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 6 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
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 397 379
Rank change year-on-year -6 -18 +63
Contract jobs citing CyberArk 279 158 190
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.48% 0.49%
As % of the Vendors category 1.26% 1.02% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 99 131
10th Percentile £438 £397 £400
25th Percentile £500 £467 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -18.52%
75th Percentile £650 £641 £634
90th Percentile £750 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £520 £510
% change year-on-year +5.77% +1.96% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 0
10th Percentile £27.66 £19.09 -
25th Percentile £43.81 £23.20 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.93 -
Median % change year-on-year +72.28% - -
75th Percentile £92.50 £42.53 -
90th Percentile £100.00 £47.76 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £16.35 -
% change year-on-year +297.55% - -

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 22,096 15,563 17,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.45% 47.29% 43.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,681 9,530 10,669
10th Percentile £313 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £605 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 788 855
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.50 £13.57
25th Percentile £19.22 £17.24 £15.62
Median hourly rate £34.85 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.57% -10.18% -33.85%
75th Percentile £65.25 £50.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.32 £27.50
% change year-on-year +45.64% -18.85% -22.54%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +21 254 £575 +5.50% 59
London +13 128 £575 +1.10% 37
UK excluding London -60 125 £550 +5.77% 31
Work from Home -20 96 £550 - 18
South East -26 46 £592 -0.29% 8
North of England -58 45 £550 +16.40% 8
North West -46 25 £550 +8.91% 8
South West -29 18 £575 -11.54% 8
Yorkshire -44 17 £510 +27.50%
Midlands -63 9 £500 -6.89% 2
West Midlands -67 7 £494 -8.05% 1
Scotland -6 5 £569 -5.21% 3
East Midlands -6 2 £575 - 1
East of England -19 2 £500 - 1
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 10 (3.58%) Confluence
1 10 (3.58%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (3.58%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.36%) IIS
2 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 144 (51.61%) Azure
2 95 (34.05%) AWS
3 89 (31.90%) Entra ID
4 41 (14.70%) GCP
5 31 (11.11%) SaaS
6 21 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (5.38%) Microsoft Purview
8 10 (3.58%) Mimecast
9 8 (2.87%) Datadog
9 8 (2.87%) GitHub
9 8 (2.87%) Rubrik
10 6 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.79%) Cohesity
11 5 (1.79%) Nutanix
11 5 (1.79%) Sentry
12 3 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.08%) OCI
12 3 (1.08%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.08%) OpenShift
13 2 (0.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.68%) Firewall
2 20 (7.17%) DNS
3 16 (5.73%) SSH
4 15 (5.38%) Network Security
5 13 (4.66%) DHCP
6 12 (4.30%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.51%) HTTPS
8 5 (1.79%) SSL
8 5 (1.79%) VLAN
9 4 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.08%) Internet
10 3 (1.08%) VPN
10 3 (1.08%) VSAN
10 3 (1.08%) Wireless
11 2 (0.72%) Kerberos
12 1 (0.36%) LAN
12 1 (0.36%) NGFW
12 1 (0.36%) WAN
12 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.36%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (18.64%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.43%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.08%) MySQL
5 2 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.72%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.72%) Power BI
5 2 (0.72%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.72%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.36%) Db2
6 1 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (5.38%) JIRA
2 8 (2.87%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.08%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (1.08%) Fiddler
5 2 (0.72%) Git
5 2 (0.72%) GitLab
6 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.36%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 95 (34.05%) Social Skills
2 89 (31.90%) Finance
3 44 (15.77%) Documentation Skills
4 40 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (11.83%) Banking
6 24 (8.60%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.30%) Financial Institution
8 11 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.43%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.08%) Legal
10 3 (1.08%) Military
10 3 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.72%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.72%) Retail
11 2 (0.72%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.36%) Front Office
12 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 57 (20.43%) Architect
2 32 (11.47%) CyberArk Architect
3 30 (10.75%) Security Engineer
4 19 (6.81%) Analyst
5 17 (6.09%) CyberArk Engineer
6 16 (5.73%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 16 (5.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (5.38%) Business Analyst
7 15 (5.38%) Project Manager
8 11 (3.94%) Cloud Architect
8 11 (3.94%) Consultant
8 11 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (3.58%) Principal Engineer
9 10 (3.58%) Senior
10 7 (2.51%) SailPoint Engineer
11 6 (2.15%) Developer
12 5 (1.79%) CyberArk Specialist
12 5 (1.79%) Data Engineer
12 5 (1.79%) Migration Manager
12 5 (1.79%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (21.15%) SailPoint
2 47 (16.85%) LDAP
3 20 (7.17%) SAML
4 19 (6.81%) REST
5 16 (5.73%) OAuth
5 16 (5.73%) OpenID
6 7 (2.51%) OAuth2
7 6 (2.15%) .NET
7 6 (2.15%) Web Services
8 5 (1.79%) .NET Core
8 5 (1.79%) AngularJS
8 5 (1.79%) ASP.NET
9 4 (1.43%) FIDO
9 4 (1.43%) Middleware
10 2 (0.72%) ISPF
11 1 (0.36%) .NET Framework
11 1 (0.36%) EJB
11 1 (0.36%) JDBC
11 1 (0.36%) JSON
11 1 (0.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 106 (37.99%) Onboarding
2 20 (7.17%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (6.45%) Management Information System
4 14 (5.02%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.66%) PKI
6 11 (3.94%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.87%) Cloud Security Posture
7 8 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.79%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.79%) Replication
10 4 (1.43%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.72%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.72%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 92 (32.97%) Windows
2 84 (30.11%) Linux
3 39 (13.98%) Unix
4 33 (11.83%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.43%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.72%) zOS
7 1 (0.36%) Android
7 1 (0.36%) CentOS
7 1 (0.36%) MVS
7 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (49.46%) Privileged Access Management
2 88 (31.54%) Cybersecurity
3 75 (26.88%) SIEM
4 72 (25.81%) Identity Access Management
5 55 (19.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 54 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (17.20%) RBAC
8 40 (14.34%) ITSM
8 40 (14.34%) Runbook
9 36 (12.90%) Migration
10 35 (12.54%) Agile
10 35 (12.54%) DevOps
11 34 (12.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 33 (11.83%) CI/CD
12 33 (11.83%) Roadmaps
13 29 (10.39%) Security Architecture
14 27 (9.68%) Secrets Management
15 26 (9.32%) Information Security
16 25 (8.96%) Change Control
17 24 (8.60%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 90 (32.26%) PowerShell
2 65 (23.30%) Python
3 34 (12.19%) Bash
4 12 (4.30%) SQL
5 6 (2.15%) Java
6 5 (1.79%) BeanShell
7 4 (1.43%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.72%) C#
8 2 (0.72%) JCL
8 2 (0.72%) REXX
9 1 (0.36%) CodeQL
9 1 (0.36%) Groovy
9 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.36%) Korn
9 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (25.09%) Security Cleared
2 44 (15.77%) SC Cleared
3 39 (13.98%) CISSP
4 34 (12.19%) Degree
5 20 (7.17%) DV Cleared
6 19 (6.81%) CISM
7 11 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (3.94%) PMI Certification
7 11 (3.94%) PMP
8 9 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (2.15%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.79%) MCSA
10 5 (1.79%) MCSE
11 4 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.08%) CBAP
12 3 (1.08%) CCNA
12 3 (1.08%) CCNP
12 3 (1.08%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (25.09%) NIST
2 64 (22.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (8.96%) GDPR
4 12 (4.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (3.94%) QA
6 10 (3.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (3.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 10 (3.58%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.79%) GRC
7 5 (1.79%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.43%) NIST 800
9 3 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.72%) ITGC
11 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.36%) NCSC
11 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.36%) PSD2
11 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 136 (48.75%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.66%) Docker
3 13 (4.66%) Hyper-V
4 9 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.51%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.08%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.08%) vSphere
7 2 (0.72%) IAG
8 1 (0.36%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.36%) RACF
8 1 (0.36%) Squid
8 1 (0.36%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 28 (10.04%) Single Sign-On
2 23 (8.24%) Ansible
3 21 (7.53%) Terraform
4 20 (7.17%) Kubernetes
5 9 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (2.87%) SCCM
7 7 (2.51%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (2.15%) NetBackup
8 6 (2.15%) SCOM
9 5 (1.79%) CASB
9 5 (1.79%) Nessus
10 3 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.08%) Cisco Prime
10 3 (1.08%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (1.08%) VxRail
11 2 (0.72%) AirWatch
12 1 (0.36%) Control-M
12 1 (0.36%) FreeIPA
12 1 (0.36%) Kibana
12 1 (0.36%) logstash
Vendors
1 81 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 68 (24.37%) BeyondTrust
3 39 (13.98%) ServiceNow
4 35 (12.54%) Oracle
5 29 (10.39%) Splunk
6 23 (8.24%) VMware
7 17 (6.09%) Okta
8 13 (4.66%) Citrix
9 12 (4.30%) CrowdStrike
10 11 (3.94%) Netskope
11 10 (3.58%) Google
12 8 (2.87%) Apple
12 8 (2.87%) Tenable
12 8 (2.87%) WALLIX
13 7 (2.51%) Centrify
13 7 (2.51%) Cisco
14 6 (2.15%) SolarWinds
15 5 (1.79%) Remedy
15 5 (1.79%) SAP
16 4 (1.43%) ForgeRock