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 31 August 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
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 399 371
Rank change year-on-year +9 -28 +63
Contract jobs citing CyberArk 309 168 209
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.51% 0.54%
As % of the Vendors category 1.38% 1.08% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 99 144
10th Percentile £442 £383 £404
25th Percentile £500 £469 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - -21.43%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £644
90th Percentile £741 £675 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £520 £505
% change year-on-year +5.77% +2.97% -12.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 0
10th Percentile £43.81 £19.09 -
25th Percentile £49.39 £23.20 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £31.93 -
Median % change year-on-year +134.93% - -
75th Percentile £100.00 £42.53 -
90th Percentile - £47.76 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.48 £16.35 -
% change year-on-year +398.35% - -

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 22,440 15,554 16,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.75% 47.20% 44.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,821 9,526 10,400
10th Percentile £313 £275 £287
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,170 794 740
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.69 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.29 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.44% -13.28% -31.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.01 £62.51
90th Percentile £81.36 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £21.24 £27.50
% change year-on-year +31.83% -22.76% -30.51%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 31 August 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 +10 279 £563 +4.75% 36
UK excluding London -21 144 £550 +5.77% 31
London +7 138 £575 +1.10% 13
Work from Home +3 107 £550 - 23
South East -29 50 £592 -1.33% 6
North of England -54 47 £519 +10.43% 12
South West -17 29 £550 -15.38% 8
North West -35 26 £525 +3.96% 8
Yorkshire -45 18 £510 +29.11% 4
Scotland -15 8 £510 -15.00% 4
Midlands -66 8 £500 -4.76%
West Midlands -61 6 £500 -4.76%
East Midlands -13 2 £575 -
East of England -16 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 16 (5.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (3.24%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.59%) Confluence
4 6 (1.94%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.32%) IIS
5 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 152 (49.19%) Azure
2 110 (35.60%) AWS
3 91 (29.45%) Entra ID
4 48 (15.53%) GCP
5 32 (10.36%) SaaS
6 19 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (4.21%) GitHub
7 13 (4.21%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (2.91%) Rubrik
9 8 (2.59%) Datadog
9 8 (2.59%) Mimecast
10 7 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.62%) Cohesity
12 5 (1.62%) Nutanix
12 5 (1.62%) Sentry
13 4 (1.29%) OCI
14 3 (0.97%) OneDrive
15 2 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
15 2 (0.65%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.41%) Firewall
2 24 (7.77%) DNS
3 20 (6.47%) DHCP
4 15 (4.85%) SSH
5 14 (4.53%) Network Security
6 12 (3.88%) HTTPS
7 11 (3.56%) VLAN
8 9 (2.91%) VPN
9 8 (2.59%) TCP/IP
10 7 (2.27%) LAN
10 7 (2.27%) WAN
10 7 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (1.94%) Skype
12 4 (1.29%) Internet
12 4 (1.29%) Intrusion Detection
13 3 (0.97%) VSAN
13 3 (0.97%) Wireless
14 2 (0.65%) Kerberos
15 1 (0.32%) DMZ
15 1 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (14.89%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.29%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.65%) Power BI
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.32%) Db2
5 1 (0.32%) Metadata
5 1 (0.32%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (4.21%) JIRA
2 10 (3.24%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.29%) Git
3 4 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (0.97%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (0.97%) Fiddler
5 2 (0.65%) GitLab
6 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.32%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.32%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 106 (34.30%) Social Skills
2 88 (28.48%) Finance
3 44 (14.24%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (13.27%) Documentation Skills
5 37 (11.97%) Banking
6 21 (6.80%) Public Sector
7 12 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.24%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.62%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.97%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.97%) Legal
10 3 (0.97%) Military
10 3 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.97%) Retail
11 2 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.65%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.65%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (22.01%) Architect
2 35 (11.33%) CyberArk Architect
3 26 (8.41%) Security Engineer
4 24 (7.77%) CyberArk Engineer
5 21 (6.80%) Analyst
6 20 (6.47%) Consultant
7 17 (5.50%) Business Analyst
7 17 (5.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (4.85%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 12 (3.88%) Principal Engineer
10 11 (3.56%) Cloud Architect
10 11 (3.56%) CyberArk Consultant
10 11 (3.56%) Project Manager
10 11 (3.56%) Senior
10 11 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (2.59%) Security Consultant
12 7 (2.27%) Developer
12 7 (2.27%) SailPoint Engineer
13 6 (1.94%) CyberArk Specialist
13 6 (1.94%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (20.71%) SailPoint
2 55 (17.80%) LDAP
3 32 (10.36%) REST
4 25 (8.09%) Terraform
5 17 (5.50%) SAML
6 16 (5.18%) OAuth
6 16 (5.18%) OpenID
7 9 (2.91%) .NET
8 8 (2.59%) Web Services
9 7 (2.27%) OAuth2
10 6 (1.94%) .NET Core
10 6 (1.94%) AngularJS
10 6 (1.94%) ASP.NET
11 4 (1.29%) FIDO
11 4 (1.29%) JDBC
11 4 (1.29%) Middleware
12 3 (0.97%) SOAP
12 3 (0.97%) Software Packaging
13 2 (0.65%) ISPF
13 2 (0.65%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 115 (37.22%) Onboarding
2 27 (8.74%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (4.85%) Management Information System
3 15 (4.85%) PKI
4 13 (4.21%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.94%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.62%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.62%) Replication
8 4 (1.29%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.97%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.65%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.65%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.65%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 96 (31.07%) Windows
2 78 (25.24%) Linux
3 32 (10.36%) Windows Server
4 30 (9.71%) Unix
5 6 (1.94%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.94%) Windows 7
6 4 (1.29%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.65%) zOS
9 1 (0.32%) Android
9 1 (0.32%) CentOS
9 1 (0.32%) MVS
9 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (48.87%) Privileged Access Management
2 85 (27.51%) SIEM
3 82 (26.54%) Cybersecurity
4 80 (25.89%) Identity Access Management
5 63 (20.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 56 (18.12%) ITSM
6 56 (18.12%) RBAC
7 55 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (15.53%) Runbook
9 41 (13.27%) Migration
10 40 (12.94%) Secrets Management
11 38 (12.30%) CI/CD
12 36 (11.65%) DevOps
12 36 (11.65%) Technical Leadership
13 34 (11.00%) Security Architecture
14 33 (10.68%) Roadmaps
14 33 (10.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 31 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (9.39%) Agile
17 27 (8.74%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 104 (33.66%) PowerShell
2 67 (21.68%) Python
3 36 (11.65%) Bash
4 14 (4.53%) SQL
5 9 (2.91%) Java
6 8 (2.59%) BeanShell
7 6 (1.94%) VB
7 6 (1.94%) VBScript
8 4 (1.29%) C#
9 3 (0.97%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.65%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.65%) JCL
10 2 (0.65%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.65%) REXX
11 1 (0.32%) CodeQL
11 1 (0.32%) Groovy
11 1 (0.32%) Korn
11 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 84 (27.18%) Security Cleared
2 47 (15.21%) SC Cleared
3 30 (9.71%) CISSP
3 30 (9.71%) Degree
3 30 (9.71%) DV Cleared
4 17 (5.50%) CISM
5 10 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.94%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.94%) PMP
8 5 (1.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.97%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.97%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.97%) CBAP
9 3 (0.97%) CCNA
9 3 (0.97%) CCNP
9 3 (0.97%) CEH
9 3 (0.97%) VCAP
10 2 (0.65%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (23.30%) NIST
2 66 (21.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (7.44%) GDPR
4 15 (4.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (3.88%) QA
6 8 (2.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (2.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (2.59%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.94%) GRC
8 5 (1.62%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.29%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.65%) ITGC
11 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.32%) NCSC
11 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.32%) PSD2
11 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 143 (46.28%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.53%) Hyper-V
4 13 (4.21%) Docker
5 9 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (1.94%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.97%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.97%) vSphere
9 1 (0.32%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.32%) RACF
9 1 (0.32%) Squid
9 1 (0.32%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 28 (9.06%) Ansible
2 23 (7.44%) Single Sign-On
3 19 (6.15%) Kubernetes
4 16 (5.18%) SCCM
5 9 (2.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (2.27%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (1.94%) NetBackup
7 6 (1.94%) SCOM
8 3 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.97%) Cisco Prime
8 3 (0.97%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (0.97%) VxRail
9 2 (0.65%) Kibana
9 2 (0.65%) logstash
9 2 (0.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.32%) FreeIPA
10 1 (0.32%) Grafana
10 1 (0.32%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.32%) WMI
Vendors
1 91 (29.45%) Microsoft
2 71 (22.98%) BeyondTrust
3 50 (16.18%) ServiceNow
4 32 (10.36%) VMware
5 29 (9.39%) Oracle
6 24 (7.77%) Splunk
7 19 (6.15%) Okta
8 13 (4.21%) Citrix
9 12 (3.88%) Google
10 10 (3.24%) Cisco
10 10 (3.24%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (2.91%) Netskope
11 9 (2.91%) WALLIX
12 8 (2.59%) Apple
12 8 (2.59%) Centrify
13 6 (1.94%) ForgeRock
13 6 (1.94%) SAP
13 6 (1.94%) SolarWinds
14 5 (1.62%) Ping Identity
14 5 (1.62%) Zscaler