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 15 September 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
15 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 255 220
Rank change year-on-year -157 -35 -36
Contract jobs citing Citrix 230 280 360
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 1.02% 1.10%
As % of the Vendors category 1.20% 2.17% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 204 236
10th Percentile £185 £171 £206
25th Percentile £310 £256 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £408 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.43% +1.88% -
75th Percentile £570 £538 £500
90th Percentile £618 £613 £624
UK median daily rate £450 £408 £400
% change year-on-year +10.43% +1.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 27
10th Percentile £24.18 - -
25th Percentile £60.63 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £74.00 £16.30 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +353.99% - +3.69%
75th Percentile - £18.31 £21.37
90th Percentile £74.75 £25.40 £27.00
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £16.80 £16.30
% change year-on-year +340.48% +3.07% +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 19,235 12,874 14,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.60% 47.05% 44.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,984 8,164 8,822
10th Percentile £312 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £620 £615 £630
90th Percentile £710 £700 £731
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 601 601
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.79 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% -17.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £46.18 £64.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.90 £25.15 £30.21
% change year-on-year +6.96% -16.74% -30.36%

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 15 September 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 15 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Citrix in England

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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 15 September 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 -86 110 £448 +9.82% 52
North of England -65 48 £310 -15.07% 21
South East -85 44 £570 +52.00% 25
North West -24 32 £310 -38.00% 12
Midlands -39 21 £450 +0.67% 21
West Midlands -46 15 £450 +63.64% 12
Yorkshire -53 11 £510 +117.02% 9
East Midlands -11 6 - - 9
East of England -49 6 £223 +30.41% 11
North East - 5 £200 -
South West -63 1 - - 13
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 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (8.70%) IIS
3 18 (7.83%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.17%) Appian
4 5 (2.17%) Camunda
4 5 (2.17%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.17%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (2.17%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (1.30%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.87%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 2 (0.87%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 65 (28.26%) Microsoft 365
2 55 (23.91%) Azure
3 29 (12.61%) Entra ID
4 24 (10.43%) AWS
5 8 (3.48%) Google Workspace
6 6 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.61%) IaaS
7 4 (1.74%) OpenShift
7 4 (1.74%) PaaS
8 3 (1.30%) GCP
8 3 (1.30%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.30%) Slack
9 2 (0.87%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.87%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.43%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (0.43%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.43%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.43%) Azure App Service
10 1 (0.43%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 46 (20.00%) DNS
2 40 (17.39%) DHCP
2 40 (17.39%) VPN
3 31 (13.48%) Firewall
4 26 (11.30%) NetScaler
5 19 (8.26%) Network Security
6 18 (7.83%) Internet
7 17 (7.39%) TCP/IP
8 8 (3.48%) DMZ
9 7 (3.04%) LAN
9 7 (3.04%) WAN
9 7 (3.04%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (3.04%) Wireless
10 6 (2.61%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (2.61%) IPv4
10 6 (2.61%) IPv6
10 6 (2.61%) VLAN
11 5 (2.17%) BGP
11 5 (2.17%) OSPF
11 5 (2.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (16.96%) SQL Server
2 23 (10.00%) Oracle Database
3 4 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.30%) Big Data
5 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.61%) JIRA
2 4 (1.74%) REST Assured
3 3 (1.30%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (1.30%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.30%) MSI
3 3 (1.30%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.87%) Git
5 1 (0.43%) GitLab
General
1 61 (26.52%) Social Skills
2 51 (22.17%) Finance
3 39 (16.96%) Banking
4 12 (5.22%) Front Office
5 10 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.35%) Investment Banking
6 8 (3.48%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.04%) Legal
8 6 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.87%) Military
10 2 (0.87%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.87%) Publishing
10 2 (0.87%) Retail
11 1 (0.43%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 53 (23.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 34 (14.78%) Developer
3 29 (12.61%) Citrix Engineer
4 28 (12.17%) Senior
5 27 (11.74%) Support Engineer
6 25 (10.87%) C# Developer
7 23 (10.00%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (7.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (6.52%) Analyst
10 14 (6.09%) Desktop Engineer
10 14 (6.09%) Desktop Support
11 13 (5.65%) Administrator
11 13 (5.65%) VMware Engineer
12 12 (5.22%) Network Engineer
13 10 (4.35%) Architect
13 10 (4.35%) IT Engineer
13 10 (4.35%) Senior Citrix Engineer
14 9 (3.91%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (3.91%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.78%) .NET
2 28 (12.17%) .NET Framework
3 16 (6.96%) WPF
4 15 (6.52%) WinForms
5 9 (3.91%) Terraform
6 4 (1.74%) RESTful
6 4 (1.74%) SAML
6 4 (1.74%) Web Services
7 3 (1.30%) 802.1X
7 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (1.30%) REST
8 2 (0.87%) JSON
8 2 (0.87%) YAML
9 1 (0.43%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.43%) LDAP
9 1 (0.43%) OAuth
9 1 (0.43%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.43%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.43%) Onboarding
2 17 (7.39%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (6.09%) PKI
4 9 (3.91%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.48%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.04%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.61%) Clustering
7 6 (2.61%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.74%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.74%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.30%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.30%) NHS
10 2 (0.87%) BYOD
10 2 (0.87%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.87%) Fat Client
10 2 (0.87%) Mobile Computing
10 2 (0.87%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.87%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 154 (66.96%) Windows
2 71 (30.87%) Windows Server
3 25 (10.87%) Linux
4 20 (8.70%) Windows 10
5 9 (3.91%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (3.04%) Mac OS
6 7 (3.04%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (2.61%) Debian
8 4 (1.74%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.30%) Android
10 2 (0.87%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.43%) Unix
11 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (27.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 54 (23.48%) ITIL
3 35 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (11.30%) User Experience
5 25 (10.87%) Change Management
5 25 (10.87%) Data Analysis
6 24 (10.43%) AI
7 22 (9.57%) ITSM
7 22 (9.57%) Migration
8 21 (9.13%) Agile
8 21 (9.13%) Customer Service
9 19 (8.26%) Disaster Recovery
10 18 (7.83%) DevOps
10 18 (7.83%) Service Management
11 15 (6.52%) Root Cause Analysis
12 14 (6.09%) Service Delivery
13 13 (5.65%) Generative AI
13 13 (5.65%) OO
13 13 (5.65%) OOP
14 12 (5.22%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 39 (16.96%) PowerShell
2 34 (14.78%) C#
3 32 (13.91%) SQL
4 27 (11.74%) PL/SQL
4 27 (11.74%) T-SQL
5 11 (4.78%) VB
5 11 (4.78%) VBA
6 10 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.17%) Python
8 4 (1.74%) Bash
9 1 (0.43%) Bicep
9 1 (0.43%) Java
Qualifications
1 71 (30.87%) Security Cleared
2 55 (23.91%) SC Cleared
3 25 (10.87%) Degree
4 19 (8.26%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 6 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.61%) MCSA
8 5 (2.17%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.17%) Citrix Certification
8 5 (2.17%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.74%) CCA
9 4 (1.74%) MCSE
10 3 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.87%) CCNP
12 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.43%) CCNA
12 1 (0.43%) CESG Certified Professional
12 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.87%) QA
2 4 (1.74%) SLA
3 3 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 76 (33.04%) Active Directory
2 60 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (17.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 30 (13.04%) Hyper-V
5 12 (5.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 12 (5.22%) XenApp
6 10 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (4.35%) XenDesktop
7 9 (3.91%) VMware NSX
8 7 (3.04%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (2.17%) vSphere
10 4 (1.74%) BitLocker
10 4 (1.74%) Docker
10 4 (1.74%) Terminal Services
10 4 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 37 (16.09%) SCCM
2 20 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (7.83%) WSUS
4 12 (5.22%) vCenter Server
5 7 (3.04%) Ansible
5 7 (3.04%) Jamf Pro
5 7 (3.04%) SysTrack
6 6 (2.61%) FortiGate
6 6 (2.61%) SCOM
6 6 (2.61%) vMotion
7 5 (2.17%) Kubernetes
8 4 (1.74%) Puppet
9 3 (1.30%) Nagios
9 3 (1.30%) Nessus
9 3 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.87%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.87%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.43%) CloudForms
Vendors
1 91 (39.57%) VMware
2 80 (34.78%) Microsoft
3 31 (13.48%) Oracle
4 20 (8.70%) Cisco
5 13 (5.65%) Bloomberg
6 12 (5.22%) ServiceNow
7 9 (3.91%) CyberArk
8 8 (3.48%) Reuters
9 7 (3.04%) Apple
9 7 (3.04%) BeyondTrust
9 7 (3.04%) Google
9 7 (3.04%) ION Trading
9 7 (3.04%) Meraki
9 7 (3.04%) Nexthink
9 7 (3.04%) Palo Alto
10 6 (2.61%) F5
10 6 (2.61%) Zscaler
11 5 (2.17%) OpenText
11 5 (2.17%) SolarWinds
11 5 (2.17%) Tenable
147 Citrix jobs in England