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 21 April 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
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 269 212
Rank change year-on-year -35 -57 -21
Contract jobs citing Citrix 292 212 413
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 0.86% 1.12%
As % of the Vendors category 1.73% 1.83% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 136 269
10th Percentile £350 £150 £180
25th Percentile £406 £256 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £390 £375
Median % change year-on-year +21.79% +4.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £515
90th Percentile £638 £591 £650
UK median daily rate £460 £390 £375
% change year-on-year +17.95% +4.00% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 25 54
10th Percentile £21.98 - £14.00
25th Percentile £71.50 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £74.00 £16.30 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +353.99% - +5.16%
75th Percentile £74.26 £18.51 £21.37
90th Percentile - £21.46 £21.46
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £17.30 £16.30
% change year-on-year +327.75% +6.13% +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 16,849 11,612 15,594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.59% 47.37% 42.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,980 7,529 9,955
10th Percentile £313 £296 £255
25th Percentile £413 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £631
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.97% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 886 441 986
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.70 £18.13 £14.16
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +27.78% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £55.08
90th Percentile £78.40 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.99 £22.50
% change year-on-year +7.18% +24.40% -48.70%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 +2 147 £415 +6.41% 14
South East -55 47 £528 +32.05% 13
North of England -53 42 £500 +112.77% 8
North West -32 32 £550 +4.76% 4
Midlands -56 26 £436 +200.69% 8
South West -19 18 £550 +17.02% 2
West Midlands -60 16 £425 +193.10% 7
East of England -45 11 £169 - 3
East Midlands -25 10 £468 +160.00% 1
North East -10 6 £513 +173.33% 1
Yorkshire -72 6 £500 +233.33% 4
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 36 (12.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (8.90%) SharePoint
3 19 (6.51%) IIS
4 2 (0.68%) Confluence
5 1 (0.34%) JBoss
5 1 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (7.88%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.42%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 71 (24.32%) Microsoft 365
2 67 (22.95%) Azure
3 57 (19.52%) Entra ID
4 28 (9.59%) AWS
5 12 (4.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 12 (4.11%) AWS CloudTrail
5 12 (4.11%) Google Workspace
6 11 (3.77%) AWS KMS
6 11 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (3.77%) GCP
6 11 (3.77%) IaaS
7 9 (3.08%) PaaS
8 7 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (2.40%) AWS Control Tower
8 7 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (2.05%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.37%) Mimecast
10 4 (1.37%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.03%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (17.12%) DNS
2 42 (14.38%) Firewall
3 35 (11.99%) DHCP
3 35 (11.99%) VPN
4 32 (10.96%) NetScaler
5 21 (7.19%) TCP/IP
6 17 (5.82%) Internet
7 16 (5.48%) WebEx
8 15 (5.14%) Network Security
9 12 (4.11%) FTP
10 11 (3.77%) VLAN
11 10 (3.42%) Skype
11 10 (3.42%) SMTP
12 8 (2.74%) LAN
13 7 (2.40%) DMZ
13 7 (2.40%) IPv4
13 7 (2.40%) IPv6
14 6 (2.05%) SSL
14 6 (2.05%) WAN
15 5 (1.71%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (19.86%) SQL Server
2 26 (8.90%) Oracle Database
3 7 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.03%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (6.16%) JIRA
2 14 (4.79%) MSI
3 11 (3.77%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.37%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.37%) Selenium
5 3 (1.03%) Appium
5 3 (1.03%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (1.03%) Git
5 3 (1.03%) GitLab
5 3 (1.03%) JUnit
5 3 (1.03%) TestNG
6 2 (0.68%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.34%) GoCD
7 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 90 (30.82%) Social Skills
2 79 (27.05%) Finance
3 51 (17.47%) Banking
4 32 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.16%) Legal
6 16 (5.48%) Public Sector
7 13 (4.45%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (3.08%) Front Office
9 9 (3.08%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.05%) International Banking
11 5 (1.71%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.37%) Publishing
13 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.68%) Local Government
14 2 (0.68%) Retail
14 2 (0.68%) Spanish Language
15 1 (0.34%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 41 (14.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 40 (13.70%) Citrix Engineer
3 39 (13.36%) Developer
4 38 (13.01%) Architect
5 33 (11.30%) C# Developer
6 30 (10.27%) Analyst
7 28 (9.59%) Senior
8 15 (5.14%) Lead
9 14 (4.79%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (4.79%) Senior Citrix Engineer
10 12 (4.11%) QA Engineer
10 12 (4.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (4.11%) Test Engineer
11 11 (3.77%) Administrator
11 11 (3.77%) Applications Developer
12 10 (3.42%) 1st Line Support
12 10 (3.42%) IT Engineer
12 10 (3.42%) Wintel Analyst
13 9 (3.08%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (3.08%) QA Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (13.36%) .NET
2 35 (11.99%) .NET Framework
3 16 (5.48%) WPF
4 15 (5.14%) WinForms
5 11 (3.77%) XMPP
6 5 (1.71%) REST
6 5 (1.71%) Software Packaging
7 4 (1.37%) SAML
7 4 (1.37%) XML
8 3 (1.03%) LDAP
9 2 (0.68%) ADO
9 2 (0.68%) ebXML
9 2 (0.68%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (0.68%) JSON
9 2 (0.68%) WCF
9 2 (0.68%) Web Services
10 1 (0.34%) Middleware
10 1 (0.34%) OAuth
10 1 (0.34%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.34%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.19%) Data Centre
2 17 (5.82%) Onboarding
2 17 (5.82%) PKI
3 16 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (5.14%) Blackberry
4 15 (5.14%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.45%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (3.77%) Clustering
7 9 (3.08%) Client/Server
7 9 (3.08%) Hedge funds
7 9 (3.08%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.40%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (1.71%) Fat Client
10 5 (1.71%) Thin Client
10 5 (1.71%) Video Conferencing
10 5 (1.71%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.68%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 207 (70.89%) Windows
2 76 (26.03%) Windows Server
3 49 (16.78%) Windows 10
4 27 (9.25%) Linux
5 15 (5.14%) Android
5 15 (5.14%) Apple iOS
6 14 (4.79%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (4.45%) Mac OS
7 13 (4.45%) Windows Server 2003
8 12 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (3.08%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (2.40%) Windows 7
11 6 (2.05%) AIX
12 4 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (1.03%) VMS
14 2 (0.68%) Debian
15 1 (0.34%) CentOS
15 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (18.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 44 (15.07%) ITIL
4 42 (14.38%) Migration
5 37 (12.67%) Change Management
6 32 (10.96%) Data Analysis
7 29 (9.93%) Disaster Recovery
7 29 (9.93%) Stakeholder Management
8 25 (8.56%) User Experience
9 24 (8.22%) Agile
10 23 (7.88%) Data Protection
10 23 (7.88%) ITSM
10 23 (7.88%) Service Management
11 20 (6.85%) Identity Access Management
11 20 (6.85%) Mobile Device Management
12 19 (6.51%) DevOps
12 19 (6.51%) Platform Engineering
12 19 (6.51%) Project Delivery
13 18 (6.16%) Business Intelligence
13 18 (6.16%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 68 (23.29%) PowerShell
2 52 (17.81%) SQL
3 39 (13.36%) C#
4 34 (11.64%) PL/SQL
4 34 (11.64%) T-SQL
5 20 (6.85%) Python
6 15 (5.14%) Bash
7 14 (4.79%) VB
8 13 (4.45%) VBA
9 10 (3.42%) Perl
10 3 (1.03%) VBScript
11 2 (0.68%) Bicep
11 2 (0.68%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.34%) Java
Qualifications
1 78 (26.71%) Security Cleared
2 67 (22.95%) SC Cleared
3 47 (16.10%) Degree
4 15 (5.14%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.79%) Citrix Certification
6 12 (4.11%) CCA
6 12 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (3.77%) CCNP
8 9 (3.08%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.08%) CCDP
8 9 (3.08%) CCNA
8 9 (3.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 8 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.40%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (2.05%) MCSE
12 5 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (1.37%) MCSA
14 3 (1.03%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (16.44%) QA
2 7 (2.40%) NCSC
3 6 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.71%) GDPR
4 5 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 84 (28.77%) Active Directory
2 67 (22.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (16.10%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (7.53%) Microsoft App-V
5 20 (6.85%) Hyper-V
6 13 (4.45%) XenApp
6 13 (4.45%) XenDesktop
7 10 (3.42%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (2.74%) BitLocker
9 7 (2.40%) Docker
10 5 (1.71%) VMware NSX
10 5 (1.71%) vSphere
11 2 (0.68%) NFS
11 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.68%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.34%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 60 (20.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (14.04%) SCCM
3 17 (5.82%) Terraform
4 14 (4.79%) WSUS
5 11 (3.77%) vCenter Server
6 10 (3.42%) Ansible
7 9 (3.08%) Kubernetes
8 8 (2.74%) vMotion
9 7 (2.40%) Puppet
10 5 (1.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (1.71%) SCVMM
10 5 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.03%) PaperCut
12 2 (0.68%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.68%) SCOM
12 2 (0.68%) WMI
13 1 (0.34%) EMC VPLEX
13 1 (0.34%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.34%) FreeIPA
13 1 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 122 (41.78%) Microsoft
2 96 (32.88%) VMware
3 44 (15.07%) Oracle
4 28 (9.59%) Cisco
5 14 (4.79%) MobileIron
6 13 (4.45%) ServiceNow
7 12 (4.11%) Google
8 11 (3.77%) Bloomberg
8 11 (3.77%) Red Hat
8 11 (3.77%) Reuters
9 10 (3.42%) NetApp
9 10 (3.42%) Remedy
10 7 (2.40%) ION Trading
11 6 (2.05%) CloudEndure
12 5 (1.71%) IBM
13 4 (1.37%) UiPath
14 3 (1.03%) Autodesk
14 3 (1.03%) F5
14 3 (1.03%) Juniper
14 3 (1.03%) Zscaler