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 21 February 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
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 323 414
Rank change year-on-year -5 +91 0
Contract jobs citing CyberArk 303 212 183
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 0.69% 0.41%
As % of the Vendors category 1.66% 1.48% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 137 125
10th Percentile £459 £458 £530
25th Percentile £509 £498 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £665
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -13.53% +10.83%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £750
90th Percentile £800 £810 £810
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 2
10th Percentile £26.15 - -
25th Percentile £26.80 - -
Median hourly rate £27.88 - £78.00
75th Percentile £42.44 - -
90th Percentile £51.18 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.16 - £78.00

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 18,275 14,301 19,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.62% 46.53% 43.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,706 8,638 12,154
10th Percentile £303 £277 £257
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% +0.10% -1.42%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 419 944
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.99
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £29.00 £27.33
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +6.10% -21.44%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.30 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.05% +4.33% -14.75%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +7 273 £600 - 22
UK excluding London +2 158 £525 -4.55% 13
Work from Home +46 146 £700 +27.27% 10
London -14 131 £700 +10.45% 14
South East +3 51 £492 -27.11% 7
North of England -29 48 £537 +6.07% 4
Midlands -35 35 £600 -4.00%
West Midlands -36 34 £600 -4.00%
Yorkshire -30 32 £522 -13.04% 1
North West -31 16 £621 +24.20% 3
Scotland -2 9 - - 2
Wales - 7 - -
South West -30 5 £425 -22.73%
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
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 17 (5.61%) Confluence
2 2 (0.66%) JBoss
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.33%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 115 (37.95%) Azure
2 80 (26.40%) AWS
3 72 (23.76%) GCP
4 39 (12.87%) Entra ID
5 17 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (4.95%) OpenShift
7 13 (4.29%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (2.64%) SaaS
9 7 (2.31%) Mimecast
10 5 (1.65%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.32%) GitHub
12 2 (0.66%) OCI
12 2 (0.66%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.33%) Amazon ELB
13 1 (0.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 1 (0.33%) Amazon Macie
13 1 (0.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 1 (0.33%) Azure Key Vault
13 1 (0.33%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (0.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.96%) DNS
2 10 (3.30%) Firewall
3 9 (2.97%) SSH
4 8 (2.64%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.31%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.65%) SSL
7 2 (0.66%) DHCP
7 2 (0.66%) Network Security
7 2 (0.66%) SMTP
7 2 (0.66%) VPN
8 1 (0.33%) Anycast
8 1 (0.33%) BGP
8 1 (0.33%) DMVPN
8 1 (0.33%) MPLS
8 1 (0.33%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.33%) NGFW
8 1 (0.33%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.33%) OSPF
8 1 (0.33%) S/MIME
8 1 (0.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.96%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.66%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.66%) Oracle Database
2 2 (0.66%) Power BI
3 1 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.33%) MySQL
3 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (5.94%) Jenkins
2 17 (5.61%) JIRA
3 4 (1.32%) Git
4 2 (0.66%) Subversion
4 2 (0.66%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.33%) AppScan
5 1 (0.33%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.33%) Metasploit
General
1 109 (35.97%) Social Skills
2 77 (25.41%) Finance
3 45 (14.85%) Documentation Skills
4 23 (7.59%) Banking
5 20 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (6.27%) Public Sector
7 16 (5.28%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (4.29%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.99%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.66%) International Banking
11 2 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.66%) Retail
12 1 (0.33%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.33%) Electronics
12 1 (0.33%) French Language
12 1 (0.33%) Legal
12 1 (0.33%) Marketing
12 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 94 (31.02%) Architect
2 56 (18.48%) Consultant
2 56 (18.48%) CyberArk Architect
3 49 (16.17%) CyberArk Consultant
4 22 (7.26%) Security Architect
5 20 (6.60%) Analyst
5 20 (6.60%) Project Manager
6 17 (5.61%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (3.96%) Lead
8 11 (3.63%) Security Solutions Architect
9 10 (3.30%) CyberArk Engineer
9 10 (3.30%) Security Engineer
10 8 (2.64%) Business Analyst
11 7 (2.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (2.31%) Lead Architect
11 7 (2.31%) Lead Solutions Architect
11 7 (2.31%) Migration Manager
11 7 (2.31%) Migration Project Manager
11 7 (2.31%) Technical Manager
12 6 (1.98%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (31.68%) LDAP
2 44 (14.52%) REST
3 35 (11.55%) SOAP
4 34 (11.22%) SAML
5 28 (9.24%) SailPoint
6 26 (8.58%) OpenID
7 18 (5.94%) OAuth
8 4 (1.32%) Middleware
8 4 (1.32%) OAuth2
9 3 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.66%) ADO
11 1 (0.33%) .NET
11 1 (0.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 51 (16.83%) Onboarding
2 40 (13.20%) Security Posture
3 39 (12.87%) Enterprise Software
4 28 (9.24%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.64%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.31%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.98%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.65%) PKI
9 4 (1.32%) SCADA
10 3 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.99%) Clustering
10 3 (0.99%) Replication
11 2 (0.66%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.66%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.33%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.33%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 35 (11.55%) Linux
1 35 (11.55%) Windows
2 12 (3.96%) Windows Server
3 11 (3.63%) Unix
4 8 (2.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.98%) Solaris
6 4 (1.32%) AIX
7 1 (0.33%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (41.91%) Privileged Access Management
2 90 (29.70%) SIEM
3 86 (28.38%) Cybersecurity
4 73 (24.09%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (20.79%) Identity Access Management
6 55 (18.15%) DevOps
6 55 (18.15%) ITSM
7 52 (17.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 49 (16.17%) CI/CD
9 42 (13.86%) Task Automation
10 39 (12.87%) Technical Leadership
11 36 (11.88%) Stakeholder Management
12 35 (11.55%) Integration Patterns
12 35 (11.55%) Presales
13 32 (10.56%) Incident Response
14 29 (9.57%) DevSecOps
14 29 (9.57%) Migration
15 28 (9.24%) Secrets Management
16 25 (8.25%) RBAC
17 23 (7.59%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 95 (31.35%) PowerShell
2 84 (27.72%) Python
3 11 (3.63%) Bash
4 5 (1.65%) Java
5 4 (1.32%) Shell Script
5 4 (1.32%) SQL
6 2 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.66%) Perl
7 1 (0.33%) BeanShell
7 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.33%) Lisp
7 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 144 (47.52%) Security Cleared
2 137 (45.21%) SC Cleared
3 58 (19.14%) CISSP
4 48 (15.84%) CISM
5 15 (4.95%) Degree
6 12 (3.96%) PMI Certification
7 11 (3.63%) PMP
8 10 (3.30%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (2.64%) CompTIA Security+
9 8 (2.64%) Master's Degree
10 7 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (2.31%) PhD
11 5 (1.65%) MCSA
11 5 (1.65%) MCSE
12 4 (1.32%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.66%) CESG Certified Professional
13 2 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.66%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (25.41%) NIST
2 71 (23.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (17.49%) GDPR
4 18 (5.94%) NCSC
5 10 (3.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (2.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (2.31%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.99%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.99%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.99%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.66%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.66%) GRC
10 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.33%) COBIT
10 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 107 (35.31%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.32%) Docker
5 3 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.66%) IAG
6 2 (0.66%) NFS
6 2 (0.66%) Veritas File System
6 2 (0.66%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 18 (5.94%) Single Sign-On
2 17 (5.61%) Kubernetes
3 14 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (3.96%) AirWatch
5 11 (3.63%) Ansible
6 6 (1.98%) Nessus
7 5 (1.65%) CASB
8 3 (0.99%) NetBackup
8 3 (0.99%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.99%) QRadar
8 3 (0.99%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (0.99%) Terraform
9 2 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.66%) vRealize
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Identity Manager
10 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.33%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.33%) SCCM
10 1 (0.33%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 76 (25.08%) BeyondTrust
2 49 (16.17%) Centrify
3 43 (14.19%) Microsoft
4 30 (9.90%) Splunk
5 14 (4.62%) Oracle
6 13 (4.29%) BiZZdesign
7 12 (3.96%) ServiceNow
8 11 (3.63%) VMware
9 10 (3.30%) Tenable
10 9 (2.97%) CrowdStrike
10 9 (2.97%) Google
10 9 (2.97%) Okta
11 8 (2.64%) Thycotic
12 7 (2.31%) Netskope
13 6 (1.98%) Zscaler
14 5 (1.65%) Darktrace
14 5 (1.65%) LogRhythm
14 5 (1.65%) Qualys
14 5 (1.65%) Remedy
14 5 (1.65%) SAP