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 May 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 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 372 384
Rank change year-on-year -38 +12 +54
Contract jobs citing CyberArk 243 151 188
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.52% 0.44%
As % of the Vendors category 1.21% 1.09% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 99 133
10th Percentile £472 £450 £432
25th Percentile £525 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £560 £613
Median % change year-on-year +10.98% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £750 £673 £703
90th Percentile £853 £795 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £580 £700
% change year-on-year -3.45% -17.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £25.94 - -
25th Percentile £39.83 - -
Median hourly rate £47.54 - -
75th Percentile £54.06 - -
90th Percentile £55.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 - -

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 20,109 13,901 18,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.93% 47.75% 42.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,663 8,623 11,336
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £405 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £489 £500
% change year-on-year +1.02% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,040 593 1,120
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.11
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.04 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.81% +15.73% -47.67%
75th Percentile £58.75 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £76.52 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.50 £22.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +31.11% +4.65% -45.64%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -18 229 £624 +6.13% 28
London -1 142 £700 +23.35% 18
Work from Home +1 119 £700 +23.08% 12
UK excluding London -76 83 £560 -3.45% 13
South East -41 35 £581 -12.26% 7
North of England -68 28 £620 +22.77% 3
North West -42 19 £620 +24.31% 3
Midlands -62 12 £525 -16.00%
West Midlands -67 11 £538 -14.00%
Yorkshire -52 7 £733 +22.08%
South West -28 5 £550 -15.38% 2
Scotland -8 2 £447 -34.98%
North East - 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 £500 -
East of England - 1 - - 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 6 (2.47%) Confluence
2 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.41%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.23%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 144 (59.26%) Azure
2 106 (43.62%) AWS
3 70 (28.81%) GCP
4 64 (26.34%) Entra ID
5 24 (9.88%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (9.05%) Microsoft Purview
7 18 (7.41%) SaaS
8 17 (7.00%) OpenShift
9 15 (6.17%) Mimecast
10 8 (3.29%) Datadog
11 5 (2.06%) Cohesity
11 5 (2.06%) Nutanix
12 4 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.65%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (1.65%) Sentry
13 3 (1.23%) OneDrive
13 3 (1.23%) Power Platform
14 1 (0.41%) Amazon EKS
14 1 (0.41%) AWS CloudTrail
14 1 (0.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.94%) Firewall
2 11 (4.53%) Network Security
3 7 (2.88%) DNS
4 5 (2.06%) SSH
4 5 (2.06%) SSL
4 5 (2.06%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.06%) VLAN
5 3 (1.23%) Internet
5 3 (1.23%) Wireless
6 2 (0.82%) NGFW
6 2 (0.82%) VPN
7 1 (0.41%) Anycast
7 1 (0.41%) BGP
7 1 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.41%) DMVPN
7 1 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.41%) IPsec
7 1 (0.41%) MPLS
7 1 (0.41%) OSPF
7 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.47%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.23%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.23%) MySQL
3 3 (1.23%) Power BI
4 2 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.82%) RDBMS
4 2 (0.82%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.41%) DB2
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 15 (6.17%) Jenkins
2 11 (4.53%) JIRA
3 3 (1.23%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (1.23%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.41%) AppScan
4 1 (0.41%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.41%) GitLab
4 1 (0.41%) Metasploit
General
1 110 (45.27%) Social Skills
2 83 (34.16%) Finance
3 45 (18.52%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (8.23%) Public Sector
5 18 (7.41%) Banking
6 14 (5.76%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (4.94%) Financial Institution
9 8 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.65%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.23%) Legal
11 3 (1.23%) Retail
12 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.41%) Front Office
12 1 (0.41%) Military
12 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 91 (37.45%) Architect
2 73 (30.04%) CyberArk Architect
3 25 (10.29%) Security Engineer
4 18 (7.41%) Project Manager
5 17 (7.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 10 (4.12%) Cloud Architect
6 10 (4.12%) Migration Manager
6 10 (4.12%) Migration Project Manager
7 8 (3.29%) CyberArk Engineer
7 8 (3.29%) Security Architect
8 7 (2.88%) Consultant
9 5 (2.06%) Analyst
9 5 (2.06%) SailPoint Engineer
10 4 (1.65%) CyberArk Specialist
10 4 (1.65%) IAM Project Manager
10 4 (1.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (1.65%) Lead
10 4 (1.65%) Senior
10 4 (1.65%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.65%) Testing Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (36.63%) LDAP
2 43 (17.70%) REST
3 42 (17.28%) SailPoint
4 35 (14.40%) SAML
4 35 (14.40%) SOAP
5 30 (12.35%) OpenID
6 17 (7.00%) OAuth
7 6 (2.47%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.23%) FIDO
8 3 (1.23%) Middleware
9 2 (0.82%) ISPF
10 1 (0.41%) EJB
10 1 (0.41%) J2EE
10 1 (0.41%) SPIFFE
Miscellaneous
1 69 (28.40%) Onboarding
2 46 (18.93%) Enterprise Software
3 44 (18.11%) Security Posture
4 26 (10.70%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.88%) Cloud Security Posture
7 6 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.06%) PKI
8 5 (2.06%) Replication
9 3 (1.23%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.82%) CMDB
10 2 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.82%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.41%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 50 (20.58%) Linux
1 50 (20.58%) Windows
2 30 (12.35%) Unix
3 12 (4.94%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.82%) zOS
5 1 (0.41%) Android
5 1 (0.41%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.41%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (44.44%) SIEM
2 100 (41.15%) Privileged Access Management
3 81 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 70 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (27.57%) ITSM
6 54 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 49 (20.16%) DevOps
8 42 (17.28%) CI/CD
9 41 (16.87%) Integration Patterns
9 41 (16.87%) Stakeholder Management
10 39 (16.05%) Identity Access Management
11 38 (15.64%) Technical Leadership
12 37 (15.23%) Presales
12 37 (15.23%) Task Automation
13 34 (13.99%) Migration
14 30 (12.35%) RBAC
14 30 (12.35%) Secrets Management
15 28 (11.52%) Security Architecture
16 27 (11.11%) Agile
17 25 (10.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 94 (38.68%) PowerShell
2 85 (34.98%) Python
3 11 (4.53%) Bash
4 5 (2.06%) SQL
5 4 (1.65%) Java
6 3 (1.23%) BeanShell
6 3 (1.23%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.82%) JCL
7 2 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.82%) REXX
8 1 (0.41%) Groovy
8 1 (0.41%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 99 (40.74%) Security Cleared
2 90 (37.04%) SC Cleared
3 39 (16.05%) CISSP
4 22 (9.05%) Degree
5 21 (8.64%) CISM
6 14 (5.76%) PMI Certification
6 14 (5.76%) PMP
7 8 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.29%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (2.06%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (2.06%) MCSA
9 5 (2.06%) MCSE
10 3 (1.23%) CCNA
10 3 (1.23%) CCNP
11 2 (0.82%) CRISC
11 2 (0.82%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.41%) CGEIT
12 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (34.57%) NIST
2 76 (31.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 36 (14.81%) GDPR
4 15 (6.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 15 (6.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 14 (5.76%) NCSC
6 10 (4.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (3.29%) HIPAA
8 6 (2.47%) QA
9 5 (2.06%) NIST 800
10 3 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (1.23%) GRC
10 3 (1.23%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.41%) COBIT
11 1 (0.41%) SLA
11 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 119 (48.97%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.23%) IAG
3 3 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.82%) Docker
5 1 (0.41%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.41%) RACF
5 1 (0.41%) Squid
5 1 (0.41%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 21 (8.64%) Single Sign-On
2 20 (8.23%) Kubernetes
3 12 (4.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (4.53%) AirWatch
5 6 (2.47%) Ansible
5 6 (2.47%) Nessus
6 5 (2.06%) CASB
7 4 (1.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (1.65%) Terraform
8 3 (1.23%) Cisco Prime
8 3 (1.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.41%) Control-M
9 1 (0.41%) Grafana
9 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.41%) QRadar
9 1 (0.41%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 78 (32.10%) BeyondTrust
2 55 (22.63%) Microsoft
3 37 (15.23%) Centrify
4 36 (14.81%) Splunk
5 25 (10.29%) ServiceNow
6 19 (7.82%) Oracle
7 17 (7.00%) CrowdStrike
8 15 (6.17%) Netskope
9 14 (5.76%) Okta
10 11 (4.53%) Google
11 10 (4.12%) Tenable
12 7 (2.88%) Zscaler
13 5 (2.06%) Remedy
13 5 (2.06%) SAP
14 4 (1.65%) Cisco
14 4 (1.65%) ForgeRock
14 4 (1.65%) VMware
15 3 (1.23%) ForeScout
15 3 (1.23%) LogRhythm
15 3 (1.23%) Palo Alto