CyberArk Contract Job Trends

CyberArk
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of CyberArk products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CyberArk over the 6 months leading up to 27 October 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 CyberArk Software, Inc.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 348 429
Rank change year-on-year +27 +81 +77
Contract jobs citing CyberArk 264 222 211
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.61% 0.44%
As % of the Vendors category 1.65% 1.35% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 152 136
10th Percentile £389 £425 £500
25th Percentile £465 £500 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -15.38% +8.79%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £800
90th Percentile £675 £810 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £544
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.15% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £21.83 - -
25th Percentile £30.05 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £78.00
75th Percentile £54.13 - -
90th Percentile £55.85 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.35 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.59%

All Vendors
UK

CyberArk 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 16,048 16,420 21,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.65% 44.86% 45.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,951 9,646 13,801
10th Percentile £280 £291 £263
25th Percentile £405 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.80% - +2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 817 531 681
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £14.57
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.85 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -23.53% +70.00%
75th Percentile £38.75 £63.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £30.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% -26.83% +90.70%

CyberArk
Job Vacancy Trend

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

CyberArk job vacancy trend in the UK

CyberArk
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

CyberArk
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CyberArk over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CyberArk in the UK

CyberArk
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

CyberArk
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CyberArk over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CyberArk in the UK

CyberArk
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 CyberArk within the UK over the 6 months to 27 October 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 +18 220 £525 -4.55% 48
UK excluding London +66 154 £525 -4.55% 73
Work from Home +42 105 £550 - 55
London -44 77 £550 -4.35% 23
North of England +15 57 £473 -12.17% 7
Yorkshire +12 44 £450 -18.92% 5
Midlands +8 40 £550 -0.18% 5
West Midlands +10 37 £550 -9.41% 5
South East +21 26 £513 -18.00% 22
North West -15 13 £604 +18.33% 2
Scotland +1 12 £600 -4.76% 30
South West -9 7 £425 -19.05% 3
Wales - 7 - - 5
East Midlands -9 3 - -
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
East of England - 2 £500 - 1

CyberArk
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 16 (6.06%) Confluence
2 2 (0.76%) JBoss
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.76%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.76%) Windchill
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 71 (26.89%) Azure
2 45 (17.05%) AWS
3 44 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 36 (13.64%) GCP
5 18 (6.82%) GitHub
6 8 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (1.89%) OCI
7 5 (1.89%) SaaS
8 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.76%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.38%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (0.38%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (0.38%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.38%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.38%) Miro
10 1 (0.38%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.38%) Serverless
10 1 (0.38%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.58%) Firewall
2 13 (4.92%) DNS
3 11 (4.17%) SSH
4 10 (3.79%) Kerberos
4 10 (3.79%) TCP/IP
5 8 (3.03%) Network Security
6 7 (2.65%) SSL
7 2 (0.76%) SMTP
7 2 (0.76%) VPN
8 1 (0.38%) DHCP
8 1 (0.38%) S/MIME
8 1 (0.38%) SAN
8 1 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.30%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.76%) MySQL
3 1 (0.38%) Metadata
3 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 30 (11.36%) JIRA
2 10 (3.79%) Postman
2 10 (3.79%) SoapUI
3 7 (2.65%) Git
4 4 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.52%) Subversion
4 4 (1.52%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.38%) Gatling
5 1 (0.38%) JMeter
5 1 (0.38%) LoadRunner
General
1 64 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 55 (20.83%) Finance
3 38 (14.39%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.74%) Banking
5 15 (5.68%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (5.68%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.79%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.89%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.76%) Electronics
10 2 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.76%) International Banking
10 2 (0.76%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.76%) Legal
10 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.76%) Marketing
10 2 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.38%) Front Office
11 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (24.24%) Consultant
2 53 (20.08%) CyberArk Consultant
3 36 (13.64%) Analyst
4 35 (13.26%) Architect
5 25 (9.47%) Security Architect
6 14 (5.30%) Test Analyst
7 13 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (4.55%) CyberArk Engineer
8 12 (4.55%) Lead
9 10 (3.79%) Project Manager
10 9 (3.41%) Business Analyst
10 9 (3.41%) NetBackup Engineer
10 9 (3.41%) Security Solutions Architect
11 6 (2.27%) Management Consultant
11 6 (2.27%) Security Engineer
12 5 (1.89%) Lead Architect
12 5 (1.89%) Technical Specialist
13 4 (1.52%) Lead Security Architect
13 4 (1.52%) Lead Solutions Architect
13 4 (1.52%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (19.32%) SailPoint
2 40 (15.15%) LDAP
3 21 (7.95%) OAuth
3 21 (7.95%) SAML
4 15 (5.68%) OpenID
5 9 (3.41%) REST
6 3 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.14%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.76%) Middleware
8 1 (0.38%) .NET
8 1 (0.38%) ADO
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.26%) Onboarding
2 7 (2.65%) Security Posture
3 6 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 5 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (1.89%) Cloud Security Posture
4 5 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (1.89%) Management Information System
4 5 (1.89%) Replication
5 4 (1.52%) Clustering
5 4 (1.52%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.14%) PKI
6 3 (1.14%) SCADA
7 2 (0.76%) CMDB
7 2 (0.76%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.76%) PMI
8 1 (0.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.38%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.38%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 46 (17.42%) Linux
2 40 (15.15%) Windows
3 15 (5.68%) Unix
4 11 (4.17%) Solaris
5 8 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.65%) AIX
7 4 (1.52%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (34.47%) Privileged Access Management
2 76 (28.79%) Identity Access Management
3 51 (19.32%) Cybersecurity
4 46 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (12.88%) RBAC
6 29 (10.98%) Cloud Security
7 27 (10.23%) Incident Response
8 26 (9.85%) Agile
8 26 (9.85%) CI/CD
9 20 (7.58%) SIEM
9 20 (7.58%) Zero Trust
10 19 (7.20%) Task Automation
11 18 (6.82%) DevOps
11 18 (6.82%) Identity Management
12 17 (6.44%) Business Strategy
13 16 (6.06%) DevSecOps
13 16 (6.06%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (6.06%) Vulnerability Management
14 15 (5.68%) Data Protection
14 15 (5.68%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 57 (21.59%) PowerShell
2 42 (15.91%) Python
3 21 (7.95%) Bash
4 7 (2.65%) Java
5 5 (1.89%) Perl
6 3 (1.14%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.76%) BeanShell
7 2 (0.76%) SQL
8 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (28.41%) Security Cleared
2 69 (26.14%) SC Cleared
3 50 (18.94%) CISSP
4 35 (13.26%) CISM
5 12 (4.55%) Degree
6 9 (3.41%) CompTIA Security+
7 8 (3.03%) ISTQB
8 6 (2.27%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.89%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.89%) MCSA
9 5 (1.89%) MCSE
10 4 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.52%) PhD
11 3 (1.14%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.76%) CISMP
12 2 (0.76%) CompTIA CySA+
13 1 (0.38%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (12.12%) NIST
2 31 (11.74%) GDPR
3 29 (10.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (4.55%) PCI DSS
4 12 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (2.65%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.89%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.52%) NCSC
8 3 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.76%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.76%) QA
10 1 (0.38%) GRC
10 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 59 (22.35%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (4.17%) Docker
4 4 (1.52%) NFS
4 4 (1.52%) Veritas File System
4 4 (1.52%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 4 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (13.26%) Single Sign-On
2 16 (6.06%) Ansible
3 13 (4.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (4.92%) Terraform
4 9 (3.41%) NetBackup
4 9 (3.41%) Oracle RMAN
5 6 (2.27%) Nessus
6 5 (1.89%) CASB
6 5 (1.89%) QRadar
7 4 (1.52%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.76%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.76%) vRealize
9 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.38%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.38%) Packer
9 1 (0.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 56 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 38 (14.39%) BeyondTrust
3 23 (8.71%) Splunk
4 22 (8.33%) Google
5 20 (7.58%) Thycotic
6 19 (7.20%) VMware
7 15 (5.68%) Oracle
8 13 (4.92%) Okta
9 11 (4.17%) Centrify
10 10 (3.79%) BiZZdesign
11 9 (3.41%) Veritas
12 8 (3.03%) Darktrace
12 8 (3.03%) Qualys
13 7 (2.65%) Tenable
14 5 (1.89%) Cisco
14 5 (1.89%) CrowdStrike
14 5 (1.89%) ForgeRock
14 5 (1.89%) Remedy
14 5 (1.89%) ServiceNow
15 4 (1.52%) SAP