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 13 July 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
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 382 400
Rank change year-on-year -26 +18 +44
Contract jobs citing CyberArk 266 170 196
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.52% 0.46%
As % of the Vendors category 1.23% 1.09% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 114 143
10th Percentile £450 £400 £403
25th Percentile £508 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -18.52%
75th Percentile £675 £649 £699
90th Percentile £807 £711 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 0
10th Percentile £26.58 - -
25th Percentile £43.81 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £16.35 -
Median % change year-on-year +221.10% - -
75th Percentile £66.25 - -
90th Percentile £95.18 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £16.35 -
% change year-on-year +221.10% - -

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 21,707 15,531 18,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.20% 47.52% 43.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,493 9,513 11,510
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,110 741 1,118
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £34.61 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.62% +0.60% -38.27%
75th Percentile £63.94 £53.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.63 £24.31
% change year-on-year +43.61% -6.91% -21.58%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -18 246 £575 +4.55% 48
London +2 132 £588 +6.82% 21
UK excluding London -61 111 £550 - 31
Work from Home -28 101 £575 +4.55% 23
South East -49 42 £590 -1.71% 12
North of England -69 41 £550 +15.79% 8
North West -50 24 £550 +8.91% 3
Yorkshire -49 15 £510 +20.00% 5
South West -22 12 £563 -13.46% 9
Midlands -56 11 £525 -9.87% 1
West Midlands -73 9 £525 -9.87% 1
Scotland -22 3 £549 -8.58%
East Midlands -13 2 £575 -
East of England -20 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 9 (3.38%) Confluence
1 9 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (3.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.13%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 134 (50.38%) Azure
2 87 (32.71%) AWS
3 84 (31.58%) Entra ID
4 41 (15.41%) GCP
5 27 (10.15%) SaaS
6 25 (9.40%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (5.26%) OpenShift
9 12 (4.51%) Mimecast
10 8 (3.01%) Datadog
11 5 (1.88%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (1.88%) Cohesity
11 5 (1.88%) GitHub
11 5 (1.88%) Nutanix
11 5 (1.88%) Sentry
12 4 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.50%) Rubrik
13 3 (1.13%) OneDrive
13 3 (1.13%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.75%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.77%) Firewall
2 14 (5.26%) DNS
2 14 (5.26%) SSH
3 13 (4.89%) Network Security
4 9 (3.38%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.63%) DHCP
6 6 (2.26%) HTTPS
7 5 (1.88%) SSL
7 5 (1.88%) VLAN
8 4 (1.50%) VPN
9 3 (1.13%) Internet
9 3 (1.13%) Wireless
10 2 (0.75%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.75%) NGFW
11 1 (0.38%) Anycast
11 1 (0.38%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (0.38%) DMVPN
11 1 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.38%) IPsec
11 1 (0.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (16.17%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.13%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.13%) MySQL
3 3 (1.13%) Power BI
4 2 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.75%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.75%) RDBMS
4 2 (0.75%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.38%) Db2
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 18 (6.77%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.26%) JIRA
3 3 (1.13%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (1.13%) Fiddler
3 3 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.38%) AppScan
4 1 (0.38%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.38%) Git
4 1 (0.38%) GitLab
4 1 (0.38%) Metasploit
General
1 96 (36.09%) Finance
2 92 (34.59%) Social Skills
3 54 (20.30%) Documentation Skills
4 33 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (10.53%) Banking
6 25 (9.40%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (4.51%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (4.14%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.50%) Legal
10 3 (1.13%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.75%) Military
11 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.75%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.75%) Retail
12 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.38%) Front Office
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (24.44%) Architect
2 40 (15.04%) CyberArk Architect
3 26 (9.77%) Security Engineer
4 17 (6.39%) Analyst
4 17 (6.39%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 16 (6.02%) CyberArk Engineer
5 16 (6.02%) Project Manager
6 12 (4.51%) Business Analyst
6 12 (4.51%) Cloud Architect
7 10 (3.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (3.01%) Senior
9 7 (2.63%) Consultant
9 7 (2.63%) SailPoint Engineer
9 7 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.26%) Developer
10 6 (2.26%) Migration Manager
10 6 (2.26%) Migration Project Manager
10 6 (2.26%) Security Architect
11 5 (1.88%) IAM Project Manager
12 4 (1.50%) Automation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (21.43%) LDAP
2 55 (20.68%) SailPoint
3 33 (12.41%) SAML
4 28 (10.53%) OpenID
5 18 (6.77%) REST
6 16 (6.02%) OAuth
7 7 (2.63%) OAuth2
8 5 (1.88%) Web Services
9 4 (1.50%) .NET
9 4 (1.50%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.50%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.50%) ASP.NET
9 4 (1.50%) FIDO
10 3 (1.13%) Middleware
11 2 (0.75%) ISPF
12 1 (0.38%) EJB
12 1 (0.38%) J2EE
12 1 (0.38%) JDBC
12 1 (0.38%) JSON
12 1 (0.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 107 (40.23%) Onboarding
2 24 (9.02%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.77%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (4.89%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.76%) PKI
5 10 (3.76%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.63%) Cloud Security Posture
6 7 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.88%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.88%) Replication
8 3 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.13%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.13%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.75%) CMDB
9 2 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.75%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 78 (29.32%) Windows
2 72 (27.07%) Linux
3 38 (14.29%) Unix
4 24 (9.02%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.13%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.75%) zOS
7 1 (0.38%) Android
7 1 (0.38%) CentOS
7 1 (0.38%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.38%) MVS
7 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (40.60%) Privileged Access Management
2 98 (36.84%) Cybersecurity
3 80 (30.08%) SIEM
4 62 (23.31%) Identity Access Management
5 54 (20.30%) Stakeholder Management
6 50 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (18.42%) DevOps
8 46 (17.29%) ITSM
9 44 (16.54%) CI/CD
9 44 (16.54%) RBAC
10 37 (13.91%) Runbook
10 37 (13.91%) Secrets Management
11 34 (12.78%) Agile
12 32 (12.03%) Migration
13 31 (11.65%) Roadmaps
14 30 (11.28%) Security Architecture
15 29 (10.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 24 (9.02%) Information Security
17 23 (8.65%) DevSecOps
17 23 (8.65%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 82 (30.83%) PowerShell
2 66 (24.81%) Python
3 23 (8.65%) Bash
4 11 (4.14%) SQL
5 6 (2.26%) Java
6 5 (1.88%) BeanShell
7 3 (1.13%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.75%) JCL
8 2 (0.75%) REXX
9 1 (0.38%) C#
9 1 (0.38%) Groovy
9 1 (0.38%) Korn
9 1 (0.38%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 75 (28.20%) Security Cleared
2 55 (20.68%) SC Cleared
3 40 (15.04%) CISSP
4 32 (12.03%) Degree
5 20 (7.52%) CISM
6 13 (4.89%) DV Cleared
7 12 (4.51%) PMI Certification
7 12 (4.51%) PMP
8 11 (4.14%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (2.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (2.26%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.88%) MCSA
12 5 (1.88%) MCSE
13 3 (1.13%) CBAP
13 3 (1.13%) CCNA
13 3 (1.13%) CCNP
13 3 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.13%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (32.33%) NIST
2 78 (29.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (11.28%) GDPR
4 13 (4.89%) NCSC
5 12 (4.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (4.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 12 (4.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (3.76%) QA
7 8 (3.01%) HIPAA
8 5 (1.88%) GRC
9 4 (1.50%) NIST 800
9 4 (1.50%) SOC 2
10 3 (1.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (1.13%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.75%) ITGC
12 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.38%) COBIT
12 1 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.38%) PSD2
12 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 117 (43.98%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.38%) Docker
2 9 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.63%) Hyper-V
3 7 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.13%) IAG
5 1 (0.38%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.38%) RACF
5 1 (0.38%) Squid
5 1 (0.38%) Varnish
5 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (10.15%) Single Sign-On
2 25 (9.40%) Kubernetes
3 19 (7.14%) Ansible
4 15 (5.64%) Terraform
5 13 (4.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (2.26%) AirWatch
6 6 (2.26%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (2.26%) Nessus
7 5 (1.88%) CASB
8 4 (1.50%) SCCM
9 3 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.13%) Cisco Prime
9 3 (1.13%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.13%) SCOM
9 3 (1.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.38%) Control-M
10 1 (0.38%) FreeIPA
10 1 (0.38%) Grafana
10 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.38%) VxRail
Vendors
1 72 (27.07%) Microsoft
2 63 (23.68%) BeyondTrust
3 40 (15.04%) Splunk
4 37 (13.91%) ServiceNow
5 33 (12.41%) Oracle
6 18 (6.77%) Okta
7 15 (5.64%) CrowdStrike
8 13 (4.89%) Netskope
8 13 (4.89%) VMware
9 10 (3.76%) Google
9 10 (3.76%) Tenable
10 9 (3.38%) Citrix
11 7 (2.63%) Apple
12 6 (2.26%) Centrify
12 6 (2.26%) Cisco
12 6 (2.26%) SAP
13 5 (1.88%) Remedy
13 5 (1.88%) Zscaler
14 4 (1.50%) ForgeRock
15 3 (1.13%) Palo Alto