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 16 June 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
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 376 402
Rank change year-on-year -29 +26 +24
Contract jobs citing CyberArk 241 143 189
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.48% 0.43%
As % of the Vendors category 1.18% 1.01% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 95 142
10th Percentile £463 £435 £425
25th Percentile £525 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £616 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.05% -8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £750 £661 £700
90th Percentile £878 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £568 £555 £650
% change year-on-year +2.25% -14.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile £26.15 - -
25th Percentile £43.81 - -
Median hourly rate £47.54 - -
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile £73.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 - -

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 20,424 14,104 18,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.68% 47.61% 42.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,835 8,673 11,415
10th Percentile £313 £280 £270
25th Percentile £413 £401 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,048 645 1,150
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.35 £14.50
Median hourly rate £33.98 £25.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +33.25% +7.14% -44.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £53.95 £59.30
90th Percentile £79.65 £69.29 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.25 £23.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +35.87% +2.22% -43.15%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -13 225 £621 +12.82% 49
London -4 139 £700 +27.27% 33
Work from Home +10 112 £700 +27.27% 21
UK excluding London -81 82 £568 +2.25% 20
South East -39 36 £588 -9.62% 11
North of England -63 26 £620 +22.77% 5
North West -39 18 £620 +24.31% 5
Midlands -64 12 £525 -16.00% 1
West Midlands -66 11 £538 -14.00%
Yorkshire -49 6 £733 +22.08%
South West -24 5 £550 -15.38% 2
Scotland -14 2 £447 -34.98%
North East - 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 1
East of England - 1 - - 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 5 (2.07%) Confluence
2 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.24%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.41%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.24%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 134 (55.60%) Azure
2 100 (41.49%) AWS
3 64 (26.56%) Entra ID
4 63 (26.14%) GCP
5 24 (9.96%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (9.54%) Microsoft Purview
7 22 (9.13%) SaaS
8 15 (6.22%) Mimecast
8 15 (6.22%) OpenShift
9 8 (3.32%) Datadog
10 5 (2.07%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (2.07%) Cohesity
10 5 (2.07%) Nutanix
10 5 (2.07%) Sentry
11 4 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.24%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.24%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.41%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (0.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 1 (0.41%) Amazon Macie
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.98%) Firewall
2 11 (4.56%) Network Security
3 8 (3.32%) SSH
4 7 (2.90%) DNS
5 5 (2.07%) SSL
5 5 (2.07%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.07%) VLAN
6 3 (1.24%) Internet
6 3 (1.24%) Wireless
7 2 (0.83%) NGFW
7 2 (0.83%) VPN
8 1 (0.41%) Anycast
8 1 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.41%) DMVPN
8 1 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.41%) IPsec
8 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.41%) LAN
8 1 (0.41%) SMTP
8 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.62%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.24%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.24%) MySQL
3 3 (1.24%) Power BI
4 2 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.83%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.83%) RDBMS
4 2 (0.83%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.41%) Db2
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 14 (5.81%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.15%) JIRA
3 3 (1.24%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (1.24%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.41%) AppScan
4 1 (0.41%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.41%) Git
4 1 (0.41%) GitLab
4 1 (0.41%) Metasploit
General
1 104 (43.15%) Social Skills
2 91 (37.76%) Finance
3 46 (19.09%) Documentation Skills
4 22 (9.13%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.05%) Banking
6 15 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (5.39%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (4.98%) Financial Institution
8 12 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.24%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.24%) Legal
10 2 (0.83%) Military
10 2 (0.83%) Retail
11 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.41%) Front Office
11 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 77 (31.95%) Architect
2 66 (27.39%) CyberArk Architect
3 26 (10.79%) Security Engineer
4 19 (7.88%) Project Manager
5 18 (7.47%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 11 (4.56%) Cloud Architect
7 10 (4.15%) Analyst
7 10 (4.15%) Migration Manager
7 10 (4.15%) Migration Project Manager
8 9 (3.73%) CyberArk Engineer
9 7 (2.90%) Consultant
10 6 (2.49%) Business Analyst
10 6 (2.49%) Security Architect
11 5 (2.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (2.07%) SailPoint Engineer
12 4 (1.66%) IAM Project Manager
12 4 (1.66%) Security Manager
12 4 (1.66%) Senior
12 4 (1.66%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.66%) Testing Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (31.95%) LDAP
2 43 (17.84%) SailPoint
3 35 (14.52%) REST
4 31 (12.86%) SAML
5 26 (10.79%) OpenID
5 26 (10.79%) SOAP
6 14 (5.81%) OAuth
7 6 (2.49%) OAuth2
8 4 (1.66%) Middleware
9 3 (1.24%) FIDO
10 2 (0.83%) ISPF
11 1 (0.41%) EJB
11 1 (0.41%) J2EE
11 1 (0.41%) JSON
11 1 (0.41%) SPIFFE
11 1 (0.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 79 (32.78%) Onboarding
2 39 (16.18%) Enterprise Software
3 36 (14.94%) Security Posture
4 25 (10.37%) Cloud Native
5 11 (4.56%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.90%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.07%) Replication
8 4 (1.66%) PKI
9 3 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.24%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.83%) CMDB
10 2 (0.83%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.83%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.41%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.41%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 56 (23.24%) Windows
2 55 (22.82%) Linux
3 35 (14.52%) Unix
4 14 (5.81%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.83%) zOS
6 1 (0.41%) Android
6 1 (0.41%) CentOS
6 1 (0.41%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.41%) MVS
6 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (41.49%) Privileged Access Management
1 100 (41.49%) SIEM
2 87 (36.10%) Cybersecurity
3 63 (26.14%) ITSM
4 60 (24.90%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (20.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 47 (19.50%) DevOps
7 44 (18.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 40 (16.60%) CI/CD
9 36 (14.94%) Identity Access Management
10 35 (14.52%) Migration
10 35 (14.52%) Secrets Management
11 33 (13.69%) Integration Patterns
12 32 (13.28%) Security Architecture
13 30 (12.45%) Technical Leadership
14 29 (12.03%) RBAC
14 29 (12.03%) Runbook
14 29 (12.03%) Task Automation
15 28 (11.62%) Presales
16 26 (10.79%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 87 (36.10%) PowerShell
2 80 (33.20%) Python
3 11 (4.56%) Bash
4 5 (2.07%) SQL
5 4 (1.66%) Java
6 3 (1.24%) BeanShell
6 3 (1.24%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.83%) JCL
7 2 (0.83%) REXX
8 1 (0.41%) Groovy
8 1 (0.41%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 86 (35.68%) Security Cleared
2 78 (32.37%) SC Cleared
3 38 (15.77%) CISSP
4 26 (10.79%) Degree
5 20 (8.30%) CISM
6 14 (5.81%) PMI Certification
6 14 (5.81%) PMP
7 10 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (2.49%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (2.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (2.07%) MCSA
11 5 (2.07%) MCSE
12 3 (1.24%) CCNA
12 3 (1.24%) CCNP
12 3 (1.24%) CRISC
13 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.83%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (35.27%) NIST
2 77 (31.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (14.11%) GDPR
4 15 (6.22%) Cyber Essentials
4 15 (6.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 13 (5.39%) NCSC
6 10 (4.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (3.32%) HIPAA
8 6 (2.49%) QA
9 4 (1.66%) NIST 800
10 3 (1.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (1.24%) GRC
10 3 (1.24%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.83%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.41%) COBIT
12 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 111 (46.06%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.24%) Docker
3 3 (1.24%) IAG
4 1 (0.41%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.41%) RACF
4 1 (0.41%) Squid
4 1 (0.41%) Varnish
4 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (7.88%) Kubernetes
1 19 (7.88%) Single Sign-On
2 12 (4.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (4.56%) AirWatch
4 9 (3.73%) Ansible
5 6 (2.49%) Nessus
5 6 (2.49%) Terraform
6 5 (2.07%) CASB
7 3 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.24%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (1.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.41%) Control-M
8 1 (0.41%) Grafana
8 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.41%) QRadar
8 1 (0.41%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 72 (29.88%) BeyondTrust
2 54 (22.41%) Microsoft
3 37 (15.35%) Splunk
4 28 (11.62%) Centrify
4 28 (11.62%) ServiceNow
5 23 (9.54%) Oracle
6 18 (7.47%) CrowdStrike
7 16 (6.64%) Netskope
7 16 (6.64%) Okta
8 10 (4.15%) Google
8 10 (4.15%) Tenable
9 5 (2.07%) Remedy
9 5 (2.07%) SAP
9 5 (2.07%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.66%) Cisco
10 4 (1.66%) ForgeRock
10 4 (1.66%) VMware
11 3 (1.24%) Broadcom
11 3 (1.24%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.24%) Sybase