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 13 December 2025, 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
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 234 201
Rank change year-on-year -95 -33 -8
Contract jobs citing Citrix 263 385 547
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.08% 1.20%
As % of the Vendors category 1.53% 2.38% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 207 387
10th Percentile £171 £182 £200
25th Percentile £369 £275 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £380 £388
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -1.94% -3.13%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £534
90th Percentile £627 £619 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £360 £363
% change year-on-year +27.43% -0.69% -8.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 29
10th Percentile £15.87 £17.00 £13.86
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.25 £14.16
Median hourly rate £30.00 £21.46 £15.65
Median % change year-on-year +39.79% +37.12% +0.97%
75th Percentile £74.26 £24.18 £17.43
90th Percentile - £27.00 £50.11
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.39 £21.46 £15.65
% change year-on-year +13.63% +37.12% +0.97%

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 17,187 16,208 20,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.37% 45.39% 45.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,917 9,626 13,106
10th Percentile £290 £290 £255
25th Percentile £406 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £612 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 864 500 679
10th Percentile £15.23 £15.46 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.09 £18.69 £19.88
Median hourly rate £24.00 £29.39 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% -33.97% +73.08%
75th Percentile £43.35 £62.51 £64.70
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% -39.04% +97.78%

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 13 December 2025.

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 13 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Citrix in the UK

Citrix
Top 17 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 13 December 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 -82 238 £450 +15.38% 65
UK excluding London -92 139 £459 +27.43% 55
London -41 111 £450 +12.50% 17
Work from Home -15 58 £479 -13.00% 26
North of England -43 39 £538 +22.86% 25
South East -31 37 £451 +28.93% 17
North West -21 26 £550 +15.79% 7
East of England -17 24 £149 -62.81% 4
Midlands -31 19 £491 +211.75% 3
East Midlands -9 12 £496 +53.80%
Yorkshire -31 10 £531 - 14
Northern Ireland -1 7 - - 1
South West -24 7 £200 -57.45% 4
West Midlands -33 7 £350 +143.48% 3
North East -7 5 £550 +193.33% 5
Scotland -35 4 £225 +52.03%
Wales -4 3 £388 +55.00% 1

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 22 (8.37%) SharePoint
2 21 (7.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (5.70%) IIS
4 7 (2.66%) WebSphere
5 5 (1.90%) Confluence
6 2 (0.76%) CMS
6 2 (0.76%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.76%) WildFly
7 1 (0.38%) JBoss
7 1 (0.38%) SAS
7 1 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.38%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.38%) Smallworld
Applications
1 17 (6.46%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.76%) ProjectWise
5 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.38%) OpenText MBPM
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 79 (30.04%) Azure
2 62 (23.57%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (15.97%) Entra ID
4 29 (11.03%) AWS
5 22 (8.37%) GCP
6 12 (4.56%) Nutanix
7 7 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.66%) IaaS
7 7 (2.66%) SaaS
8 6 (2.28%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 6 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (2.28%) AWS CloudTrail
8 6 (2.28%) AWS Control Tower
8 6 (2.28%) AWS KMS
8 6 (2.28%) PaaS
8 6 (2.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (1.52%) Google Workspace
10 3 (1.14%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.76%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 50 (19.01%) Firewall
2 40 (15.21%) DNS
3 33 (12.55%) NetScaler
4 28 (10.65%) DHCP
4 28 (10.65%) VPN
5 22 (8.37%) TCP/IP
6 19 (7.22%) LAN
7 17 (6.46%) WebEx
8 13 (4.94%) Internet
8 13 (4.94%) Remote Desktop
9 11 (4.18%) VoIP
9 11 (4.18%) WAN
9 11 (4.18%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (3.80%) VLAN
11 7 (2.66%) SAN
12 5 (1.90%) Network Security
13 4 (1.52%) BGP
13 4 (1.52%) FTP
13 4 (1.52%) MPLS
13 4 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (15.21%) SQL Server
2 27 (10.27%) Oracle Database
3 11 (4.18%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.14%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.14%) Tableau
4 3 (1.14%) Tableau Desktop
5 2 (0.76%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.76%) Tableau Server
6 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.38%) GIS
6 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (5.32%) JIRA
2 5 (1.90%) Visual Studio
3 4 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.14%) GitLab
4 3 (1.14%) MSI
5 2 (0.76%) Hudson
5 2 (0.76%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.38%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.38%) GoCD
6 1 (0.38%) Postman
6 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 91 (34.60%) Social Skills
2 74 (28.14%) Finance
3 29 (11.03%) Banking
4 24 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.84%) Legal
6 13 (4.94%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.90%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.90%) Law
11 4 (1.52%) Front Office
11 4 (1.52%) Local Government
12 3 (1.14%) International Banking
12 3 (1.14%) Polish Language
12 3 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.14%) Publishing
13 2 (0.76%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.76%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 41 (15.59%) Analyst
2 27 (10.27%) Architect
3 24 (9.13%) Developer
4 23 (8.75%) Citrix Engineer
4 23 (8.75%) Technical Analyst
5 22 (8.37%) Support Engineer
6 20 (7.60%) Technical Support
7 18 (6.84%) C# Developer
7 18 (6.84%) Support Analyst
8 17 (6.46%) IT Support
8 17 (6.46%) Technical Support Analyst
9 14 (5.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (5.32%) Senior
10 12 (4.56%) Lead
11 11 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (3.80%) IT Analyst
13 9 (3.42%) Cloud Architect
13 9 (3.42%) Consultant
13 9 (3.42%) IT Engineer
14 8 (3.04%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.75%) .NET
2 19 (7.22%) .NET Framework
3 13 (4.94%) WPF
4 12 (4.56%) WinForms
5 9 (3.42%) REST
5 9 (3.42%) XMPP
6 8 (3.04%) Middleware
6 8 (3.04%) WCF
7 7 (2.66%) JSON
8 4 (1.52%) XML
9 1 (0.38%) 802.1X
9 1 (0.38%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.38%) JSF
9 1 (0.38%) LDAP
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.38%) SAML
9 1 (0.38%) SAP Basis
9 1 (0.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.84%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.18%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (3.04%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.04%) Smartphone
5 7 (2.66%) Hedge funds
5 7 (2.66%) Legacy Applications
5 7 (2.66%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.66%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.28%) Fat Client
6 6 (2.28%) Thin Client
7 5 (1.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 5 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.90%) NHS
7 5 (1.90%) PKI
8 3 (1.14%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (0.76%) Clustering
9 2 (0.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 177 (67.30%) Windows
2 63 (23.95%) Windows Server
3 43 (16.35%) Windows 10
4 32 (12.17%) Linux
5 21 (7.98%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (5.32%) Windows Server 2003
7 13 (4.94%) Mac OS
7 13 (4.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (4.18%) AIX
8 11 (4.18%) Windows 7
9 7 (2.66%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (1.90%) Unix
10 5 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.76%) Android
12 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.76%) VMS
13 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (17.11%) ITIL
3 35 (13.31%) Agile
4 32 (12.17%) Migration
5 25 (9.51%) Roadmaps
6 24 (9.13%) Disaster Recovery
6 24 (9.13%) ITSM
7 22 (8.37%) Stakeholder Management
8 19 (7.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 18 (6.84%) Data Analysis
9 18 (6.84%) Project Delivery
10 17 (6.46%) Data Protection
10 17 (6.46%) User Experience
11 16 (6.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (6.08%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (6.08%) Identity Access Management
11 16 (6.08%) IT Strategy
11 16 (6.08%) Service Delivery
11 16 (6.08%) Zero Trust
12 15 (5.70%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (23.95%) PowerShell
2 42 (15.97%) SQL
3 24 (9.13%) Python
4 23 (8.75%) C#
5 21 (7.98%) Bash
6 19 (7.22%) PL/SQL
6 19 (7.22%) T-SQL
7 13 (4.94%) VB
8 10 (3.80%) VBA
9 9 (3.42%) Perl
10 6 (2.28%) Java
11 5 (1.90%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.76%) VBScript
13 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.38%) Magik
Qualifications
1 40 (15.21%) Security Cleared
2 36 (13.69%) Degree
3 34 (12.93%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.70%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (5.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (5.32%) CCNP
6 13 (4.94%) CCNA
7 9 (3.42%) CCDP
8 8 (3.04%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.04%) MCSE
9 7 (2.66%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.66%) Citrix Certification
10 6 (2.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.28%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.28%) HND
10 6 (2.28%) MCP
11 5 (1.90%) HNC
11 5 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.90%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.51%) QA
2 16 (6.08%) GDPR
3 12 (4.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.28%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (2.28%) NCSC
5 5 (1.90%) SLA
6 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.38%) MiFID
7 1 (0.38%) NIST
System Software
1 101 (38.40%) Active Directory
2 50 (19.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (15.21%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (5.70%) XenApp
5 9 (3.42%) Hyper-V
6 8 (3.04%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (2.66%) Terminal Services
8 6 (2.28%) XenDesktop
9 5 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (1.52%) vSphere
11 2 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.76%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.76%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.38%) Docker
12 1 (0.38%) NFS
Systems Management
1 43 (16.35%) SCCM
2 36 (13.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (6.08%) Terraform
4 13 (4.94%) Ansible
5 8 (3.04%) AirWatch
6 6 (2.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.52%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.52%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.14%) PaperCut
9 3 (1.14%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
10 2 (0.76%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.76%) Kubernetes
10 2 (0.76%) WSUS
11 1 (0.38%) FreeIPA
11 1 (0.38%) Podman
11 1 (0.38%) SCOM
11 1 (0.38%) SysTrack
11 1 (0.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 112 (42.59%) Microsoft
2 75 (28.52%) VMware
3 47 (17.87%) Oracle
4 26 (9.89%) Cisco
5 16 (6.08%) ServiceNow
6 12 (4.56%) IBM
7 10 (3.80%) Red Hat
8 9 (3.42%) HP
9 8 (3.04%) Avaya
10 7 (2.66%) F5
10 7 (2.66%) Fortinet
11 6 (2.28%) Google
11 6 (2.28%) Palo Alto
11 6 (2.28%) Zscaler
12 5 (1.90%) Bloomberg
12 5 (1.90%) CloudEndure
12 5 (1.90%) Forcepoint
12 5 (1.90%) Ivanti
12 5 (1.90%) Remedy
12 5 (1.90%) Reuters