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 18 October 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
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 113 130
Rank change year-on-year +8 +17 -1
Contract jobs citing Citrix 13 21 22
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.65% 0.85% 0.69%
As % of the Vendors category 1.48% 1.88% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 17
10th Percentile £173 £171 £195
25th Percentile £218 £249 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £235 £470 £300
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +56.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £409 £558 -
90th Percentile £588 £591 £435
England median daily rate £408 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +1.88% - -

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 876 1,117 1,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 43.50% 44.97% 40.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 642 866
10th Percentile £220 £228 £275
25th Percentile £363 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% - -
75th Percentile £619 £637 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 88 115
10th Percentile £15.00 £25.26 £19.17
25th Percentile £18.87 £61.25 £46.59
Median hourly rate £22.63 £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.67% +27.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £42.18 - £65.98
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.18 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.94% -20.94% +81.04%

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 18 October 2025.

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 18 October 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
Bristol +7 8 £235 -50.53%
Wiltshire +7 3 £300 - 1
Devon -1 2 £175 -9.09% 1
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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 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) VPN
2 4 (30.77%) NetScaler
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (7.69%) WebEx
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) GoCD
1 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Electronics
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Support Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Desktop Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Desktop Support
3 4 (30.77%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) 1st Line Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Citrix Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Desktop Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared Deployment Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Service Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Service Desk Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Service Desk Support
5 1 (7.69%) Windows Deployment Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) FMCG
1 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 3 (23.08%) Windows 10
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (7.69%) Android
4 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Collaborative Working
1 5 (38.46%) ITIL
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) Case Management
2 4 (30.77%) Customer Service
2 4 (30.77%) ITSM
2 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
2 4 (30.77%) Scrum
2 4 (30.77%) Service Delivery
3 3 (23.08%) Technical Debt
4 2 (15.38%) Business Case
4 2 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (7.69%) Cost Reduction
5 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
5 1 (7.69%) Runbook
5 1 (7.69%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
1 4 (30.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Active Directory
2 5 (38.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (30.77%) XenDesktop
4 3 (23.08%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (53.85%) SCCM
3 1 (7.69%) AirWatch
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) FreeIPA
3 1 (7.69%) SCOM
3 1 (7.69%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 5 (38.46%) ServiceNow
3 4 (30.77%) VMware
4 3 (23.08%) Ivanti
5 2 (15.38%) SAP
6 1 (7.69%) Apple
6 1 (7.69%) Cisco
6 1 (7.69%) HP