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 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
25 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 251 222
Rank change year-on-year -151 -29 -29
Contract jobs citing Citrix 238 289 357
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 1.05% 1.07%
As % of the Vendors category 1.25% 2.22% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 207 239
10th Percentile £185 £163 £209
25th Percentile £341 £256 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +13.13% - -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £514
90th Percentile £619 £613 £625
UK median daily rate £453 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +13.13% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 18 31
10th Percentile £25.45 - £14.16
25th Percentile £71.50 £14.99 £14.32
Median hourly rate £74.00 £16.30 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +353.99% - -1.21%
75th Percentile - £18.31 £21.37
90th Percentile £74.71 £28.60 £27.00
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 18,969 12,992 14,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.52% 47.17% 43.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,895 8,216 9,123
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £616 £615 £628
90th Percentile £703 £713 £732
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,036 639 694
10th Percentile £14.53 £14.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.55 £17.48 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.11 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.68% -13.28% -30.12%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £29.73 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +18.21% -10.18% -36.00%

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 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 25 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 25 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 -65 120 £448 +9.82% 11
South East -88 47 £570 +52.00% 11
North of England -70 42 £313 -18.30% 9
North West -25 26 £310 -31.49% 7
Midlands -52 22 £450 +63.64% 3
West Midlands -39 16 £450 +63.64% 3
Yorkshire -61 11 £510 +117.02% 1
East Midlands -14 6 - -
East of England -44 6 £223 +30.41% 7
North East - 5 £200 - 2
South West -55 2 £550 +134.04% 3
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 (12.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (7.98%) IIS
2 19 (7.98%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.10%) Appian
3 5 (2.10%) Camunda
3 5 (2.10%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.10%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (2.10%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (1.26%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.84%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 2 (0.84%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 66 (27.73%) Microsoft 365
2 56 (23.53%) Azure
3 28 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 25 (10.50%) AWS
5 9 (3.78%) IaaS
6 8 (3.36%) Google Workspace
7 7 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.52%) PaaS
9 4 (1.68%) GCP
9 4 (1.68%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.26%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.84%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.84%) Nutanix
11 2 (0.84%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.42%) AWS CloudTrail
12 1 (0.42%) AWS Control Tower
12 1 (0.42%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.42%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 53 (22.27%) DNS
2 44 (18.49%) DHCP
3 43 (18.07%) VPN
4 36 (15.13%) Firewall
5 22 (9.24%) NetScaler
6 20 (8.40%) Network Security
7 18 (7.56%) Internet
8 17 (7.14%) TCP/IP
9 8 (3.36%) DMZ
9 8 (3.36%) LAN
9 8 (3.36%) WAN
10 7 (2.94%) SMTP
10 7 (2.94%) SSL
11 6 (2.52%) IPv4
11 6 (2.52%) IPv6
11 6 (2.52%) VLAN
11 6 (2.52%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (2.52%) Wireless
12 5 (2.10%) BGP
12 5 (2.10%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (17.23%) SQL Server
2 25 (10.50%) Oracle Database
3 6 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.26%) Big Data
6 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (3.78%) JIRA
2 4 (1.68%) Browser DevTools
2 4 (1.68%) Git
2 4 (1.68%) REST Assured
2 4 (1.68%) Selenium
3 3 (1.26%) Appium
3 3 (1.26%) JUnit
3 3 (1.26%) MSI
3 3 (1.26%) TestNG
3 3 (1.26%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.84%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.42%) GitLab
General
1 57 (23.95%) Social Skills
2 51 (21.43%) Finance
3 40 (16.81%) Banking
4 14 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.04%) Front Office
6 10 (4.20%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.78%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.94%) Legal
9 5 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.84%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.84%) Publishing
11 2 (0.84%) Retail
12 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Military
12 1 (0.42%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 59 (24.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 36 (15.13%) Citrix Engineer
2 36 (15.13%) Developer
3 28 (11.76%) Senior
4 27 (11.34%) C# Developer
5 26 (10.92%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
6 25 (10.50%) Support Engineer
7 19 (7.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (6.72%) Analyst
9 14 (5.88%) Administrator
10 13 (5.46%) VMware Engineer
11 12 (5.04%) Architect
11 12 (5.04%) Desktop Support
11 12 (5.04%) Senior Citrix Engineer
12 11 (4.62%) Desktop Engineer
12 11 (4.62%) Network Engineer
13 10 (4.20%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 10 (4.20%) IT Engineer
14 9 (3.78%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (15.13%) .NET
2 30 (12.61%) .NET Framework
3 15 (6.30%) WPF
4 14 (5.88%) WinForms
5 9 (3.78%) Terraform
6 5 (2.10%) SAML
7 4 (1.68%) RESTful
7 4 (1.68%) Web Services
8 3 (1.26%) 802.1X
8 3 (1.26%) REST
9 2 (0.84%) JSON
9 2 (0.84%) LDAP
9 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.84%) YAML
10 1 (0.42%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.42%) OAuth
10 1 (0.42%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.42%) OpenID
10 1 (0.42%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.50%) Onboarding
2 20 (8.40%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (7.14%) PKI
4 11 (4.62%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (3.78%) Clustering
5 9 (3.78%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.36%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
8 6 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.10%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.68%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.68%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.26%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.26%) Fat Client
11 3 (1.26%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.26%) NHS
11 3 (1.26%) Thin Client
12 2 (0.84%) Blackberry
12 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.84%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 159 (66.81%) Windows
2 73 (30.67%) Windows Server
3 27 (11.34%) Linux
4 16 (6.72%) Windows 10
5 8 (3.36%) Mac OS
5 8 (3.36%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (3.36%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (2.52%) Debian
7 4 (1.68%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (1.68%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.26%) Android
8 3 (1.26%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.84%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.42%) Unix
10 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (28.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 52 (21.85%) ITIL
3 36 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (11.76%) Data Analysis
5 25 (10.50%) User Experience
6 24 (10.08%) Change Management
7 22 (9.24%) Migration
8 21 (8.82%) Agile
8 21 (8.82%) AI
8 21 (8.82%) Disaster Recovery
8 21 (8.82%) ITSM
9 18 (7.56%) DevOps
10 16 (6.72%) Service Management
11 15 (6.30%) Service Delivery
12 14 (5.88%) Customer Service
12 14 (5.88%) Data Protection
12 14 (5.88%) OO
12 14 (5.88%) OOP
12 14 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (5.46%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 46 (19.33%) PowerShell
2 36 (15.13%) C#
3 35 (14.71%) SQL
4 29 (12.18%) PL/SQL
4 29 (12.18%) T-SQL
5 10 (4.20%) VB
5 10 (4.20%) VBA
6 9 (3.78%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.36%) Python
8 4 (1.68%) Bash
9 1 (0.42%) Bicep
9 1 (0.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 70 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 53 (22.27%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.92%) Degree
4 21 (8.82%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 6 (2.52%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.52%) MCSA
8 5 (2.10%) Citrix Certification
8 5 (2.10%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.68%) CCA
9 4 (1.68%) MCSE
10 3 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.84%) CCNP
12 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.42%) CESG Certified Professional
12 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (13.03%) QA
2 5 (2.10%) SLA
3 3 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 76 (31.93%) Active Directory
2 59 (24.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (16.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 29 (12.18%) Hyper-V
5 13 (5.46%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (4.20%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (3.78%) VMware NSX
7 9 (3.78%) XenApp
7 9 (3.78%) XenDesktop
8 8 (3.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 7 (2.94%) BitLocker
10 6 (2.52%) Docker
11 5 (2.10%) Terminal Services
12 4 (1.68%) vSphere
13 3 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
14 2 (0.84%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 36 (15.13%) SCCM
2 19 (7.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (7.56%) WSUS
4 14 (5.88%) vCenter Server
5 9 (3.78%) vMotion
6 8 (3.36%) Ansible
7 7 (2.94%) Jamf Pro
7 7 (2.94%) Kubernetes
8 6 (2.52%) FortiGate
8 6 (2.52%) Puppet
8 6 (2.52%) SCOM
8 6 (2.52%) SysTrack
9 4 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.26%) Nagios
10 3 (1.26%) Nessus
11 2 (0.84%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.84%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.84%) WMI
12 1 (0.42%) CloudForms
Vendors
1 92 (38.66%) VMware
2 80 (33.61%) Microsoft
3 33 (13.87%) Oracle
4 17 (7.14%) Cisco
5 15 (6.30%) Bloomberg
6 14 (5.88%) ServiceNow
7 10 (4.20%) Reuters
8 9 (3.78%) CyberArk
9 8 (3.36%) Google
10 7 (2.94%) Apple
10 7 (2.94%) BeyondTrust
10 7 (2.94%) ION Trading
10 7 (2.94%) Zscaler
11 6 (2.52%) Meraki
11 6 (2.52%) Nexthink
11 6 (2.52%) Palo Alto
12 5 (2.10%) F5
12 5 (2.10%) NetApp
12 5 (2.10%) OpenText
12 5 (2.10%) SolarWinds
40 Citrix jobs in England