CCA Contract Job Trends

Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CCA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 662 549 535
Rank change year-on-year -113 -14 +64
Contract jobs citing CCA 13 11 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.024% 0.033% 0.040%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.074% 0.10% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 8
10th Percentile £305 £70 £294
25th Percentile £413 £350 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £512 £528
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% -2.99% +27.11%
75th Percentile £481 £515 £540
90th Percentile £616 £586 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £293 £528
% change year-on-year +50.43% -44.55% +50.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 17,542 10,494 10,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.94% 31.87% 29.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,589 6,568 6,650
10th Percentile £356 £283 £310
25th Percentile £447 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £630
90th Percentile £713 £704 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,480 890 571
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.59 £18.13
25th Percentile £25.00 £18.87 £25.43
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -47.05% -11.35%
75th Percentile £72.25 £40.41 £68.00
90th Percentile £89.08 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -49.70% -3.64%

CCA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

CCA job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCA over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CCA in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

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Top 10 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 October 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
UK excluding London -80 12 £440 +50.43% 6
England -120 11 £430 -16.50% 9
Work from Home -59 10 £450 -12.62% 2
South East -63 5 £461 -10.44% 2
Midlands -42 3 £430 -16.50% 1
West Midlands -48 3 £430 -16.50%
South West -31 2 - -
Scotland -27 1 £450 +542.86%
North of England - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 - - 1

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (23.08%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (23.08%) SAP ERP
1 3 (23.08%) SAP PSCD
2 1 (7.69%) SAP CO
2 1 (7.69%) SAP FI
2 1 (7.69%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) DNS
1 3 (23.08%) NetScaler
2 2 (15.38%) DHCP
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall
3 1 (7.69%) SAN
3 1 (7.69%) VPN
3 1 (7.69%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (23.08%) SAP BW
1 3 (23.08%) SAP Data Services
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 4 (30.77%) General Ledger
3 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
4 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (23.08%) Telecoms
5 2 (15.38%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Consultant
2 4 (30.77%) SAP Consultant
2 4 (30.77%) Senior
3 3 (23.08%) Administrator
3 3 (23.08%) SAP BW Consultant
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Consultant
3 3 (23.08%) Wintel Administrator
4 2 (15.38%) Safety Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Systems Safety Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) SAP CO Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) SAP FI Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior SAP Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) CSS
1 2 (15.38%) HTML
1 2 (15.38%) Semantic HTML
2 1 (7.69%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
1 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.69%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) User Experience
2 4 (30.77%) Accounts Payable
2 4 (30.77%) Accounts Receivable
2 4 (30.77%) Cost Centre Accounting
2 4 (30.77%) Workshop Facilitation
3 3 (23.08%) Analytics
3 3 (23.08%) CRM
3 3 (23.08%) ERP
3 3 (23.08%) ITSM
3 3 (23.08%) Master Data Management
3 3 (23.08%) Revenue Management
4 2 (15.38%) CAE
4 2 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
4 2 (15.38%) Hazard Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Load Balancing
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (15.38%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 3 (23.08%) ABAP
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 8 (61.54%) SC Cleared
3 5 (38.46%) Citrix Certification
4 4 (30.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (30.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (23.08%) MCSA
5 3 (23.08%) MCSE
5 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (15.38%) Degree
7 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
7 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
7 1 (7.69%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
1 2 (15.38%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (15.38%) Def Stans
1 2 (15.38%) WCAG
2 1 (7.69%) IFRS
2 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 4 (30.77%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (30.77%) vSphere
3 3 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (15.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (7.69%) DFS Replication
5 1 (7.69%) Firmware
5 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (30.77%) vCenter Server
2 3 (23.08%) SCCM
2 3 (23.08%) SCOM
3 2 (15.38%) vMotion
4 1 (7.69%) Ansible
4 1 (7.69%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Citrix
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) SAP
2 4 (30.77%) VMware
3 3 (23.08%) Remedy
3 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
3 3 (23.08%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.69%) Commvault
4 1 (7.69%) EMC
4 1 (7.69%) IBM
4 1 (7.69%) Isilon
4 1 (7.69%) NetApp