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 11 October 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
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 265 230
Rank change year-on-year -143 -35 -50
Contract jobs citing Citrix 227 270 355
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.96% 1.10%
As % of the Vendors category 1.18% 2.01% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 197 214
10th Percentile £185 £171 £193
25th Percentile £302 £256 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £408 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.43% +1.88% -
75th Percentile £569 £525 £509
90th Percentile £632 £616 £624
UK median daily rate £450 £408 £400
% change year-on-year +10.43% +1.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 16
10th Percentile £15.26 - £14.16
25th Percentile £28.00 £14.99 £14.96
Median hourly rate £32.75 £16.00 £18.84
Median % change year-on-year +104.69% -15.05% +19.82%
75th Percentile £40.00 £16.30 £26.81
90th Percentile £74.00 £30.00 £27.00
UK median hourly rate £30.38 £16.30 £19.87
% change year-on-year +86.35% -17.98% +26.42%

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 19,269 13,419 14,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.66% 47.81% 44.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,773 8,540 8,619
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.58% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £628
90th Percentile £715 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,268 649 519
10th Percentile £13.99 £15.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.61 £18.00 £15.68
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -28.16% -20.27%
75th Percentile £60.92 £43.21 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.33 £69.72 £71.65
UK median hourly rate £24.19 £25.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -3.24% -23.66% -25.14%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -92 105 £448 -0.56% 44
North of England -52 56 £310 -22.50% 17
South East -81 44 £570 +52.00% 12
North West -19 40 £310 -31.49% 11
Yorkshire -41 11 £510 +117.02% 6
Midlands -56 9 £469 -0.21% 16
East of England -46 7 £223 +30.41% 4
West Midlands -52 7 £469 +70.55% 10
South West -39 5 £549 +133.51% 13
North East - 5 £200 -
East Midlands -18 2 - - 6
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 20 (8.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (7.93%) IIS
2 18 (7.93%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.20%) Appian
3 5 (2.20%) Camunda
3 5 (2.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.20%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (2.20%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (1.32%) Eikon
2 3 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.88%) Bloomberg TOMS
Cloud Services
1 64 (28.19%) Microsoft 365
2 60 (26.43%) Azure
3 34 (14.98%) Entra ID
4 21 (9.25%) AWS
5 5 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.20%) Google Workspace
5 5 (2.20%) IaaS
5 5 (2.20%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.32%) GCP
6 3 (1.32%) OneDrive
6 3 (1.32%) PaaS
6 3 (1.32%) Slack
7 2 (0.88%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (0.88%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (0.44%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.44%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.44%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 40 (17.62%) DNS
2 38 (16.74%) VPN
3 34 (14.98%) DHCP
4 30 (13.22%) NetScaler
5 27 (11.89%) Firewall
6 14 (6.17%) Internet
6 14 (6.17%) Network Security
6 14 (6.17%) TCP/IP
7 8 (3.52%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (3.52%) Wireless
8 6 (2.64%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (2.64%) DMZ
9 5 (2.20%) BGP
9 5 (2.20%) LAN
9 5 (2.20%) OSPF
9 5 (2.20%) WAN
10 4 (1.76%) EIGRP
10 4 (1.76%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (1.76%) SSL
10 4 (1.76%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (14.54%) SQL Server
2 21 (9.25%) Oracle Database
3 6 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.32%) Big Data
4 3 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.20%) MSI
2 4 (1.76%) JIRA
2 4 (1.76%) REST Assured
3 3 (1.32%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.32%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.88%) Git
5 1 (0.44%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.44%) GitLab
General
1 60 (26.43%) Social Skills
2 50 (22.03%) Finance
3 42 (18.50%) Banking
4 13 (5.73%) Front Office
5 12 (5.29%) Financial Institution
6 10 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.41%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.52%) Legal
8 5 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.32%) Military
10 3 (1.32%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.88%) Publishing
12 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (19.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 32 (14.10%) Senior
3 31 (13.66%) Developer
3 31 (13.66%) Support Engineer
4 30 (13.22%) Citrix Engineer
5 23 (10.13%) C# Developer
6 22 (9.69%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (7.93%) Desktop Support
8 17 (7.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (6.61%) Desktop Engineer
10 13 (5.73%) Administrator
11 12 (5.29%) Analyst
12 11 (4.85%) Network Engineer
12 11 (4.85%) Senior Citrix Engineer
13 10 (4.41%) Architect
13 10 (4.41%) VMware Engineer
14 9 (3.96%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 9 (3.96%) Wintel Administrator
15 8 (3.52%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 8 (3.52%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.66%) .NET
2 25 (11.01%) .NET Framework
3 14 (6.17%) WPF
4 13 (5.73%) WinForms
5 8 (3.52%) Terraform
6 5 (2.20%) Microsoft Graph
6 5 (2.20%) REST
7 4 (1.76%) RESTful
7 4 (1.76%) Web Services
8 3 (1.32%) 802.1X
8 3 (1.32%) JSON
8 3 (1.32%) YAML
9 2 (0.88%) SAML
10 1 (0.44%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.44%) LDAP
10 1 (0.44%) OAuth
10 1 (0.44%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.44%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.93%) Onboarding
2 12 (5.29%) PKI
3 10 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.52%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.64%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (2.20%) Clustering
7 5 (2.20%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.76%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.76%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.32%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.32%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.32%) NHS
10 2 (0.88%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.88%) Fat Client
10 2 (0.88%) Mobile Computing
10 2 (0.88%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 155 (68.28%) Windows
2 71 (31.28%) Windows Server
3 22 (9.69%) Linux
4 21 (9.25%) Windows 10
5 9 (3.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (2.64%) macOS
8 4 (1.76%) Debian
8 4 (1.76%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.32%) Android
10 2 (0.88%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.44%) Unix
11 1 (0.44%) VMS
11 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (24.23%) ITIL
2 54 (23.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 31 (13.66%) Customer Service
4 30 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (12.33%) AI
6 27 (11.89%) ITSM
7 26 (11.45%) Change Management
7 26 (11.45%) User Experience
8 23 (10.13%) Disaster Recovery
9 22 (9.69%) Data Analysis
10 21 (9.25%) Migration
11 19 (8.37%) Agile
11 19 (8.37%) Service Management
12 18 (7.93%) DevOps
12 18 (7.93%) Root Cause Analysis
13 16 (7.05%) Generative AI
14 13 (5.73%) OO
14 13 (5.73%) OOP
14 13 (5.73%) Service Delivery
14 13 (5.73%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 45 (19.82%) PowerShell
2 31 (13.66%) C#
3 28 (12.33%) SQL
4 24 (10.57%) PL/SQL
4 24 (10.57%) T-SQL
5 9 (3.96%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.96%) VB
5 9 (3.96%) VBA
6 8 (3.52%) Python
7 5 (2.20%) Bash
8 2 (0.88%) Bicep
9 1 (0.44%) Java
Qualifications
1 70 (30.84%) Security Cleared
2 55 (24.23%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.25%) Degree
4 17 (7.49%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.20%) ISTQB
5 5 (2.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (1.76%) CCA
6 4 (1.76%) Citrix Certification
6 4 (1.76%) MCSA
6 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.32%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.32%) MCSE
7 3 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (0.88%) CCNP
8 2 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.44%) CCNA
9 1 (0.44%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.13%) QA
2 4 (1.76%) SLA
3 3 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 86 (37.89%) Active Directory
2 63 (27.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (19.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 36 (15.86%) Hyper-V
5 15 (6.61%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 12 (5.29%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (5.29%) XenApp
7 10 (4.41%) XenDesktop
8 8 (3.52%) Microsoft App-V
9 7 (3.08%) vSphere
10 6 (2.64%) VMware NSX
11 4 (1.76%) Terminal Services
11 4 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
12 3 (1.32%) BitLocker
12 3 (1.32%) Docker
13 1 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 43 (18.94%) SCCM
2 24 (10.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (5.29%) WSUS
4 11 (4.85%) vCenter Server
5 8 (3.52%) SysTrack
6 7 (3.08%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (2.64%) Ansible
7 6 (2.64%) FortiGate
8 5 (2.20%) Kubernetes
8 5 (2.20%) SCOM
8 5 (2.20%) vMotion
9 3 (1.32%) Nagios
9 3 (1.32%) Nessus
9 3 (1.32%) Puppet
10 2 (0.88%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.88%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.44%) CloudForms
11 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (39.21%) Microsoft
1 89 (39.21%) VMware
2 28 (12.33%) Oracle
3 19 (8.37%) Cisco
4 14 (6.17%) Bloomberg
5 12 (5.29%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.96%) CyberArk
7 8 (3.52%) Nexthink
7 8 (3.52%) Palo Alto
7 8 (3.52%) Tenable
8 7 (3.08%) Apple
8 7 (3.08%) BeyondTrust
8 7 (3.08%) Meraki
9 6 (2.64%) F5
9 6 (2.64%) Google
9 6 (2.64%) Reuters
10 5 (2.20%) ION Trading
10 5 (2.20%) OpenText
10 5 (2.20%) Qualys
10 5 (2.20%) SolarWinds