Citrix Engineer Contract Job Trends

Citrix Engineer
UK

The median Citrix Engineer daily rate in the UK is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 551 584
Rank change year-on-year -1 +33 +173
Contract jobs requiring a Citrix Engineer 13 15 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.039% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.042% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 48
10th Percentile - £156 £331
25th Percentile £425 £400 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £365
Median % change year-on-year - +23.29% -14.12%
75th Percentile £519 £500 £507
90th Percentile £583 £619 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £450 £365
% change year-on-year +44.44% +23.29% +4.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 29,736 35,681 46,948
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 92.95% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,755 21,927 32,149
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,586 1,658 1,511
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £14.93
25th Percentile £17.17 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%
75th Percentile £51.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.13 £43.90 £43.75
% change year-on-year -42.76% +0.34% +98.86%

Citrix Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Citrix Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Citrix Engineer in the UK

Citrix Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Citrix Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Citrix Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Citrix Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Citrix Engineer over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Citrix Engineer in the UK

Citrix Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Citrix Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Citrix Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Citrix Engineer
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Citrix Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 21 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 +13 12 £450 - 1
London +24 9 £450 -15.29% 1
Work from Home +25 5 £475 -22.45% 2
UK excluding London +6 3 £650 +44.44%
Midlands - 3 £650 -
West Midlands - 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 £650 -

Citrix Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 21 September 2025, Citrix Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Citrix Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Citrix
2 8 (61.54%) Windows
3 7 (53.85%) DHCP
3 7 (53.85%) DNS
4 5 (38.46%) Microsoft App-V
4 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
4 5 (38.46%) NetScaler
5 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
5 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
5 4 (30.77%) Load Balancing
6 3 (23.08%) SCCM
6 3 (23.08%) VMware
6 3 (23.08%) Finance
6 3 (23.08%) Azure
6 3 (23.08%) Zscaler
7 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (15.38%) Hedge funds
7 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (15.38%) VLAN
7 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
7 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
7 2 (15.38%) VPN
7 2 (15.38%) LAN
7 2 (15.38%) SQL
7 2 (15.38%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (15.38%) Okta
7 2 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering

Citrix Engineer Skill Set
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 (7.69%) CMS
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) ProjectWise
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Nutanix
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) DHCP
1 7 (53.85%) DNS
2 5 (38.46%) NetScaler
3 2 (15.38%) LAN
3 2 (15.38%) VLAN
3 2 (15.38%) VPN
3 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) JSON
1 1 (7.69%) REST
1 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Hedge funds
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Load Balancing
2 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
3 1 (7.69%) Agile
3 1 (7.69%) Analytics
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
3 1 (7.69%) Incident Management
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) Migration
3 1 (7.69%) Release Management
3 1 (7.69%) SDLC
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Workstation
3 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (7.69%) XenApp
3 1 (7.69%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) SCCM
2 2 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (7.69%) SysTrack
3 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Citrix
2 3 (23.08%) VMware
2 3 (23.08%) Zscaler
3 2 (15.38%) Okta
4 1 (7.69%) New Relic