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 27 February 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
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 273 191
Rank change year-on-year -42 -82 -9
Contract jobs citing Citrix 269 229 459
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.89% 1.22%
As % of the Vendors category 1.69% 1.91% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 116 310
10th Percentile £273 £182 £189
25th Percentile £404 £258 £268
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £375 £371
Median % change year-on-year +25.33% +1.01% -7.19%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £547
90th Percentile £638 £575 £675
UK median daily rate £465 £383 £368
% change year-on-year +21.57% +4.08% -8.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 41
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.08 £13.29
25th Percentile £19.56 £15.22 £14.00
Median hourly rate £48.88 £18.13 £15.65
Median % change year-on-year +169.61% +15.85% +0.97%
75th Percentile £74.26 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile - - £25.28
UK median hourly rate £48.88 £21.46 £15.65
% change year-on-year +127.77% +37.12% +0.97%

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 15,906 11,993 16,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.89% 46.65% 43.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,392 7,433 10,384
10th Percentile £305 £285 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +0.96% -3.35%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £703 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £517
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.58% -1.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 822 361 883
10th Percentile £15.39 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.05 £15.38
Median hourly rate £24.00 £30.78 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.03% +18.38% -21.21%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.21 £82.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.55 £29.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -15.34% +11.54% -21.80%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -3 133 £415 +10.67% 23
South East -28 40 £488 +37.32% 19
North of England -72 38 £500 +8.11% 9
North West -34 31 £550 +15.79% 4
South West -13 21 £550 +2.80% 3
Midlands -49 20 £475 +227.59% 7
East of England -37 16 £127 - 1
East Midlands -14 13 £490 +172.22%
West Midlands -55 7 £425 +193.10% 7
North East -17 6 £513 +173.33% 1
Yorkshire -64 3 £500 - 4
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 27 (10.04%) Microsoft Exchange
1 27 (10.04%) SharePoint
2 16 (5.95%) IIS
3 3 (1.12%) Confluence
4 1 (0.37%) JBoss
4 1 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (8.18%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (6.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.86%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (4.09%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 76 (28.25%) Microsoft 365
2 69 (25.65%) Azure
3 60 (22.30%) Entra ID
4 26 (9.67%) AWS
5 15 (5.58%) GCP
6 12 (4.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 12 (4.46%) AWS CloudTrail
7 11 (4.09%) AWS KMS
8 8 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.60%) AWS Control Tower
9 7 (2.60%) Google Workspace
9 7 (2.60%) IaaS
9 7 (2.60%) Nutanix
9 7 (2.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (2.23%) PaaS
11 4 (1.49%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.12%) Mimecast
12 3 (1.12%) SaaS
13 2 (0.74%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 40 (14.87%) DNS
2 37 (13.75%) Firewall
3 32 (11.90%) NetScaler
4 29 (10.78%) VPN
5 27 (10.04%) DHCP
6 14 (5.20%) Internet
6 14 (5.20%) WebEx
7 12 (4.46%) FTP
7 12 (4.46%) TCP/IP
8 11 (4.09%) LAN
9 10 (3.72%) Skype
9 10 (3.72%) VLAN
9 10 (3.72%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (2.60%) Network Security
10 7 (2.60%) WAN
11 6 (2.23%) SMTP
12 5 (1.86%) BGP
12 5 (1.86%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (1.49%) DMZ
13 4 (1.49%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (17.47%) SQL Server
2 25 (9.29%) Oracle Database
3 7 (2.60%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.12%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.37%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (5.58%) JIRA
2 14 (5.20%) MSI
3 11 (4.09%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.12%) InstallShield
4 3 (1.12%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.74%) GitLab
6 1 (0.37%) Appium
6 1 (0.37%) Git
6 1 (0.37%) GoCD
6 1 (0.37%) JUnit
6 1 (0.37%) Selenium
6 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.37%) TestNG
General
1 98 (36.43%) Social Skills
2 73 (27.14%) Finance
3 44 (16.36%) Banking
4 30 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (7.06%) Legal
6 16 (5.95%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (5.95%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.23%) International Banking
8 6 (2.23%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.86%) Front Office
9 5 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.49%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.49%) Publishing
11 3 (1.12%) Polish Language
12 2 (0.74%) Local Government
13 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.37%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (14.13%) Architect
2 35 (13.01%) Analyst
3 33 (12.27%) Developer
4 28 (10.41%) C# Developer
5 26 (9.67%) Citrix Engineer
6 23 (8.55%) Senior
7 17 (6.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (5.58%) Lead
9 12 (4.46%) Support Engineer
9 12 (4.46%) Technical Analyst
10 11 (4.09%) 1st Line Support
10 11 (4.09%) Senior Citrix Engineer
11 10 (3.72%) Applications Developer
11 10 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (3.72%) Wintel Analyst
12 9 (3.35%) Citrix Support
12 9 (3.35%) Technical Support
13 8 (2.97%) Administrator
13 8 (2.97%) Programme Manager
13 8 (2.97%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.27%) .NET
2 29 (10.78%) .NET Framework
3 16 (5.95%) WPF
4 15 (5.58%) WinForms
5 10 (3.72%) XMPP
6 5 (1.86%) Software Packaging
6 5 (1.86%) WCF
7 4 (1.49%) REST
7 4 (1.49%) XML
8 2 (0.74%) ADO
8 2 (0.74%) ebXML
8 2 (0.74%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (0.74%) JSON
8 2 (0.74%) Web Services
9 1 (0.37%) 802.1X
9 1 (0.37%) LDAP
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.37%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.55%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.58%) Blackberry
3 14 (5.20%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (2.97%) PKI
5 7 (2.60%) Client/Server
6 6 (2.23%) Hedge funds
6 6 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.23%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.86%) Clustering
7 5 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.86%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.86%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (1.49%) Fat Client
8 4 (1.49%) Thin Client
9 3 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.74%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 189 (70.26%) Windows
2 59 (21.93%) Windows Server
3 50 (18.59%) Windows 10
4 21 (7.81%) Linux
5 16 (5.95%) Windows Server 2003
6 15 (5.58%) Mac OS
7 14 (5.20%) Android
7 14 (5.20%) Apple iOS
7 14 (5.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (4.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (3.72%) Windows 7
10 9 (3.35%) AIX
11 7 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.74%) VMS
13 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.37%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (14.87%) ITIL
3 39 (14.50%) Migration
4 35 (13.01%) Change Management
4 35 (13.01%) Stakeholder Management
5 29 (10.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 28 (10.41%) Disaster Recovery
7 26 (9.67%) Data Analysis
8 24 (8.92%) ITSM
8 24 (8.92%) Roadmaps
9 22 (8.18%) Data Protection
9 22 (8.18%) User Experience
10 21 (7.81%) Mobile Device Management
11 20 (7.43%) Agile
11 20 (7.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (7.06%) Customer Service
13 18 (6.69%) Identity Access Management
13 18 (6.69%) Platform Engineering
13 18 (6.69%) Project Delivery
13 18 (6.69%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (24.16%) PowerShell
2 47 (17.47%) SQL
3 33 (12.27%) C#
4 28 (10.41%) PL/SQL
4 28 (10.41%) T-SQL
5 22 (8.18%) Python
6 21 (7.81%) Bash
7 15 (5.58%) VB
8 13 (4.83%) VBA
9 10 (3.72%) Perl
10 3 (1.12%) VBScript
11 2 (0.74%) Bicep
11 2 (0.74%) Java
Qualifications
1 70 (26.02%) Security Cleared
2 62 (23.05%) SC Cleared
3 40 (14.87%) Degree
4 14 (5.20%) CCNP
4 14 (5.20%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (4.83%) Citrix Certification
6 12 (4.46%) CCA
6 12 (4.46%) CCNA
7 11 (4.09%) DV Cleared
8 10 (3.72%) CCDP
8 10 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (2.60%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (1.86%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.86%) MCSE
12 4 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.49%) MCSA
13 3 (1.12%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (14.13%) QA
2 10 (3.72%) GDPR
2 10 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.60%) NCSC
4 6 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.49%) SLA
6 1 (0.37%) MiFID
System Software
1 90 (33.46%) Active Directory
2 63 (23.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (18.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 17 (6.32%) Microsoft App-V
5 12 (4.46%) Hyper-V
6 8 (2.97%) XenDesktop
7 7 (2.60%) XenApp
8 6 (2.23%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.86%) Docker
9 5 (1.86%) vSphere
10 4 (1.49%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.74%) NFS
11 2 (0.74%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.74%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.37%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 66 (24.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (16.73%) SCCM
3 16 (5.95%) Terraform
4 11 (4.09%) Ansible
5 7 (2.60%) Kubernetes
6 6 (2.23%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (1.86%) SCVMM
8 4 (1.49%) Puppet
8 4 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.49%) vMotion
9 3 (1.12%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.12%) PaperCut
9 3 (1.12%) WSUS
10 1 (0.37%) EMC VPLEX
10 1 (0.37%) FreeIPA
10 1 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.37%) SCOM
10 1 (0.37%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
10 1 (0.37%) WMI
Vendors
1 127 (47.21%) Microsoft
2 88 (32.71%) VMware
3 42 (15.61%) Oracle
4 30 (11.15%) Cisco
5 16 (5.95%) ServiceNow
6 14 (5.20%) MobileIron
7 11 (4.09%) Red Hat
7 11 (4.09%) Remedy
8 9 (3.35%) Google
9 8 (2.97%) IBM
10 7 (2.60%) Bloomberg
10 7 (2.60%) Reuters
11 6 (2.23%) CloudEndure
12 5 (1.86%) NetApp
13 4 (1.49%) Dell
13 4 (1.49%) Fortinet
13 4 (1.49%) ION Trading
13 4 (1.49%) UiPath
13 4 (1.49%) Zscaler
14 3 (1.12%) Meraki