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 5 January 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 CyberArk Software, Inc.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 332 405
Rank change year-on-year +26 +73 +39
Contract jobs citing CyberArk 303 200 195
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.82% 0.62% 0.46%
As % of the Vendors category 1.77% 1.36% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 127 128
10th Percentile £429 £460 £534
25th Percentile £500 £498 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -14.81% +12.50%
75th Percentile £747 £719 £800
90th Percentile £750 £810 £811
UK excluding London median daily rate £517 £550 £644
% change year-on-year -6.05% -14.56% +17.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £44.48 - -
25th Percentile £45.56 - -
Median hourly rate £50.75 - £78.00
75th Percentile £55.56 - -
90th Percentile £56.43 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.00

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 17,146 14,723 19,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.57% 45.72% 44.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,005 8,733 12,065
10th Percentile £300 £285 £252
25th Percentile £410 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 804 431 659
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.96 £19.30 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.35 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.89% -38.54% +64.06%
75th Percentile £46.25 £60.38 £63.29
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -14.00% -44.70% +88.38%

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 5 January 2026.

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
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 5 January 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 +45 269 £575 -4.17% 19
UK excluding London +42 162 £517 -6.05% 6
Work from Home +46 133 £700 +27.27% 10
London +16 119 £700 +9.80% 15
North of England -5 53 £516 +1.08% 1
Midlands -5 42 £600 -3.17% 1
South East +7 40 £490 -27.41% 3
West Midlands -10 40 £600 -3.17% 1
Yorkshire - 39 £500 - 1
North West -20 14 £604 +18.33%
Scotland 0 9 - -
South West -21 7 £425 -20.93%
Wales - 7 - -
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
East Midlands - 2 - -
East of England - 1 - - 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 15 (4.95%) Confluence
2 2 (0.66%) JBoss
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Windchill
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 104 (34.32%) Azure
2 73 (24.09%) AWS
3 68 (22.44%) GCP
4 33 (10.89%) Entra ID
5 8 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (2.64%) SaaS
6 7 (2.31%) GitHub
7 5 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (0.66%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.66%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.66%) OCI
8 2 (0.66%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.33%) Akamai
9 1 (0.33%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.33%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.28%) DNS
2 15 (4.95%) Firewall
3 11 (3.63%) SSH
3 11 (3.63%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.64%) Kerberos
5 7 (2.31%) SSL
6 3 (0.99%) Network Security
7 2 (0.66%) DHCP
7 2 (0.66%) SMTP
8 1 (0.33%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.33%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.33%) S/MIME
8 1 (0.33%) VLAN
8 1 (0.33%) VPN
8 1 (0.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.63%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.66%) MySQL
2 2 (0.66%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.33%) Power BI
3 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (6.93%) JIRA
2 7 (2.31%) Git
3 6 (1.98%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.32%) Subversion
4 4 (1.32%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.66%) Postman
5 2 (0.66%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
General
1 100 (33.00%) Social Skills
2 58 (19.14%) Finance
3 31 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.90%) Banking
5 29 (9.57%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (5.28%) Public Sector
7 14 (4.62%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.99%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.66%) Electronics
10 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.66%) International Banking
10 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.66%) Marketing
10 2 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.66%) Retail
10 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.33%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 80 (26.40%) Architect
2 59 (19.47%) Consultant
3 48 (15.84%) CyberArk Consultant
4 44 (14.52%) CyberArk Architect
5 27 (8.91%) Analyst
6 23 (7.59%) Security Architect
7 18 (5.94%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (4.95%) CyberArk Engineer
8 15 (4.95%) Project Manager
9 12 (3.96%) Lead
10 11 (3.63%) Security Solutions Architect
11 8 (2.64%) Business Analyst
11 8 (2.64%) Security Engineer
12 7 (2.31%) Lead Architect
12 7 (2.31%) Lead Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.31%) Management Consultant
12 7 (2.31%) Technical Manager
13 6 (1.98%) Senior
13 6 (1.98%) Technical Project Manager
13 6 (1.98%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (27.39%) LDAP
2 46 (15.18%) REST
3 35 (11.55%) SOAP
4 34 (11.22%) SailPoint
5 20 (6.60%) SAML
6 18 (5.94%) OAuth
7 12 (3.96%) OpenID
8 5 (1.65%) Middleware
9 3 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.99%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.66%) ADO
11 1 (0.33%) .NET
11 1 (0.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.20%) Security Posture
2 39 (12.87%) Enterprise Software
3 37 (12.21%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.29%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.31%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (1.65%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (1.65%) Clustering
6 5 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.65%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.65%) PKI
6 5 (1.65%) Replication
7 4 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (0.99%) SCADA
9 2 (0.66%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.66%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.66%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 49 (16.17%) Linux
2 44 (14.52%) Windows
3 15 (4.95%) Unix
4 11 (3.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (3.63%) Solaris
5 9 (2.97%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.31%) AIX
7 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (42.57%) Privileged Access Management
2 81 (26.73%) Problem-Solving
3 78 (25.74%) Identity Access Management
4 71 (23.43%) SIEM
5 61 (20.13%) Cybersecurity
6 54 (17.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 54 (17.82%) Task Automation
7 39 (12.87%) ITSM
7 39 (12.87%) Technical Leadership
8 38 (12.54%) DevOps
9 35 (11.55%) Integration Patterns
9 35 (11.55%) Presales
10 34 (11.22%) CI/CD
11 33 (10.89%) RBAC
12 30 (9.90%) Incident Response
13 22 (7.26%) DevSecOps
14 19 (6.27%) Stakeholder Management
15 18 (5.94%) Agile
15 18 (5.94%) Migration
15 18 (5.94%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (33.66%) PowerShell
2 91 (30.03%) Python
3 18 (5.94%) Bash
4 7 (2.31%) Java
5 4 (1.32%) Perl
6 3 (0.99%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.66%) BeanShell
7 2 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.66%) SQL
8 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 128 (42.24%) Security Cleared
2 122 (40.26%) SC Cleared
3 55 (18.15%) CISSP
4 45 (14.85%) CISM
5 13 (4.29%) Degree
6 10 (3.30%) TOGAF Certification
7 9 (2.97%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (2.64%) Master's Degree
9 7 (2.31%) PhD
10 6 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.98%) PMI Certification
11 5 (1.65%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.65%) MCSA
11 5 (1.65%) MCSE
11 5 (1.65%) PMP
12 2 (0.66%) CESG Certified Professional
12 2 (0.66%) CISMP
12 2 (0.66%) CompTIA CySA+
12 2 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (16.17%) NIST
2 45 (14.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 44 (14.52%) GDPR
4 12 (3.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (2.64%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.65%) NCSC
7 3 (0.99%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.99%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.66%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.66%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.33%) GRC
9 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 102 (33.66%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.64%) Docker
4 5 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.32%) NFS
5 4 (1.32%) Veritas File System
5 4 (1.32%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 4 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.33%) vSphere
6 1 (0.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 19 (6.27%) Single Sign-On
2 16 (5.28%) Ansible
3 6 (1.98%) Nessus
3 6 (1.98%) NetBackup
3 6 (1.98%) Oracle RMAN
4 5 (1.65%) CASB
4 5 (1.65%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.65%) Red Hat Satellite
4 5 (1.65%) Terraform
5 4 (1.32%) AirWatch
5 4 (1.32%) QRadar
6 2 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.66%) vRealize
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Identity Manager
7 1 (0.33%) Packer
7 1 (0.33%) SCCM
7 1 (0.33%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 80 (26.40%) BeyondTrust
2 49 (16.17%) Centrify
3 41 (13.53%) Microsoft
4 21 (6.93%) Splunk
5 17 (5.61%) VMware
6 14 (4.62%) Oracle
7 13 (4.29%) BiZZdesign
7 13 (4.29%) Google
8 11 (3.63%) Thycotic
9 10 (3.30%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.64%) Darktrace
10 8 (2.64%) Okta
10 8 (2.64%) Tenable
11 6 (1.98%) Qualys
11 6 (1.98%) Veritas
12 5 (1.65%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.65%) Remedy
12 5 (1.65%) Zscaler
13 4 (1.32%) ForgeRock
13 4 (1.32%) SAP