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 28 March 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
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 283 211
Rank change year-on-year -45 -72 -20
Contract jobs citing Citrix 279 195 426
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 0.80% 1.13%
As % of the Vendors category 1.68% 1.70% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 113 280
10th Percentile £260 £176 £189
25th Percentile £404 £329 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £390 £380
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% +2.63% -10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £516
90th Percentile £638 £593 £675
UK median daily rate £451 £390 £375
% change year-on-year +15.71% +4.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 46
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.79 £15.22 £14.04
Median hourly rate £74.00 £18.13 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +308.16% +11.23% +5.16%
75th Percentile £74.26 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile - - £24.51
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £18.21 £16.30
% change year-on-year +306.48% +11.69% +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 16,599 11,482 15,951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.72% 47.34% 42.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,821 7,454 10,215
10th Percentile £313 £296 £250
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £514
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.19% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 875 413 946
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.23 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.91 £14.36
Median hourly rate £25.38 £29.07 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.69% +21.13% -32.87%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £77.40 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £28.75 £23.22
% change year-on-year -10.37% +23.84% -40.28%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 28 March 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 +15 140 £415 +6.41% 18
South East -46 45 £500 +25.00% 27
North of England -60 41 £500 - 6
North West -30 32 £550 +2.33% 5
South West -8 20 £550 +17.02% 1
Midlands -77 17 £436 +200.69% 8
East of England -36 16 £127 -
West Midlands -64 10 £418 +187.93% 7
East Midlands -28 7 £500 +177.78% 1
North East -6 6 £513 +173.33%
Yorkshire -57 5 £500 +2.56% 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 33 (11.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (9.32%) SharePoint
3 15 (5.38%) IIS
4 2 (0.72%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (8.24%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (5.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.79%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (3.58%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 76 (27.24%) Microsoft 365
2 65 (23.30%) Azure
3 56 (20.07%) Entra ID
4 23 (8.24%) AWS
5 12 (4.30%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 12 (4.30%) AWS CloudTrail
6 11 (3.94%) AWS KMS
6 11 (3.94%) GCP
7 10 (3.58%) Google Workspace
7 10 (3.58%) IaaS
8 8 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.87%) PaaS
9 7 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.51%) AWS Control Tower
9 7 (2.51%) Nutanix
9 7 (2.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.43%) Mimecast
10 4 (1.43%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.08%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (15.05%) DNS
2 40 (14.34%) Firewall
3 34 (12.19%) NetScaler
4 33 (11.83%) VPN
5 27 (9.68%) DHCP
6 17 (6.09%) TCP/IP
7 16 (5.73%) WebEx
8 14 (5.02%) Internet
9 12 (4.30%) FTP
10 10 (3.58%) Skype
11 9 (3.23%) SMTP
12 8 (2.87%) Network Security
13 7 (2.51%) LAN
13 7 (2.51%) VLAN
13 7 (2.51%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (2.15%) DMZ
15 5 (1.79%) BGP
15 5 (1.79%) WAN
16 4 (1.43%) Software-Defined Networking
16 4 (1.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (18.28%) SQL Server
2 26 (9.32%) Oracle Database
3 7 (2.51%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.08%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (5.73%) JIRA
1 16 (5.73%) MSI
2 11 (3.94%) Visual Studio
3 4 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.43%) Selenium
4 3 (1.08%) Appium
4 3 (1.08%) Git
4 3 (1.08%) InstallShield
4 3 (1.08%) JUnit
4 3 (1.08%) TestNG
5 2 (0.72%) GitLab
6 1 (0.36%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.36%) GoCD
6 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 91 (32.62%) Social Skills
2 73 (26.16%) Finance
3 49 (17.56%) Banking
4 31 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.17%) Legal
6 17 (6.09%) Public Sector
7 13 (4.66%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.87%) Front Office
9 8 (2.87%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.15%) International Banking
11 5 (1.79%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.43%) Publishing
13 3 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.08%) Polish Language
14 2 (0.72%) Local Government
14 2 (0.72%) Spanish Language
15 1 (0.36%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 38 (13.62%) Architect
2 36 (12.90%) Analyst
3 35 (12.54%) Citrix Engineer
3 35 (12.54%) Developer
4 32 (11.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 30 (10.75%) C# Developer
6 28 (10.04%) Senior
7 15 (5.38%) Lead
8 14 (5.02%) Senior Citrix Engineer
9 12 (4.30%) QA Engineer
9 12 (4.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (4.30%) Technical Analyst
10 11 (3.94%) Applications Developer
11 10 (3.58%) 1st Line Support
11 10 (3.58%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (3.58%) IT Analyst
11 10 (3.58%) Test Engineer
11 10 (3.58%) Wintel Analyst
12 9 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.23%) QA Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.54%) .NET
2 31 (11.11%) .NET Framework
3 15 (5.38%) WPF
4 14 (5.02%) WinForms
5 11 (3.94%) XMPP
6 5 (1.79%) Software Packaging
7 4 (1.43%) REST
7 4 (1.43%) XML
8 3 (1.08%) WCF
9 2 (0.72%) ADO
9 2 (0.72%) ebXML
9 2 (0.72%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (0.72%) JSON
9 2 (0.72%) LDAP
9 2 (0.72%) Web Services
10 1 (0.36%) 802.1X
10 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.36%) Middleware
10 1 (0.36%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.24%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.38%) Blackberry
2 15 (5.38%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.30%) PKI
4 11 (3.94%) Data Protection Act
4 11 (3.94%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.23%) Hedge funds
6 8 (2.87%) Client/Server
6 8 (2.87%) Clustering
6 8 (2.87%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.15%) Enterprise Storage
8 5 (1.79%) Fat Client
8 5 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.79%) Thin Client
8 5 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.72%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 196 (70.25%) Windows
2 66 (23.66%) Windows Server
3 51 (18.28%) Windows 10
4 24 (8.60%) Linux
5 15 (5.38%) Android
5 15 (5.38%) Apple iOS
5 15 (5.38%) Windows Server 2003
5 15 (5.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 12 (4.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (3.94%) Mac OS
8 10 (3.58%) Windows 7
9 9 (3.23%) AIX
10 7 (2.51%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.72%) VMS
11 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.36%) CentOS
12 1 (0.36%) Debian
12 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (15.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 43 (15.41%) ITIL
4 37 (13.26%) Migration
5 35 (12.54%) Change Management
6 29 (10.39%) Data Analysis
6 29 (10.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 27 (9.68%) Disaster Recovery
8 23 (8.24%) ITSM
9 22 (7.89%) Agile
10 21 (7.53%) Data Protection
10 21 (7.53%) Service Management
10 21 (7.53%) User Experience
11 20 (7.17%) Customer Service
11 20 (7.17%) Mobile Device Management
12 19 (6.81%) Identity Access Management
12 19 (6.81%) Project Delivery
13 18 (6.45%) Application Packaging
13 18 (6.45%) Incident Management
13 18 (6.45%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 70 (25.09%) PowerShell
2 49 (17.56%) SQL
3 35 (12.54%) C#
4 30 (10.75%) PL/SQL
4 30 (10.75%) T-SQL
5 21 (7.53%) Python
6 15 (5.38%) Bash
7 14 (5.02%) VB
8 12 (4.30%) VBA
9 10 (3.58%) Perl
10 4 (1.43%) VBScript
11 2 (0.72%) Bicep
12 1 (0.36%) Java
Qualifications
1 74 (26.52%) Security Cleared
2 64 (22.94%) SC Cleared
3 45 (16.13%) Degree
4 14 (5.02%) Citrix Certification
4 14 (5.02%) DV Cleared
4 14 (5.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (4.66%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (4.30%) CCA
6 12 (4.30%) CCNP
7 10 (3.58%) CCNA
8 9 (3.23%) CCDP
9 8 (2.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 7 (2.51%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (2.51%) Azure Certification
10 7 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (2.15%) MCSA
11 6 (2.15%) MCSE
12 5 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.08%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (15.77%) QA
2 7 (2.51%) NCSC
3 6 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.79%) GDPR
4 5 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 87 (31.18%) Active Directory
2 59 (21.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (16.49%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (7.89%) Microsoft App-V
5 15 (5.38%) Hyper-V
6 10 (3.58%) XenDesktop
7 9 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (3.23%) XenApp
8 7 (2.51%) BitLocker
9 6 (2.15%) Docker
10 5 (1.79%) vSphere
11 4 (1.43%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.72%) NFS
12 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.72%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.36%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 62 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (15.05%) SCCM
3 17 (6.09%) Terraform
4 11 (3.94%) Ansible
5 9 (3.23%) vCenter Server
6 8 (2.87%) Kubernetes
7 7 (2.51%) vMotion
7 7 (2.51%) WSUS
8 6 (2.15%) Puppet
9 5 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (1.79%) SCVMM
10 3 (1.08%) PaperCut
10 3 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.72%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.72%) SCOM
11 2 (0.72%) WMI
12 1 (0.36%) EMC VPLEX
12 1 (0.36%) FreeIPA
12 1 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 128 (45.88%) Microsoft
2 87 (31.18%) VMware
3 43 (15.41%) Oracle
4 29 (10.39%) Cisco
5 17 (6.09%) ServiceNow
6 14 (5.02%) MobileIron
7 11 (3.94%) Google
7 11 (3.94%) Red Hat
8 10 (3.58%) Bloomberg
8 10 (3.58%) Remedy
8 10 (3.58%) Reuters
9 9 (3.23%) NetApp
10 8 (2.87%) IBM
11 6 (2.15%) CloudEndure
11 6 (2.15%) ION Trading
12 4 (1.43%) UiPath
13 3 (1.08%) Dell
13 3 (1.08%) F5
13 3 (1.08%) Fortinet
13 3 (1.08%) Palo Alto