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 14 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
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 328 448
Rank change year-on-year -25 +120 -42
Contract jobs citing CyberArk 292 200 149
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 0.68% 0.33%
As % of the Vendors category 1.54% 1.44% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 124 103
10th Percentile £458 £457 £528
25th Percentile £500 £485 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £551 £675
Median % change year-on-year +7.99% -18.37% +8.00%
75th Percentile £750 £713 £750
90th Percentile £824 £810 £803
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £750
% change year-on-year -4.55% -26.67% +36.36%
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 18,995 13,894 19,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.01% 47.08% 43.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,130 8,646 11,977
10th Percentile £308 £285 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +0.49% -2.83%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 971 454 1,024
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.02 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% +17.65% -30.13%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £53.13
90th Percentile £76.75 £84.39 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £27.50 £23.11
% change year-on-year -14.55% +19.01% -29.98%

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 14 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 14 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CyberArk in the UK

CyberArk
Top 16 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 14 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 -1 262 £600 - 24
UK excluding London -1 151 £525 -4.55% 13
Work from Home +34 147 £700 +27.27% 11
London -17 127 £700 +13.82% 19
South East -18 52 £492 -27.91% 8
North of England -38 48 £538 +6.17% 2
Yorkshire -27 30 £525 -12.50%
Midlands -47 28 £600 -4.00%
West Midlands -55 27 £600 -4.00%
North West -35 16 £621 +24.10% 2
Scotland +5 9 - - 3
Wales - 7 - -
South West -35 4 £425 -22.73%
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
North East -12 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -

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 18 (6.16%) Confluence
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.34%) JBoss
3 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 126 (43.15%) Azure
2 88 (30.14%) AWS
3 75 (25.68%) GCP
4 42 (14.38%) Entra ID
5 17 (5.82%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (5.48%) OpenShift
7 13 (4.45%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (2.74%) Mimecast
9 7 (2.40%) SaaS
10 5 (1.71%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.68%) GitHub
11 2 (0.68%) OCI
11 2 (0.68%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.34%) Akamai
12 1 (0.34%) Amazon ELB
12 1 (0.34%) AWS CloudTrail
12 1 (0.34%) CloudFront
12 1 (0.34%) Route 53
12 1 (0.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.42%) DNS
2 9 (3.08%) Firewall
2 9 (3.08%) SSH
3 6 (2.05%) Kerberos
3 6 (2.05%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.71%) SSL
5 2 (0.68%) DHCP
5 2 (0.68%) Network Security
5 2 (0.68%) VPN
6 1 (0.34%) Anycast
6 1 (0.34%) BGP
6 1 (0.34%) DMVPN
6 1 (0.34%) IPsec
6 1 (0.34%) MPLS
6 1 (0.34%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.34%) NGFW
6 1 (0.34%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.34%) OSPF
6 1 (0.34%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.79%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.03%) 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 18 (6.16%) JIRA
2 17 (5.82%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.34%) AppScan
3 1 (0.34%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.34%) Git
3 1 (0.34%) Metasploit
General
1 112 (38.36%) Social Skills
2 73 (25.00%) Finance
3 47 (16.10%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (6.85%) Banking
5 19 (6.51%) Public Sector
6 17 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (5.48%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (3.77%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.03%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.68%) Retail
12 1 (0.34%) Electronics
12 1 (0.34%) Front Office
12 1 (0.34%) International Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Legal
12 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.34%) Marketing
12 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 92 (31.51%) Architect
2 57 (19.52%) CyberArk Architect
3 54 (18.49%) Consultant
4 47 (16.10%) CyberArk Consultant
5 21 (7.19%) Project Manager
6 20 (6.85%) Security Architect
7 17 (5.82%) Analyst
7 17 (5.82%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.45%) Lead
9 12 (4.11%) Security Engineer
10 11 (3.77%) Security Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.08%) CyberArk Engineer
11 9 (3.08%) Migration Manager
11 9 (3.08%) Migration Project Manager
12 7 (2.40%) Lead Architect
12 7 (2.40%) Lead Solutions Architect
13 6 (2.05%) Business Analyst
13 6 (2.05%) CyberArk Specialist
13 6 (2.05%) Technical Manager
13 6 (2.05%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (32.88%) LDAP
2 42 (14.38%) REST
3 36 (12.33%) SAML
4 35 (11.99%) SOAP
5 30 (10.27%) SailPoint
6 25 (8.56%) OpenID
7 17 (5.82%) OAuth
8 4 (1.37%) Middleware
8 4 (1.37%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.68%) ADO
9 2 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.34%) .NET
10 1 (0.34%) J2EE
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.73%) Onboarding
2 41 (14.04%) Security Posture
3 39 (13.36%) Enterprise Software
4 27 (9.25%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.05%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.71%) PKI
9 3 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.68%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.34%) Clustering
11 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.34%) Insider Threat
11 1 (0.34%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.34%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.34%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.34%) Replication
11 1 (0.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 37 (12.67%) Windows
2 34 (11.64%) Linux
3 12 (4.11%) Unix
4 10 (3.42%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.37%) AIX
5 4 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.37%) Solaris
6 1 (0.34%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (40.75%) Privileged Access Management
2 93 (31.85%) SIEM
3 88 (30.14%) Cybersecurity
4 74 (25.34%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (20.55%) Identity Access Management
6 59 (20.21%) DevOps
7 55 (18.84%) ITSM
8 53 (18.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 47 (16.10%) CI/CD
10 41 (14.04%) Task Automation
11 38 (13.01%) Technical Leadership
12 36 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 35 (11.99%) Integration Patterns
13 35 (11.99%) Presales
14 30 (10.27%) DevSecOps
15 29 (9.93%) Incident Response
15 29 (9.93%) Migration
16 28 (9.59%) Secrets Management
17 26 (8.90%) RBAC
18 23 (7.88%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 96 (32.88%) PowerShell
2 85 (29.11%) Python
3 11 (3.77%) Bash
4 5 (1.71%) Java
4 5 (1.71%) SQL
5 4 (1.37%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.34%) BeanShell
7 1 (0.34%) Groovy
7 1 (0.34%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.34%) Lisp
7 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 144 (49.32%) Security Cleared
2 136 (46.58%) SC Cleared
3 64 (21.92%) CISSP
4 53 (18.15%) CISM
5 17 (5.82%) Degree
6 15 (5.14%) PMI Certification
6 15 (5.14%) PMP
7 10 (3.42%) TOGAF Certification
8 8 (2.74%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (2.74%) Master's Degree
9 7 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (2.40%) PhD
10 5 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.71%) MCSA
10 5 (1.71%) MCSE
11 4 (1.37%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.68%) CESG Certified Professional
12 2 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.68%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (28.42%) NIST
2 78 (26.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 57 (19.52%) GDPR
4 18 (6.16%) NCSC
5 11 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (3.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (2.40%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.71%) HIPAA
10 3 (1.03%) NIST 800
10 3 (1.03%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.68%) GRC
12 1 (0.34%) COBIT
12 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 109 (37.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.37%) Docker
4 3 (1.03%) IAG
4 3 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.34%) Varnish
5 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.34%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 20 (6.85%) Single Sign-On
2 18 (6.16%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (3.77%) AirWatch
5 6 (2.05%) Ansible
5 6 (2.05%) Nessus
6 5 (1.71%) CASB
7 4 (1.37%) Terraform
8 2 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.68%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle Identity Manager
9 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.34%) QRadar
9 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.34%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.34%) SCCM
9 1 (0.34%) vRealize
9 1 (0.34%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 78 (26.71%) BeyondTrust
2 50 (17.12%) Centrify
3 36 (12.33%) Microsoft
4 26 (8.90%) Splunk
5 16 (5.48%) Oracle
6 13 (4.45%) BiZZdesign
7 11 (3.77%) ServiceNow
8 10 (3.42%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (3.42%) Okta
8 10 (3.42%) Tenable
9 9 (3.08%) Google
10 8 (2.74%) Netskope
10 8 (2.74%) Thycotic
11 7 (2.40%) VMware
11 7 (2.40%) Zscaler
12 6 (2.05%) SAP
13 5 (1.71%) LogRhythm
13 5 (1.71%) Remedy
14 3 (1.03%) Qualys
14 3 (1.03%) Sybase