-on-year -73 -80 -18
Contract jobs citing Citrix 222 234 452
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.88% 1.20%
As % of the Vendors category 1.46% 1.90% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 117 305
10th Percentile £207 £182 £196
25th Percentile £404 £260 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £365
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +2.74% -8.75%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £550
90th Percentile £638 £567 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £375 £365
% change year-on-year +20.00% +2.74% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 27
10th Percentile - £15.04 £13.29
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 -
Median hourly rate £22.88 £18.13 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.21% +29.50% -9.68%
75th Percentile £74.26 £21.46 £17.79
90th Percentile - - £53.83
UK median hourly rate £22.88 £21.46 £14.00
% change year-on-year +6.63% +53.29% -9.68%

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 15,199 12,308 16,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.02% 46.32% 43.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,972 7,412 10,628
10th Percentile £300 £285 £250
25th Percentile £410 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £710 £720 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 726 356 814
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £23.25 £30.00 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% -2.83% -4.26%
75th Percentile £50.00 £63.75 £58.65
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.75 £30.25
% change year-on-year -14.14% -8.26% +5.22%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 30 January 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 -8 109 £415 +10.67% 20
South East -27 37 £450 +28.57% 14
North of England -70 35 £500 +8.11% 8
North West -29 28 £550 +15.79% 2
East of England -31 17 £127 -43.46% 6
Midlands -49 16 £475 +192.31% 5
East Midlands -17 12 £490 +172.22% 5
South West -24 7 £550 +8.91% 7
North East -13 6 £513 +173.33%
West Midlands -45 4 £425 +193.10%
Yorkshire -52 3 £500 - 6
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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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 23 (10.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (9.46%) SharePoint
3 15 (6.76%) IIS
4 1 (0.45%) Confluence
4 1 (0.45%) JBoss
4 1 (0.45%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (6.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.60%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 66 (29.73%) Microsoft 365
2 63 (28.38%) Azure
3 54 (24.32%) Entra ID
4 30 (13.51%) AWS
5 15 (6.76%) GCP
6 11 (4.95%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 11 (4.95%) AWS CloudTrail
7 10 (4.50%) AWS KMS
8 8 (3.60%) Nutanix
9 7 (3.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (3.15%) AWS Control Tower
9 7 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.15%) Google Workspace
9 7 (3.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.80%) IaaS
10 4 (1.80%) PaaS
11 2 (0.90%) Akamai
11 2 (0.90%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.90%) SaaS
12 1 (0.45%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 34 (15.32%) DNS
1 34 (15.32%) Firewall
2 30 (13.51%) NetScaler
3 27 (12.16%) DHCP
4 26 (11.71%) VPN
5 13 (5.86%) TCP/IP
5 13 (5.86%) WebEx
6 11 (4.95%) Internet
7 10 (4.50%) FTP
7 10 (4.50%) LAN
8 9 (4.05%) VLAN
8 9 (4.05%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (3.15%) Skype
10 6 (2.70%) Remote Desktop
10 6 (2.70%) WAN
11 5 (2.25%) SMTP
12 4 (1.80%) DMZ
12 4 (1.80%) Software-Defined Networking
12 4 (1.80%) VoIP
13 3 (1.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (18.92%) SQL Server
2 23 (10.36%) Oracle Database
3 8 (3.60%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (4.95%) JIRA
1 11 (4.95%) Visual Studio
2 6 (2.70%) MSI
3 3 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.90%) GitLab
4 2 (0.90%) InstallShield
5 1 (0.45%) GoCD
5 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 82 (36.94%) Social Skills
2 71 (31.98%) Finance
3 36 (16.22%) Banking
4 19 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.31%) Legal
5 14 (6.31%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.86%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.70%) Front Office
7 6 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.70%) International Banking
8 5 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.25%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.80%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.35%) Polish Language
10 3 (1.35%) Publishing
11 2 (0.90%) Back Office
11 2 (0.90%) Local Government
11 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 33 (14.86%) Analyst
2 30 (13.51%) Developer
3 25 (11.26%) C# Developer
4 24 (10.81%) Architect
5 19 (8.56%) Citrix Engineer
5 19 (8.56%) Senior
6 14 (6.31%) Lead
7 13 (5.86%) Technical Analyst
8 12 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (5.41%) Support Engineer
9 11 (4.95%) Technical Support
10 10 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.50%) Wintel Analyst
11 9 (4.05%) Programme Manager
11 9 (4.05%) Support Analyst
11 9 (4.05%) Technical Support Analyst
12 8 (3.60%) 1st Line Support
12 8 (3.60%) Citrix Support
12 8 (3.60%) IT Analyst
13 7 (3.15%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.51%) .NET
2 26 (11.71%) .NET Framework
3 14 (6.31%) WPF
4 13 (5.86%) WinForms
5 8 (3.60%) XMPP
6 6 (2.70%) WCF
7 5 (2.25%) REST
8 3 (1.35%) JSON
8 3 (1.35%) Middleware
9 2 (0.90%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (0.90%) Software Packaging
9 2 (0.90%) Web Services
9 2 (0.90%) XML
10 1 (0.45%) 802.1X
10 1 (0.45%) LDAP
10 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.56%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.95%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.60%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.15%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (3.15%) Hedge funds
4 7 (3.15%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.15%) PKI
5 6 (2.70%) Client/Server
5 6 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.25%) Clustering
7 4 (1.80%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (1.80%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.35%) Blackberry
8 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.90%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.90%) Fat Client
9 2 (0.90%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.90%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 154 (69.37%) Windows
2 55 (24.77%) Windows Server
3 46 (20.72%) Windows 10
4 20 (9.01%) Linux
5 15 (6.76%) Windows Server 2003
5 15 (6.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (6.31%) Mac OS
7 13 (5.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (4.05%) AIX
8 9 (4.05%) Windows 7
9 7 (3.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.35%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.90%) Android
11 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.90%) VMS
12 1 (0.45%) CentOS
12 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (17.12%) ITIL
3 31 (13.96%) Migration
4 28 (12.61%) Change Management
5 25 (11.26%) Disaster Recovery
6 24 (10.81%) Roadmaps
6 24 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (10.36%) Data Analysis
8 22 (9.91%) Data Protection
9 20 (9.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 20 (9.01%) ITSM
10 19 (8.56%) Agile
10 19 (8.56%) Zero Trust
11 18 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (8.11%) Identity Access Management
11 18 (8.11%) Project Delivery
12 16 (7.21%) DevOps
12 16 (7.21%) User Experience
13 15 (6.76%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (6.76%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (27.03%) PowerShell
2 43 (19.37%) SQL
3 30 (13.51%) C#
4 25 (11.26%) PL/SQL
4 25 (11.26%) T-SQL
5 22 (9.91%) Bash
6 21 (9.46%) Python
7 12 (5.41%) VB
8 11 (4.95%) VBA
9 9 (4.05%) Perl
10 5 (2.25%) Java
11 2 (0.90%) VBScript
12 1 (0.45%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 51 (22.97%) Security Cleared
2 44 (19.82%) SC Cleared
3 36 (16.22%) Degree
4 14 (6.31%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (5.86%) CCNP
6 12 (5.41%) CCNA
7 10 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (4.05%) CCDP
9 8 (3.60%) CCA
9 8 (3.60%) Citrix Certification
9 8 (3.60%) DV Cleared
10 7 (3.15%) AWS Certification
10 7 (3.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (2.70%) MCSE
12 5 (2.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 5 (2.25%) MCSA
13 3 (1.35%) A+ Certification
13 3 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.35%) DBS Check
13 3 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (14.41%) QA
2 12 (5.41%) GDPR
2 12 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.15%) NCSC
4 6 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.35%) SLA
6 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.45%) MiFID
6 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 81 (36.49%) Active Directory
2 58 (26.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (16.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (4.05%) Hyper-V
5 8 (3.60%) Microsoft App-V
6 7 (3.15%) XenApp
7 6 (2.70%) XenDesktop
8 5 (2.25%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (1.80%) Docker
9 4 (1.80%) vSphere
10 3 (1.35%) BitLocker
10 3 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.90%) NFS
11 2 (0.90%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.90%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.90%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 46 (20.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (19.82%) SCCM
3 15 (6.76%) Terraform
4 11 (4.95%) Ansible
5 5 (2.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (2.25%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.25%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.80%) SCVMM
6 4 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.35%) PaperCut
7 3 (1.35%) Puppet
7 3 (1.35%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 3 (1.35%) vMotion
7 3 (1.35%) WSUS
8 2 (0.90%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.45%) FreeIPA
9 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.45%) SCOM
Vendors
1 99 (44.59%) Microsoft
2 71 (31.98%) VMware
3 41 (18.47%) Oracle
4 23 (10.36%) Cisco
5 15 (6.76%) ServiceNow
6 10 (4.50%) Red Hat
7 9 (4.05%) Google
7 9 (4.05%) IBM
8 8 (3.60%) Remedy
9 6 (2.70%) Bloomberg
9 6 (2.70%) CloudEndure
9 6 (2.70%) Reuters
10 5 (2.25%) Ivanti
11 4 (1.80%) ION Trading
11 4 (1.80%) NetApp
11 4 (1.80%) UiPath
11 4 (1.80%) Zscaler
12 3 (1.35%) Dell
12 3 (1.35%) HP
12 3 (1.35%) Palo Alto
56 Citrix jobs in England