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 8 August 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
8 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 249 219
Rank change year-on-year -127 -30 -22
Contract jobs citing Citrix 263 290 379
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 1.05% 1.14%
As % of the Vendors category 1.39% 2.23% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 204 252
10th Percentile £225 £153 £210
25th Percentile £404 £255 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% - -
75th Percentile £575 £528 £515
90th Percentile £619 £609 £625
UK median daily rate £483 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +20.63% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 18 45
10th Percentile £21.48 - £14.16
25th Percentile £60.63 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £74.00 £16.30 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +353.99% - -1.21%
75th Percentile £74.26 £18.31 £21.37
90th Percentile - £28.60 £24.63
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £16.30 £16.30
% change year-on-year +353.99% - -1.21%

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 18,959 13,033 14,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.42% 47.21% 43.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,912 8,241 9,259
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £613 £620 £628
90th Percentile £700 £719 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,039 630 768
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.46 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -16.17% -24.15%
75th Percentile £66.12 £50.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.69 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +35.11% -10.18% -33.01%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -45 139 £445 +9.20% 17
South East -83 50 £570 +52.00% 6
North of England -91 33 £447 +27.71% 12
Midlands -38 25 £450 +63.64% 3
North West -36 19 £447 -10.60% 6
West Midlands -46 18 £450 +71.43% 2
South West -47 12 £550 +134.04% 5
Yorkshire -63 11 £510 +117.02% 2
East Midlands -5 7 - - 1
East of England -42 5 £223 +30.41% 1
North East - 3 £200 - 5
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 34 (12.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (7.98%) SharePoint
3 20 (7.60%) IIS
4 5 (1.90%) Appian
4 5 (1.90%) Camunda
4 5 (1.90%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.90%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (1.90%) Oracle BPM
1 5 (1.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.38%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 69 (26.24%) Microsoft 365
2 67 (25.48%) Azure
3 33 (12.55%) Entra ID
4 26 (9.89%) AWS
5 11 (4.18%) IaaS
6 8 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.04%) Google Workspace
6 8 (3.04%) PaaS
7 7 (2.66%) GCP
8 5 (1.90%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.14%) Mimecast
9 3 (1.14%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.76%) Nutanix
10 2 (0.76%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.76%) Rubrik
10 2 (0.76%) SaaS
11 1 (0.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (0.38%) AWS KMS
11 1 (0.38%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 58 (22.05%) DNS
2 44 (16.73%) DHCP
2 44 (16.73%) VPN
3 38 (14.45%) Firewall
4 21 (7.98%) Network Security
5 19 (7.22%) TCP/IP
6 18 (6.84%) Internet
7 15 (5.70%) NetScaler
8 9 (3.42%) LAN
9 8 (3.04%) DMZ
9 8 (3.04%) SMTP
9 8 (3.04%) WAN
9 8 (3.04%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (2.66%) SSL
10 7 (2.66%) VLAN
11 6 (2.28%) IPv4
11 6 (2.28%) IPv6
11 6 (2.28%) Remote Desktop
12 5 (1.90%) BGP
12 5 (1.90%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (18.25%) SQL Server
2 27 (10.27%) Oracle Database
3 7 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.14%) Big Data
5 3 (1.14%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (4.56%) JIRA
2 7 (2.66%) MSI
3 4 (1.52%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (1.52%) Git
3 4 (1.52%) REST Assured
3 4 (1.52%) Selenium
4 3 (1.14%) Appium
4 3 (1.14%) JUnit
4 3 (1.14%) TestNG
4 3 (1.14%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.76%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.38%) GitLab
General
1 67 (25.48%) Social Skills
2 55 (20.91%) Finance
3 43 (16.35%) Banking
4 23 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.18%) Front Office
6 10 (3.80%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.42%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.42%) Legal
8 8 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.14%) Publishing
10 2 (0.76%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.76%) Retail
11 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 60 (22.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 39 (14.83%) Citrix Engineer
3 38 (14.45%) Developer
4 29 (11.03%) C# Developer
4 29 (11.03%) Senior
5 27 (10.27%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
6 23 (8.75%) Architect
6 23 (8.75%) Support Engineer
7 20 (7.60%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (7.22%) Analyst
9 17 (6.46%) Administrator
10 14 (5.32%) Senior Citrix Engineer
11 13 (4.94%) VMware Engineer
12 12 (4.56%) Desktop Engineer
13 11 (4.18%) Network Engineer
14 10 (3.80%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 10 (3.80%) IT Engineer
15 9 (3.42%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
15 9 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
15 9 (3.42%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (14.45%) .NET
2 32 (12.17%) .NET Framework
3 16 (6.08%) WPF
4 15 (5.70%) WinForms
5 5 (1.90%) SAML
6 4 (1.52%) RESTful
6 4 (1.52%) Web Services
7 3 (1.14%) 802.1X
7 3 (1.14%) REST
7 3 (1.14%) XMPP
8 2 (0.76%) ADO
8 2 (0.76%) ebXML
8 2 (0.76%) JSON
8 2 (0.76%) LDAP
8 2 (0.76%) XML
8 2 (0.76%) YAML
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.38%) OAuth
9 1 (0.38%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.38%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.37%) Onboarding
2 21 (7.98%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (6.84%) PKI
4 12 (4.56%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (4.18%) Blackberry
5 11 (4.18%) Data Centre
6 10 (3.80%) Clustering
7 8 (3.04%) Video Conferencing
7 8 (3.04%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.90%) Fat Client
9 5 (1.90%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.90%) Thin Client
10 4 (1.52%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.52%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.52%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.52%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.14%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 175 (66.54%) Windows
2 67 (25.48%) Windows Server
3 28 (10.65%) Linux
4 18 (6.84%) Windows 10
5 12 (4.56%) Android
5 12 (4.56%) Apple iOS
6 9 (3.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (3.04%) Mac OS
7 8 (3.04%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (2.28%) Debian
8 6 (2.28%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (1.90%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.52%) Windows 7
11 3 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.38%) AIX
12 1 (0.38%) Unix
12 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (28.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 47 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (15.97%) ITIL
4 31 (11.79%) Migration
5 30 (11.41%) Data Analysis
6 27 (10.27%) Change Management
7 24 (9.13%) Agile
7 24 (9.13%) AI
7 24 (9.13%) User Experience
8 23 (8.75%) Disaster Recovery
8 23 (8.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (7.60%) DevOps
10 17 (6.46%) ITSM
11 16 (6.08%) Incident Management
12 15 (5.70%) Data Protection
12 15 (5.70%) Generative AI
12 15 (5.70%) High Availability
12 15 (5.70%) OO
12 15 (5.70%) OOP
13 14 (5.32%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 50 (19.01%) PowerShell
2 40 (15.21%) SQL
3 38 (14.45%) C#
4 31 (11.79%) PL/SQL
4 31 (11.79%) T-SQL
5 11 (4.18%) VB
5 11 (4.18%) VBA
6 9 (3.42%) Python
7 8 (3.04%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.52%) Bash
9 2 (0.76%) Bicep
10 1 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 77 (29.28%) Security Cleared
2 60 (22.81%) SC Cleared
3 31 (11.79%) Degree
4 24 (9.13%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.80%) Citrix Certification
5 10 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.42%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.04%) CCA
8 7 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.28%) ISTQB
9 6 (2.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (2.28%) MCSA
10 5 (1.90%) MCSE
11 4 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.52%) CESG Certified Professional
12 3 (1.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.38%) CCNA
14 1 (0.38%) CCNP
14 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.93%) QA
2 4 (1.52%) SLA
3 3 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 79 (30.04%) Active Directory
2 53 (20.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (17.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 23 (8.75%) Hyper-V
5 15 (5.70%) Microsoft App-V
6 14 (5.32%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (3.42%) VMware NSX
8 8 (3.04%) BitLocker
9 7 (2.66%) Docker
9 7 (2.66%) XenApp
9 7 (2.66%) XenDesktop
10 6 (2.28%) vSphere
11 5 (1.90%) Terminal Services
12 3 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
12 3 (1.14%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 34 (12.93%) Microsoft Intune
1 34 (12.93%) SCCM
2 17 (6.46%) WSUS
3 15 (5.70%) vCenter Server
4 11 (4.18%) Terraform
5 10 (3.80%) Kubernetes
5 10 (3.80%) vMotion
6 9 (3.42%) Ansible
7 7 (2.66%) FortiGate
7 7 (2.66%) Jamf Pro
7 7 (2.66%) Puppet
8 6 (2.28%) SCOM
9 4 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.14%) Nagios
10 3 (1.14%) Nessus
11 2 (0.76%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.76%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.76%) WMI
12 1 (0.38%) CloudForms
12 1 (0.38%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 97 (36.88%) VMware
2 95 (36.12%) Microsoft
3 36 (13.69%) Oracle
4 21 (7.98%) Cisco
5 14 (5.32%) Bloomberg
6 11 (4.18%) MobileIron
6 11 (4.18%) ServiceNow
7 10 (3.80%) Reuters
8 9 (3.42%) CyberArk
9 8 (3.04%) Google
10 7 (2.66%) Apple
10 7 (2.66%) BeyondTrust
10 7 (2.66%) ION Trading
10 7 (2.66%) Zscaler
11 6 (2.28%) NetApp
12 5 (1.90%) Meraki
12 5 (1.90%) OpenText
12 5 (1.90%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.90%) Remedy
12 5 (1.90%) SolarWinds
43 Citrix jobs in England