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 1 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
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 113 136
Rank change year-on-year -9 +23 -9
Contract jobs citing Citrix 7 19 19
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.31% 0.84% 0.62%
As % of the Vendors category 0.74% 1.86% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 13
10th Percentile - £189 £113
25th Percentile £173 £460 £113
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £470 £225
Median % change year-on-year -57.45% +108.89% -4.26%
75th Percentile £325 £553 £300
90th Percentile £426 £566 -
England median daily rate £450 £390 £375
% change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% -6.25%

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 943 1,020 1,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 41.47% 44.93% 42.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 606 858
10th Percentile £250 £238 £262
25th Percentile £413 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £625 £624 £638
90th Percentile £725 £719 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 58 119
10th Percentile £6.00 £12.56 £19.22
25th Percentile £18.87 £35.00 £46.59
Median hourly rate £22.63 £67.26 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.35% +22.29% -15.38%
75th Percentile £38.94 £70.00 £67.80
90th Percentile £72.75 £74.61 £76.25
England median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.15% -26.97% +71.15%

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 1 December 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 1 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
Wiltshire - 3 £300 -
Devon +6 2 £175 -9.09%
Bristol -5 2 - -
Citrix
England

Citrix
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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) NetScaler
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (14.29%) WebEx
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GoCD
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Electronics
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) 1st Line Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (14.29%) 1st Line Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared Deployment Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Service Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Support
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) FMCG
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
4 1 (14.29%) Android
4 1 (14.29%) Linux
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Agile
1 2 (28.57%) Business Case
1 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
1 2 (28.57%) Scrum
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (14.29%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
2 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Runbook
2 1 (14.29%) Security Hardening
2 1 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Debt
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (28.57%) XenDesktop
4 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) SCCM
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (14.29%) AirWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) FreeIPA
3 1 (14.29%) SCOM
3 1 (14.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Apple
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) Ivanti
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow