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 3 May 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
3 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 264 206
Rank change year-on-year -57 -58 -15
Contract jobs citing Citrix 284 225 412
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.92% 1.11%
As % of the Vendors category 1.68% 1.94% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 146 263
10th Percentile £325 £150 £182
25th Percentile £404 £235 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £375
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £525
90th Percentile £638 £597 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £375 £375
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 27 56
10th Percentile £21.59 - £14.00
25th Percentile £49.75 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £74.00 £16.19 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +357.07% -0.67% +5.16%
75th Percentile £74.26 £18.22 £21.37
90th Percentile - £21.46 £21.46
UK median hourly rate £74.00 £16.80 £16.30
% change year-on-year +340.48% +3.07% +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 16,947 11,572 15,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.87% 47.47% 42.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,050 7,462 9,925
10th Percentile £313 £288 £259
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.99%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £631
90th Percentile £711 £725 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 885 464 1,002
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.84 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.69 £17.75 £14.27
Median hourly rate £30.75 £27.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.36% +20.56% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £57.33
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.88 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.88 £26.34 £22.50
% change year-on-year +17.24% +17.04% -48.86%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 May 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 +3 151 £415 +6.41% 11
South East -63 49 £528 +32.05% 7
North of England -65 33 £410 +74.47% 4
Midlands -59 26 £436 +200.69% 5
North West -30 24 £300 -42.86% 2
South West -16 18 £550 +80.33% 3
West Midlands -57 16 £425 +193.10% 2
East Midlands -24 10 £468 +160.00% 3
East of England -57 7 £169 - 3
Yorkshire -63 6 £500 +233.33% 2
North East -17 3 £188 - 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 31 (10.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (7.75%) SharePoint
3 20 (7.04%) IIS
4 2 (0.70%) Confluence
5 1 (0.35%) JBoss
5 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (7.75%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (5.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.76%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (3.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 74 (26.06%) Microsoft 365
2 68 (23.94%) Azure
3 49 (17.25%) Entra ID
4 29 (10.21%) AWS
5 12 (4.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 12 (4.23%) AWS CloudTrail
6 11 (3.87%) AWS KMS
6 11 (3.87%) GCP
6 11 (3.87%) IaaS
7 10 (3.52%) Google Workspace
8 9 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (3.17%) PaaS
9 7 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.46%) AWS Control Tower
9 7 (2.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (2.11%) Nutanix
11 4 (1.41%) Mimecast
11 4 (1.41%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.06%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (18.31%) DNS
2 38 (13.38%) VPN
3 37 (13.03%) Firewall
4 36 (12.68%) DHCP
5 30 (10.56%) NetScaler
6 19 (6.69%) TCP/IP
7 18 (6.34%) Internet
8 15 (5.28%) Network Security
9 12 (4.23%) FTP
10 10 (3.52%) Skype
10 10 (3.52%) SMTP
11 9 (3.17%) WebEx
12 8 (2.82%) LAN
12 8 (2.82%) VLAN
13 7 (2.46%) DMZ
13 7 (2.46%) IPv4
13 7 (2.46%) IPv6
14 6 (2.11%) SSL
14 6 (2.11%) WAN
15 4 (1.41%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (20.07%) SQL Server
2 26 (9.15%) Oracle Database
3 7 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.06%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (6.34%) JIRA
2 14 (4.93%) MSI
3 11 (3.87%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.41%) Selenium
5 3 (1.06%) Appium
5 3 (1.06%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (1.06%) Git
5 3 (1.06%) JUnit
5 3 (1.06%) TestNG
6 2 (0.70%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.35%) GitLab
7 1 (0.35%) GoCD
7 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 84 (29.58%) Social Skills
2 77 (27.11%) Finance
3 51 (17.96%) Banking
4 24 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.28%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.52%) Legal
8 9 (3.17%) Front Office
8 9 (3.17%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.11%) International Banking
10 5 (1.76%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.41%) Publishing
12 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.70%) Retail
12 2 (0.70%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.35%) Back Office
13 1 (0.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 41 (14.44%) Citrix Engineer
1 41 (14.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 40 (14.08%) Developer
3 37 (13.03%) Architect
4 34 (11.97%) C# Developer
5 29 (10.21%) Analyst
6 28 (9.86%) Senior
7 15 (5.28%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (5.28%) Senior Citrix Engineer
8 14 (4.93%) Lead
9 12 (4.23%) QA Engineer
9 12 (4.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (4.23%) Test Engineer
10 11 (3.87%) Applications Developer
10 11 (3.87%) IT Engineer
11 10 (3.52%) 1st Line Support
11 10 (3.52%) Wintel Analyst
12 9 (3.17%) Administrator
12 9 (3.17%) QA Test Engineer
12 9 (3.17%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (14.08%) .NET
2 36 (12.68%) .NET Framework
3 17 (5.99%) WPF
4 16 (5.63%) WinForms
5 5 (1.76%) Software Packaging
6 4 (1.41%) SAML
6 4 (1.41%) XML
6 4 (1.41%) XMPP
7 3 (1.06%) LDAP
7 3 (1.06%) REST
8 2 (0.70%) ADO
8 2 (0.70%) ebXML
8 2 (0.70%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (0.70%) JSON
8 2 (0.70%) WCF
8 2 (0.70%) Web Services
9 1 (0.35%) Middleware
9 1 (0.35%) OAuth
9 1 (0.35%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.35%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.69%) Data Centre
2 17 (5.99%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.63%) PKI
3 16 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (5.28%) Blackberry
5 13 (4.58%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (3.87%) Clustering
7 9 (3.17%) Client/Server
7 9 (3.17%) Hedge funds
8 8 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.82%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.46%) Enterprise Storage
9 7 (2.46%) Virtual Team
10 6 (2.11%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (1.76%) Fat Client
11 5 (1.76%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.76%) Thin Client
12 4 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (1.06%) Security Posture
14 2 (0.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 199 (70.07%) Windows
2 70 (24.65%) Windows Server
3 49 (17.25%) Windows 10
4 18 (6.34%) Linux
5 15 (5.28%) Android
5 15 (5.28%) Apple iOS
5 15 (5.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (4.58%) Mac OS
7 12 (4.23%) Windows Server 2003
8 11 (3.87%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (2.11%) Windows 7
10 5 (1.76%) AIX
11 4 (1.41%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.70%) Debian
14 1 (0.35%) CentOS
14 1 (0.35%) VMS
14 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (18.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 50 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (15.85%) ITIL
4 41 (14.44%) Migration
5 37 (13.03%) Change Management
6 33 (11.62%) Data Analysis
7 30 (10.56%) Disaster Recovery
7 30 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 25 (8.80%) Agile
9 23 (8.10%) User Experience
10 22 (7.75%) Data Protection
11 20 (7.04%) Project Delivery
12 18 (6.34%) Application Packaging
12 18 (6.34%) Business Intelligence
12 18 (6.34%) Incident Management
12 18 (6.34%) Unit Testing
13 17 (5.99%) AI
13 17 (5.99%) Customer Service
13 17 (5.99%) DevOps
13 17 (5.99%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 58 (20.42%) PowerShell
2 52 (18.31%) SQL
3 40 (14.08%) C#
4 35 (12.32%) PL/SQL
4 35 (12.32%) T-SQL
5 15 (5.28%) VB
6 14 (4.93%) VBA
7 9 (3.17%) Python
8 6 (2.11%) Bash
9 3 (1.06%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.06%) VBScript
10 2 (0.70%) Bicep
11 1 (0.35%) Java
11 1 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 70 (24.65%) Security Cleared
2 59 (20.77%) SC Cleared
3 44 (15.49%) Degree
4 14 (4.93%) Citrix Certification
4 14 (4.93%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.23%) CCA
5 12 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.17%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 7 (2.46%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.11%) MCSE
9 4 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.41%) MCSA
10 3 (1.06%) CCNP
10 3 (1.06%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (0.70%) CCIE
11 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (17.25%) QA
2 7 (2.46%) NCSC
3 6 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.76%) GDPR
4 5 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.70%) SLA
System Software
1 77 (27.11%) Active Directory
2 64 (22.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (16.20%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (7.75%) Microsoft App-V
5 21 (7.39%) Hyper-V
6 13 (4.58%) XenApp
6 13 (4.58%) XenDesktop
7 9 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (2.82%) BitLocker
9 7 (2.46%) Docker
10 5 (1.76%) VMware NSX
10 5 (1.76%) vSphere
11 2 (0.70%) NFS
11 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.70%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.35%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 58 (20.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (15.14%) SCCM
3 17 (5.99%) Terraform
4 16 (5.63%) WSUS
5 10 (3.52%) Ansible
6 9 (3.17%) Kubernetes
6 9 (3.17%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.82%) vMotion
8 7 (2.46%) Puppet
9 5 (1.76%) SCVMM
9 5 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.06%) PaperCut
11 2 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.70%) SCOM
11 2 (0.70%) WMI
12 1 (0.35%) EMC VPLEX
12 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.35%) FreeIPA
12 1 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 114 (40.14%) Microsoft
2 91 (32.04%) VMware
3 44 (15.49%) Oracle
4 22 (7.75%) Cisco
5 14 (4.93%) MobileIron
6 13 (4.58%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.87%) Bloomberg
7 11 (3.87%) Reuters
8 10 (3.52%) Google
8 10 (3.52%) NetApp
8 10 (3.52%) Remedy
9 7 (2.46%) ION Trading
10 6 (2.11%) CloudEndure
11 4 (1.41%) IBM
11 4 (1.41%) UiPath
12 3 (1.06%) Autodesk
12 3 (1.06%) F5
12 3 (1.06%) Juniper
12 3 (1.06%) Zscaler
13 2 (0.70%) SolarWinds
30 Citrix jobs in England