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 16 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
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 369 402
Rank change year-on-year -31 +33 +48
Contract jobs citing CyberArk 263 168 192
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.52% 0.45%
As % of the Vendors category 1.21% 1.09% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 112 140
10th Percentile £449 £400 £400
25th Percentile £500 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -18.52%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £807 £714 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 0
10th Percentile £26.58 - -
25th Percentile £43.81 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £16.35 -
Median % change year-on-year +221.10% - -
75th Percentile £66.25 - -
90th Percentile £95.18 - -
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 21,724 15,443 18,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.28% 47.53% 43.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,519 9,438 11,491
10th Percentile £313 £281 £272
25th Percentile £413 £403 £407
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 £714 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.38% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,096 758 1,110
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.31 £17.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% +0.60% -38.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.74 £60.75
90th Percentile £84.38 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.50 £24.47
% change year-on-year +51.07% -8.03% -18.45%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -8 243 £575 +4.55% 34
London -1 129 £600 +9.09% 16
UK excluding London -69 111 £550 +1.85% 21
Work from Home -38 100 £575 +4.55% 13
North of England -73 43 £550 +15.79% 1
South East -38 39 £590 -1.71% 8
North West -48 25 £550 +8.91% 1
Yorkshire -48 16 £510 +27.50%
South West -18 12 £563 -13.46% 8
Midlands -64 12 £525 -2.51% 1
West Midlands -61 10 £525 -2.51% 1
Scotland -20 3 £549 -8.58% 3
East Midlands -10 2 £575 -
East of England -20 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
1 132 (50.19%) Azure
2 86 (32.70%) AWS
3 83 (31.56%) Entra ID
4 40 (15.21%) GCP
5 28 (10.65%) SaaS
6 24 (9.13%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (6.46%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (5.32%) OpenShift
9 11 (4.18%) Mimecast
10 8 (3.04%) Datadog
11 5 (1.90%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (1.90%) Cohesity
11 5 (1.90%) GitHub
11 5 (1.90%) Nutanix
11 5 (1.90%) Sentry
12 4 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.52%) Rubrik
13 3 (1.14%) OneDrive
14 2 (0.76%) OCI
14 2 (0.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.22%) Firewall
2 14 (5.32%) DNS
2 14 (5.32%) SSH
3 13 (4.94%) Network Security
4 9 (3.42%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.66%) 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%) Wireless
10 2 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.76%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.76%) NGFW
11 1 (0.38%) Anycast
11 1 (0.38%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (0.38%) DMVPN
11 1 (0.38%) LAN
11 1 (0.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (16.35%) 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 18 (6.84%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.32%) JIRA
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 94 (35.74%) Finance
2 90 (34.22%) Social Skills
3 52 (19.77%) Documentation Skills
4 35 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (10.65%) Banking
6 25 (9.51%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (4.18%) Financial Institution
8 11 (4.18%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.52%) Legal
10 3 (1.14%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.76%) Military
11 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.76%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.76%) Retail
12 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.38%) Front Office
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 66 (25.10%) Architect
2 40 (15.21%) CyberArk Architect
3 26 (9.89%) Security Engineer
4 17 (6.46%) Analyst
5 16 (6.08%) CyberArk Engineer
5 16 (6.08%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 16 (6.08%) Project Manager
6 12 (4.56%) Business Analyst
6 12 (4.56%) Cloud Architect
7 9 (3.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (3.04%) Consultant
8 8 (3.04%) Senior
9 7 (2.66%) SailPoint Engineer
9 7 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.28%) Developer
10 6 (2.28%) Migration Manager
10 6 (2.28%) Migration Project Manager
10 6 (2.28%) Security Architect
11 5 (1.90%) IAM Project Manager
11 5 (1.90%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (21.29%) LDAP
2 54 (20.53%) SailPoint
3 33 (12.55%) SAML
4 28 (10.65%) OpenID
5 18 (6.84%) 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%) J2EE
12 1 (0.38%) JDBC
12 1 (0.38%) JSON
12 1 (0.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 107 (40.68%) Onboarding
2 23 (8.75%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.84%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (5.32%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.80%) PKI
5 10 (3.80%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.66%) Cloud Security Posture
6 7 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.90%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.90%) Replication
8 3 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.14%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.14%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.76%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.76%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 79 (30.04%) Windows
2 72 (27.38%) Linux
3 38 (14.45%) Unix
4 25 (9.51%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.14%) 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
1 107 (40.68%) Privileged Access Management
2 95 (36.12%) Cybersecurity
3 80 (30.42%) SIEM
4 62 (23.57%) Identity Access Management
5 54 (20.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 50 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (17.87%) DevOps
8 46 (17.49%) ITSM
9 45 (17.11%) RBAC
10 42 (15.97%) CI/CD
11 37 (14.07%) Runbook
11 37 (14.07%) Secrets Management
12 35 (13.31%) Agile
13 32 (12.17%) Roadmaps
14 31 (11.79%) Migration
15 30 (11.41%) Security Architecture
16 29 (11.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 24 (9.13%) Information Security
18 23 (8.75%) Architectural Design
18 23 (8.75%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 80 (30.42%) PowerShell
2 64 (24.33%) Python
3 23 (8.75%) Bash
4 11 (4.18%) 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 73 (27.76%) Security Cleared
2 52 (19.77%) SC Cleared
3 39 (14.83%) CISSP
4 32 (12.17%) Degree
5 19 (7.22%) CISM
6 14 (5.32%) DV Cleared
7 12 (4.56%) PMI Certification
7 12 (4.56%) PMP
8 11 (4.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (3.42%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (2.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (2.28%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.90%) MCSA
12 5 (1.90%) MCSE
13 3 (1.14%) CBAP
13 3 (1.14%) CCNA
13 3 (1.14%) CCNP
13 3 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.14%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (31.94%) NIST
2 77 (29.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (11.03%) GDPR
4 13 (4.94%) NCSC
5 12 (4.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 11 (4.18%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (4.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 10 (3.80%) QA
8 9 (3.42%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.90%) GRC
10 4 (1.52%) NIST 800
10 4 (1.52%) SOC 2
11 3 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (1.14%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.76%) ITGC
13 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.38%) COBIT
13 1 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.38%) PSD2
13 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 117 (44.49%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.42%) Docker
2 9 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.66%) Hyper-V
3 7 (2.66%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.14%) IAG
5 1 (0.38%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.38%) RACF
5 1 (0.38%) Squid
5 1 (0.38%) Varnish
5 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (10.65%) Single Sign-On
2 25 (9.51%) Kubernetes
3 19 (7.22%) Ansible
4 15 (5.70%) Terraform
5 12 (4.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (2.66%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (2.28%) Nessus
8 5 (1.90%) CASB
9 4 (1.52%) AirWatch
9 4 (1.52%) SCCM
10 3 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.14%) Cisco Prime
10 3 (1.14%) NetBackup
10 3 (1.14%) SCOM
10 3 (1.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.38%) Control-M
11 1 (0.38%) Grafana
11 1 (0.38%) QRadar
11 1 (0.38%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.38%) VxRail
Vendors
1 71 (27.00%) Microsoft
2 62 (23.57%) BeyondTrust
3 40 (15.21%) Splunk
4 36 (13.69%) ServiceNow
5 33 (12.55%) Oracle
6 18 (6.84%) Okta
7 14 (5.32%) CrowdStrike
8 12 (4.56%) Netskope
8 12 (4.56%) VMware
9 10 (3.80%) Citrix
9 10 (3.80%) Google
9 10 (3.80%) Tenable
10 8 (3.04%) Apple
11 6 (2.28%) Centrify
11 6 (2.28%) Cisco
11 6 (2.28%) SAP
12 5 (1.90%) Remedy
13 4 (1.52%) ForgeRock
13 4 (1.52%) Zscaler
14 3 (1.14%) WALLIX