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 3 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 543 605
Rank change year-on-year -4 +62 +211
Contract jobs citing CCA 11 15 32
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.032% 0.041% 0.068%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.098% 0.14% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 2
10th Percentile £70 £294 £363
25th Percentile £350 £409 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £528 £415
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +27.11% -22.61%
75th Percentile £515 £540 £448
90th Percentile £586 £588 £467
UK excluding London median daily rate £293 £528 £350
% change year-on-year -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 11,220 10,626 13,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.72% 29.26% 28.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,125 6,463 8,596
10th Percentile £294 £312 £305
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £635 £650
90th Percentile £713 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £518 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -3.09% +1.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 962 483 751
10th Percentile £17.30 £18.65 £17.71
25th Percentile £18.90 £24.18 £26.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% -12.04% +16.67%
75th Percentile £43.00 £67.01 £69.19
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £48.18 £51.89
% change year-on-year -47.80% -7.15% +15.31%

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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 3 November 2025.

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 9 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 3 November 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
England -22 8 £515 -2.37% 7
Work from Home +6 5 £515 -26.43% 3
UK excluding London -35 5 £293 -44.55% 8
London -2 4 £518 -26.00% 3
South East +3 2 £515 - 3
Midlands -22 2 £515 -4.63%
West Midlands -27 2 £515 -4.63%
Scotland - 2 £70 - 1
South 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (36.36%) SAP ERP
2 2 (18.18%) SAP CO
2 2 (18.18%) SAP FI
2 2 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco ICM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 7 (63.64%) Finance
3 4 (36.36%) General Ledger
3 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
3 4 (36.36%) Telecoms
4 2 (18.18%) Aerospace
4 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
4 2 (18.18%) Military
5 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Banking
5 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
5 1 (9.09%) Legal
5 1 (9.09%) Marketing
5 1 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Consultant
2 4 (36.36%) SAP BW Consultant
2 4 (36.36%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Engineering Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Programme Manager
3 2 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Virtual Team
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (9.09%) CMDB
2 1 (9.09%) IVR
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Cost Centre Accounting
1 6 (54.55%) Workshop Facilitation
2 5 (45.45%) CRM
3 4 (36.36%) Accounts Payable
3 4 (36.36%) Accounts Receivable
3 4 (36.36%) Analytics
3 4 (36.36%) ERP
3 4 (36.36%) Revenue Management
4 2 (18.18%) Change Management
4 2 (18.18%) Matrix Organization
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Profit Centre Accounting
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (18.18%) Value Proposition
5 1 (9.09%) Customer Experience
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (9.09%) Migration
5 1 (9.09%) Project Management
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) ABAP
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) PMO
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco UCCE
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco UCCX
1 1 (9.09%) Packer
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) SAP
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Avaya
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) CyberArk
3 1 (9.09%) Genesys
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) VMware