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 25 March 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
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 328 431
Rank change year-on-year -21 +103 -20
Contract jobs citing CyberArk 294 197 165
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.68% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 1.54% 1.43% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 123 118
10th Percentile £481 £457 £521
25th Percentile £510 £485 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% -
75th Percentile £750 £704 £750
90th Percentile £809 £810 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £550 £675
% change year-on-year -2.36% -18.52% +17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £26.15 - -
25th Percentile £26.80 - -
Median hourly rate £27.88 - -
75th Percentile £42.44 - -
90th Percentile £51.18 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.16 - -

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 19,125 13,735 18,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.57% 47.23% 42.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,245 8,659 11,809
10th Percentile £313 £290 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.75%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £625
90th Percentile £700 £710 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 974 468 1,034
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.44 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.97 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.38 £29.00 £23.56
Median % change year-on-year -12.48% +23.12% -38.82%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.43 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £27.43 £21.50
% change year-on-year -13.13% +27.56% -38.57%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -17 263 £600 - 34
Work from Home +41 155 £700 +27.27% 12
UK excluding London -28 145 £537 -2.36% 17
London -14 134 £700 +16.67% 21
North of England -38 50 £550 +8.64% 3
South East -21 45 £496 -28.12% 9
Yorkshire -32 28 £531 -11.50% 1
West Midlands -43 28 £575 -8.00% 1
Midlands -59 28 £575 -8.00% 3
North West -34 20 £620 +24.00% 2
Scotland +4 9 - -
Wales - 7 - -
South West -30 3 - -
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
North East -10 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 19 (6.46%) Confluence
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.34%) JBoss
3 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.02%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 133 (45.24%) Azure
2 93 (31.63%) AWS
3 75 (25.51%) GCP
4 47 (15.99%) Entra ID
5 17 (5.78%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (5.44%) OpenShift
7 14 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
8 10 (3.40%) Mimecast
9 9 (3.06%) SaaS
10 5 (1.70%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.02%) Datadog
12 2 (0.68%) Google Workspace
12 2 (0.68%) OCI
12 2 (0.68%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.34%) Amazon ELB
13 1 (0.34%) Azure Key Vault
13 1 (0.34%) GitHub
13 1 (0.34%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (0.34%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.06%) DNS
1 9 (3.06%) SSH
2 6 (2.04%) Firewall
2 6 (2.04%) Kerberos
2 6 (2.04%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.70%) SSL
4 2 (0.68%) Network Security
5 1 (0.34%) Anycast
5 1 (0.34%) BGP
5 1 (0.34%) DMVPN
5 1 (0.34%) IPsec
5 1 (0.34%) MPLS
5 1 (0.34%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.34%) NGFW
5 1 (0.34%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.34%) OSPF
5 1 (0.34%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.34%) SMTP
5 1 (0.34%) VLAN
5 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.08%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.02%) MySQL
3 2 (0.68%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.68%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.68%) Power BI
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.34%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (7.14%) JIRA
2 17 (5.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.34%) AppScan
3 1 (0.34%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.34%) Metasploit
General
1 112 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 76 (25.85%) Finance
3 48 (16.33%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (6.80%) Banking
4 20 (6.80%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.10%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.74%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.36%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.68%) Legal
10 2 (0.68%) Retail
11 1 (0.34%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.34%) French Language
11 1 (0.34%) Front Office
11 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.34%) Marketing
11 1 (0.34%) Police
11 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 96 (32.65%) Architect
2 61 (20.75%) CyberArk Architect
3 54 (18.37%) Consultant
4 47 (15.99%) CyberArk Consultant
5 23 (7.82%) Project Manager
6 19 (6.46%) Security Architect
7 16 (5.44%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (4.76%) Security Engineer
9 13 (4.42%) Lead
10 11 (3.74%) Analyst
10 11 (3.74%) Security Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.40%) CyberArk Engineer
11 10 (3.40%) Migration Manager
11 10 (3.40%) Migration Project Manager
12 9 (3.06%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 7 (2.38%) Lead Architect
13 7 (2.38%) Lead Solutions Architect
14 6 (2.04%) CyberArk Specialist
14 6 (2.04%) Technical Manager
14 6 (2.04%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (32.65%) LDAP
2 42 (14.29%) REST
3 38 (12.93%) SAML
4 35 (11.90%) SOAP
5 32 (10.88%) SailPoint
6 27 (9.18%) OpenID
7 19 (6.46%) OAuth
8 5 (1.70%) OAuth2
9 4 (1.36%) Middleware
10 2 (0.68%) ADO
10 2 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (0.34%) .NET
11 1 (0.34%) J2EE
11 1 (0.34%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 50 (17.01%) Onboarding
2 41 (13.95%) Security Posture
3 39 (13.27%) Enterprise Software
4 27 (9.18%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.38%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
7 6 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.70%) PKI
9 3 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.02%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.68%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.34%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.34%) Clustering
11 1 (0.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.34%) Insider Threat
11 1 (0.34%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.34%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 38 (12.93%) Windows
2 34 (11.56%) Linux
3 14 (4.76%) Unix
4 10 (3.40%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.36%) AIX
5 4 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.36%) Solaris
6 1 (0.34%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (42.52%) Privileged Access Management
2 95 (32.31%) SIEM
3 93 (31.63%) Cybersecurity
4 72 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (22.11%) Identity Access Management
6 62 (21.09%) DevOps
7 56 (19.05%) ITSM
8 55 (18.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 50 (17.01%) CI/CD
10 40 (13.61%) Task Automation
11 38 (12.93%) Integration Patterns
11 38 (12.93%) Technical Leadership
12 36 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
13 35 (11.90%) Presales
14 32 (10.88%) Migration
15 31 (10.54%) DevSecOps
15 31 (10.54%) Secrets Management
16 27 (9.18%) RBAC
17 25 (8.50%) Agile
18 24 (8.16%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 93 (31.63%) PowerShell
2 84 (28.57%) Python
3 9 (3.06%) Bash
4 5 (1.70%) Java
4 5 (1.70%) SQL
5 4 (1.36%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.34%) BeanShell
7 1 (0.34%) Groovy
7 1 (0.34%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.34%) Lisp
7 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 145 (49.32%) Security Cleared
2 137 (46.60%) SC Cleared
3 64 (21.77%) CISSP
4 53 (18.03%) CISM
5 17 (5.78%) Degree
6 16 (5.44%) PMI Certification
6 16 (5.44%) PMP
7 10 (3.40%) TOGAF Certification
8 8 (2.72%) Master's Degree
9 7 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (2.38%) PhD
10 6 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.70%) MCSA
11 5 (1.70%) MCSE
12 3 (1.02%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.68%) CESG Certified Professional
13 2 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (29.59%) NIST
2 83 (28.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 56 (19.05%) GDPR
4 17 (5.78%) NCSC
5 13 (4.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 11 (3.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (3.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (2.38%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.70%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.70%) NIST 800
10 3 (1.02%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.68%) GRC
12 1 (0.34%) COBIT
12 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.34%) QA
System Software
1 113 (38.44%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.02%) IAG
4 2 (0.68%) Docker
5 1 (0.34%) Varnish
5 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.34%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 20 (6.80%) Single Sign-On
2 18 (6.12%) Kubernetes
3 12 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (3.74%) AirWatch
5 6 (2.04%) Nessus
6 5 (1.70%) Ansible
6 5 (1.70%) CASB
7 4 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.02%) Terraform
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle Identity Manager
9 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.34%) QRadar
9 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.34%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.34%) SCCM
9 1 (0.34%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 83 (28.23%) BeyondTrust
2 50 (17.01%) Centrify
3 35 (11.90%) Microsoft
4 28 (9.52%) Splunk
5 18 (6.12%) ServiceNow
6 15 (5.10%) Oracle
7 13 (4.42%) BiZZdesign
7 13 (4.42%) Okta
8 12 (4.08%) CrowdStrike
9 10 (3.40%) Netskope
9 10 (3.40%) Thycotic
10 9 (3.06%) Tenable
11 7 (2.38%) Google
11 7 (2.38%) Zscaler
12 5 (1.70%) Remedy
12 5 (1.70%) SAP
12 5 (1.70%) VMware
13 4 (1.36%) LogRhythm
14 3 (1.02%) Qualys
14 3 (1.02%) Workday