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 23 December 2025, 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
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 249 194
Rank change year-on-year -76 -55 -12
Contract jobs citing Citrix 236 292 464
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 1.02% 1.26%
As % of the Vendors category 1.57% 2.22% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 168 319
10th Percentile £171 £182 £200
25th Percentile £400 £300 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £378 £375
Median % change year-on-year +19.21% +0.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £550 £503 £544
90th Percentile £627 £600 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £375 £385
% change year-on-year +20.00% -2.60% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 30
10th Percentile - - £13.29
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
Median hourly rate £26.13 £21.46 £15.08
Median % change year-on-year +21.77% +42.35% -2.74%
75th Percentile £74.26 - £17.39
90th Percentile - - £48.25
UK median hourly rate £22.27 £21.46 £15.08
% change year-on-year +3.75% +42.35% -2.74%

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 15,000 13,168 16,360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.45% 45.97% 44.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,731 8,001 10,659
10th Percentile £293 £293 £250
25th Percentile £406 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £706 £725 £728
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 729 382 596
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.51 £14.54
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.08 £20.50
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.52 £45.94
Median % change year-on-year -23.00% -33.57% +74.25%
75th Percentile £47.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.85 £80.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.75 £28.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -15.18% -38.97% +78.45%

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025. 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 -32 104 £450 +15.38% 23
North of England -40 45 £525 +20.00% 20
South East -23 38 £449 +28.14% 14
North West -29 29 £550 +18.92% 6
East of England -26 24 £149 -33.52% 3
Midlands -40 18 £490 +237.93% 1
East Midlands -7 14 £492 +189.41%
Yorkshire -30 12 £525 - 10
North East -11 6 £513 +173.33% 4
South West -13 6 £250 -46.81% 4
West Midlands -40 4 £350 +143.48% 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 23 (9.75%) Microsoft Exchange
1 23 (9.75%) SharePoint
2 15 (6.36%) IIS
3 5 (2.12%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.27%) Confluence
5 2 (0.85%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.85%) WildFly
6 1 (0.42%) JBoss
6 1 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.42%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.42%) Smallworld
Applications
1 18 (7.63%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (5.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 76 (32.20%) Azure
2 64 (27.12%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (21.61%) Entra ID
4 34 (14.41%) AWS
5 21 (8.90%) GCP
6 8 (3.39%) Nutanix
7 7 (2.97%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 7 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (2.97%) AWS CloudTrail
7 7 (2.97%) AWS Control Tower
7 7 (2.97%) AWS KMS
7 7 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (2.54%) IaaS
8 6 (2.54%) PaaS
9 5 (2.12%) Google Workspace
10 4 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (1.69%) SaaS
11 2 (0.85%) Akamai
11 2 (0.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 43 (18.22%) Firewall
2 39 (16.53%) DNS
3 31 (13.14%) VPN
4 26 (11.02%) DHCP
5 24 (10.17%) NetScaler
6 20 (8.47%) TCP/IP
7 16 (6.78%) LAN
8 15 (6.36%) WebEx
9 11 (4.66%) Internet
9 11 (4.66%) Remote Desktop
9 11 (4.66%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (4.24%) VLAN
11 8 (3.39%) WAN
12 6 (2.54%) FTP
13 5 (2.12%) SAN
13 5 (2.12%) Skype
14 4 (1.69%) BGP
14 4 (1.69%) Network Security
14 4 (1.69%) Software-Defined Networking
14 4 (1.69%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (16.10%) SQL Server
2 25 (10.59%) Oracle Database
3 11 (4.66%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.85%) Tableau
4 2 (0.85%) Tableau Desktop
4 2 (0.85%) Tableau Server
5 1 (0.42%) GIS
5 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (5.51%) JIRA
2 5 (2.12%) Visual Studio
3 4 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.27%) MSI
5 2 (0.85%) GitLab
5 2 (0.85%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.42%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.42%) GoCD
6 1 (0.42%) Hudson
6 1 (0.42%) Postman
6 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 85 (36.02%) Social Skills
2 71 (30.08%) Finance
3 28 (11.86%) Banking
4 24 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.20%) Legal
6 12 (5.08%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.12%) Front Office
9 5 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.12%) Law
10 4 (1.69%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.27%) Back Office
11 3 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.27%) International Banking
11 3 (1.27%) Local Government
11 3 (1.27%) Polish Language
11 3 (1.27%) Publishing
12 2 (0.85%) Portuguese Language
12 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (14.83%) Analyst
2 27 (11.44%) Architect
3 23 (9.75%) Developer
4 19 (8.05%) Technical Analyst
5 18 (7.63%) C# Developer
5 18 (7.63%) Technical Support
6 16 (6.78%) Citrix Engineer
6 16 (6.78%) Lead
6 16 (6.78%) Support Analyst
6 16 (6.78%) Support Engineer
6 16 (6.78%) Technical Support Analyst
7 15 (6.36%) IT Support
8 14 (5.93%) Senior
9 13 (5.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (4.66%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.24%) IT Analyst
12 9 (3.81%) Cloud Architect
12 9 (3.81%) Programme Manager
13 8 (3.39%) Consultant
14 7 (2.97%) Help Desk Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.32%) .NET
2 18 (7.63%) .NET Framework
3 13 (5.51%) WPF
4 12 (5.08%) WinForms
5 9 (3.81%) XMPP
6 7 (2.97%) Middleware
6 7 (2.97%) WCF
7 5 (2.12%) REST
8 3 (1.27%) JSON
9 1 (0.42%) 802.1X
9 1 (0.42%) JSF
9 1 (0.42%) LDAP
9 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.42%) SAML
9 1 (0.42%) SAP Basis
9 1 (0.42%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.20%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.66%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.97%) PKI
4 6 (2.54%) Fat Client
4 6 (2.54%) Hedge funds
4 6 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (2.54%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.54%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.54%) Thin Client
5 5 (2.12%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 5 (2.12%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (2.12%) NHS
5 5 (2.12%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.69%) Clustering
7 3 (1.27%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.27%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.85%) Replication
8 2 (0.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 160 (67.80%) Windows
2 56 (23.73%) Windows Server
3 47 (19.92%) Windows 10
4 28 (11.86%) Linux
5 21 (8.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 18 (7.63%) Mac OS
7 16 (6.78%) Windows Server 2003
8 12 (5.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (4.66%) AIX
9 11 (4.66%) Windows 7
10 6 (2.54%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (2.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (1.27%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.85%) Android
13 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.85%) Unix
13 2 (0.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (19.49%) ITIL
3 29 (12.29%) Roadmaps
4 26 (11.02%) ITSM
4 26 (11.02%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (10.17%) Agile
5 24 (10.17%) Migration
6 22 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (9.32%) Zero Trust
7 21 (8.90%) Data Protection
7 21 (8.90%) Disaster Recovery
7 21 (8.90%) Identity Access Management
7 21 (8.90%) User Experience
8 20 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 18 (7.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 17 (7.20%) Data Analysis
11 16 (6.78%) Application Packaging
11 16 (6.78%) Enterprise Architecture
12 15 (6.36%) DevOps
12 15 (6.36%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 61 (25.85%) PowerShell
2 38 (16.10%) SQL
3 26 (11.02%) Bash
4 22 (9.32%) C#
4 22 (9.32%) Python
5 18 (7.63%) PL/SQL
5 18 (7.63%) T-SQL
6 12 (5.08%) VB
7 10 (4.24%) VBA
8 9 (3.81%) Perl
9 6 (2.54%) Java
10 5 (2.12%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.85%) VBScript
12 1 (0.42%) Magik
Qualifications
1 41 (17.37%) Security Cleared
2 34 (14.41%) SC Cleared
3 30 (12.71%) Degree
4 15 (6.36%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (5.93%) CCNP
5 14 (5.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (5.51%) CCNA
7 9 (3.81%) CCDP
7 9 (3.81%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.97%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (2.97%) Citrix Certification
8 7 (2.97%) MCSE
9 6 (2.54%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.54%) MCP
10 5 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.12%) HNC
10 5 (2.12%) HND
10 5 (2.12%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.69%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.17%) QA
2 21 (8.90%) GDPR
3 17 (7.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (2.97%) NCSC
5 3 (1.27%) SLA
6 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.42%) MiFID
7 1 (0.42%) NIST
System Software
1 91 (38.56%) Active Directory
2 61 (25.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (16.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (5.08%) Hyper-V
5 7 (2.97%) Terminal Services
6 5 (2.12%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.12%) XenApp
7 4 (1.69%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (1.69%) vSphere
8 3 (1.27%) Docker
8 3 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.85%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.85%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.85%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.85%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.42%) NFS
Systems Management
1 42 (17.80%) Microsoft Intune
1 42 (17.80%) SCCM
2 15 (6.36%) Terraform
3 12 (5.08%) Ansible
4 6 (2.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.12%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.69%) Kubernetes
7 3 (1.27%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.27%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.27%) PaperCut
7 3 (1.27%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 2 (0.85%) Puppet
8 2 (0.85%) vMotion
8 2 (0.85%) WSUS
9 1 (0.42%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.42%) FreeIPA
9 1 (0.42%) SCOM
9 1 (0.42%) vRealize
9 1 (0.42%) WMI
Vendors
1 110 (46.61%) Microsoft
2 79 (33.47%) VMware
3 44 (18.64%) Oracle
4 27 (11.44%) Cisco
5 17 (7.20%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.66%) Google
7 10 (4.24%) IBM
7 10 (4.24%) Red Hat
8 8 (3.39%) Fortinet
9 7 (2.97%) HP
10 6 (2.54%) CloudEndure
10 6 (2.54%) Remedy
10 6 (2.54%) Zscaler
11 5 (2.12%) Bloomberg
11 5 (2.12%) Forcepoint
11 5 (2.12%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.12%) Reuters
12 4 (1.69%) F5
12 4 (1.69%) Ivanti
12 4 (1.69%) Meraki