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 28 March 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
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 336 420
Rank change year-on-year -17 +84 -19
Contract jobs citing CyberArk 294 192 168
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.66% 0.38%
As % of the Vendors category 1.52% 1.40% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 121 120
10th Percentile £474 £450 £511
25th Percentile £509 £484 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% -
75th Percentile £750 £700 £750
90th Percentile £803 £810 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £675
% change year-on-year -4.55% -18.52% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £26.15 - -
25th Percentile £26.80 - -
Median hourly rate £27.88 - -
75th Percentile £42.44 - -
90th Percentile £51.18 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.16 - -

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 19,326 13,723 18,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.48% 47.22% 42.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,358 8,677 11,800
10th Percentile £313 £293 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £514
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +0.19% -2.10%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £625
90th Percentile £700 £710 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.25% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 477 1,033
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.55 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.64 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.75 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% +23.84% -40.28%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.25 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £27.24 £21.50
% change year-on-year -11.89% +26.69% -38.57%

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 28 March 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CyberArk over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CyberArk in the UK

CyberArk
Top 15 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 28 March 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 -19 264 £600 +3.45% 34
Work from Home +41 155 £700 +27.27% 12
UK excluding London -27 147 £525 -4.55% 17
London +1 132 £700 +19.66% 21
North of England -34 53 £538 +6.17% 3
South East -27 45 £496 -28.12% 9
Yorkshire -27 28 £531 -11.50% 1
West Midlands -48 28 £575 -8.00% 1
Midlands -66 28 £575 -8.00% 3
North West -33 23 £550 +10.00% 2
Scotland -5 8 - -
Wales - 7 - -
South West -34 3 - -
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
North East -9 2 - -

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 19 (6.46%) Confluence
2 1 (0.34%) JBoss
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.02%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 131 (44.56%) Azure
2 92 (31.29%) AWS
3 74 (25.17%) GCP
4 47 (15.99%) Entra ID
5 17 (5.78%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (5.44%) OpenShift
7 14 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
8 10 (3.40%) Mimecast
9 9 (3.06%) SaaS
10 4 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.02%) Datadog
12 2 (0.68%) Google Workspace
12 2 (0.68%) OCI
12 2 (0.68%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.34%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 1 (0.34%) Amazon Macie
13 1 (0.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 1 (0.34%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (0.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.06%) DNS
1 9 (3.06%) Firewall
1 9 (3.06%) SSH
2 6 (2.04%) Kerberos
2 6 (2.04%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.36%) Network Security
3 4 (1.36%) SSL
4 3 (1.02%) Wireless
5 2 (0.68%) Internet
6 1 (0.34%) Anycast
6 1 (0.34%) BGP
6 1 (0.34%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.34%) DHCP
6 1 (0.34%) DMVPN
6 1 (0.34%) MPLS
6 1 (0.34%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.34%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.34%) OSPF
6 1 (0.34%) SMTP
6 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.08%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.02%) MySQL
3 2 (0.68%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.68%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.68%) Power BI
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.34%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (8.16%) JIRA
2 17 (5.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.34%) AppScan
3 1 (0.34%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.34%) Metasploit
General
1 110 (37.41%) Social Skills
2 75 (25.51%) Finance
3 48 (16.33%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (6.80%) Banking
4 20 (6.80%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.40%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.36%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.68%) Legal
10 2 (0.68%) Retail
11 1 (0.34%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.34%) Electronics
11 1 (0.34%) French Language
11 1 (0.34%) Front Office
11 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.34%) Marketing
11 1 (0.34%) Police
Job Titles
1 95 (32.31%) Architect
2 62 (21.09%) CyberArk Architect
3 54 (18.37%) Consultant
4 47 (15.99%) CyberArk Consultant
5 23 (7.82%) Project Manager
6 17 (5.78%) Security Architect
7 16 (5.44%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (4.76%) Security Engineer
9 12 (4.08%) Lead
10 11 (3.74%) Analyst
10 11 (3.74%) Security Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.40%) CyberArk Engineer
11 10 (3.40%) Migration Manager
11 10 (3.40%) Migration Project Manager
12 9 (3.06%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 7 (2.38%) Lead Architect
13 7 (2.38%) Lead Solutions Architect
14 6 (2.04%) CyberArk Specialist
14 6 (2.04%) Technical Manager
14 6 (2.04%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (32.65%) LDAP
2 41 (13.95%) REST
3 37 (12.59%) SAML
4 35 (11.90%) SOAP
5 31 (10.54%) SailPoint
6 26 (8.84%) OpenID
7 18 (6.12%) OAuth
8 4 (1.36%) Middleware
8 4 (1.36%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.68%) ADO
9 2 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.34%) J2EE
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 50 (17.01%) Onboarding
2 41 (13.95%) Security Posture
3 38 (12.93%) Enterprise Software
4 27 (9.18%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
6 6 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.02%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.02%) PKI
8 2 (0.68%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.34%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.34%) CMDB
9 1 (0.34%) Insider Threat
9 1 (0.34%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.34%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.34%) SCADA
9 1 (0.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 39 (13.27%) Windows
2 35 (11.90%) Linux
3 15 (5.10%) Unix
4 10 (3.40%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.36%) AIX
5 4 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.36%) Solaris
6 1 (0.34%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (42.86%) Privileged Access Management
2 95 (32.31%) SIEM
3 92 (31.29%) Cybersecurity
4 70 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (21.77%) Identity Access Management
6 63 (21.43%) DevOps
7 59 (20.07%) ITSM
8 54 (18.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 48 (16.33%) CI/CD
10 40 (13.61%) Task Automation
11 38 (12.93%) Integration Patterns
12 37 (12.59%) Technical Leadership
13 36 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
14 35 (11.90%) Presales
15 32 (10.88%) Secrets Management
16 31 (10.54%) Migration
17 30 (10.20%) DevSecOps
18 27 (9.18%) RBAC
19 24 (8.16%) Agile
20 22 (7.48%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 92 (31.29%) PowerShell
2 82 (27.89%) Python
3 9 (3.06%) Bash
4 5 (1.70%) SQL
5 4 (1.36%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.02%) Java
7 2 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.34%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.34%) Groovy
8 1 (0.34%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.34%) Lisp
8 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 145 (49.32%) Security Cleared
2 137 (46.60%) SC Cleared
3 63 (21.43%) CISSP
4 53 (18.03%) CISM
5 19 (6.46%) Degree
6 16 (5.44%) PMI Certification
6 16 (5.44%) PMP
7 9 (3.06%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (2.38%) Master's Degree
8 7 (2.38%) PhD
9 6 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.70%) MCSA
10 5 (1.70%) MCSE
11 4 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.02%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.02%) CCNA
12 3 (1.02%) CCNP
13 2 (0.68%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (29.59%) NIST
2 83 (28.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 55 (18.71%) GDPR
4 16 (5.44%) NCSC
5 14 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 11 (3.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (3.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (2.04%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.70%) NIST 800
10 4 (1.36%) HIPAA
11 3 (1.02%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.68%) GRC
13 1 (0.34%) COBIT
13 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.34%) QA
System Software
1 113 (38.44%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.02%) IAG
4 1 (0.34%) Docker
4 1 (0.34%) Varnish
4 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.34%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 20 (6.80%) Single Sign-On
2 17 (5.78%) Kubernetes
3 12 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (3.74%) AirWatch
5 8 (2.72%) Ansible
6 6 (2.04%) Nessus
7 5 (1.70%) CASB
8 4 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.02%) Cisco Prime
9 3 (1.02%) Terraform
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle Identity Manager
10 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.34%) QRadar
10 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.34%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.34%) SCCM
10 1 (0.34%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 83 (28.23%) BeyondTrust
2 50 (17.01%) Centrify
3 36 (12.24%) Microsoft
4 30 (10.20%) Splunk
5 21 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 15 (5.10%) Oracle
7 13 (4.42%) BiZZdesign
8 12 (4.08%) CrowdStrike
8 12 (4.08%) Okta
9 10 (3.40%) Netskope
9 10 (3.40%) Thycotic
10 9 (3.06%) Tenable
11 7 (2.38%) Google
11 7 (2.38%) Zscaler
12 5 (1.70%) Remedy
12 5 (1.70%) VMware
13 4 (1.36%) LogRhythm
13 4 (1.36%) SAP
14 3 (1.02%) Cisco
14 3 (1.02%) Sybase