Privileged Access Management Contracts

Privileged Access Management (PAM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Privileged Access Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Privileged Access Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 420 527
Rank change year-on-year +41 +107 +79
Contract jobs citing Privileged Access Management 144 163 191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.37% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.43% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 120 143
10th Percentile £464 £461 £454
25th Percentile £519 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +5.45%
75th Percentile £725 £678 £731
90th Percentile £833 £750 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £625 £600
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +19.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Privileged Access Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Privileged Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Privileged Access Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Privileged Access Management in the UK

Privileged Access Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Privileged Access Management.

Daily rate trend for Privileged Access Management in the UK

Privileged Access Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Privileged Access Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Privileged Access Management in the UK

Privileged Access Management
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Privileged Access Management within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +54 120 £625 +0.81% 47
UK excluding London +69 68 £625 - 34
Work from Home +47 62 £600 - 32
London +20 55 £630 +4.92% 23
North of England +37 22 £600 +4.35% 8
South East +33 18 £630 -3.08% 13
Midlands +33 17 £625 +3.09% 6
West Midlands +25 17 £625 +3.09% 5
North West +27 13 £613 +6.52% 6
South West +54 9 £663 +6.00% 3
Yorkshire +16 9 £469 - 2
Scotland +3 7 £550 +4.76% 3

Privileged Access Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (4.17%) Confluence
2 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.39%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.39%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (6.25%) MS Visio
2 6 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.08%) SAP GRC
1 3 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (36.11%) Azure
2 29 (20.14%) Entra ID
3 18 (12.50%) AWS
4 12 (8.33%) GCP
5 8 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.17%) Google Workspace
7 5 (3.47%) Lucidchart
7 5 (3.47%) SuccessFactors
8 4 (2.78%) SaaS
9 3 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.39%) GitHub
10 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.39%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.69%) Akamai
11 1 (0.69%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.69%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.64%) Network Security
2 7 (4.86%) Kerberos
3 6 (4.17%) VPN
4 3 (2.08%) DNS
5 2 (1.39%) Firewall
6 1 (0.69%) DHCP
6 1 (0.69%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.39%) Oracle Database
1 2 (1.39%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.69%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (38.19%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.14%) Finance
3 17 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.56%) Banking
6 5 (3.47%) Retail
7 4 (2.78%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.39%) French Language
9 2 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.39%) Law
9 2 (1.39%) Publishing
10 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (31.94%) Architect
2 21 (14.58%) Analyst
3 13 (9.03%) CyberArk Engineer
3 13 (9.03%) Infrastructure Architect
4 11 (7.64%) Security Manager
5 10 (6.94%) Security Architect
5 10 (6.94%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (6.25%) Project Manager
7 7 (4.86%) Security Engineer
7 7 (4.86%) Security Project Manager
8 6 (4.17%) Business Analyst
8 6 (4.17%) Technical Analyst
9 5 (3.47%) Consultant
9 5 (3.47%) CyberArk Architect
9 5 (3.47%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 5 (3.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.47%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
9 5 (3.47%) Security Analyst
9 5 (3.47%) Senior
9 5 (3.47%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.19%) SailPoint
2 11 (7.64%) OAuth
2 11 (7.64%) SAML
3 10 (6.94%) OpenID
4 9 (6.25%) LDAP
5 4 (2.78%) Regular Expression
6 3 (2.08%) .NET
6 3 (2.08%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.69%) REST
7 1 (0.69%) SPML
7 1 (0.69%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.42%) Onboarding
2 11 (7.64%) Management Information System
2 11 (7.64%) Security Posture
3 9 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.47%) Insider Threat
4 5 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.78%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.08%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.08%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.39%) PKI
7 2 (1.39%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.69%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.69%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 42 (29.17%) Windows
2 31 (21.53%) Linux
3 14 (9.72%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.56%) Unix
4 8 (5.56%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.39%) AIX
5 2 (1.39%) Android
5 2 (1.39%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.39%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.39%) Solaris
5 2 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (35.42%) Identity Access Management
2 39 (27.08%) Cybersecurity
3 37 (25.69%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (18.06%) RBAC
5 20 (13.89%) Migration
6 16 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
7 15 (10.42%) SIEM
8 13 (9.03%) Identity Management
8 13 (9.03%) Information Security
9 12 (8.33%) Security Operations
10 11 (7.64%) Incident Response
10 11 (7.64%) Penetration Testing
10 11 (7.64%) Process Improvement
10 11 (7.64%) Risk Management
10 11 (7.64%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (6.94%) Data Loss Prevention
12 9 (6.25%) Task Automation
12 9 (6.25%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
12 9 (6.25%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 29 (20.14%) PowerShell
2 13 (9.03%) Python
3 3 (2.08%) C#
3 3 (2.08%) SQL
4 2 (1.39%) Bash
4 2 (1.39%) Java
4 2 (1.39%) VB
4 2 (1.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (24.31%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.67%) CISSP
3 21 (14.58%) SC Cleared
4 15 (10.42%) Degree
5 14 (9.72%) DV Cleared
6 13 (9.03%) CISM
7 9 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (4.17%) CCSP
9 6 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (4.17%) GCIH
10 5 (3.47%) CEH
11 3 (2.08%) MCSE
12 2 (1.39%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.39%) CISA
12 2 (1.39%) CRISC
12 2 (1.39%) MCP
12 2 (1.39%) MCSA
12 2 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (19.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (17.36%) NIST
3 17 (11.81%) GDPR
4 9 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (5.56%) SLA
6 6 (4.17%) GRC
7 4 (2.78%) PCI DSS
8 3 (2.08%) HIPAA
8 3 (2.08%) ITGC
8 3 (2.08%) NCSC
9 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.69%) SOX 404
System Software
1 67 (46.53%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.17%) BitLocker
3 5 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.08%) IAG
5 2 (1.39%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (14.58%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (4.86%) Ansible
3 6 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (2.08%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.08%) Puppet
6 2 (1.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 67 (46.53%) CyberArk
2 48 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 20 (13.89%) BeyondTrust
4 15 (10.42%) VMware
5 12 (8.33%) SAP
6 8 (5.56%) Google
7 6 (4.17%) Okta
7 6 (4.17%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.47%) CheckPoint
8 5 (3.47%) Oracle
9 4 (2.78%) Citrix
9 4 (2.78%) Thycotic
9 4 (2.78%) Zscaler
10 3 (2.08%) ForgeRock
11 2 (1.39%) McAfee
11 2 (1.39%) Ping Identity
11 2 (1.39%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.39%) Symantec
12 1 (0.69%) Centrify
12 1 (0.69%) CrowdStrike