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 23 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
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 263 194
Rank change year-on-year -58 -69 -14
Contract jobs citing Citrix 255 235 460
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 0.92% 1.22%
As % of the Vendors category 1.64% 1.96% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 116 308
10th Percentile £250 £182 £190
25th Percentile £404 £258 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £375 £375
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £550
90th Percentile £638 £575 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £375 £371
% change year-on-year +20.00% +1.01% -7.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 37
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.08 £13.29
25th Percentile £19.56 £15.22 £14.00
Median hourly rate £48.88 £18.13 £14.80
Median % change year-on-year +169.61% +22.50% -4.52%
75th Percentile £74.26 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile - - £33.73
UK median hourly rate £48.88 £21.46 £15.23
% change year-on-year +127.77% +40.95% -1.77%

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 15,562 11,969 16,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.86% 46.64% 43.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,162 7,359 10,484
10th Percentile £303 £282 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £702 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £521
% change year-on-year -4.31% +0.24% -1.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 804 351 877
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.16 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -23.15% +16.28% -19.21%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £55.50
90th Percentile £74.11 £82.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.54 £26.50
% change year-on-year -18.74% +11.45% -23.37%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -3 127 £415 +10.67% 21
North of England -59 38 £500 +8.11% 12
South East -27 37 £465 +32.86% 21
North West -36 31 £550 +15.79% 5
Midlands -51 19 £475 +227.59% 7
South West -12 17 £550 +2.80% 4
East of England -38 16 £127 - 1
East Midlands -16 12 £490 +172.22% 1
West Midlands -64 7 £425 +193.10% 6
North East -17 6 £513 +173.33% 4
Yorkshire -55 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 26 (10.20%) SharePoint
2 24 (9.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (5.88%) IIS
4 3 (1.18%) Confluence
5 1 (0.39%) JBoss
5 1 (0.39%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (8.63%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (6.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.96%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (4.31%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 74 (29.02%) Microsoft 365
2 68 (26.67%) Azure
3 59 (23.14%) Entra ID
4 26 (10.20%) AWS
5 15 (5.88%) GCP
6 12 (4.71%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 12 (4.71%) AWS CloudTrail
7 11 (4.31%) AWS KMS
8 8 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.75%) AWS Control Tower
9 7 (2.75%) Google Workspace
9 7 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (2.35%) IaaS
10 6 (2.35%) Nutanix
10 6 (2.35%) PaaS
11 4 (1.57%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.18%) SaaS
13 2 (0.78%) Akamai
13 2 (0.78%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 39 (15.29%) DNS
2 36 (14.12%) Firewall
3 32 (12.55%) NetScaler
4 29 (11.37%) VPN
5 27 (10.59%) DHCP
6 14 (5.49%) WebEx
7 13 (5.10%) Internet
8 12 (4.71%) FTP
8 12 (4.71%) TCP/IP
9 11 (4.31%) LAN
10 10 (3.92%) Skype
10 10 (3.92%) VLAN
10 10 (3.92%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (2.75%) Network Security
11 7 (2.75%) WAN
12 6 (2.35%) SMTP
13 5 (1.96%) BGP
13 5 (1.96%) Remote Desktop
14 4 (1.57%) DMZ
14 4 (1.57%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 23 (9.02%) Oracle Database
3 7 (2.75%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.18%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (5.49%) MSI
2 13 (5.10%) JIRA
3 11 (4.31%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.18%) InstallShield
4 3 (1.18%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.78%) GitLab
6 1 (0.39%) GoCD
6 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 92 (36.08%) Social Skills
2 70 (27.45%) Finance
3 42 (16.47%) Banking
4 26 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (7.45%) Legal
6 16 (6.27%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (6.27%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.35%) International Banking
9 5 (1.96%) Front Office
9 5 (1.96%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.57%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.57%) Publishing
11 3 (1.18%) Polish Language
12 2 (0.78%) Local Government
13 1 (0.39%) Military
13 1 (0.39%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 35 (13.73%) Analyst
2 34 (13.33%) Architect
3 31 (12.16%) Developer
4 26 (10.20%) C# Developer
5 21 (8.24%) Citrix Engineer
6 20 (7.84%) Senior
7 15 (5.88%) Lead
8 14 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (4.71%) Technical Analyst
10 11 (4.31%) 1st Line Support
10 11 (4.31%) Support Engineer
11 10 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (3.92%) Wintel Analyst
12 9 (3.53%) Applications Developer
12 9 (3.53%) Citrix Support
12 9 (3.53%) Technical Support
13 8 (3.14%) Administrator
13 8 (3.14%) Programme Manager
13 8 (3.14%) Senior Citrix Engineer
14 7 (2.75%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.16%) .NET
2 27 (10.59%) .NET Framework
3 15 (5.88%) WPF
4 14 (5.49%) WinForms
5 10 (3.92%) XMPP
6 5 (1.96%) Software Packaging
6 5 (1.96%) WCF
7 4 (1.57%) REST
7 4 (1.57%) XML
8 2 (0.78%) ADO
8 2 (0.78%) ebXML
8 2 (0.78%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (0.78%) JSON
8 2 (0.78%) Web Services
9 1 (0.39%) 802.1X
9 1 (0.39%) LDAP
9 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.39%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.63%) Data Centre
2 14 (5.49%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.31%) Blackberry
4 8 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (3.14%) PKI
5 7 (2.75%) Client/Server
6 6 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.96%) Clustering
7 5 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.96%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.96%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.96%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (1.57%) Fat Client
8 4 (1.57%) Thin Client
9 3 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.78%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.78%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 180 (70.59%) Windows
2 57 (22.35%) Windows Server
3 49 (19.22%) Windows 10
4 21 (8.24%) Linux
5 16 (6.27%) Windows Server 2003
6 15 (5.88%) Mac OS
7 14 (5.49%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (5.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (3.92%) Android
9 10 (3.92%) Apple iOS
9 10 (3.92%) Windows 7
10 9 (3.53%) AIX
11 7 (2.75%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (1.57%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.78%) VMS
13 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.39%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (15.69%) ITIL
3 38 (14.90%) Migration
4 35 (13.73%) Change Management
5 31 (12.16%) Stakeholder Management
6 26 (10.20%) Disaster Recovery
6 26 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 24 (9.41%) Data Analysis
7 24 (9.41%) ITSM
8 23 (9.02%) Roadmaps
9 22 (8.63%) Data Protection
10 21 (8.24%) User Experience
11 20 (7.84%) Agile
11 20 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (7.45%) Customer Service
13 18 (7.06%) Identity Access Management
13 18 (7.06%) Platform Engineering
13 18 (7.06%) Service Management
14 17 (6.67%) Application Packaging
14 17 (6.67%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (24.71%) PowerShell
2 45 (17.65%) SQL
3 31 (12.16%) C#
4 26 (10.20%) PL/SQL
4 26 (10.20%) T-SQL
5 21 (8.24%) Bash
5 21 (8.24%) Python
6 14 (5.49%) VB
7 12 (4.71%) VBA
8 10 (3.92%) Perl
9 3 (1.18%) VBScript
10 2 (0.78%) Bicep
10 2 (0.78%) Java
Qualifications
1 66 (25.88%) Security Cleared
2 58 (22.75%) SC Cleared
3 40 (15.69%) Degree
4 14 (5.49%) CCNP
4 14 (5.49%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (4.71%) CCNA
5 12 (4.71%) Citrix Certification
6 11 (4.31%) CCA
6 11 (4.31%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.92%) CCDP
7 10 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.75%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (1.96%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.96%) MCSE
11 4 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.57%) MCSA
12 3 (1.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.94%) QA
2 10 (3.92%) GDPR
2 10 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.75%) NCSC
4 6 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.18%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) MiFID
System Software
1 87 (34.12%) Active Directory
2 62 (24.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (18.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 17 (6.67%) Microsoft App-V
5 12 (4.71%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.75%) XenApp
6 7 (2.75%) XenDesktop
7 6 (2.35%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.96%) Docker
8 5 (1.96%) vSphere
9 4 (1.57%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.78%) NFS
10 2 (0.78%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 61 (23.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (17.25%) SCCM
3 16 (6.27%) Terraform
4 11 (4.31%) Ansible
5 7 (2.75%) Kubernetes
6 6 (2.35%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (1.96%) SCVMM
8 4 (1.57%) Puppet
8 4 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.57%) vMotion
9 3 (1.18%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.18%) PaperCut
9 3 (1.18%) WSUS
10 1 (0.39%) EMC VPLEX
10 1 (0.39%) FreeIPA
10 1 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.39%) SCOM
10 1 (0.39%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 120 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 82 (32.16%) VMware
3 40 (15.69%) Oracle
4 30 (11.76%) Cisco
5 15 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.31%) Red Hat
6 11 (4.31%) Remedy
7 10 (3.92%) MobileIron
8 9 (3.53%) Google
9 8 (3.14%) IBM
10 6 (2.35%) Bloomberg
10 6 (2.35%) CloudEndure
10 6 (2.35%) Reuters
11 5 (1.96%) NetApp
12 4 (1.57%) Dell
12 4 (1.57%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.57%) ION Trading
12 4 (1.57%) UiPath
12 4 (1.57%) Zscaler
13 3 (1.18%) F5