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 3 August 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
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 404 375
Rank change year-on-year -1 -29 +72
Contract jobs citing CyberArk 274 159 192
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.48% 0.49%
As % of the Vendors category 1.25% 1.02% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 103 133
10th Percentile £439 £400 £400
25th Percentile £500 £472 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -18.52%
75th Percentile £650 £649 £638
90th Percentile £750 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £523 £510
% change year-on-year +5.26% +2.45% -15.00%
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 21,964 15,619 17,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.33% 47.17% 43.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,616 9,561 10,707
10th Percentile £313 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £602 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £705 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,110 790 856
10th Percentile £15.80 £14.63 £13.58
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £34.86 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.61% -10.18% -33.85%
75th Percentile £65.00 £50.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.32 £27.00
% change year-on-year +52.30% -17.35% -23.94%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -14 249 £575 +4.55% 52
London +5 126 £575 +1.10% 29
UK excluding London -47 122 £550 +5.26% 29
Work from Home -16 95 £550 - 17
South East -40 45 £592 -0.29% 8
North of England -60 44 £550 +16.40% 8
North West -47 25 £550 +8.91% 5
South West -24 16 £575 -11.54% 8
Yorkshire -43 16 £510 +27.50% 2
Midlands -54 10 £500 -6.89% 1
West Midlands -68 8 £500 -6.89% 1
Scotland -7 5 £569 -5.21% 1
East Midlands -14 2 £575 -
East of England -15 2 £500 - 1
North East - 2 - - 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 10 (3.65%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.28%) Confluence
3 1 (0.36%) IIS
3 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 141 (51.46%) Azure
2 92 (33.58%) AWS
3 89 (32.48%) Entra ID
4 40 (14.60%) GCP
5 31 (11.31%) SaaS
6 22 (8.03%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (5.84%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (4.01%) Mimecast
9 8 (2.92%) Datadog
9 8 (2.92%) Rubrik
10 6 (2.19%) GitHub
11 5 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.82%) Cohesity
11 5 (1.82%) Nutanix
11 5 (1.82%) Sentry
12 3 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.09%) OCI
12 3 (1.09%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.09%) OpenShift
13 2 (0.73%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.49%) Firewall
2 19 (6.93%) DNS
3 16 (5.84%) SSH
4 15 (5.47%) Network Security
5 12 (4.38%) DHCP
6 11 (4.01%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.55%) HTTPS
8 5 (1.82%) SSL
8 5 (1.82%) VLAN
9 4 (1.46%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.09%) Internet
10 3 (1.09%) VPN
10 3 (1.09%) VSAN
10 3 (1.09%) Wireless
11 2 (0.73%) Kerberos
12 1 (0.36%) Cisco ISE
12 1 (0.36%) LAN
12 1 (0.36%) WAN
12 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.36%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (18.25%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.46%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.09%) MySQL
5 2 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.73%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.73%) Power BI
5 2 (0.73%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.73%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.36%) Db2
6 1 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (5.11%) JIRA
2 8 (2.92%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.09%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (1.09%) Fiddler
3 3 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.73%) Git
5 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.36%) GitLab
5 1 (0.36%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 93 (33.94%) Social Skills
2 88 (32.12%) Finance
3 44 (16.06%) Documentation Skills
4 40 (14.60%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (11.68%) Banking
6 24 (8.76%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.38%) Financial Institution
8 11 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.46%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.09%) Legal
10 3 (1.09%) Military
10 3 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.73%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.73%) Retail
11 2 (0.73%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.36%) Front Office
12 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 58 (21.17%) Architect
2 32 (11.68%) CyberArk Architect
3 29 (10.58%) Security Engineer
4 19 (6.93%) Analyst
5 17 (6.20%) CyberArk Engineer
6 16 (5.84%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 15 (5.47%) Business Analyst
7 15 (5.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (5.11%) Project Manager
9 11 (4.01%) Cloud Architect
9 11 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (3.65%) Consultant
11 9 (3.28%) Senior
12 8 (2.92%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (2.55%) SailPoint Engineer
14 6 (2.19%) Developer
15 5 (1.82%) Data Engineer
15 5 (1.82%) Migration Manager
15 5 (1.82%) Migration Project Manager
15 5 (1.82%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (20.80%) SailPoint
2 46 (16.79%) LDAP
3 20 (7.30%) SAML
4 18 (6.57%) REST
5 16 (5.84%) OAuth
5 16 (5.84%) OpenID
6 7 (2.55%) OAuth2
7 5 (1.82%) .NET
7 5 (1.82%) Web Services
8 4 (1.46%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.46%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.46%) ASP.NET
8 4 (1.46%) FIDO
8 4 (1.46%) Middleware
9 2 (0.73%) ISPF
10 1 (0.36%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.36%) EJB
10 1 (0.36%) JDBC
10 1 (0.36%) JSON
10 1 (0.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 105 (38.32%) Onboarding
2 19 (6.93%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (6.57%) Management Information System
4 13 (4.74%) Cloud Native
4 13 (4.74%) PKI
5 10 (3.65%) Security Posture
6 8 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.55%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.82%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.82%) Replication
10 4 (1.46%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.73%) CMDB
11 2 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.73%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.73%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 90 (32.85%) Windows
2 82 (29.93%) Linux
3 39 (14.23%) Unix
4 32 (11.68%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.46%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.73%) zOS
7 1 (0.36%) Android
7 1 (0.36%) CentOS
7 1 (0.36%) MVS
7 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (48.91%) Privileged Access Management
2 87 (31.75%) Cybersecurity
3 74 (27.01%) SIEM
4 71 (25.91%) Identity Access Management
5 54 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (19.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 47 (17.15%) RBAC
7 40 (14.60%) Runbook
8 39 (14.23%) ITSM
9 36 (13.14%) Migration
10 35 (12.77%) Agile
11 34 (12.41%) DevOps
12 33 (12.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 32 (11.68%) CI/CD
13 32 (11.68%) Roadmaps
14 29 (10.58%) Security Architecture
15 27 (9.85%) Secrets Management
16 26 (9.49%) Information Security
17 25 (9.12%) Change Control
18 23 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 88 (32.12%) PowerShell
2 64 (23.36%) Python
3 32 (11.68%) Bash
4 11 (4.01%) SQL
5 6 (2.19%) Java
6 5 (1.82%) BeanShell
7 4 (1.46%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.73%) C#
8 2 (0.73%) JCL
8 2 (0.73%) REXX
9 1 (0.36%) CodeQL
9 1 (0.36%) Groovy
9 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.36%) Korn
9 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (24.82%) Security Cleared
2 44 (16.06%) SC Cleared
3 39 (14.23%) CISSP
4 34 (12.41%) Degree
5 19 (6.93%) CISM
6 18 (6.57%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (4.01%) PMI Certification
7 11 (4.01%) PMP
8 9 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (2.19%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.82%) MCSA
10 5 (1.82%) MCSE
11 4 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.09%) CBAP
12 3 (1.09%) CCNP
12 3 (1.09%) CRISC
12 3 (1.09%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (25.55%) NIST
2 64 (23.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (9.12%) GDPR
4 12 (4.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (4.01%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (4.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 10 (3.65%) HIPAA
6 10 (3.65%) QA
7 5 (1.82%) GRC
7 5 (1.82%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.46%) NIST 800
9 3 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.73%) ITGC
11 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.36%) NCSC
11 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.36%) PSD2
11 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 133 (48.54%) Active Directory
2 13 (4.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.38%) Docker
3 12 (4.38%) Hyper-V
4 9 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.09%) IAG
6 3 (1.09%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.09%) vSphere
7 1 (0.36%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 1 (0.36%) RACF
7 1 (0.36%) Squid
7 1 (0.36%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 28 (10.22%) Single Sign-On
2 21 (7.66%) Ansible
3 19 (6.93%) Terraform
4 18 (6.57%) Kubernetes
5 10 (3.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (2.92%) SCCM
7 7 (2.55%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (2.19%) NetBackup
8 6 (2.19%) SCOM
9 5 (1.82%) CASB
9 5 (1.82%) Nessus
10 3 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.09%) AirWatch
10 3 (1.09%) Cisco Prime
10 3 (1.09%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (1.09%) VxRail
11 1 (0.36%) Control-M
11 1 (0.36%) Grafana
11 1 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 78 (28.47%) Microsoft
2 67 (24.45%) BeyondTrust
3 39 (14.23%) ServiceNow
4 35 (12.77%) Oracle
5 29 (10.58%) Splunk
6 21 (7.66%) VMware
7 17 (6.20%) Okta
8 13 (4.74%) Citrix
8 13 (4.74%) CrowdStrike
9 12 (4.38%) Netskope
10 10 (3.65%) Google
11 8 (2.92%) Apple
11 8 (2.92%) Tenable
12 7 (2.55%) Cisco
12 7 (2.55%) WALLIX
13 6 (2.19%) Centrify
13 6 (2.19%) SAP
13 6 (2.19%) SolarWinds
14 5 (1.82%) Remedy
15 4 (1.46%) ForgeRock