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 12 June 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
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 246 216
Rank change year-on-year -107 -30 -33
Contract jobs citing Citrix 267 263 385
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 1.07% 1.03%
As % of the Vendors category 1.54% 2.26% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 178 241
10th Percentile £308 £150 £200
25th Percentile £406 £250 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +30.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £588 £525 £538
90th Percentile £638 £596 £650
UK median daily rate £490 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +30.67% -6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 50
10th Percentile £21.40 - £14.00
25th Percentile £38.88 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £74.00 £15.44 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +379.27% -5.28% +5.16%
75th Percentile £74.26 £17.65 £21.37
90th Percentile - £18.31 £21.46
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £16.30 £16.30
% change year-on-year +353.99% - +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 17,318 11,635 15,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.61% 47.46% 41.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,118 7,380 9,989
10th Percentile £313 £276 £270
25th Percentile £413 £404 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -0.04% -2.24%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £503 £515
% change year-on-year -0.50% -2.43% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 927 512 1,043
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £17.79 £14.48
Median hourly rate £33.99 £27.17 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +25.11% +14.15% -37.37%
75th Percentile £60.75 £54.06 £59.50
90th Percentile £79.72 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £26.32 £23.50
% change year-on-year +23.48% +12.00% -44.71%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -16 143 £425 +8.97% 13
South East -86 57 £570 +52.00% 10
North of England -88 23 £300 +27.66% 7
Midlands -57 22 £425 +136.11% 7
North West -26 19 £190 -58.92% 5
South West -18 18 £550 +134.04% 4
West Midlands -58 15 £425 +108.59% 4
East Midlands -16 7 - - 3
East of England -44 5 £368 +287.87% 2
Yorkshire -74 4 £455 +136.36%
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 29 (10.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (5.99%) IIS
2 16 (5.99%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.12%) Appian
3 3 (1.12%) Camunda
3 3 (1.12%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (5.24%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.50%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (3.75%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.12%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (1.12%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 64 (23.97%) Microsoft 365
2 61 (22.85%) Azure
3 32 (11.99%) Entra ID
4 28 (10.49%) AWS
5 12 (4.49%) IaaS
6 10 (3.75%) Google Workspace
6 10 (3.75%) PaaS
7 7 (2.62%) GCP
8 6 (2.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 6 (2.25%) AWS CloudTrail
9 5 (1.87%) AWS KMS
9 5 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.87%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.50%) Mimecast
11 3 (1.12%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.12%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.75%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.75%) SaaS
13 1 (0.37%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.37%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 51 (19.10%) DNS
2 40 (14.98%) VPN
3 38 (14.23%) DHCP
4 34 (12.73%) Firewall
5 21 (7.87%) TCP/IP
6 20 (7.49%) NetScaler
6 20 (7.49%) Network Security
7 15 (5.62%) Internet
8 10 (3.75%) SMTP
9 9 (3.37%) LAN
10 8 (3.00%) VLAN
11 7 (2.62%) DMZ
11 7 (2.62%) FTP
11 7 (2.62%) IPv4
11 7 (2.62%) IPv6
11 7 (2.62%) Skype
11 7 (2.62%) WAN
12 5 (1.87%) WebEx
13 4 (1.50%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (1.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (19.48%) SQL Server
2 23 (8.61%) Oracle Database
3 8 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.12%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.75%) Big Data
7 1 (0.37%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (4.87%) MSI
2 11 (4.12%) JIRA
3 8 (3.00%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.50%) Selenium
5 3 (1.12%) Appium
5 3 (1.12%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (1.12%) Git
5 3 (1.12%) JUnit
5 3 (1.12%) TestNG
6 2 (0.75%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.37%) GitLab
7 1 (0.37%) GoCD
7 1 (0.37%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 79 (29.59%) Social Skills
2 63 (23.60%) Finance
3 50 (18.73%) Banking
4 26 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.12%) Investment Banking
6 10 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.75%) Front Office
7 9 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.00%) Legal
9 7 (2.62%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.25%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.12%) International Banking
12 3 (1.12%) Publishing
13 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.75%) Retail
13 2 (0.75%) Spanish Language
14 1 (0.37%) Back Office
14 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 56 (20.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 42 (15.73%) Citrix Engineer
3 37 (13.86%) Developer
4 29 (10.86%) C# Developer
5 27 (10.11%) Analyst
5 27 (10.11%) Senior
6 25 (9.36%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (8.99%) Architect
8 17 (6.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (5.62%) Senior Citrix Engineer
10 14 (5.24%) Administrator
10 14 (5.24%) Support Engineer
11 9 (3.37%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 9 (3.37%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.37%) Applications Developer
11 9 (3.37%) Consultant
11 9 (3.37%) IT Analyst
11 9 (3.37%) Linux Engineer
11 9 (3.37%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.86%) .NET
2 33 (12.36%) .NET Framework
3 13 (4.87%) WPF
4 12 (4.49%) WinForms
5 4 (1.50%) SAML
5 4 (1.50%) Software Packaging
5 4 (1.50%) Web Services
5 4 (1.50%) XML
6 3 (1.12%) XMPP
7 2 (0.75%) ADO
7 2 (0.75%) ebXML
7 2 (0.75%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.75%) LDAP
7 2 (0.75%) REST
7 2 (0.75%) RESTful
8 1 (0.37%) JSON
8 1 (0.37%) Middleware
8 1 (0.37%) OAuth
8 1 (0.37%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.37%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.61%) Onboarding
2 19 (7.12%) Data Centre
2 19 (7.12%) PKI
3 18 (6.74%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (5.62%) Blackberry
4 15 (5.62%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (4.12%) Clustering
6 9 (3.37%) Client/Server
7 8 (3.00%) Video Conferencing
7 8 (3.00%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.25%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (2.25%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.87%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.87%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.50%) Fat Client
10 4 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.50%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.50%) Thin Client
11 3 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 181 (67.79%) Windows
2 63 (23.60%) Windows Server
3 34 (12.73%) Windows 10
4 30 (11.24%) Linux
5 15 (5.62%) Android
5 15 (5.62%) Apple iOS
6 12 (4.49%) Mac OS
7 11 (4.12%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (3.75%) Windows Server 2003
9 9 (3.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (2.25%) Debian
11 4 (1.50%) Windows 7
11 4 (1.50%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (1.12%) AIX
12 3 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.37%) CentOS
13 1 (0.37%) VMS
13 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (24.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 47 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (14.23%) Migration
4 36 (13.48%) ITIL
5 32 (11.99%) Data Analysis
6 31 (11.61%) Change Management
7 26 (9.74%) Disaster Recovery
8 24 (8.99%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (8.61%) AI
10 20 (7.49%) Agile
11 19 (7.12%) User Experience
12 18 (6.74%) Data Protection
12 18 (6.74%) Incident Management
13 17 (6.37%) Customer Service
13 17 (6.37%) Unit Testing
14 16 (5.99%) ITSM
15 15 (5.62%) DevOps
15 15 (5.62%) Mobile Device Management
16 14 (5.24%) Generative AI
17 13 (4.87%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 50 (18.73%) PowerShell
2 43 (16.10%) SQL
3 37 (13.86%) C#
4 31 (11.61%) PL/SQL
4 31 (11.61%) T-SQL
5 11 (4.12%) VB
6 10 (3.75%) Python
6 10 (3.75%) VBA
7 4 (1.50%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.12%) Bicep
9 2 (0.75%) VBScript
10 1 (0.37%) Bash
10 1 (0.37%) Java
10 1 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 76 (28.46%) Security Cleared
2 63 (23.60%) SC Cleared
3 44 (16.48%) Degree
4 18 (6.74%) DV Cleared
5 14 (5.24%) Citrix Certification
5 14 (5.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (4.49%) CCA
7 10 (3.75%) Azure Certification
8 8 (3.00%) MCSE
9 7 (2.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 7 (2.62%) MCSA
10 6 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.87%) ISTQB
12 4 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.12%) CESG Certified Professional
13 3 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.75%) HNC
14 2 (0.75%) HND
14 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (13.86%) QA
2 3 (1.12%) SLA
3 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 69 (25.84%) Active Directory
2 57 (21.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (15.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (8.24%) Hyper-V
4 22 (8.24%) Microsoft App-V
5 12 (4.49%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (4.12%) XenDesktop
7 10 (3.75%) XenApp
8 9 (3.37%) BitLocker
8 9 (3.37%) VMware NSX
9 8 (3.00%) Docker
9 8 (3.00%) vSphere
10 4 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (1.12%) Terminal Services
11 3 (1.12%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.37%) NFS
Systems Management
1 43 (16.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (13.11%) SCCM
3 17 (6.37%) WSUS
4 13 (4.87%) vCenter Server
5 11 (4.12%) vMotion
6 10 (3.75%) Ansible
6 10 (3.75%) Kubernetes
7 9 (3.37%) Terraform
8 8 (3.00%) Puppet
9 5 (1.87%) SCOM
10 4 (1.50%) SCVMM
11 3 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.75%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.75%) Nagios
12 2 (0.75%) WMI
13 1 (0.37%) CloudForms
13 1 (0.37%) EMC VPLEX
13 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.37%) FreeIPA
Vendors
1 97 (36.33%) Microsoft
1 97 (36.33%) VMware
2 38 (14.23%) Oracle
3 16 (5.99%) Cisco
4 15 (5.62%) Bloomberg
5 14 (5.24%) MobileIron
6 13 (4.87%) ServiceNow
7 12 (4.49%) Reuters
8 10 (3.75%) Remedy
9 8 (3.00%) Google
9 8 (3.00%) ION Trading
9 8 (3.00%) NetApp
10 4 (1.50%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.12%) HP
11 3 (1.12%) Juniper
11 3 (1.12%) OpenText
11 3 (1.12%) Symantec
11 3 (1.12%) UiPath
11 3 (1.12%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.75%) Dell