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 28 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
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 387 390
Rank change year-on-year -30 +3 +63
Contract jobs citing CyberArk 265 160 187
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.49% 0.47%
As % of the Vendors category 1.21% 1.03% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 105 132
10th Percentile £443 £400 £400
25th Percentile £500 £475 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -18.52%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £537 £522
% change year-on-year +2.42% +2.90% -13.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 0
10th Percentile £27.23 - -
25th Percentile £43.81 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £16.35 -
Median % change year-on-year +228.75% - -
75th Percentile £85.35 - -
90th Percentile £100.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.75 £16.35 -
% change year-on-year +228.75% - -

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 21,831 15,499 17,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.30% 47.33% 43.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,562 9,484 10,956
10th Percentile £313 £280 £280
25th Percentile £413 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £710 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,092 777 916
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.67 £13.28
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.08 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.11 £25.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.60% -6.85% -35.41%
75th Percentile £65.33 £50.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.00 £22.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +52.36% -10.74% -28.06%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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% 39
London +3 126 £575 +4.55% 23
UK excluding London -55 113 £550 +2.42% 19
Work from Home -29 93 £550 - 13
North of England -62 43 £550 +16.40% 2
South East -46 40 £592 -1.33% 7
North West -42 25 £550 +8.91% 1
Yorkshire -37 16 £510 +27.50% 1
South West -22 15 £575 -11.54% 8
Midlands -58 9 £500 -6.89% 1
West Midlands -60 7 £500 -6.89% 1
Scotland -21 4 £488 -18.75% 1
East Midlands -11 2 £575 -
East of England -20 2 £500 -
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 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (3.77%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.40%) Confluence
3 1 (0.38%) IIS
3 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.13%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 137 (51.70%) Azure
2 89 (33.58%) Entra ID
3 87 (32.83%) AWS
4 38 (14.34%) GCP
5 31 (11.70%) SaaS
6 22 (8.30%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (6.04%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (4.15%) Mimecast
9 8 (3.02%) Datadog
10 6 (2.26%) GitHub
11 5 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.89%) Cohesity
11 5 (1.89%) Nutanix
11 5 (1.89%) Rubrik
11 5 (1.89%) Sentry
12 4 (1.51%) Azure Sentinel
13 3 (1.13%) OCI
13 3 (1.13%) OneDrive
13 3 (1.13%) OpenShift
14 2 (0.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (9.06%) Firewall
2 16 (6.04%) SSH
3 15 (5.66%) DNS
4 14 (5.28%) Network Security
5 10 (3.77%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.02%) DHCP
7 7 (2.64%) HTTPS
8 5 (1.89%) SSL
8 5 (1.89%) VLAN
9 4 (1.51%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.13%) Internet
10 3 (1.13%) VPN
10 3 (1.13%) Wireless
11 2 (0.75%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.75%) VSAN
12 1 (0.38%) Cisco ISE
12 1 (0.38%) LAN
12 1 (0.38%) NGFW
12 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.38%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (18.49%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.13%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.13%) MySQL
4 2 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.75%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.75%) Power BI
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
5 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (5.28%) JIRA
2 7 (2.64%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.13%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (1.13%) Fiddler
3 3 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.75%) Git
5 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.38%) GitLab
5 1 (0.38%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
General
1 87 (32.83%) Social Skills
2 86 (32.45%) Finance
3 42 (15.85%) Documentation Skills
4 40 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (11.70%) Banking
6 24 (9.06%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.53%) Financial Institution
8 11 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.51%) Legal
10 3 (1.13%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.13%) Military
10 3 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.75%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.75%) Retail
11 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.38%) Front Office
12 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 57 (21.51%) Architect
2 31 (11.70%) CyberArk Architect
3 29 (10.94%) Security Engineer
4 20 (7.55%) Analyst
5 17 (6.42%) CyberArk Engineer
6 16 (6.04%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 15 (5.66%) Business Analyst
8 14 (5.28%) Project Manager
9 11 (4.15%) Cloud Architect
9 11 (4.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.40%) Consultant
11 9 (3.40%) Senior
12 7 (2.64%) Principal Engineer
12 7 (2.64%) SailPoint Engineer
13 6 (2.26%) Developer
14 5 (1.89%) Data Engineer
14 5 (1.89%) Migration Manager
14 5 (1.89%) Migration Project Manager
14 5 (1.89%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (21.51%) SailPoint
2 44 (16.60%) LDAP
3 20 (7.55%) SAML
4 18 (6.79%) REST
5 16 (6.04%) OAuth
5 16 (6.04%) OpenID
6 7 (2.64%) OAuth2
7 5 (1.89%) .NET
7 5 (1.89%) Web Services
8 4 (1.51%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.51%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.51%) ASP.NET
8 4 (1.51%) FIDO
8 4 (1.51%) Middleware
9 2 (0.75%) ISPF
10 1 (0.38%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.38%) EJB
10 1 (0.38%) JDBC
10 1 (0.38%) JSON
10 1 (0.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 104 (39.25%) Onboarding
2 19 (7.17%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (6.79%) Management Information System
4 13 (4.91%) Cloud Native
5 12 (4.53%) PKI
6 10 (3.77%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.64%) Cloud Security Posture
7 7 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.89%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.89%) Replication
10 3 (1.13%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.75%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.75%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.75%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 85 (32.08%) Windows
2 77 (29.06%) Linux
3 39 (14.72%) Unix
4 31 (11.70%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.51%) 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%) MVS
7 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (46.79%) Privileged Access Management
2 88 (33.21%) Cybersecurity
3 72 (27.17%) SIEM
4 68 (25.66%) Identity Access Management
5 51 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (18.87%) Stakeholder Management
7 46 (17.36%) RBAC
8 39 (14.72%) Runbook
9 37 (13.96%) ITSM
10 35 (13.21%) Agile
11 34 (12.83%) DevOps
11 34 (12.83%) Migration
12 32 (12.08%) Roadmaps
13 31 (11.70%) CI/CD
14 30 (11.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 29 (10.94%) Security Architecture
16 26 (9.81%) Secrets Management
17 25 (9.43%) Information Security
18 23 (8.68%) Computer Science
18 23 (8.68%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 83 (31.32%) PowerShell
2 63 (23.77%) Python
3 27 (10.19%) Bash
4 10 (3.77%) SQL
5 6 (2.26%) Java
6 5 (1.89%) BeanShell
7 3 (1.13%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.75%) C#
8 2 (0.75%) JCL
8 2 (0.75%) REXX
9 1 (0.38%) CodeQL
9 1 (0.38%) Groovy
9 1 (0.38%) Korn
Qualifications
1 64 (24.15%) Security Cleared
2 41 (15.47%) SC Cleared
3 38 (14.34%) CISSP
4 34 (12.83%) Degree
5 18 (6.79%) CISM
6 17 (6.42%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (4.15%) PMI Certification
7 11 (4.15%) PMP
8 9 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (2.26%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.89%) MCSA
10 5 (1.89%) MCSE
11 4 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.13%) CBAP
12 3 (1.13%) CCNA
12 3 (1.13%) CCNP
12 3 (1.13%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (26.04%) NIST
2 64 (24.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (9.81%) GDPR
4 12 (4.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (4.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (4.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 10 (3.77%) HIPAA
6 10 (3.77%) QA
7 6 (2.26%) GRC
8 5 (1.89%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.51%) NIST 800
10 3 (1.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.75%) ITGC
12 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.38%) NCSC
12 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.38%) PSD2
12 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 124 (46.79%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.15%) Docker
3 9 (3.40%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.02%) Hyper-V
5 7 (2.64%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.13%) IAG
7 2 (0.75%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.75%) 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 (10.57%) Single Sign-On
2 19 (7.17%) Ansible
3 18 (6.79%) Terraform
4 17 (6.42%) Kubernetes
5 10 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (2.64%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (1.89%) CASB
7 5 (1.89%) Nessus
7 5 (1.89%) SCCM
8 3 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.13%) AirWatch
8 3 (1.13%) Cisco Prime
8 3 (1.13%) NetBackup
8 3 (1.13%) SCOM
8 3 (1.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.75%) VxRail
10 1 (0.38%) Control-M
10 1 (0.38%) FreeIPA
10 1 (0.38%) Grafana
10 1 (0.38%) QRadar
Vendors
1 76 (28.68%) Microsoft
2 65 (24.53%) BeyondTrust
3 39 (14.72%) ServiceNow
4 34 (12.83%) Oracle
5 27 (10.19%) Splunk
6 17 (6.42%) Okta
7 16 (6.04%) VMware
8 14 (5.28%) CrowdStrike
9 12 (4.53%) Netskope
10 10 (3.77%) Citrix
11 9 (3.40%) Google
11 9 (3.40%) Tenable
12 8 (3.02%) Apple
13 7 (2.64%) Cisco
14 6 (2.26%) Centrify
14 6 (2.26%) SAP
14 6 (2.26%) WALLIX
15 5 (1.89%) Remedy
16 4 (1.51%) ForgeRock
16 4 (1.51%) Zscaler