Citrix Contract Job Trends in the South West

Citrix
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 28 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
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 103 127
Rank change year-on-year -16 +24 +5
Contract jobs citing Citrix 21 11 25
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.74% 0.62% 0.80%
As % of the Vendors category 2.10% 1.32% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 16
10th Percentile £265 £189 £113
25th Percentile £525 £460 £113
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £205
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +160.98% -25.45%
75th Percentile £575 £560 £300
90th Percentile £578 £578 £350
England median daily rate £475 £375 £375
% change year-on-year +26.67% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £46.39
England median hourly rate £74.26 £18.13 £15.65
% change year-on-year +309.60% +15.85% +0.97%

All Vendors
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 998 834 1,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 35.22% 46.99% 42.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 533 841
10th Percentile £275 £215 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £516 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.76% -1.73% -
75th Percentile £600 £619 £646
90th Percentile £725 £699 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -3.33% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 38 169
10th Percentile £18.87 £18.42 £14.54
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.26 £37.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £71.33 £70.00
England median hourly rate £24.00 £31.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -22.58% +19.23% -21.21%

Citrix
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Citrix job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Citrix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Citrix

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Citrix in the South West over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Citrix in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Citrix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Citrix

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix within the South West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Wiltshire - 16 £550 -
Devon +2 3 £175 -9.09% 1
Somerset -9 1 £575 +2.22%
Dorset - 1 - -
Citrix
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) VPN
2 2 (9.52%) LAN
3 1 (4.76%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (4.76%) Firewall
3 1 (4.76%) iSCSI
3 1 (4.76%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (4.76%) WAN
3 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) GoCD
1 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 15 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (71.43%) Architect
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) 1st Line Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (4.76%) 1st Line Support Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Administrator
3 1 (4.76%) Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared Deployment Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Service Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Support Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Deployment Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (66.67%) Blackberry
2 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 17 (80.95%) Windows
2 14 (66.67%) Android
2 14 (66.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.76%) CentOS
3 1 (4.76%) Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (66.67%) Mobile Device Management
2 14 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (9.52%) Business Continuity
3 2 (9.52%) Change Management
3 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (4.76%) CI/CD
4 1 (4.76%) Desktop Virtualisation
4 1 (4.76%) Incident Response
4 1 (4.76%) ITIL
4 1 (4.76%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (4.76%) Migration
4 1 (4.76%) Operational Stability
4 1 (4.76%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (4.76%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (4.76%) Runbook
4 1 (4.76%) Security Hardening
4 1 (4.76%) Task Automation
4 1 (4.76%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 16 (76.19%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
1 4 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
2 2 (9.52%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (9.52%) vSphere
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (14.29%) SCCM
3 1 (4.76%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) EMC VPLEX
3 1 (4.76%) FreeIPA
3 1 (4.76%) SCOM
Vendors
1 18 (85.71%) VMware
2 17 (80.95%) Microsoft
3 14 (66.67%) MobileIron
4 1 (4.76%) Dell
4 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.76%) Veeam