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 15 January 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
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 338 388
Rank change year-on-year +31 +50 +51
Contract jobs citing CyberArk 300 201 197
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.81% 0.63% 0.47%
As % of the Vendors category 1.75% 1.38% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 126 131
10th Percentile £445 £457 £538
25th Percentile £500 £498 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -14.81% +12.50%
75th Percentile £750 £722 £800
90th Percentile - £810 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £550 £663
% change year-on-year -5.68% -16.98% +20.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £44.48 - -
25th Percentile £45.56 - -
Median hourly rate £50.75 - £78.00
75th Percentile £55.56 - -
90th Percentile £56.43 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £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 17,131 14,582 18,678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.18% 45.80% 44.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,032 8,643 11,805
10th Percentile £300 £284 £255
25th Percentile £410 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
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 802 426 679
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.88 £19.72 £17.74
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.13 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% -37.64% +50.00%
75th Percentile £47.69 £60.09 £63.29
90th Percentile £74.26 £78.75 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.13 £24.83 £44.50
% change year-on-year -14.92% -44.20% +76.24%

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 15 January 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
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 15 January 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 +44 269 £575 -4.17% 26
UK excluding London +37 158 £519 -5.68% 17
Work from Home +54 133 £700 +27.27% 15
London 0 125 £700 +10.02% 13
North of England -3 46 £513 -1.25% 5
South East +15 43 £492 -27.11% 4
Midlands -6 42 £600 -4.00% 6
West Midlands -5 40 £600 -4.00% 2
Yorkshire - 37 £509 - 2
Scotland +4 9 - -
North West -21 9 £513 -1.25% 2
South West -32 7 £425 -22.73% 2
Wales - 7 - -
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
East Midlands - 2 - - 4
East of England - 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 15 (5.00%) Confluence
2 2 (0.67%) JBoss
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Windchill
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 108 (36.00%) Azure
2 76 (25.33%) AWS
3 69 (23.00%) GCP
4 28 (9.33%) Entra ID
5 12 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (3.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (2.67%) SaaS
8 7 (2.33%) GitHub
9 4 (1.33%) Mimecast
10 3 (1.00%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.67%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.67%) OCI
12 1 (0.33%) Akamai
12 1 (0.33%) Azure Key Vault
12 1 (0.33%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.33%) DNS
2 11 (3.67%) Firewall
2 11 (3.67%) SSH
3 8 (2.67%) Kerberos
3 8 (2.67%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.33%) SSL
5 2 (0.67%) DHCP
5 2 (0.67%) Network Security
5 2 (0.67%) SMTP
6 1 (0.33%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.33%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.33%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.33%) VLAN
6 1 (0.33%) VPN
6 1 (0.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.67%) MySQL
2 2 (0.67%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.33%) Power BI
3 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (5.00%) JIRA
2 7 (2.33%) Git
2 7 (2.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.33%) Subversion
3 4 (1.33%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
General
1 102 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 59 (19.67%) Finance
3 32 (10.67%) Documentation Skills
4 30 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (9.67%) Banking
6 16 (5.33%) Public Sector
7 15 (5.00%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.00%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.67%) Electronics
11 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.67%) International Banking
11 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.67%) Marketing
11 2 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.67%) Retail
11 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.33%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.33%) French Language
Job Titles
1 81 (27.00%) Architect
2 58 (19.33%) Consultant
3 48 (16.00%) CyberArk Consultant
4 45 (15.00%) CyberArk Architect
5 23 (7.67%) Security Architect
6 20 (6.67%) Analyst
7 18 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
8 17 (5.67%) Project Manager
9 16 (5.33%) CyberArk Engineer
10 12 (4.00%) Lead
11 11 (3.67%) Security Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.67%) Business Analyst
12 8 (2.67%) Security Engineer
13 7 (2.33%) Lead Architect
13 7 (2.33%) Lead Solutions Architect
13 7 (2.33%) Management Consultant
13 7 (2.33%) Technical Manager
14 6 (2.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 6 (2.00%) NetBackup Engineer
14 6 (2.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (27.67%) LDAP
2 46 (15.33%) REST
3 35 (11.67%) SOAP
4 29 (9.67%) SailPoint
5 21 (7.00%) SAML
6 18 (6.00%) OAuth
7 13 (4.33%) OpenID
8 5 (1.67%) Middleware
9 3 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.00%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.67%) ADO
11 1 (0.33%) .NET
11 1 (0.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.00%) Enterprise Software
2 37 (12.33%) Onboarding
2 37 (12.33%) Security Posture
3 16 (5.33%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (1.67%) Clustering
5 5 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.67%) PKI
5 5 (1.67%) Replication
6 4 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.00%) SCADA
8 2 (0.67%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.67%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.67%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.67%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 46 (15.33%) Linux
2 41 (13.67%) Windows
3 12 (4.00%) Unix
4 11 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (3.67%) Solaris
5 9 (3.00%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.33%) AIX
7 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (42.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 81 (27.00%) Problem-Solving
3 74 (24.67%) SIEM
4 70 (23.33%) Identity Access Management
5 66 (22.00%) Cybersecurity
6 54 (18.00%) Task Automation
7 53 (17.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 41 (13.67%) DevOps
9 40 (13.33%) ITSM
10 39 (13.00%) Technical Leadership
11 36 (12.00%) CI/CD
12 35 (11.67%) Integration Patterns
12 35 (11.67%) Presales
13 31 (10.33%) Incident Response
13 31 (10.33%) RBAC
14 24 (8.00%) Migration
15 23 (7.67%) DevSecOps
16 22 (7.33%) Stakeholder Management
17 19 (6.33%) Agile
18 15 (5.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 104 (34.67%) PowerShell
2 93 (31.00%) Python
3 18 (6.00%) Bash
4 7 (2.33%) Java
5 4 (1.33%) Perl
6 3 (1.00%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.67%) BeanShell
7 2 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.67%) SQL
8 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 132 (44.00%) Security Cleared
2 126 (42.00%) SC Cleared
3 51 (17.00%) CISSP
4 45 (15.00%) CISM
5 12 (4.00%) Degree
6 10 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
7 8 (2.67%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.67%) PMI Certification
8 7 (2.33%) PhD
8 7 (2.33%) PMP
9 6 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (1.67%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.67%) CESG Certified Professional
12 2 (0.67%) CISMP
12 2 (0.67%) CompTIA CySA+
12 2 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.67%) MCSA
12 2 (0.67%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (17.67%) NIST
2 49 (16.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 47 (15.67%) GDPR
4 12 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.33%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.00%) NCSC
7 4 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.00%) NIST 800
8 3 (1.00%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.67%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.67%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.33%) GRC
10 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 100 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.67%) Docker
4 5 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.33%) NFS
5 4 (1.33%) Veritas File System
5 4 (1.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 4 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.33%) vSphere
6 1 (0.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 19 (6.33%) Single Sign-On
2 16 (5.33%) Ansible
3 9 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.67%) AirWatch
5 6 (2.00%) Kubernetes
5 6 (2.00%) NetBackup
5 6 (2.00%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (1.67%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (1.67%) Terraform
7 4 (1.33%) QRadar
8 3 (1.00%) Nessus
9 2 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.67%) CASB
9 2 (0.67%) vRealize
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Identity Manager
10 1 (0.33%) Packer
10 1 (0.33%) SCCM
10 1 (0.33%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 80 (26.67%) BeyondTrust
2 49 (16.33%) Centrify
3 38 (12.67%) Microsoft
4 19 (6.33%) Splunk
5 18 (6.00%) VMware
6 14 (4.67%) Oracle
7 13 (4.33%) BiZZdesign
8 12 (4.00%) Google
9 10 (3.33%) ServiceNow
10 9 (3.00%) Thycotic
11 8 (2.67%) Darktrace
11 8 (2.67%) Okta
12 6 (2.00%) Qualys
12 6 (2.00%) Veritas
13 5 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
13 5 (1.67%) Red Hat
13 5 (1.67%) Tenable
13 5 (1.67%) Zscaler
14 4 (1.33%) Netskope
14 4 (1.33%) SAP