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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 558 541 617
Rank change year-on-year -17 +76 +212
Contract jobs citing CCA 10 18 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.047% 0.069%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.097% 0.16% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 2
10th Percentile £70 £365 £363
25th Percentile £355 £438 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £415
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% +30.12% -27.51%
75th Percentile £533 £548 £448
90th Percentile £586 £565 £467
UK excluding London median daily rate £293 £528 £350
% change year-on-year -44.55% +50.71% -5.41%

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 10,329 11,269 13,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.35% 29.26% 28.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,453 6,946 8,930
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £711 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 835 654 722
10th Percentile £17.91 £17.00 £16.55
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £49.50 £54.53
Median % change year-on-year -49.19% -9.22% +21.18%
75th Percentile £45.40 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £76.00 £78.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -52.10% - +16.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CCA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CCA 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +7 7 £515 -4.63% 19
Work from Home +30 5 £515 -6.36% 15
UK excluding London -13 5 £293 -44.55% 16
London +21 3 £586 +6.55% 6
South East +17 2 £515 - 8
West Midlands -12 2 £515 -4.63%
Midlands -18 2 £515 -4.63% 7
Scotland - 2 £70 -
South West - 1 - -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) SAP ERP
2 2 (20.00%) SAP CO
2 2 (20.00%) SAP FI
2 2 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (70.00%) Finance
3 4 (40.00%) General Ledger
3 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (20.00%) Aerospace
4 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (20.00%) Military
5 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Banking
5 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Consultant
2 4 (40.00%) SAP BW Consultant
2 4 (40.00%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Engineering Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Programme Manager
3 2 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (10.00%) CMDB
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Cost Centre Accounting
1 6 (60.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 4 (40.00%) Accounts Payable
2 4 (40.00%) Accounts Receivable
2 4 (40.00%) Analytics
2 4 (40.00%) CRM
2 4 (40.00%) ERP
2 4 (40.00%) Revenue Management
3 2 (20.00%) Change Management
3 2 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Profit Centre Accounting
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (20.00%) Value Proposition
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) Security Hardening
4 1 (10.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) ABAP
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) PMO
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Packer
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (10.00%) VMware