CCA Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CCA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 330 395
Rank change year-on-year -64 +65 +97
Contract jobs citing CCA 8 17 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.12% 0.021%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.12% 0.34% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 0
10th Percentile £511 £329 -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% - -
75th Percentile £523 £540 -
90th Percentile £527 - -
UK median daily rate £512 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +2.35% -2.91% +4.04%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

CCA falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 6,754 5,049 7,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.92% 34.63% 36.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,235 3,017 4,350
10th Percentile £255 £225 £250
25th Percentile £405 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% -7.19% +2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £645
90th Percentile £705 £700 £703
UK median daily rate £522 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 856 393 615
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.51 £15.85
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £26.24
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -18.10% +16.09%
75th Percentile £51.53 £67.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £79.21
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -23.81% +16.67%

CCA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CCA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

CCA job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

CCA
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CCA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CCA

CCA
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CCA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CCA

CCA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
North of England -52 4 £520 - 6
South East -14 3 £515 - 1
North West -24 3 £520 - 6
West Midlands -29 2 £515 -4.63%
Midlands -44 2 £515 -4.63% 2
Yorkshire - 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
CCA
UK

CCA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) SAP CO
1 2 (25.00%) SAP ERP
1 2 (25.00%) SAP FI
1 2 (25.00%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (12.50%) SAP FI-CA
2 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (12.50%) Siteimprove
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) NetScaler
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Banking
2 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (25.00%) General Ledger
3 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (12.50%) Billing
4 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Consultant
1 3 (37.50%) SAP Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) SAP BW Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix Expert
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) CMDB
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Revenue Management
1 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (25.00%) Accounts Payable
2 2 (25.00%) Accounts Receivable
2 2 (25.00%) Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Cost Centre Accounting
2 2 (25.00%) CRM
2 2 (25.00%) ERP
2 2 (25.00%) User Experience
2 2 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Security Hardening
3 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (12.50%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) ABAP
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) QA
1 1 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) vSphere
1 1 (12.50%) XenApp
1 1 (12.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Packer
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) CyberArk
3 1 (12.50%) F5