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 22 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
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 376 395
Rank change year-on-year -35 +19 +70
Contract jobs citing CyberArk 263 170 184
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.52% 0.45%
As % of the Vendors category 1.21% 1.10% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 113 131
10th Percentile £448 £400 £400
25th Percentile £500 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -16.98%
75th Percentile £657 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £712 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £539 £542
% change year-on-year +2.14% -0.62% -9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 0
10th Percentile £26.80 - -
25th Percentile £43.81 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £16.35 -
Median % change year-on-year +221.10% - -
75th Percentile £80.12 - -
90th Percentile £100.00 - -
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 21,772 15,486 17,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.28% 47.46% 43.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,534 9,470 11,254
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
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 £713 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.71% -4.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,082 759 982
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.74 £12.87
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.04 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -3.27% -36.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £50.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.41 £25.00
% change year-on-year +51.69% -10.37% -22.60%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -7 242 £575 +4.55% 52
London -8 127 £575 +4.55% 25
UK excluding London -74 112 £550 +2.14% 31
Work from Home -28 94 £560 +1.82% 21
North of England -65 43 £550 +15.79% 4
South East -38 40 £590 -1.71% 10
North West -44 25 £550 +8.91% 1
Yorkshire -44 16 £510 +27.50% 3
South West -24 14 £575 -11.54% 12
Midlands -59 10 £513 -4.56% 3
West Midlands -61 8 £513 -4.56% 3
Scotland -25 3 £549 -8.58% 1
East Midlands -11 2 £575 -
East of England -19 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 10 (3.80%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (3.80%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.42%) Confluence
3 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.14%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 134 (50.95%) Azure
2 86 (32.70%) AWS
2 86 (32.70%) Entra ID
3 40 (15.21%) GCP
4 29 (11.03%) SaaS
5 24 (9.13%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (6.46%) Microsoft Purview
7 11 (4.18%) Mimecast
8 8 (3.04%) Datadog
8 8 (3.04%) OpenShift
9 5 (1.90%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (1.90%) Cohesity
9 5 (1.90%) GitHub
9 5 (1.90%) Nutanix
9 5 (1.90%) Sentry
10 4 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.52%) Rubrik
11 3 (1.14%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.76%) OCI
12 2 (0.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.75%) Firewall
2 15 (5.70%) DNS
3 14 (5.32%) Network Security
3 14 (5.32%) SSH
4 10 (3.80%) TCP/IP
5 8 (3.04%) DHCP
6 6 (2.28%) HTTPS
7 5 (1.90%) SSL
7 5 (1.90%) VLAN
8 4 (1.52%) VPN
9 3 (1.14%) Internet
9 3 (1.14%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (1.14%) Wireless
10 2 (0.76%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.76%) NGFW
10 2 (0.76%) VSAN
11 1 (0.38%) LAN
11 1 (0.38%) MPLS
11 1 (0.38%) OSPF
11 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (17.11%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.14%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.14%) MySQL
4 2 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.76%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.76%) Power BI
4 2 (0.76%) RDBMS
4 2 (0.76%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.38%) Db2
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 14 (5.32%) JIRA
2 12 (4.56%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.14%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (1.14%) Fiddler
3 3 (1.14%) 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 91 (34.60%) Social Skills
2 88 (33.46%) Finance
3 48 (18.25%) Documentation Skills
4 39 (14.83%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (11.03%) Banking
6 24 (9.13%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.56%) Financial Institution
8 11 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.52%) Legal
11 3 (1.14%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.76%) Military
12 2 (0.76%) Private Banking
12 2 (0.76%) Retail
12 2 (0.76%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.38%) Front Office
13 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (23.19%) Architect
2 35 (13.31%) CyberArk Architect
3 28 (10.65%) Security Engineer
4 19 (7.22%) Analyst
5 16 (6.08%) CyberArk Engineer
5 16 (6.08%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 14 (5.32%) Business Analyst
6 14 (5.32%) Project Manager
7 12 (4.56%) Cloud Architect
8 11 (4.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (3.04%) Senior
11 7 (2.66%) Consultant
11 7 (2.66%) SailPoint Engineer
12 6 (2.28%) Developer
12 6 (2.28%) Principal Engineer
13 5 (1.90%) Migration Manager
13 5 (1.90%) Migration Project Manager
13 5 (1.90%) Security Architect
13 5 (1.90%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (20.91%) SailPoint
2 50 (19.01%) LDAP
3 25 (9.51%) SAML
4 21 (7.98%) OpenID
5 17 (6.46%) REST
6 16 (6.08%) OAuth
7 7 (2.66%) OAuth2
8 5 (1.90%) Web Services
9 4 (1.52%) .NET
9 4 (1.52%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.52%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.52%) ASP.NET
9 4 (1.52%) FIDO
10 3 (1.14%) Middleware
11 2 (0.76%) ISPF
12 1 (0.38%) EJB
12 1 (0.38%) JDBC
12 1 (0.38%) JSON
12 1 (0.38%) SPIFFE
12 1 (0.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 106 (40.30%) Onboarding
2 18 (6.84%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (6.46%) Cloud Native
4 16 (6.08%) Management Information System
5 11 (4.18%) PKI
6 10 (3.80%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.66%) Cloud Security Posture
7 7 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.90%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.90%) Replication
9 4 (1.52%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.14%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.76%) CMDB
11 2 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.76%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 81 (30.80%) Windows
2 74 (28.14%) Linux
3 38 (14.45%) Unix
4 27 (10.27%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.52%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.76%) 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
1 115 (43.73%) Privileged Access Management
2 92 (34.98%) Cybersecurity
3 77 (29.28%) SIEM
4 66 (25.10%) Identity Access Management
5 53 (20.15%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (19.01%) Stakeholder Management
7 45 (17.11%) RBAC
8 41 (15.59%) ITSM
9 40 (15.21%) DevOps
10 37 (14.07%) CI/CD
10 37 (14.07%) Runbook
11 33 (12.55%) Agile
12 32 (12.17%) Migration
13 31 (11.79%) Roadmaps
14 30 (11.41%) Secrets Management
14 30 (11.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 29 (11.03%) Security Architecture
16 25 (9.51%) Information Security
17 23 (8.75%) Zero Trust
18 22 (8.37%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 83 (31.56%) PowerShell
2 65 (24.71%) Python
3 26 (9.89%) Bash
4 10 (3.80%) SQL
5 6 (2.28%) Java
6 5 (1.90%) BeanShell
7 3 (1.14%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.76%) JCL
8 2 (0.76%) REXX
9 1 (0.38%) C#
9 1 (0.38%) Groovy
9 1 (0.38%) Korn
9 1 (0.38%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 68 (25.86%) Security Cleared
2 45 (17.11%) SC Cleared
3 40 (15.21%) CISSP
4 33 (12.55%) Degree
5 20 (7.60%) CISM
6 16 (6.08%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (4.18%) PMI Certification
7 11 (4.18%) PMP
8 9 (3.42%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (2.28%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.90%) MCSA
10 5 (1.90%) MCSE
11 4 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.14%) CBAP
12 3 (1.14%) CCNA
12 3 (1.14%) CCNP
12 3 (1.14%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (28.90%) NIST
2 70 (26.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (10.65%) GDPR
4 12 (4.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (4.18%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (4.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 10 (3.80%) QA
7 9 (3.42%) HIPAA
8 6 (2.28%) GRC
8 6 (2.28%) NCSC
9 4 (1.52%) NIST 800
9 4 (1.52%) SOC 2
10 3 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.76%) ITGC
11 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
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
1 122 (46.39%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.80%) Docker
3 9 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (3.04%) Hyper-V
4 8 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (2.66%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.14%) IAG
7 2 (0.76%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.76%) vSphere
8 1 (0.38%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.38%) RACF
8 1 (0.38%) Squid
8 1 (0.38%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 28 (10.65%) Single Sign-On
2 20 (7.60%) Ansible
2 20 (7.60%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.08%) Terraform
4 12 (4.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (2.66%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (2.28%) Nessus
7 5 (1.90%) CASB
7 5 (1.90%) SCCM
8 4 (1.52%) AirWatch
9 3 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.14%) Cisco Prime
9 3 (1.14%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.14%) SCOM
9 3 (1.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.76%) VxRail
11 1 (0.38%) Grafana
11 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.38%) QRadar
11 1 (0.38%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 73 (27.76%) Microsoft
2 66 (25.10%) BeyondTrust
3 36 (13.69%) ServiceNow
4 33 (12.55%) Oracle
4 33 (12.55%) Splunk
5 17 (6.46%) Okta
6 15 (5.70%) VMware
7 14 (5.32%) CrowdStrike
8 12 (4.56%) Netskope
9 10 (3.80%) Citrix
9 10 (3.80%) Tenable
10 9 (3.42%) Google
11 8 (3.04%) Apple
12 7 (2.66%) Cisco
13 6 (2.28%) Centrify
13 6 (2.28%) SAP
14 5 (1.90%) Remedy
14 5 (1.90%) WALLIX
15 4 (1.52%) ForgeRock
15 4 (1.52%) Zscaler