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 19 August 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
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 398 383
Rank change year-on-year +3 -15 +47
Contract jobs citing CyberArk 298 159 197
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.48% 0.51%
As % of the Vendors category 1.33% 1.02% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 99 136
10th Percentile £439 £385 £400
25th Percentile £500 £469 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -21.43%
75th Percentile £650 £646 £638
90th Percentile £750 £675 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 0
10th Percentile £43.81 £19.09 -
25th Percentile £49.39 £23.20 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £31.93 -
Median % change year-on-year +134.93% - -
75th Percentile £100.00 £42.53 -
90th Percentile - £47.76 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.48 £16.35 -
% change year-on-year +398.35% - -

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 22,385 15,513 17,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.79% 47.27% 43.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,864 9,479 10,592
10th Percentile £313 £275 £290
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £610 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,146 809 818
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.97 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £31.96 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.09% -10.18% -31.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.43 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £21.70 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.28% -21.11% -21.43%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -1 271 £575 +6.48% 46
UK excluding London -21 136 £550 +5.77% 25
London +2 135 £575 +1.10% 29
Work from Home -22 101 £555 +0.91% 24
South East -35 49 £592 -0.29% 5
North of England -60 47 £519 +9.86% 6
North West -41 26 £525 +3.96% 5
South West -22 23 £575 -11.54% 7
Yorkshire -39 18 £510 +27.50% 1
Midlands -57 9 £500 -4.31% 2
West Midlands -72 7 £500 -4.31% 1
Scotland -11 6 £510 -15.00% 5
East Midlands -15 2 £575 - 1
East of England -27 2 £500 -
North East - 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 16 (5.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (3.36%) Confluence
2 10 (3.36%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.01%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.34%) IIS
4 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (3.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 153 (51.34%) Azure
2 107 (35.91%) AWS
3 92 (30.87%) Entra ID
4 46 (15.44%) GCP
5 32 (10.74%) SaaS
6 19 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (4.36%) Microsoft Purview
8 12 (4.03%) GitHub
9 8 (2.68%) Datadog
9 8 (2.68%) Mimecast
9 8 (2.68%) Rubrik
10 6 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.68%) Cohesity
11 5 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.68%) Nutanix
11 5 (1.68%) Sentry
12 3 (1.01%) OCI
12 3 (1.01%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.01%) OpenShift
13 2 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.39%) Firewall
2 24 (8.05%) DNS
3 20 (6.71%) DHCP
4 15 (5.03%) SSH
5 14 (4.70%) Network Security
6 11 (3.69%) VLAN
7 9 (3.02%) VPN
8 8 (2.68%) HTTPS
8 8 (2.68%) TCP/IP
9 7 (2.35%) LAN
9 7 (2.35%) WAN
9 7 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (2.01%) Skype
11 4 (1.34%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (1.01%) Internet
12 3 (1.01%) VSAN
12 3 (1.01%) Wireless
13 2 (0.67%) Kerberos
14 1 (0.34%) SSL
14 1 (0.34%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (17.11%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.68%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.01%) MySQL
5 2 (0.67%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.67%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.67%) Power BI
5 2 (0.67%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.67%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.34%) Db2
6 1 (0.34%) Metadata
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (5.03%) JIRA
2 10 (3.36%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.34%) Git
3 4 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.01%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (1.01%) Fiddler
5 2 (0.67%) GitLab
6 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.34%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.34%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 100 (33.56%) Social Skills
2 91 (30.54%) Finance
3 43 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (13.76%) Documentation Skills
5 38 (12.75%) Banking
6 20 (6.71%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.03%) Financial Institution
7 12 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.01%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.01%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.01%) Legal
9 3 (1.01%) Military
9 3 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.67%) Private Banking
10 2 (0.67%) Retail
10 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.34%) Front Office
11 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (21.14%) Architect
2 35 (11.74%) CyberArk Architect
3 28 (9.40%) Security Engineer
4 22 (7.38%) CyberArk Engineer
5 21 (7.05%) Analyst
6 17 (5.70%) Business Analyst
6 17 (5.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (5.03%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 14 (4.70%) Project Manager
9 13 (4.36%) Consultant
10 12 (4.03%) Principal Engineer
11 11 (3.69%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (3.69%) Senior
11 11 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.35%) CyberArk Consultant
12 7 (2.35%) Developer
12 7 (2.35%) SailPoint Engineer
13 6 (2.01%) Lead
14 5 (1.68%) CyberArk Specialist
14 5 (1.68%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (20.47%) SailPoint
2 50 (16.78%) LDAP
3 29 (9.73%) REST
4 19 (6.38%) SAML
5 15 (5.03%) OAuth
5 15 (5.03%) OpenID
6 8 (2.68%) .NET
6 8 (2.68%) Web Services
7 6 (2.01%) .NET Core
7 6 (2.01%) AngularJS
7 6 (2.01%) ASP.NET
7 6 (2.01%) OAuth2
8 4 (1.34%) FIDO
8 4 (1.34%) Middleware
9 3 (1.01%) JDBC
10 2 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.67%) ISPF
10 2 (0.67%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 2 (0.67%) SOAP
11 1 (0.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 111 (37.25%) Onboarding
2 26 (8.72%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (5.37%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.70%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.70%) PKI
5 9 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.68%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.68%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.68%) Replication
8 4 (1.34%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.01%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.67%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.67%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 95 (31.88%) Windows
2 80 (26.85%) Linux
3 31 (10.40%) Unix
3 31 (10.40%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.01%) Windows 10
4 6 (2.01%) Windows 7
5 4 (1.34%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.67%) zOS
8 1 (0.34%) Android
8 1 (0.34%) CentOS
8 1 (0.34%) MVS
8 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 84 (28.19%) Cybersecurity
3 79 (26.51%) Identity Access Management
4 77 (25.84%) SIEM
5 61 (20.47%) Stakeholder Management
6 56 (18.79%) RBAC
7 54 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (16.44%) ITSM
9 41 (13.76%) Runbook
10 39 (13.09%) Migration
11 38 (12.75%) DevOps
12 37 (12.42%) CI/CD
13 34 (11.41%) Agile
13 34 (11.41%) Roadmaps
13 34 (11.41%) Secrets Management
13 34 (11.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 31 (10.40%) Security Architecture
15 29 (9.73%) Technical Leadership
16 25 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (8.39%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 103 (34.56%) PowerShell
2 69 (23.15%) Python
3 38 (12.75%) Bash
4 15 (5.03%) SQL
5 8 (2.68%) Java
6 7 (2.35%) BeanShell
7 6 (2.01%) VB
7 6 (2.01%) VBScript
8 5 (1.68%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.34%) C#
10 2 (0.67%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.67%) JCL
10 2 (0.67%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.67%) REXX
11 1 (0.34%) CodeQL
11 1 (0.34%) Groovy
11 1 (0.34%) Korn
Qualifications
1 77 (25.84%) Security Cleared
2 45 (15.10%) SC Cleared
3 35 (11.74%) CISSP
4 32 (10.74%) Degree
5 25 (8.39%) DV Cleared
6 20 (6.71%) CISM
7 10 (3.36%) PMI Certification
7 10 (3.36%) PMP
8 9 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.01%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.01%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.01%) CBAP
11 3 (1.01%) CCNA
11 3 (1.01%) CCNP
11 3 (1.01%) CEH
11 3 (1.01%) VCAP
12 2 (0.67%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (23.49%) NIST
2 62 (20.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (9.06%) GDPR
4 15 (5.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (4.03%) QA
6 10 (3.36%) HIPAA
7 8 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.68%) GRC
9 4 (1.34%) NIST 800
9 4 (1.34%) SOC 2
10 3 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.67%) ITGC
12 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.34%) NCSC
12 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.34%) PSD2
12 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 138 (46.31%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.70%) Docker
3 14 (4.70%) Hyper-V
4 9 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (2.01%) BitLocker
7 3 (1.01%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.01%) vSphere
8 2 (0.67%) IAG
9 1 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.34%) RACF
9 1 (0.34%) Squid
9 1 (0.34%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 28 (9.40%) Ansible
1 28 (9.40%) Single Sign-On
2 25 (8.39%) Terraform
3 21 (7.05%) Kubernetes
4 14 (4.70%) SCCM
5 7 (2.35%) Jamf Pro
5 7 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (2.01%) NetBackup
6 6 (2.01%) SCOM
7 3 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.01%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (1.01%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (1.01%) VxRail
8 2 (0.67%) Kibana
8 2 (0.67%) logstash
8 2 (0.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.34%) Control-M
9 1 (0.34%) FreeIPA
9 1 (0.34%) Grafana
9 1 (0.34%) WMI
Vendors
1 88 (29.53%) Microsoft
2 69 (23.15%) BeyondTrust
3 47 (15.77%) ServiceNow
4 33 (11.07%) Oracle
5 32 (10.74%) VMware
6 24 (8.05%) Splunk
7 18 (6.04%) Okta
8 13 (4.36%) Citrix
9 12 (4.03%) Google
10 10 (3.36%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (3.02%) Netskope
11 9 (3.02%) WALLIX
12 8 (2.68%) Apple
12 8 (2.68%) Centrify
12 8 (2.68%) Cisco
13 7 (2.35%) SAP
14 6 (2.01%) ForgeRock
14 6 (2.01%) SolarWinds
15 4 (1.34%) Ping Identity
15 4 (1.34%) Thales