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 18 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
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 236 210
Rank change year-on-year -116 -26 -18
Contract jobs citing Citrix 260 358 518
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.05% 1.17%
As % of the Vendors category 1.50% 2.29% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 194 357
10th Percentile £171 £182 £200
25th Percentile £364 £275 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £378 £385
Median % change year-on-year +19.21% -1.95% -3.75%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £538
90th Percentile £638 £619 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £360 £363
% change year-on-year +25.69% -0.69% -6.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 31
10th Percentile £15.87 £16.74 £13.29
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.30 £14.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £21.46 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.79% +48.00% -6.45%
75th Percentile £74.26 £23.94 £17.34
90th Percentile - £26.15 £46.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.39 £21.46 £14.50
% change year-on-year +13.63% +48.00% -6.45%

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 17,283 15,622 19,940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.24% 45.70% 45.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,989 9,336 12,667
10th Percentile £293 £283 £253
25th Percentile £409 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.42%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £722 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 856 464 671
10th Percentile £15.11 £15.62 £14.57
25th Percentile £18.00 £19.87 £19.88
Median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% -34.83% +73.08%
75th Percentile £44.75 £61.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £44.75
% change year-on-year -18.89% -39.39% +98.89%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -78 235 £450 +18.42% 104
UK excluding London -95 144 £453 +25.69% 95
London -28 103 £450 +15.38% 23
Work from Home -16 59 £492 -10.55% 28
North of England -50 44 £531 +21.43% 39
South East -30 39 £449 +28.14% 21
North West -23 29 £550 +15.79% 11
East of England -23 24 £149 -33.52% 12
Midlands -37 18 £490 +188.24% 8
East Midlands -6 14 £492 +52.56% 1
Yorkshire -30 11 £525 - 22
Northern Ireland -1 7 - - 2
North East -9 6 £513 +173.33% 6
South West -15 6 £250 -46.81% 7
Scotland -34 4 £225 +52.03% 5
West Midlands -40 4 £350 +141.38% 5
Wales +1 3 £388 +55.00% 2

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 24 (9.23%) SharePoint
2 23 (8.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (5.77%) IIS
4 7 (2.69%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.15%) Confluence
6 2 (0.77%) CMS
6 2 (0.77%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.77%) 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 (6.54%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.77%) ProjectWise
5 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.31%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 80 (30.77%) Azure
2 65 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (19.23%) Entra ID
4 35 (13.46%) AWS
5 25 (9.62%) GCP
6 10 (3.85%) Nutanix
7 8 (3.08%) IaaS
8 7 (2.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 7 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (2.69%) AWS CloudTrail
8 7 (2.69%) AWS Control Tower
8 7 (2.69%) AWS KMS
8 7 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.69%) PaaS
8 7 (2.69%) SaaS
8 7 (2.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (1.92%) Google Workspace
10 4 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.15%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.77%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 50 (19.23%) Firewall
2 38 (14.62%) DNS
3 31 (11.92%) VPN
4 26 (10.00%) DHCP
5 25 (9.62%) NetScaler
6 21 (8.08%) TCP/IP
7 18 (6.92%) LAN
8 17 (6.54%) WebEx
9 13 (5.00%) Internet
9 13 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
10 11 (4.23%) VoIP
10 11 (4.23%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (3.85%) VLAN
11 10 (3.85%) WAN
12 7 (2.69%) SAN
13 6 (2.31%) FTP
14 5 (1.92%) Network Security
15 4 (1.54%) MPLS
15 4 (1.54%) Skype
15 4 (1.54%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 26 (10.00%) Oracle Database
3 11 (4.23%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.15%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.77%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.77%) Tableau
5 2 (0.77%) Tableau Desktop
5 2 (0.77%) Tableau Server
6 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.38%) GIS
6 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (5.38%) JIRA
2 5 (1.92%) Visual Studio
3 4 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.15%) GitLab
4 3 (1.15%) MSI
5 2 (0.77%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.38%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.38%) GoCD
6 1 (0.38%) Hudson
6 1 (0.38%) Postman
6 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 91 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 70 (26.92%) Finance
3 28 (10.77%) Banking
4 24 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.92%) Legal
6 14 (5.38%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.92%) Front Office
9 5 (1.92%) Law
10 4 (1.54%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.54%) Local Government
11 3 (1.15%) Back Office
11 3 (1.15%) International Banking
11 3 (1.15%) Polish Language
11 3 (1.15%) Publishing
12 2 (0.77%) Portuguese Language
12 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (16.15%) Analyst
2 32 (12.31%) Architect
3 23 (8.85%) Developer
3 23 (8.85%) Technical Analyst
4 19 (7.31%) Support Engineer
4 19 (7.31%) Technical Support
5 18 (6.92%) C# Developer
5 18 (6.92%) Support Analyst
6 17 (6.54%) IT Support
6 17 (6.54%) Technical Support Analyst
7 16 (6.15%) Citrix Engineer
7 16 (6.15%) Lead
8 14 (5.38%) Senior
9 13 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
11 10 (3.85%) IT Analyst
12 9 (3.46%) Consultant
12 9 (3.46%) IT Engineer
12 9 (3.46%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.46%) .NET
2 18 (6.92%) .NET Framework
3 13 (5.00%) WPF
4 12 (4.62%) WinForms
5 9 (3.46%) Middleware
5 9 (3.46%) XMPP
6 7 (2.69%) WCF
7 6 (2.31%) REST
8 4 (1.54%) JSON
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%) Software Packaging
9 1 (0.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.31%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.23%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.46%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.08%) Smartphone
5 7 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (2.69%) Legacy Applications
5 7 (2.69%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.69%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.31%) Fat Client
6 6 (2.31%) Hedge funds
6 6 (2.31%) PKI
6 6 (2.31%) Thin Client
7 5 (1.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 5 (1.92%) NHS
8 3 (1.15%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.15%) Clustering
8 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.77%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (0.77%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 177 (68.08%) Windows
2 64 (24.62%) Windows Server
3 48 (18.46%) Windows 10
4 31 (11.92%) Linux
5 22 (8.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (6.54%) Mac OS
7 15 (5.77%) Windows Server 2003
8 13 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (4.23%) AIX
9 11 (4.23%) Windows 7
10 6 (2.31%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (2.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (1.92%) Unix
12 3 (1.15%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.77%) Android
13 2 (0.77%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.77%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (17.69%) ITIL
3 32 (12.31%) Migration
4 29 (11.15%) Agile
4 29 (11.15%) Roadmaps
5 26 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 25 (9.62%) ITSM
7 23 (8.85%) Disaster Recovery
8 22 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (8.46%) Zero Trust
9 21 (8.08%) Data Protection
9 21 (8.08%) Identity Access Management
9 21 (8.08%) User Experience
10 20 (7.69%) IT Strategy
11 19 (7.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 18 (6.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 17 (6.54%) Data Analysis
13 17 (6.54%) Enterprise Architecture
13 17 (6.54%) Project Delivery
14 16 (6.15%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 65 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 40 (15.38%) SQL
3 26 (10.00%) Bash
4 23 (8.85%) Python
5 22 (8.46%) C#
6 18 (6.92%) PL/SQL
6 18 (6.92%) T-SQL
7 12 (4.62%) VB
8 10 (3.85%) VBA
9 9 (3.46%) Perl
10 7 (2.69%) Java
11 5 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.77%) VBScript
13 1 (0.38%) Magik
Qualifications
1 44 (16.92%) Security Cleared
2 38 (14.62%) SC Cleared
3 37 (14.23%) Degree
4 15 (5.77%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (5.38%) CCNP
5 14 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (5.00%) CCNA
7 9 (3.46%) CCDP
8 8 (3.08%) AWS Certification
8 8 (3.08%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (2.69%) Citrix Certification
9 7 (2.69%) MCSE
10 6 (2.31%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.31%) HND
10 6 (2.31%) MCP
11 5 (1.92%) HNC
11 5 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.54%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.23%) QA
2 21 (8.08%) GDPR
3 17 (6.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (2.69%) NCSC
5 3 (1.15%) SLA
6 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.38%) MiFID
7 1 (0.38%) NIST
System Software
1 103 (39.62%) Active Directory
2 60 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (14.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (5.38%) XenApp
5 11 (4.23%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.69%) Terminal Services
7 4 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.54%) vSphere
8 3 (1.15%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.15%) XenDesktop
9 2 (0.77%) Docker
9 2 (0.77%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.77%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.38%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.38%) NFS
Systems Management
1 46 (17.69%) SCCM
2 43 (16.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (6.15%) Terraform
4 12 (4.62%) Ansible
5 8 (3.08%) AirWatch
6 6 (2.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.54%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.15%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.15%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.15%) Kubernetes
9 3 (1.15%) PaperCut
9 3 (1.15%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
10 2 (0.77%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.77%) WSUS
11 1 (0.38%) FreeIPA
11 1 (0.38%) SCOM
11 1 (0.38%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.38%) vMotion
11 1 (0.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 121 (46.54%) Microsoft
2 85 (32.69%) VMware
3 47 (18.08%) Oracle
4 26 (10.00%) Cisco
5 18 (6.92%) ServiceNow
6 12 (4.62%) Google
6 12 (4.62%) IBM
7 10 (3.85%) Red Hat
8 9 (3.46%) HP
9 8 (3.08%) Fortinet
10 7 (2.69%) Avaya
11 6 (2.31%) CloudEndure
11 6 (2.31%) F5
11 6 (2.31%) Palo Alto
11 6 (2.31%) Remedy
11 6 (2.31%) Zscaler
12 5 (1.92%) Bloomberg
12 5 (1.92%) Forcepoint
12 5 (1.92%) Reuters
13 4 (1.54%) Ivanti