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 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
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 266 205
Rank change year-on-year -55 -61 -12
Contract jobs citing Citrix 284 228 418
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.94% 1.12%
As % of the Vendors category 1.68% 1.97% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 148 270
10th Percentile £323 £150 £180
25th Percentile £404 £246 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £375
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £523
90th Percentile £638 £596 £651
UK median daily rate £450 £375 £375
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 28 56
10th Percentile £21.79 - £14.00
25th Percentile £60.63 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £74.00 £16.25 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +355.52% -0.34% +5.16%
75th Percentile £74.26 £18.31 £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 16,944 11,550 15,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.02% 47.47% 42.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,051 7,454 9,972
10th Percentile £313 £288 £256
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
75th Percentile £609 £625 £631
90th Percentile £710 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.48% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 887 459 991
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.72 £18.13 £14.21
Median hourly rate £30.49 £27.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.41% +20.56% -44.10%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.06 £56.37
90th Percentile £79.70 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +12.44% +20.56% -49.44%

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 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 30 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 30 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 +18 151 £415 +6.41% 10
South East -56 48 £536 +34.10% 7
North of England -79 34 £410 +74.47% 3
Midlands -58 26 £436 +200.69% 2
North West -30 25 £300 -42.86% 1
South West -22 18 £550 +80.33% 3
West Midlands -57 16 £425 +193.10% 2
East Midlands -19 10 £468 +160.00%
East of England -59 7 £169 - 2
Yorkshire -69 6 £500 +233.33% 2
North East -16 3 £188 - 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 32 (11.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (7.75%) SharePoint
3 20 (7.04%) IIS
4 2 (0.70%) Confluence
5 1 (0.35%) JBoss
5 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (7.75%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (5.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 74 (26.06%) Microsoft 365
2 68 (23.94%) Azure
3 49 (17.25%) Entra ID
4 29 (10.21%) AWS
5 12 (4.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 12 (4.23%) AWS CloudTrail
6 11 (3.87%) AWS KMS
6 11 (3.87%) GCP
6 11 (3.87%) IaaS
7 10 (3.52%) Google Workspace
8 9 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (3.17%) PaaS
9 7 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.46%) AWS Control Tower
9 7 (2.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (2.11%) Nutanix
11 4 (1.41%) Mimecast
11 4 (1.41%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.06%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (18.66%) DNS
2 38 (13.38%) VPN
3 37 (13.03%) Firewall
4 36 (12.68%) DHCP
5 30 (10.56%) NetScaler
6 19 (6.69%) TCP/IP
7 18 (6.34%) Internet
8 15 (5.28%) Network Security
9 12 (4.23%) FTP
10 10 (3.52%) Skype
10 10 (3.52%) SMTP
10 10 (3.52%) WebEx
11 8 (2.82%) LAN
11 8 (2.82%) VLAN
12 7 (2.46%) DMZ
12 7 (2.46%) IPv4
12 7 (2.46%) IPv6
13 6 (2.11%) SSL
13 6 (2.11%) WAN
14 4 (1.41%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (20.07%) SQL Server
2 26 (9.15%) Oracle Database
3 7 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.06%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (6.34%) JIRA
2 14 (4.93%) MSI
3 11 (3.87%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.41%) Selenium
5 3 (1.06%) Appium
5 3 (1.06%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (1.06%) Git
5 3 (1.06%) JUnit
5 3 (1.06%) TestNG
6 2 (0.70%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.35%) GitLab
7 1 (0.35%) GoCD
7 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 84 (29.58%) Social Skills
2 77 (27.11%) Finance
3 51 (17.96%) Banking
4 24 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.28%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.87%) Legal
8 10 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (3.17%) Front Office
9 9 (3.17%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.11%) International Banking
11 5 (1.76%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.41%) Publishing
13 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.70%) Retail
13 2 (0.70%) Spanish Language
14 1 (0.35%) Back Office
14 1 (0.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 41 (14.44%) Citrix Engineer
1 41 (14.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 40 (14.08%) Developer
3 37 (13.03%) Architect
4 34 (11.97%) C# Developer
5 29 (10.21%) Analyst
6 28 (9.86%) Senior
7 15 (5.28%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (5.28%) Senior Citrix Engineer
8 14 (4.93%) Lead
9 12 (4.23%) QA Engineer
9 12 (4.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (4.23%) Test Engineer
10 11 (3.87%) Applications Developer
10 11 (3.87%) IT Engineer
11 10 (3.52%) 1st Line Support
11 10 (3.52%) Administrator
11 10 (3.52%) Wintel Analyst
12 9 (3.17%) QA Test Engineer
12 9 (3.17%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (14.08%) .NET
2 36 (12.68%) .NET Framework
3 17 (5.99%) WPF
4 16 (5.63%) WinForms
5 5 (1.76%) Software Packaging
5 5 (1.76%) XMPP
6 4 (1.41%) SAML
6 4 (1.41%) XML
7 3 (1.06%) LDAP
7 3 (1.06%) REST
8 2 (0.70%) ADO
8 2 (0.70%) ebXML
8 2 (0.70%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (0.70%) JSON
8 2 (0.70%) WCF
8 2 (0.70%) Web Services
9 1 (0.35%) Middleware
9 1 (0.35%) OAuth
9 1 (0.35%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.35%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.69%) Data Centre
2 17 (5.99%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.63%) PKI
3 16 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (5.28%) Blackberry
5 13 (4.58%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (3.87%) Clustering
7 9 (3.17%) Client/Server
7 9 (3.17%) Hedge funds
8 8 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.82%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.46%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (2.11%) Fat Client
10 6 (2.11%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.11%) Thin Client
10 6 (2.11%) Video Conferencing
10 6 (2.11%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.06%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 199 (70.07%) Windows
2 70 (24.65%) Windows Server
3 49 (17.25%) Windows 10
4 17 (5.99%) Linux
5 15 (5.28%) Android
5 15 (5.28%) Apple iOS
5 15 (5.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (4.58%) Mac OS
7 12 (4.23%) Windows Server 2003
8 11 (3.87%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (2.11%) Windows 7
10 5 (1.76%) AIX
11 4 (1.41%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.70%) Debian
14 1 (0.35%) CentOS
14 1 (0.35%) VMS
14 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (18.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 51 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (15.49%) ITIL
4 41 (14.44%) Migration
5 37 (13.03%) Change Management
6 33 (11.62%) Data Analysis
7 30 (10.56%) Disaster Recovery
8 29 (10.21%) Stakeholder Management
9 24 (8.45%) Agile
10 23 (8.10%) User Experience
11 22 (7.75%) Data Protection
12 20 (7.04%) Project Delivery
13 18 (6.34%) Application Packaging
13 18 (6.34%) Business Intelligence
13 18 (6.34%) Incident Management
13 18 (6.34%) Unit Testing
14 17 (5.99%) AI
14 17 (5.99%) DevOps
14 17 (5.99%) ITSM
14 17 (5.99%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (20.77%) PowerShell
2 52 (18.31%) SQL
3 40 (14.08%) C#
4 35 (12.32%) PL/SQL
4 35 (12.32%) T-SQL
5 15 (5.28%) VB
6 14 (4.93%) VBA
7 9 (3.17%) Python
8 6 (2.11%) Bash
9 3 (1.06%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.06%) VBScript
10 2 (0.70%) Bicep
11 1 (0.35%) Java
11 1 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 70 (24.65%) Security Cleared
2 59 (20.77%) SC Cleared
3 43 (15.14%) Degree
4 14 (4.93%) Citrix Certification
4 14 (4.93%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.23%) CCA
5 12 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.17%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 7 (2.46%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.11%) MCSE
9 5 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.41%) MCSA
11 3 (1.06%) CCNP
11 3 (1.06%) CESG Certified Professional
12 2 (0.70%) CCSM
12 2 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (17.25%) QA
2 7 (2.46%) NCSC
3 6 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.76%) GDPR
4 5 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.70%) SLA
System Software
1 78 (27.46%) Active Directory
2 63 (22.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (16.20%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (7.75%) Microsoft App-V
5 21 (7.39%) Hyper-V
6 13 (4.58%) XenApp
6 13 (4.58%) XenDesktop
7 9 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (2.82%) BitLocker
9 7 (2.46%) Docker
10 5 (1.76%) VMware NSX
10 5 (1.76%) vSphere
11 2 (0.70%) NFS
11 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.70%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.35%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 58 (20.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (15.14%) SCCM
3 17 (5.99%) Terraform
4 16 (5.63%) WSUS
5 10 (3.52%) Ansible
6 9 (3.17%) Kubernetes
6 9 (3.17%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.82%) vMotion
8 7 (2.46%) Puppet
9 5 (1.76%) SCVMM
9 5 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.06%) PaperCut
11 2 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.70%) SCOM
11 2 (0.70%) WMI
12 1 (0.35%) EMC VPLEX
12 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.35%) FreeIPA
12 1 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 114 (40.14%) Microsoft
2 90 (31.69%) VMware
3 44 (15.49%) Oracle
4 23 (8.10%) Cisco
5 14 (4.93%) MobileIron
6 13 (4.58%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.87%) Bloomberg
7 11 (3.87%) Reuters
8 10 (3.52%) Google
8 10 (3.52%) NetApp
8 10 (3.52%) Remedy
9 7 (2.46%) ION Trading
10 6 (2.11%) CloudEndure
11 4 (1.41%) IBM
11 4 (1.41%) UiPath
12 3 (1.06%) Autodesk
12 3 (1.06%) F5
12 3 (1.06%) Juniper
12 3 (1.06%) Zscaler
13 2 (0.70%) SolarWinds