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 9 April 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
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 342 421
Rank change year-on-year -59 +79 -3
Contract jobs citing CyberArk 247 187 169
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.64% 0.38%
As % of the Vendors category 1.25% 1.35% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 120 118
10th Percentile £463 £449 £500
25th Percentile £510 £480 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% -
75th Percentile £750 £675 £750
90th Percentile £830 £810 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £713
% change year-on-year - -22.81% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £26.58 - -
25th Percentile £27.88 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.19 - -

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 19,708 13,821 18,770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.05% 47.29% 42.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,620 8,740 11,724
10th Percentile £313 £293 £258
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £626
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 984 510 1,060
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £12.11
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.90 £14.41
Median hourly rate £27.72 £28.68 £22.54
Median % change year-on-year -3.35% +27.22% -46.08%
75th Percentile £59.25 £60.72 £57.37
90th Percentile £78.60 £80.15 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.38 £25.82 £21.50
% change year-on-year -1.69% +20.08% -43.42%

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 9 April 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 9 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CyberArk in the UK

CyberArk
Top 14 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 9 April 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 -39 237 £600 +8.01% 34
London 0 134 £700 +19.66% 21
Work from Home -7 112 £700 +27.27% 12
UK excluding London -69 101 £550 - 17
South East -26 45 £492 -28.70% 9
North of England -66 28 £600 +18.81% 3
Midlands -55 25 £550 -12.00% 3
West Midlands -52 24 £550 -12.00% 1
North West -37 16 £585 +16.42% 2
Yorkshire -46 10 £600 - 1
South West -36 2 £550 -
North East - 2 - -
Scotland -4 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 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 (4.05%) Confluence
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.21%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 137 (55.47%) Azure
2 99 (40.08%) AWS
3 78 (31.58%) GCP
4 52 (21.05%) Entra ID
5 18 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (6.48%) OpenShift
7 14 (5.67%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (4.45%) SaaS
9 10 (4.05%) Mimecast
10 5 (2.02%) Datadog
11 4 (1.62%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (0.81%) Google Workspace
13 2 (0.81%) OCI
13 2 (0.81%) Power Platform
14 1 (0.40%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 1 (0.40%) Amazon Macie
14 1 (0.40%) AWS CloudTrail
14 1 (0.40%) OneDrive
14 1 (0.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.05%) SSH
2 9 (3.64%) DNS
2 9 (3.64%) Firewall
3 6 (2.43%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.02%) Kerberos
5 4 (1.62%) Network Security
5 4 (1.62%) SSL
6 3 (1.21%) Wireless
7 2 (0.81%) Internet
8 1 (0.40%) BGP
8 1 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.40%) DHCP
8 1 (0.40%) DMVPN
8 1 (0.40%) IPsec
8 1 (0.40%) MPLS
8 1 (0.40%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.40%) OSPF
8 1 (0.40%) SMTP
8 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.21%) MySQL
2 3 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.81%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.81%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.81%) Power BI
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.40%) DB2
4 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (6.07%) Jenkins
1 15 (6.07%) JIRA
2 1 (0.40%) AppScan
2 1 (0.40%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (0.40%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.40%) Fiddler
2 1 (0.40%) Metasploit
General
1 112 (45.34%) Social Skills
2 74 (29.96%) Finance
3 51 (20.65%) Documentation Skills
4 22 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 21 (8.50%) Banking
6 14 (5.67%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (4.86%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.62%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.81%) Legal
11 2 (0.81%) Retail
12 1 (0.40%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.40%) French Language
12 1 (0.40%) Front Office
12 1 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 86 (34.82%) Architect
2 63 (25.51%) CyberArk Architect
3 23 (9.31%) Project Manager
4 14 (5.67%) Security Engineer
5 11 (4.45%) Analyst
5 11 (4.45%) Migration Manager
5 11 (4.45%) Migration Project Manager
6 10 (4.05%) CyberArk Engineer
7 9 (3.64%) Consultant
7 9 (3.64%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 9 (3.64%) Lead
8 8 (3.24%) CyberArk Specialist
8 8 (3.24%) Security Architect
9 7 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (2.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (2.02%) Management Consultant
10 5 (2.02%) Senior
10 5 (2.02%) Technical Manager
10 5 (2.02%) Technical Project Manager
11 4 (1.62%) IAM Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (40.08%) LDAP
2 41 (16.60%) REST
3 39 (15.79%) SAML
4 36 (14.57%) SailPoint
5 35 (14.17%) SOAP
6 29 (11.74%) OpenID
7 20 (8.10%) OAuth
8 5 (2.02%) OAuth2
9 4 (1.62%) Middleware
10 2 (0.81%) ADO
10 2 (0.81%) ISPF
11 1 (0.40%) FIDO
11 1 (0.40%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 56 (22.67%) Onboarding
2 41 (16.60%) Security Posture
3 39 (15.79%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (9.72%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (3.24%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.43%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (2.02%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.21%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.21%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.21%) PKI
10 2 (0.81%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.40%) Clustering
11 1 (0.40%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.40%) Insider Threat
11 1 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 48 (19.43%) Windows
2 42 (17.00%) Linux
3 22 (8.91%) Unix
4 14 (5.67%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.62%) AIX
5 4 (1.62%) Solaris
6 3 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.81%) zOS
8 1 (0.40%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.40%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (51.42%) Privileged Access Management
2 104 (42.11%) SIEM
3 84 (34.01%) Cybersecurity
4 74 (29.96%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (26.32%) ITSM
6 62 (25.10%) DevOps
7 56 (22.67%) Identity Access Management
8 52 (21.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 50 (20.24%) CI/CD
10 41 (16.60%) Stakeholder Management
11 40 (16.19%) Integration Patterns
11 40 (16.19%) Task Automation
12 37 (14.98%) Technical Leadership
13 35 (14.17%) Presales
14 31 (12.55%) DevSecOps
14 31 (12.55%) Migration
15 28 (11.34%) RBAC
16 27 (10.93%) Agile
17 26 (10.53%) Secrets Management
18 21 (8.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 99 (40.08%) PowerShell
2 89 (36.03%) Python
3 11 (4.45%) Bash
4 5 (2.02%) SQL
5 2 (0.81%) JCL
5 2 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.81%) REXX
5 2 (0.81%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.40%) Groovy
6 1 (0.40%) Java
6 1 (0.40%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 101 (40.89%) Security Cleared
2 93 (37.65%) SC Cleared
3 51 (20.65%) CISSP
4 41 (16.60%) CISM
5 22 (8.91%) Degree
6 17 (6.88%) PMI Certification
6 17 (6.88%) PMP
7 6 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.43%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.02%) MCSA
8 5 (2.02%) MCSE
8 5 (2.02%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.62%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.62%) PhD
10 3 (1.21%) CCNA
10 3 (1.21%) CCNP
11 2 (0.81%) CESG Certified Professional
12 1 (0.40%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (38.46%) NIST
2 90 (36.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 55 (22.27%) GDPR
4 16 (6.48%) NCSC
5 15 (6.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 11 (4.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (4.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (2.43%) HIPAA
9 5 (2.02%) NIST 800
9 5 (2.02%) PCI DSS
10 3 (1.21%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.81%) GRC
12 1 (0.40%) COBIT
12 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.40%) QA
System Software
1 123 (49.80%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.21%) IAG
4 1 (0.40%) Docker
4 1 (0.40%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.40%) RACF
4 1 (0.40%) Varnish
4 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 17 (6.88%) Kubernetes
1 17 (6.88%) Single Sign-On
2 12 (4.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (4.45%) AirWatch
4 6 (2.43%) Nessus
5 5 (2.02%) Ansible
5 5 (2.02%) CASB
6 4 (1.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.21%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (1.21%) Terraform
8 1 (0.40%) Control-M
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Identity Manager
8 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.40%) QRadar
8 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.40%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.40%) SCCM
8 1 (0.40%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.40%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 89 (36.03%) BeyondTrust
2 41 (16.60%) Centrify
3 37 (14.98%) Microsoft
4 34 (13.77%) Splunk
5 25 (10.12%) ServiceNow
6 20 (8.10%) Oracle
7 12 (4.86%) CrowdStrike
7 12 (4.86%) Okta
8 10 (4.05%) Netskope
9 9 (3.64%) Tenable
10 7 (2.83%) Google
10 7 (2.83%) Zscaler
11 5 (2.02%) BiZZdesign
11 5 (2.02%) Remedy
11 5 (2.02%) VMware
12 4 (1.62%) LogRhythm
13 3 (1.21%) ForeScout
13 3 (1.21%) ForgeRock
13 3 (1.21%) Thycotic
13 3 (1.21%) Workday