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 25 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
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 239 230
Rank change year-on-year -113 -9 -47
Contract jobs citing Citrix 265 271 398
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 1.08% 1.06%
As % of the Vendors category 1.50% 2.28% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 184 251
10th Percentile £298 £150 £200
25th Percentile £406 £255 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +30.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £580 £525 £522
90th Percentile £638 £600 £650
UK median daily rate £490 £383 £400
% change year-on-year +28.10% -4.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 20 52
10th Percentile £23.80 - £14.16
25th Percentile £71.50 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £74.00 £15.44 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +379.27% -5.28% +5.16%
75th Percentile £74.26 £16.80 £21.37
90th Percentile - £19.46 £24.90
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 17,677 11,892 15,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.71% 47.37% 42.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,296 7,560 10,061
10th Percentile £313 £280 £273
25th Percentile £413 £402 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 948 537 1,069
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.38
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.50 £14.50
Median hourly rate £34.62 £27.13 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +27.64% +11.03% -34.85%
75th Percentile £63.75 £52.50 £59.95
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.40 £24.18
% change year-on-year +33.82% +5.05% -42.15%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -34 142 £445 +11.25% 13
South East -77 56 £570 +52.00% 11
North of England -89 24 £410 +74.47% 13
Midlands -52 22 £425 +92.09% 8
North West -35 17 £190 -58.92% 6
South West -40 17 £550 +134.04% 7
West Midlands -56 15 £425 +61.90% 5
East Midlands -11 7 - - 3
Yorkshire -74 6 £460 +138.96% 3
East of England -46 5 £368 +287.87% 4
North East - 1 £500 - 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 30 (11.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (6.79%) IIS
3 14 (5.28%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.89%) Appian
4 5 (1.89%) Camunda
4 5 (1.89%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.13%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.89%) OpenText MBPM
2 5 (1.89%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.38%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 58 (21.89%) Azure
1 58 (21.89%) Microsoft 365
2 30 (11.32%) Entra ID
3 28 (10.57%) AWS
4 12 (4.53%) IaaS
5 10 (3.77%) Google Workspace
5 10 (3.77%) PaaS
6 7 (2.64%) GCP
7 6 (2.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 6 (2.26%) AWS CloudTrail
8 5 (1.89%) AWS KMS
8 5 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.51%) Mimecast
9 4 (1.51%) Nutanix
10 3 (1.13%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.13%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.13%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.75%) SaaS
12 1 (0.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 52 (19.62%) DNS
2 41 (15.47%) VPN
3 40 (15.09%) DHCP
4 36 (13.58%) Firewall
5 21 (7.92%) Network Security
5 21 (7.92%) TCP/IP
6 17 (6.42%) Internet
7 15 (5.66%) NetScaler
8 10 (3.77%) DMZ
8 10 (3.77%) SMTP
9 9 (3.40%) LAN
10 8 (3.02%) VLAN
11 7 (2.64%) WAN
12 6 (2.26%) FTP
12 6 (2.26%) IPv4
12 6 (2.26%) IPv6
13 5 (1.89%) Skype
13 5 (1.89%) WebEx
13 5 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (1.51%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (19.62%) SQL Server
2 26 (9.81%) Oracle Database
3 8 (3.02%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.13%) Big Data
5 3 (1.13%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (4.91%) MSI
2 11 (4.15%) JIRA
3 7 (2.64%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.51%) Selenium
5 3 (1.13%) Appium
5 3 (1.13%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (1.13%) Git
5 3 (1.13%) JUnit
5 3 (1.13%) TestNG
6 2 (0.75%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.38%) GitLab
7 1 (0.38%) GoCD
7 1 (0.38%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 78 (29.43%) Social Skills
2 60 (22.64%) Finance
3 48 (18.11%) Banking
4 24 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.15%) Front Office
6 10 (3.77%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (3.02%) Legal
9 7 (2.64%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.64%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.13%) Publishing
12 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.75%) International Banking
12 2 (0.75%) Retail
12 2 (0.75%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.38%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 57 (21.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 40 (15.09%) Citrix Engineer
3 39 (14.72%) Developer
4 29 (10.94%) C# Developer
5 27 (10.19%) Analyst
6 25 (9.43%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
6 25 (9.43%) Senior
7 24 (9.06%) Architect
8 17 (6.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (6.04%) Support Engineer
10 15 (5.66%) Administrator
11 14 (5.28%) Senior Citrix Engineer
12 10 (3.77%) IT Analyst
12 10 (3.77%) VMware Engineer
13 9 (3.40%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 9 (3.40%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (3.40%) Applications Developer
13 9 (3.40%) Linux Engineer
13 9 (3.40%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (14.72%) .NET
2 35 (13.21%) .NET Framework
3 13 (4.91%) WPF
4 12 (4.53%) WinForms
5 4 (1.51%) SAML
5 4 (1.51%) Software Packaging
6 3 (1.13%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.13%) Web Services
6 3 (1.13%) XML
6 3 (1.13%) XMPP
7 2 (0.75%) ADO
7 2 (0.75%) ebXML
7 2 (0.75%) LDAP
7 2 (0.75%) REST
7 2 (0.75%) RESTful
8 1 (0.38%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (0.38%) JSON
8 1 (0.38%) OAuth
8 1 (0.38%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.38%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.92%) Onboarding
2 20 (7.55%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (7.17%) Data Centre
3 19 (7.17%) PKI
4 15 (5.66%) Blackberry
5 13 (4.91%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (4.15%) Clustering
7 9 (3.40%) Video Conferencing
8 8 (3.02%) Client/Server
8 8 (3.02%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.26%) Hedge funds
10 5 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.89%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (1.89%) Fat Client
10 5 (1.89%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.89%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.89%) Thin Client
11 4 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.51%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 181 (68.30%) Windows
2 66 (24.91%) Windows Server
3 30 (11.32%) Windows 10
4 29 (10.94%) Linux
5 15 (5.66%) Android
5 15 (5.66%) Apple iOS
6 11 (4.15%) Mac OS
7 9 (3.40%) Windows Server 2003
7 9 (3.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (2.64%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (2.26%) Debian
10 4 (1.51%) Windows 7
10 4 (1.51%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.13%) AIX
12 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.38%) CentOS
13 1 (0.38%) VMS
13 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (24.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 46 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (14.34%) Migration
4 34 (12.83%) Data Analysis
4 34 (12.83%) ITIL
5 31 (11.70%) Change Management
6 26 (9.81%) Disaster Recovery
7 25 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (9.06%) AI
9 22 (8.30%) Agile
10 19 (7.17%) User Experience
11 17 (6.42%) DevOps
11 17 (6.42%) Incident Management
11 17 (6.42%) Unit Testing
12 15 (5.66%) Generative AI
12 15 (5.66%) Mobile Device Management
13 14 (5.28%) Customer Service
13 14 (5.28%) Data Protection
13 14 (5.28%) Project Delivery
13 14 (5.28%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 50 (18.87%) PowerShell
2 44 (16.60%) SQL
3 39 (14.72%) C#
4 33 (12.45%) PL/SQL
4 33 (12.45%) T-SQL
5 11 (4.15%) VB
6 10 (3.77%) Python
6 10 (3.77%) VBA
7 4 (1.51%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.13%) Bicep
9 2 (0.75%) VBScript
10 1 (0.38%) Bash
10 1 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 77 (29.06%) Security Cleared
2 62 (23.40%) SC Cleared
3 41 (15.47%) Degree
4 20 (7.55%) DV Cleared
5 13 (4.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (4.53%) Citrix Certification
7 10 (3.77%) Azure Certification
7 10 (3.77%) CCA
8 7 (2.64%) MCSA
8 7 (2.64%) MCSE
9 6 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.26%) ISTQB
9 6 (2.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.13%) CESG Certified Professional
11 3 (1.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.75%) HNC
12 2 (0.75%) HND
12 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (14.34%) QA
2 3 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.13%) SLA
3 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 70 (26.42%) Active Directory
2 59 (22.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (14.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (8.30%) Microsoft App-V
5 21 (7.92%) Hyper-V
6 15 (5.66%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (3.77%) XenDesktop
8 9 (3.40%) BitLocker
8 9 (3.40%) VMware NSX
8 9 (3.40%) XenApp
9 8 (3.02%) Docker
9 8 (3.02%) vSphere
10 4 (1.51%) Terminal Services
11 3 (1.13%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
13 1 (0.38%) NFS
Systems Management
1 42 (15.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 38 (14.34%) SCCM
3 17 (6.42%) WSUS
4 16 (6.04%) vCenter Server
5 11 (4.15%) vMotion
6 10 (3.77%) Ansible
6 10 (3.77%) Kubernetes
7 9 (3.40%) Terraform
8 8 (3.02%) Puppet
9 5 (1.89%) SCOM
10 4 (1.51%) FortiGate
11 3 (1.13%) Nagios
11 3 (1.13%) Nessus
11 3 (1.13%) SCVMM
11 3 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.75%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.75%) WMI
13 1 (0.38%) CloudForms
13 1 (0.38%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 101 (38.11%) VMware
2 91 (34.34%) Microsoft
3 39 (14.72%) Oracle
4 18 (6.79%) Cisco
5 17 (6.42%) Bloomberg
6 14 (5.28%) MobileIron
7 13 (4.91%) Reuters
8 11 (4.15%) ServiceNow
9 9 (3.40%) ION Trading
10 8 (3.02%) Google
10 8 (3.02%) Remedy
11 7 (2.64%) NetApp
12 6 (2.26%) Zscaler
13 5 (1.89%) OpenText
14 4 (1.51%) HP
14 4 (1.51%) Symantec
15 3 (1.13%) Apple
15 3 (1.13%) Juniper
15 3 (1.13%) SolarWinds
15 3 (1.13%) UiPath