Citrix Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Citrix
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 10 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
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Citrix 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 4.67% - -
As % of the Vendors category 9.62% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
North West median daily rate £550 £475 £350
% change year-on-year +15.79% +35.71% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.26 - -
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £31.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year +139.55% +87.88% +17.86%

All Vendors
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 104 66 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 48.60% 44.30% 69.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 23 87
10th Percentile £186 £453 £390
25th Percentile £400 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £518 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -17.20% +17.92%
75th Percentile £586 £563 £716
90th Percentile £680 £630 £720
North West median daily rate £455 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 38
10th Percentile £23.32 £25.30 £19.21
25th Percentile £48.42 £35.36 £20.58
Median hourly rate £61.09 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +32.29% - +15.45%
75th Percentile £74.26 - -
90th Percentile £74.93 - £74.37
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year -22.63% -4.41% +70.00%

Citrix
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Citrix relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Citrix job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Citrix
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Citrix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Citrix

Citrix
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Citrix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Citrix

Citrix
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 10 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
Preston - 5 £550 - 1
Citrix
North West

Citrix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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 7 (70.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (50.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (10.00%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) WebEx
2 3 (30.00%) BGP
2 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (30.00%) VLAN
3 2 (20.00%) DNS
General
1 7 (70.00%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (70.00%) Legal
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (20.00%) Fat Client
3 2 (20.00%) Thin Client
4 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Linux
1 8 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
1 8 (80.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Platform Engineering
1 9 (90.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (70.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 7 (70.00%) Change Control
2 7 (70.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 7 (70.00%) Identity Access Management
2 7 (70.00%) ITSM
2 7 (70.00%) Knowledge Management
2 7 (70.00%) Product Requirements
2 7 (70.00%) Service Management
2 7 (70.00%) User Stories
3 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (40.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 4 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) Digital Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) High Availability
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (80.00%) Bash
2 8 (80.00%) Perl
2 8 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (70.00%) CCDP
2 7 (70.00%) CCNA
2 7 (70.00%) CCNP
2 7 (70.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (30.00%) Degree
4 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Red Hat
1 8 (80.00%) VMware
2 7 (70.00%) Cisco
2 7 (70.00%) Microsoft