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 6 March 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
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 283 201
Rank change year-on-year -31 -82 -22
Contract jobs citing Citrix 278 220 442
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.86% 1.17%
As % of the Vendors category 1.71% 1.84% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 116 296
10th Percentile £265 £181 £185
25th Percentile £404 £254 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 £368
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +2.04% -10.64%
75th Percentile £575 £503 £538
90th Percentile £638 £568 £675
UK median daily rate £465 £375 £366
% change year-on-year +24.00% +2.39% -8.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 45
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.08 £13.57
25th Percentile £20.75 £15.22 £14.00
Median hourly rate £74.26 £18.13 £15.65
Median % change year-on-year +309.60% +15.85% +0.97%
75th Percentile - £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile - - £24.66
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £21.46 £15.81
% change year-on-year +246.04% +35.74% +2.00%

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 16,229 11,953 16,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.60% 46.78% 42.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,575 7,483 10,386
10th Percentile £306 £288 £250
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £516
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +1.84% -4.18%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £631
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £514
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.17% -3.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 849 380 909
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.62 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.24 £14.72
Median hourly rate £24.55 £31.42 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.87% +24.45% -27.86%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £25.22
% change year-on-year -16.67% +18.98% -27.96%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 6 March 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 +12 138 £415 +10.67% 19
South East -35 43 £490 +40.00% 23
North of England -69 39 £500 +8.11% 10
North West -28 32 £550 +15.79% 3
South West -15 21 £550 +2.80% 3
Midlands -54 20 £475 +227.59% 8
East of England -31 16 £127 - 2
East Midlands -12 13 £490 +172.22% 1
West Midlands -59 7 £425 +193.10% 7
North East -14 6 £513 +173.33% 5
Yorkshire -58 3 £500 - 3
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 30 (10.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (9.35%) SharePoint
3 15 (5.40%) IIS
4 3 (1.08%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (8.27%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (5.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.80%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (3.60%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 78 (28.06%) Microsoft 365
2 69 (24.82%) Azure
3 60 (21.58%) Entra ID
4 26 (9.35%) AWS
5 15 (5.40%) GCP
6 12 (4.32%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 12 (4.32%) AWS CloudTrail
7 11 (3.96%) AWS KMS
8 9 (3.24%) IaaS
9 8 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.88%) Nutanix
10 7 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (2.52%) AWS Control Tower
10 7 (2.52%) Google Workspace
10 7 (2.52%) PaaS
10 7 (2.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (1.44%) Mimecast
12 3 (1.08%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.08%) SaaS
13 2 (0.72%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 44 (15.83%) DNS
2 40 (14.39%) Firewall
3 33 (11.87%) NetScaler
4 30 (10.79%) VPN
5 28 (10.07%) DHCP
6 15 (5.40%) WebEx
7 13 (4.68%) Internet
7 13 (4.68%) TCP/IP
8 12 (4.32%) FTP
9 10 (3.60%) LAN
9 10 (3.60%) Skype
9 10 (3.60%) VLAN
10 9 (3.24%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (2.52%) Network Security
11 7 (2.52%) SMTP
12 6 (2.16%) WAN
13 5 (1.80%) BGP
14 4 (1.44%) DMZ
14 4 (1.44%) Remote Desktop
14 4 (1.44%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (17.63%) SQL Server
2 27 (9.71%) Oracle Database
3 7 (2.52%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.08%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (5.76%) JIRA
2 15 (5.40%) MSI
3 11 (3.96%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.08%) InstallShield
4 3 (1.08%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.72%) Appium
5 2 (0.72%) Git
5 2 (0.72%) GitLab
5 2 (0.72%) JUnit
5 2 (0.72%) Selenium
5 2 (0.72%) TestNG
6 1 (0.36%) GoCD
6 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 98 (35.25%) Social Skills
2 75 (26.98%) Finance
3 45 (16.19%) Banking
4 30 (10.79%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.19%) Legal
6 16 (5.76%) Public Sector
7 15 (5.40%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.16%) International Banking
9 6 (2.16%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.80%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.80%) Front Office
10 5 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.44%) Publishing
12 3 (1.08%) Polish Language
13 2 (0.72%) Local Government
14 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.36%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (13.67%) Architect
2 36 (12.95%) Analyst
3 35 (12.59%) Developer
4 30 (10.79%) C# Developer
4 30 (10.79%) Citrix Engineer
5 27 (9.71%) Senior
6 21 (7.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (5.40%) Lead
8 14 (5.04%) Senior Citrix Engineer
9 12 (4.32%) Technical Analyst
10 11 (3.96%) 1st Line Support
10 11 (3.96%) Support Engineer
11 10 (3.60%) Applications Developer
11 10 (3.60%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (3.60%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (3.60%) Wintel Analyst
12 9 (3.24%) Administrator
12 9 (3.24%) Citrix Support
12 9 (3.24%) QA Engineer
12 9 (3.24%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.59%) .NET
2 31 (11.15%) .NET Framework
3 15 (5.40%) WPF
4 14 (5.04%) WinForms
5 11 (3.96%) XMPP
6 5 (1.80%) Software Packaging
7 4 (1.44%) REST
7 4 (1.44%) WCF
7 4 (1.44%) XML
8 2 (0.72%) ADO
8 2 (0.72%) ebXML
8 2 (0.72%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (0.72%) JSON
8 2 (0.72%) LDAP
8 2 (0.72%) Web Services
9 1 (0.36%) 802.1X
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.36%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.63%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.40%) Blackberry
2 15 (5.40%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.24%) PKI
4 8 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.52%) Client/Server
5 7 (2.52%) Hedge funds
5 7 (2.52%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.16%) Clustering
6 6 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.16%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.80%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (1.80%) Fat Client
7 5 (1.80%) Thin Client
7 5 (1.80%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.72%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 193 (69.42%) Windows
2 64 (23.02%) Windows Server
3 51 (18.35%) Windows 10
4 22 (7.91%) Linux
5 17 (6.12%) Windows Server 2003
6 15 (5.40%) Android
6 15 (5.40%) Apple iOS
6 15 (5.40%) Mac OS
6 15 (5.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (4.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (3.60%) Windows 7
9 9 (3.24%) AIX
10 7 (2.52%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (1.44%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.72%) VMS
12 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.36%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (14.39%) ITIL
3 38 (13.67%) Migration
4 37 (13.31%) Stakeholder Management
5 36 (12.95%) Change Management
6 33 (11.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 30 (10.79%) Disaster Recovery
8 28 (10.07%) Data Analysis
9 24 (8.63%) Roadmaps
10 23 (8.27%) ITSM
10 23 (8.27%) User Experience
11 22 (7.91%) Data Protection
12 20 (7.19%) Agile
12 20 (7.19%) Mobile Device Management
13 19 (6.83%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (6.83%) Customer Service
13 19 (6.83%) Identity Access Management
13 19 (6.83%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (6.83%) Project Delivery
14 18 (6.47%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (24.82%) PowerShell
2 49 (17.63%) SQL
3 35 (12.59%) C#
4 30 (10.79%) PL/SQL
4 30 (10.79%) T-SQL
5 23 (8.27%) Python
6 21 (7.55%) Bash
7 14 (5.04%) VB
8 12 (4.32%) VBA
9 10 (3.60%) Perl
10 3 (1.08%) VBScript
11 2 (0.72%) Bicep
11 2 (0.72%) Java
Qualifications
1 72 (25.90%) Security Cleared
2 63 (22.66%) SC Cleared
3 40 (14.39%) Degree
4 14 (5.04%) CCNP
4 14 (5.04%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (4.68%) Citrix Certification
6 12 (4.32%) CCA
6 12 (4.32%) CCNA
6 12 (4.32%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.60%) CCDP
7 10 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.52%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (1.80%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.80%) MCSE
11 4 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.44%) MCSA
12 3 (1.08%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (14.75%) QA
2 10 (3.60%) GDPR
2 10 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.52%) NCSC
4 6 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.44%) SLA
6 1 (0.36%) MiFID
System Software
1 94 (33.81%) Active Directory
2 64 (23.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (17.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 19 (6.83%) Microsoft App-V
5 13 (4.68%) Hyper-V
6 8 (2.88%) XenDesktop
7 7 (2.52%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.52%) XenApp
8 6 (2.16%) Docker
9 5 (1.80%) BitLocker
9 5 (1.80%) vSphere
10 2 (0.72%) NFS
10 2 (0.72%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.72%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.72%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 66 (23.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (16.19%) SCCM
3 16 (5.76%) Terraform
4 12 (4.32%) Ansible
5 8 (2.88%) Kubernetes
6 7 (2.52%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (1.80%) Puppet
7 5 (1.80%) SCVMM
7 5 (1.80%) vMotion
8 4 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.08%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.08%) PaperCut
9 3 (1.08%) WSUS
10 2 (0.72%) WMI
11 1 (0.36%) EMC VPLEX
11 1 (0.36%) FreeIPA
11 1 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.36%) SCOM
11 1 (0.36%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 130 (46.76%) Microsoft
2 90 (32.37%) VMware
3 44 (15.83%) Oracle
4 31 (11.15%) Cisco
5 16 (5.76%) ServiceNow
6 14 (5.04%) MobileIron
7 11 (3.96%) Red Hat
8 10 (3.60%) Remedy
9 9 (3.24%) Google
10 8 (2.88%) Bloomberg
10 8 (2.88%) IBM
10 8 (2.88%) Reuters
11 6 (2.16%) CloudEndure
11 6 (2.16%) NetApp
12 4 (1.44%) Dell
12 4 (1.44%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.44%) ION Trading
12 4 (1.44%) UiPath
12 4 (1.44%) Zscaler
13 3 (1.08%) HP