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 13 July 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
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 235 217
Rank change year-on-year -124 -18 -30
Contract jobs citing Citrix 277 299 404
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 1.10% 1.10%
As % of the Vendors category 1.51% 2.31% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 203 261
10th Percentile £302 £153 £194
25th Percentile £406 £253 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £390 £400
Median % change year-on-year +25.64% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £579 £538 £525
90th Percentile £638 £600 £650
UK median daily rate £490 £390 £400
% change year-on-year +25.64% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 20 48
10th Percentile £23.80 - £14.16
25th Percentile £71.50 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £74.00 £15.87 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +366.29% -2.64% +4.42%
75th Percentile £74.26 £18.31 £21.37
90th Percentile - £28.20 £25.72
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £16.30 £16.30
% change year-on-year +353.99% - +3.69%

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 18,360 12,945 15,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.95% 47.43% 43.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,634 8,199 10,031
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 990 602 1,019
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.84 £12.52
25th Percentile £19.72 £17.66 £15.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% +0.60% -32.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.12 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.56 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.61 £25.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +37.62% +0.60% -38.27%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -38 142 £435 +8.75% 22
South East -92 57 £570 +52.00% 14
North of England -92 31 £449 +28.14% 19
Midlands -39 26 £450 +71.43% 3
North West -47 20 £447 -12.78% 9
West Midlands -59 19 £450 +71.43% 3
South West -29 17 £550 +134.04% 6
Yorkshire -74 10 £510 +117.02% 5
East Midlands -10 7 - -
East of England -44 5 £513 +199.71% 4
North East - 1 £500 - 6
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 34 (12.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (6.86%) IIS
3 17 (6.14%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.81%) Appian
4 5 (1.81%) Camunda
4 5 (1.81%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.53%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.81%) OpenText MBPM
2 5 (1.81%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.36%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.36%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 65 (23.47%) Azure
2 61 (22.02%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (12.64%) Entra ID
4 29 (10.47%) AWS
5 11 (3.97%) IaaS
6 9 (3.25%) Google Workspace
6 9 (3.25%) PaaS
7 7 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.53%) GCP
8 6 (2.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 6 (2.17%) AWS CloudTrail
9 5 (1.81%) AWS KMS
10 4 (1.44%) Mimecast
10 4 (1.44%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.44%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.08%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.08%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.72%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (0.72%) SaaS
13 1 (0.36%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 55 (19.86%) DNS
2 45 (16.25%) VPN
3 42 (15.16%) DHCP
4 41 (14.80%) Firewall
5 24 (8.66%) Network Security
6 21 (7.58%) TCP/IP
7 18 (6.50%) Internet
8 16 (5.78%) NetScaler
9 11 (3.97%) LAN
10 9 (3.25%) DMZ
10 9 (3.25%) SMTP
10 9 (3.25%) WAN
11 8 (2.89%) VLAN
12 7 (2.53%) BGP
12 7 (2.53%) SSL
13 6 (2.17%) IPv4
13 6 (2.17%) IPv6
13 6 (2.17%) OSPF
13 6 (2.17%) Remote Desktop
13 6 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (18.77%) SQL Server
2 26 (9.39%) Oracle Database
3 7 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.08%) Big Data
5 3 (1.08%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (4.69%) MSI
2 12 (4.33%) JIRA
3 6 (2.17%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.44%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (1.44%) Git
4 4 (1.44%) Selenium
5 3 (1.08%) Appium
5 3 (1.08%) JUnit
5 3 (1.08%) REST Assured
5 3 (1.08%) TestNG
6 1 (0.36%) GitLab
6 1 (0.36%) GoCD
6 1 (0.36%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 79 (28.52%) Social Skills
2 61 (22.02%) Finance
3 45 (16.25%) Banking
4 24 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.33%) Front Office
6 10 (3.61%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.25%) Legal
8 8 (2.89%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.17%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.08%) Publishing
12 2 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.72%) Retail
13 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.36%) Social Housing
13 1 (0.36%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 59 (21.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 40 (14.44%) Developer
3 37 (13.36%) Citrix Engineer
4 30 (10.83%) C# Developer
5 29 (10.47%) Architect
6 27 (9.75%) Senior
7 25 (9.03%) Analyst
7 25 (9.03%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (6.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (6.14%) Administrator
9 17 (6.14%) Support Engineer
10 12 (4.33%) Senior Citrix Engineer
11 11 (3.97%) VMware Engineer
12 9 (3.25%) Desktop Engineer
12 9 (3.25%) IT Analyst
12 9 (3.25%) Linux Engineer
12 9 (3.25%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (3.25%) Network Engineer
12 9 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (3.25%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (14.44%) .NET
2 35 (12.64%) .NET Framework
3 14 (5.05%) WPF
4 13 (4.69%) WinForms
5 5 (1.81%) SAML
6 4 (1.44%) Software Packaging
6 4 (1.44%) Web Services
7 3 (1.08%) 802.1X
7 3 (1.08%) REST
7 3 (1.08%) RESTful
7 3 (1.08%) XML
7 3 (1.08%) XMPP
8 2 (0.72%) ADO
8 2 (0.72%) ebXML
8 2 (0.72%) LDAP
9 1 (0.36%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.36%) OAuth
9 1 (0.36%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.36%) OpenID
9 1 (0.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.58%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (7.22%) Onboarding
3 19 (6.86%) Data Centre
4 18 (6.50%) PKI
5 15 (5.42%) Blackberry
6 12 (4.33%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (3.61%) Clustering
8 8 (2.89%) Video Conferencing
8 8 (2.89%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.81%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.81%) Fat Client
10 5 (1.81%) Hedge funds
10 5 (1.81%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.81%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.81%) Thin Client
11 4 (1.44%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.44%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 185 (66.79%) Windows
2 69 (24.91%) Windows Server
3 29 (10.47%) Linux
4 23 (8.30%) Windows 10
5 15 (5.42%) Android
5 15 (5.42%) Apple iOS
6 12 (4.33%) Mac OS
7 8 (2.89%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (2.53%) Windows Server 2003
8 7 (2.53%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (2.17%) Debian
10 5 (1.81%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.08%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.72%) AIX
12 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.36%) CentOS
13 1 (0.36%) VMS
13 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (25.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 48 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (13.72%) ITIL
3 38 (13.72%) Migration
4 33 (11.91%) Change Management
4 33 (11.91%) Data Analysis
5 26 (9.39%) Agile
6 25 (9.03%) AI
6 25 (9.03%) Disaster Recovery
6 25 (9.03%) Stakeholder Management
7 21 (7.58%) User Experience
8 20 (7.22%) DevOps
9 17 (6.14%) Incident Management
10 16 (5.78%) Unit Testing
11 15 (5.42%) Generative AI
11 15 (5.42%) High Availability
11 15 (5.42%) ITSM
11 15 (5.42%) Service Management
12 14 (5.05%) Project Delivery
12 14 (5.05%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 49 (17.69%) PowerShell
2 43 (15.52%) SQL
3 40 (14.44%) C#
4 33 (11.91%) PL/SQL
4 33 (11.91%) T-SQL
5 11 (3.97%) VB
6 10 (3.61%) Python
6 10 (3.61%) VBA
7 5 (1.81%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.08%) Bash
8 3 (1.08%) Bicep
9 2 (0.72%) VBScript
10 1 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 83 (29.96%) Security Cleared
2 66 (23.83%) SC Cleared
3 36 (13.00%) Degree
4 23 (8.30%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.97%) Azure Certification
5 11 (3.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.25%) Citrix Certification
7 7 (2.53%) CCA
8 6 (2.17%) ISTQB
8 6 (2.17%) MCSA
8 6 (2.17%) MCSE
9 5 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (1.08%) CESG Certified Professional
11 3 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.72%) CCNA
12 2 (0.72%) CCNP
12 2 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (13.36%) QA
2 3 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.08%) SLA
3 1 (0.36%) NCSC
System Software
1 77 (27.80%) Active Directory
2 61 (22.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (14.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 21 (7.58%) Microsoft App-V
5 20 (7.22%) Hyper-V
6 14 (5.05%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (3.25%) VMware NSX
8 8 (2.89%) BitLocker
8 8 (2.89%) vSphere
8 8 (2.89%) XenDesktop
9 7 (2.53%) Docker
9 7 (2.53%) XenApp
10 5 (1.81%) Terminal Services
11 3 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (1.08%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.36%) NFS
Systems Management
1 46 (16.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 36 (13.00%) SCCM
3 17 (6.14%) WSUS
4 15 (5.42%) vCenter Server
5 10 (3.61%) Kubernetes
5 10 (3.61%) Terraform
5 10 (3.61%) vMotion
6 9 (3.25%) Ansible
7 7 (2.53%) Puppet
8 6 (2.17%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (2.17%) SCOM
9 5 (1.81%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.08%) Nagios
11 3 (1.08%) Nessus
12 2 (0.72%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.72%) WMI
13 1 (0.36%) CloudForms
13 1 (0.36%) EMC VPLEX
13 1 (0.36%) FreeIPA
Vendors
1 105 (37.91%) VMware
2 94 (33.94%) Microsoft
3 39 (14.08%) Oracle
4 23 (8.30%) Cisco
5 16 (5.78%) Bloomberg
6 14 (5.05%) MobileIron
7 12 (4.33%) Reuters
8 11 (3.97%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.89%) Google
9 8 (2.89%) ION Trading
10 7 (2.53%) Apple
10 7 (2.53%) CyberArk
10 7 (2.53%) Remedy
10 7 (2.53%) Zscaler
11 6 (2.17%) BeyondTrust
11 6 (2.17%) F5
11 6 (2.17%) NetApp
12 5 (1.81%) Meraki
12 5 (1.81%) OpenText
12 5 (1.81%) Palo Alto