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 8 December 2025, 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
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 235 189
Rank change year-on-year -82 -46 -12
Contract jobs citing Citrix 238 317 494
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 1.05% 1.28%
As % of the Vendors category 1.62% 2.29% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 186 351
10th Percentile £171 £186 £200
25th Percentile £400 £311 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £390 £375
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £550 £497 £538
90th Percentile £624 £606 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £380 £388
% change year-on-year +18.42% -1.94% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 29
10th Percentile - £15.84 £13.86
25th Percentile £16.00 - £14.16
Median hourly rate £31.39 £21.46 £15.65
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% +37.12% +0.97%
75th Percentile £74.26 £26.81 £17.43
90th Percentile - £27.00 £50.11
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £21.46 £15.65
% change year-on-year +39.79% +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 14,722 13,832 17,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.54% 45.62% 44.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,552 8,396 11,261
10th Percentile £288 £300 £252
25th Percentile £406 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 720 418 620
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.00 £20.45
Median hourly rate £23.83 £31.63 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% -28.92% +71.15%
75th Percentile £45.14 £65.00 £64.55
90th Percentile £73.80 £75.08 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.33% -33.97% +73.08%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025. 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 -41 111 £450 +12.50% 22
North of England -43 39 £538 +22.86% 37
South East -31 37 £451 +28.93% 26
North West -21 26 £550 +15.79% 14
East of England -17 24 £149 -62.81% 12
Midlands -31 19 £491 +211.75% 10
East Midlands -9 12 £496 +53.80% 3
Yorkshire -31 10 £531 - 17
South West -24 7 £200 -57.45% 7
West Midlands -33 7 £350 +143.48% 6
North East -7 5 £550 +193.33% 7
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 21 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 21 (8.82%) SharePoint
2 15 (6.30%) IIS
3 7 (2.94%) WebSphere
4 5 (2.10%) Confluence
5 2 (0.84%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.84%) WildFly
6 1 (0.42%) JBoss
6 1 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.42%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.42%) Smallworld
Applications
1 17 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (5.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.68%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.42%) OpenText MBPM
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 77 (32.35%) Azure
2 59 (24.79%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (17.65%) Entra ID
4 28 (11.76%) AWS
5 21 (8.82%) GCP
6 11 (4.62%) Nutanix
7 7 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.94%) IaaS
7 7 (2.94%) SaaS
8 6 (2.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 6 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (2.52%) AWS CloudTrail
8 6 (2.52%) AWS Control Tower
8 6 (2.52%) AWS KMS
8 6 (2.52%) PaaS
8 6 (2.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (1.68%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (1.68%) Google Workspace
10 3 (1.26%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.84%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 44 (18.49%) Firewall
2 39 (16.39%) DNS
3 31 (13.03%) NetScaler
4 27 (11.34%) DHCP
5 26 (10.92%) VPN
6 21 (8.82%) TCP/IP
7 17 (7.14%) LAN
8 15 (6.30%) WebEx
9 11 (4.62%) Internet
9 11 (4.62%) Remote Desktop
9 11 (4.62%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (4.20%) VLAN
11 9 (3.78%) WAN
12 7 (2.94%) SAN
13 4 (1.68%) BGP
13 4 (1.68%) FTP
13 4 (1.68%) Network Security
13 4 (1.68%) Software-Defined Networking
13 4 (1.68%) VoIP
14 3 (1.26%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (15.97%) SQL Server
2 26 (10.92%) Oracle Database
3 11 (4.62%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.26%) Tableau
4 3 (1.26%) Tableau Desktop
5 2 (0.84%) Tableau Server
6 1 (0.42%) GIS
6 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.42%) Power BI
6 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (5.46%) JIRA
2 5 (2.10%) Visual Studio
3 4 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.26%) MSI
5 2 (0.84%) GitLab
5 2 (0.84%) Hudson
5 2 (0.84%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.42%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.42%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.42%) GoCD
6 1 (0.42%) Postman
6 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 84 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 74 (31.09%) Finance
3 29 (12.18%) Banking
4 23 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.14%) Legal
6 12 (5.04%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.10%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.10%) Law
10 4 (1.68%) Front Office
10 4 (1.68%) Local Government
11 3 (1.26%) International Banking
11 3 (1.26%) Polish Language
11 3 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.26%) Publishing
12 2 (0.84%) Back Office
12 2 (0.84%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (14.29%) Analyst
2 24 (10.08%) Architect
2 24 (10.08%) Developer
3 22 (9.24%) Citrix Engineer
4 19 (7.98%) Support Engineer
4 19 (7.98%) Technical Analyst
4 19 (7.98%) Technical Support
5 18 (7.56%) C# Developer
6 16 (6.72%) Support Analyst
6 16 (6.72%) Technical Support Analyst
7 15 (6.30%) IT Support
8 14 (5.88%) Senior
9 13 (5.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (5.04%) Lead
11 11 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (4.20%) IT Analyst
13 9 (3.78%) Consultant
14 8 (3.36%) Cloud Architect
14 8 (3.36%) Programme Manager
14 8 (3.36%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.66%) .NET
2 19 (7.98%) .NET Framework
3 13 (5.46%) WPF
4 12 (5.04%) WinForms
5 9 (3.78%) REST
5 9 (3.78%) XMPP
6 8 (3.36%) Middleware
6 8 (3.36%) WCF
7 7 (2.94%) JSON
8 4 (1.68%) XML
9 1 (0.42%) 802.1X
9 1 (0.42%) JSF
9 1 (0.42%) LDAP
9 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.42%) SAML
9 1 (0.42%) SAP Basis
9 1 (0.42%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.72%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.62%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (2.94%) Hedge funds
4 7 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (2.94%) Private Cloud
5 6 (2.52%) Fat Client
5 6 (2.52%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.52%) Thin Client
6 5 (2.10%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 5 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.10%) NHS
6 5 (2.10%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.10%) PKI
7 3 (1.26%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.26%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (0.84%) Clustering
8 2 (0.84%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 159 (66.81%) Windows
2 57 (23.95%) Windows Server
3 41 (17.23%) Windows 10
4 30 (12.61%) Linux
5 20 (8.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (5.88%) Windows Server 2003
7 13 (5.46%) Mac OS
8 12 (5.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (4.62%) AIX
9 11 (4.62%) Windows 7
10 7 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (1.68%) Unix
11 4 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (1.26%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.84%) Android
13 2 (0.84%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.84%) VMS
14 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (18.91%) ITIL
3 33 (13.87%) Agile
4 25 (10.50%) Migration
4 25 (10.50%) Roadmaps
5 23 (9.66%) Disaster Recovery
5 23 (9.66%) ITSM
6 22 (9.24%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (7.56%) Data Analysis
7 18 (7.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 18 (7.56%) Project Delivery
8 17 (7.14%) User Experience
9 16 (6.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (6.72%) Data Protection
9 16 (6.72%) Identity Access Management
9 16 (6.72%) Zero Trust
10 15 (6.30%) Change Management
10 15 (6.30%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (5.88%) DevOps
11 14 (5.88%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (24.79%) PowerShell
2 42 (17.65%) SQL
3 23 (9.66%) C#
3 23 (9.66%) Python
4 21 (8.82%) Bash
5 19 (7.98%) PL/SQL
5 19 (7.98%) T-SQL
6 13 (5.46%) VB
7 10 (4.20%) VBA
8 9 (3.78%) Perl
9 5 (2.10%) Java
9 5 (2.10%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.84%) VBScript
11 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.42%) Magik
Qualifications
1 36 (15.13%) Security Cleared
2 30 (12.61%) SC Cleared
3 28 (11.76%) Degree
4 15 (6.30%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (6.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (5.88%) CCNP
6 13 (5.46%) CCNA
7 9 (3.78%) CCDP
8 8 (3.36%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.36%) MCSE
9 7 (2.94%) Citrix Certification
10 6 (2.52%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.52%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (2.52%) MCP
11 5 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (2.10%) HNC
11 5 (2.10%) HND
11 5 (2.10%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (2.10%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.50%) QA
2 16 (6.72%) GDPR
3 12 (5.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (2.52%) NCSC
5 5 (2.10%) SLA
6 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.42%) MiFID
7 1 (0.42%) NIST
System Software
1 89 (37.39%) Active Directory
2 50 (21.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (16.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (3.78%) Hyper-V
5 8 (3.36%) Microsoft App-V
6 7 (2.94%) Terminal Services
7 6 (2.52%) XenApp
8 5 (2.10%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (2.10%) XenDesktop
9 4 (1.68%) vSphere
10 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.84%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.84%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.42%) Docker
11 1 (0.42%) NFS
Systems Management
1 38 (15.97%) SCCM
2 35 (14.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (6.30%) Terraform
4 12 (5.04%) Ansible
5 6 (2.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.68%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.68%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.26%) PaperCut
8 3 (1.26%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 2 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.84%) Kubernetes
9 2 (0.84%) WSUS
10 1 (0.42%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.42%) FreeIPA
10 1 (0.42%) Podman
10 1 (0.42%) SCOM
10 1 (0.42%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.42%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.42%) vRealize
Vendors
1 98 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 71 (29.83%) VMware
3 46 (19.33%) Oracle
4 26 (10.92%) Cisco
5 14 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 12 (5.04%) IBM
7 10 (4.20%) Red Hat
8 9 (3.78%) HP
9 7 (2.94%) F5
9 7 (2.94%) Fortinet
10 6 (2.52%) Zscaler
11 5 (2.10%) Bloomberg
11 5 (2.10%) CloudEndure
11 5 (2.10%) Forcepoint
11 5 (2.10%) Google
11 5 (2.10%) Ivanti
11 5 (2.10%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.10%) Reuters
12 4 (1.68%) Remedy
12 4 (1.68%) Wyse