Citrix Contract Job Trends

Citrix
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Citrix products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Citrix over the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Citrix Systems.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 268 226
Rank change year-on-year -109 -42 -31
Contract jobs citing Citrix 305 319 455
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.99% 1.05%
As % of the Vendors category 1.41% 2.08% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 205 288
10th Percentile £249 £160 £204
25th Percentile £404 £256 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £390 £400
Median % change year-on-year +25.64% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £580 £538 £525
90th Percentile £638 £600 £641
UK excluding London median daily rate £536 £369 £425
% change year-on-year +45.47% -13.24% +16.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 27 51
10th Percentile £23.80 - £14.16
25th Percentile £71.50 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £74.00 £16.30 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +353.99% - +4.42%
75th Percentile £74.26 £17.30 £21.37
90th Percentile - £22.31 £25.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 £16.30 £16.30
% change year-on-year +353.99% - +5.16%

All Vendors
UK

Citrix falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 21,701 15,371 18,628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.23% 47.50% 43.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,508 9,423 11,588
10th Percentile £313 £281 £267
25th Percentile £413 £403 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,110 733 1,141
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.75 £12.40
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £34.61 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.62% +0.60% -38.34%
75th Percentile £63.94 £52.16 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.55 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.63 £24.18
% change year-on-year +43.61% -6.41% -22.00%

Citrix
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Citrix job vacancy trend in the UK

Citrix
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Citrix
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Citrix over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Citrix in the UK

Citrix
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Citrix
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Citrix over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Citrix in the UK

Citrix
Top 16 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 10 July 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
England -111 280 £490 +25.64% 53
UK excluding London -142 158 £536 +45.47% 45
London -38 143 £445 +11.25% 21
Work from Home -27 81 £550 +37.50% 24
South East -79 58 £570 +52.00% 14
North of England -97 31 £449 +28.14% 15
Midlands -45 26 £450 +71.43% 3
North West -37 20 £447 -12.78% 7
West Midlands -60 19 £450 +71.43% 3
Scotland -4 18 £500 - 2
South West -27 17 £550 +134.04% 6
Yorkshire -70 10 £510 +117.02% 3
East Midlands -10 7 - -
East of England -52 6 £500 +275.94% 5
Wales -11 3 £175 -54.84% 2
North East - 1 £500 - 6

Citrix
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 37 (12.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (6.89%) SharePoint
3 20 (6.56%) IIS
4 5 (1.64%) Appian
4 5 (1.64%) Camunda
4 5 (1.64%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (1.31%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.64%) OpenText MBPM
2 5 (1.64%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.33%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.33%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 78 (25.57%) Azure
2 75 (24.59%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (13.11%) Entra ID
4 31 (10.16%) AWS
5 11 (3.61%) IaaS
6 9 (2.95%) Google Workspace
6 9 (2.95%) PaaS
7 8 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (2.62%) GCP
7 8 (2.62%) OneDrive
8 6 (1.97%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 6 (1.97%) AWS CloudTrail
9 5 (1.64%) AWS KMS
10 4 (1.31%) Mimecast
10 4 (1.31%) Nutanix
11 3 (0.98%) OpenShift
11 3 (0.98%) Power Platform
11 3 (0.98%) Rubrik
12 2 (0.66%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (0.66%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (21.31%) DNS
2 53 (17.38%) VPN
3 48 (15.74%) DHCP
4 47 (15.41%) Firewall
5 25 (8.20%) Network Security
6 23 (7.54%) TCP/IP
7 20 (6.56%) Internet
8 18 (5.90%) NetScaler
9 12 (3.93%) LAN
10 10 (3.28%) VLAN
10 10 (3.28%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (2.95%) BGP
11 9 (2.95%) DMZ
11 9 (2.95%) SMTP
11 9 (2.95%) WAN
12 8 (2.62%) SSL
13 7 (2.30%) OSPF
13 7 (2.30%) Wireless
14 6 (1.97%) IPv4
14 6 (1.97%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (17.38%) SQL Server
2 28 (9.18%) Oracle Database
3 7 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.98%) Big Data
5 3 (0.98%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (4.59%) JIRA
2 13 (4.26%) MSI
3 5 (1.64%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.31%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (1.31%) Git
4 4 (1.31%) Selenium
5 3 (0.98%) Appium
5 3 (0.98%) JUnit
5 3 (0.98%) REST Assured
5 3 (0.98%) TestNG
6 1 (0.33%) GitLab
6 1 (0.33%) GoCD
6 1 (0.33%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.33%) JMeter
6 1 (0.33%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.33%) Postman
6 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 94 (30.82%) Social Skills
2 65 (21.31%) Finance
3 46 (15.08%) Banking
4 25 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.93%) Front Office
6 11 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (3.61%) Legal
7 10 (3.28%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.62%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.30%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.31%) Italian Language
11 4 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.98%) Publishing
13 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.66%) Retail
14 1 (0.33%) Law
14 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 62 (20.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 40 (13.11%) Developer
3 38 (12.46%) Citrix Engineer
4 36 (11.80%) Analyst
5 33 (10.82%) Architect
6 30 (9.84%) C# Developer
7 27 (8.85%) Senior
8 25 (8.20%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
9 19 (6.23%) Support Engineer
10 18 (5.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 17 (5.57%) Administrator
12 12 (3.93%) IT Analyst
12 12 (3.93%) Network Engineer
12 12 (3.93%) Senior Citrix Engineer
13 11 (3.61%) Desktop Engineer
13 11 (3.61%) VMware Engineer
14 10 (3.28%) Consultant
14 10 (3.28%) Help Desk Analyst
15 9 (2.95%) Applications Developer
15 9 (2.95%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (13.11%) .NET
2 35 (11.48%) .NET Framework
3 15 (4.92%) WPF
4 14 (4.59%) WinForms
5 5 (1.64%) SAML
6 4 (1.31%) Software Packaging
6 4 (1.31%) Web Services
7 3 (0.98%) 802.1X
7 3 (0.98%) REST
7 3 (0.98%) RESTful
7 3 (0.98%) XML
7 3 (0.98%) XMPP
8 2 (0.66%) ADO
8 2 (0.66%) ebXML
8 2 (0.66%) LDAP
8 2 (0.66%) SailPoint
9 1 (0.33%) FIX Protocol
9 1 (0.33%) JSON
9 1 (0.33%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.33%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.20%) Data Centre
2 22 (7.21%) Onboarding
3 21 (6.89%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (5.90%) PKI
5 15 (4.92%) Blackberry
6 12 (3.93%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (3.28%) Clustering
8 9 (2.95%) Video Conferencing
9 8 (2.62%) Virtual Team
10 7 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.97%) Hedge funds
12 5 (1.64%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.64%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (1.64%) Fat Client
12 5 (1.64%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.64%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.64%) Thin Client
13 4 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (1.31%) Product Ownership
14 3 (0.98%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 206 (67.54%) Windows
2 74 (24.26%) Windows Server
3 34 (11.15%) Linux
4 26 (8.52%) Windows 10
5 19 (6.23%) Android
5 19 (6.23%) Apple iOS
6 16 (5.25%) Mac OS
7 9 (2.95%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (2.62%) Windows Server 2003
9 7 (2.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (1.97%) Debian
11 5 (1.64%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (1.31%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.98%) AIX
14 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.33%) CentOS
15 1 (0.33%) VMS
15 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (25.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 54 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (13.77%) ITIL
4 39 (12.79%) Migration
5 34 (11.15%) Change Management
6 33 (10.82%) Data Analysis
7 29 (9.51%) Disaster Recovery
8 26 (8.52%) Agile
8 26 (8.52%) AI
9 25 (8.20%) ITSM
9 25 (8.20%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (6.89%) DevOps
10 21 (6.89%) User Experience
11 20 (6.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 19 (6.23%) Customer Service
12 19 (6.23%) Incident Management
13 17 (5.57%) Project Delivery
13 17 (5.57%) Service Delivery
13 17 (5.57%) Service Management
14 15 (4.92%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 53 (17.38%) PowerShell
2 43 (14.10%) SQL
3 40 (13.11%) C#
4 33 (10.82%) PL/SQL
4 33 (10.82%) T-SQL
5 12 (3.93%) Python
5 12 (3.93%) VB
6 11 (3.61%) VBA
7 5 (1.64%) Bash
7 5 (1.64%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.98%) Bicep
9 2 (0.66%) VBScript
10 1 (0.33%) C
10 1 (0.33%) Java
10 1 (0.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 89 (29.18%) Security Cleared
2 71 (23.28%) SC Cleared
3 36 (11.80%) Degree
4 25 (8.20%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (3.61%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.95%) Citrix Certification
8 7 (2.30%) CCA
8 7 (2.30%) MCSE
9 6 (1.97%) ISTQB
9 6 (1.97%) MCSA
10 5 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.98%) CESG Certified Professional
12 3 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.98%) HND
12 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.66%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (12.13%) QA
2 5 (1.64%) SLA
3 3 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.98%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (0.98%) NCSC
4 2 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (0.66%) RMADS
System Software
1 95 (31.15%) Active Directory
2 67 (21.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (14.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (7.21%) Hyper-V
5 21 (6.89%) Microsoft App-V
6 15 (4.92%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (3.28%) vSphere
8 9 (2.95%) VMware NSX
9 8 (2.62%) BitLocker
9 8 (2.62%) XenDesktop
10 7 (2.30%) Docker
10 7 (2.30%) XenApp
11 5 (1.64%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
12 3 (0.98%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.33%) Citrix Presentation Server
13 1 (0.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 49 (16.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 39 (12.79%) SCCM
3 19 (6.23%) WSUS
4 15 (4.92%) vCenter Server
5 10 (3.28%) Kubernetes
5 10 (3.28%) Terraform
5 10 (3.28%) vMotion
6 9 (2.95%) Ansible
7 8 (2.62%) SCOM
8 7 (2.30%) Puppet
9 6 (1.97%) FortiGate
9 6 (1.97%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.98%) Nagios
11 3 (0.98%) Nessus
11 3 (0.98%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.66%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.66%) WMI
13 1 (0.33%) CloudForms
13 1 (0.33%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 112 (36.72%) VMware
2 108 (35.41%) Microsoft
3 40 (13.11%) Oracle
4 25 (8.20%) Cisco
5 16 (5.25%) Bloomberg
5 16 (5.25%) ServiceNow
6 14 (4.59%) MobileIron
7 12 (3.93%) Reuters
8 9 (2.95%) CyberArk
8 9 (2.95%) Google
9 8 (2.62%) ION Trading
9 8 (2.62%) Zscaler
10 7 (2.30%) Apple
10 7 (2.30%) F5
10 7 (2.30%) Remedy
11 6 (1.97%) BeyondTrust
11 6 (1.97%) Meraki
11 6 (1.97%) NetApp
11 6 (1.97%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.97%) SolarWinds