Privileged Access Management Contracts

Privileged Access Management (PAM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Privileged Access Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Privileged Access Management over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 424 513 611
Rank change year-on-year +89 +98 -41
Contract jobs citing Privileged Access Management 158 171 243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.30% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.33% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 128 158
10th Percentile £413 £450 £313
25th Percentile £513 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £572
Median % change year-on-year - +4.90% +7.92%
75th Percentile £703 £741 £643
90th Percentile £760 £850 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £600 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% +2.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Privileged Access Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,679 51,168 79,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 89.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,608 35,479 55,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%

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 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Privileged Access Management in the UK

Privileged Access Management
Top 14 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 16 May 2024. 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 +120 124 £625 +4.17% 34
London +96 72 £600 - 16
UK excluding London +69 61 £625 +4.17% 18
Work from Home +73 49 £600 +4.35% 9
South East +36 35 £650 -10.34% 8
Scotland +37 14 £515 +10.75% 1
Midlands +29 6 £619 -10.00% 5
West Midlands +28 6 £619 -10.00% 5
North of England +21 3 £644 +28.75% 4
North West +18 2 £644 +7.29% 3
Yorkshire +10 1 - -
East of England +7 1 £775 +40.91%
South West +4 1 £625 +4.17%
Wales - 1 £425 -

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 9 (5.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.90%) Apache
2 3 (1.90%) IIS
2 3 (1.90%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 3 (1.90%) WebLogic
2 3 (1.90%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (2.53%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (30.38%) Azure
2 30 (18.99%) AWS
3 21 (13.29%) Entra ID
4 10 (6.33%) GCP
5 7 (4.43%) GitHub
6 4 (2.53%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (2.53%) SaaS
7 3 (1.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (1.27%) IaaS
8 2 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.63%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.63%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.96%) Network Security
2 10 (6.33%) DHCP
2 10 (6.33%) DNS
2 10 (6.33%) Firewall
3 4 (2.53%) DMZ
3 4 (2.53%) LAN
3 4 (2.53%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (2.53%) SSH
3 4 (2.53%) VPN
3 4 (2.53%) WAN
4 3 (1.90%) Multicast
5 2 (1.27%) BGP
5 2 (1.27%) EIGRP
5 2 (1.27%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.27%) MPLS
5 2 (1.27%) OSPF
5 2 (1.27%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.63%) HTTP
6 1 (0.63%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.96%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.53%) MySQL
3 3 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.90%) DB2
3 3 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.90%) RDBMS
3 3 (1.90%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.63%) Power BI
4 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (7.59%) JIRA
2 7 (4.43%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.80%) JMeter
3 6 (3.80%) LoadRunner
3 6 (3.80%) Robot Framework
3 6 (3.80%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.90%) Git
4 3 (1.90%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 36 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 32 (20.25%) Finance
3 19 (12.03%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.86%) Banking
5 10 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.43%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.90%) Front Office
9 3 (1.90%) Law
10 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.63%) Advertising
11 1 (0.63%) Electronics
11 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.63%) Marketing
11 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (22.78%) Architect
2 22 (13.92%) Consultant
3 17 (10.76%) Project Manager
3 17 (10.76%) Security Manager
4 14 (8.86%) Analyst
4 14 (8.86%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 14 (8.86%) Senior
5 13 (8.23%) Security Architect
6 12 (7.59%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (6.96%) Security Engineer
7 11 (6.96%) Security Project Manager
8 10 (6.33%) Management Consultant
8 10 (6.33%) Security Analyst
9 9 (5.70%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 9 (5.70%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
10 7 (4.43%) CyberArk Consultant
10 7 (4.43%) IAM Consultant
10 7 (4.43%) Identity and Access Management Consultant
10 7 (4.43%) Infrastructure Architect
10 7 (4.43%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (17.72%) SailPoint
2 10 (6.33%) LDAP
3 7 (4.43%) SAML
4 6 (3.80%) .NET
4 6 (3.80%) OpenID
5 5 (3.16%) Web Services
6 4 (2.53%) HTML
6 4 (2.53%) JSP
6 4 (2.53%) REST
6 4 (2.53%) RESTful
7 3 (1.90%) EJB
7 3 (1.90%) HTML5
7 3 (1.90%) J2EE
7 3 (1.90%) JDBC
7 3 (1.90%) Middleware
7 3 (1.90%) OAuth
7 3 (1.90%) Servlets
7 3 (1.90%) XML
8 2 (1.27%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.63%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.82%) Management Information System
2 18 (11.39%) Onboarding
3 14 (8.86%) Private Cloud
4 9 (5.70%) Data Centre
5 8 (5.06%) Cloud Native
5 8 (5.06%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.43%) Hedge funds
6 7 (4.43%) PKI
6 7 (4.43%) Security Posture
7 5 (3.16%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.53%) CMDB
8 4 (2.53%) Operational Technology
8 4 (2.53%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.27%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.27%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.76%) Windows
2 13 (8.23%) Unix
3 10 (6.33%) Linux
4 9 (5.70%) Windows Server
5 6 (3.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (46.20%) Identity Access Management
2 58 (36.71%) Cybersecurity
3 43 (27.22%) Information Security
4 31 (19.62%) Use Case
5 26 (16.46%) Agile
6 20 (12.66%) Vulnerability Management
7 18 (11.39%) Secrets Management
7 18 (11.39%) SIEM
8 16 (10.13%) Cloud Security
9 15 (9.49%) Project Management
9 15 (9.49%) Test Automation
10 14 (8.86%) DevOps
10 14 (8.86%) RBAC
11 13 (8.23%) Identity Management
11 13 (8.23%) Migration
11 13 (8.23%) Penetration Testing
11 13 (8.23%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (8.23%) Risk Management
11 13 (8.23%) Roadmaps
12 12 (7.59%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.59%) Python
2 11 (6.96%) SQL
3 10 (6.33%) Java
3 10 (6.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.27%) C#
5 1 (0.63%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 42 (26.58%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.29%) Degree
3 19 (12.03%) SC Cleared
4 18 (11.39%) DV Cleared
5 16 (10.13%) CISSP
6 8 (5.06%) PMI Certification
7 6 (3.80%) CISM
7 6 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.80%) PMP
8 5 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.90%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 3 (1.90%) SANS
10 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.27%) CCNP
10 2 (1.27%) CEH
10 2 (1.27%) GIAC
10 2 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.63%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (5.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 9 (5.70%) NIST
3 6 (3.80%) GRC
4 3 (1.90%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.90%) QA
5 2 (1.27%) NCSC
6 1 (0.63%) COBIT
6 1 (0.63%) GDPR
6 1 (0.63%) GxP
6 1 (0.63%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (29.11%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.43%) Docker
4 2 (1.27%) Terminal Services
4 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (8.86%) Ansible
1 14 (8.86%) Terraform
2 12 (7.59%) Single Sign-On
3 9 (5.70%) Kubernetes
4 7 (4.43%) Puppet
5 5 (3.16%) NetIQ Identity Manager
6 3 (1.90%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.63%) CASB
Vendors
1 52 (32.91%) CyberArk
2 41 (25.95%) Microsoft
3 14 (8.86%) Oracle
4 12 (7.59%) Okta
4 12 (7.59%) ServiceNow
5 11 (6.96%) Centrify
6 8 (5.06%) Google
6 8 (5.06%) VMware
7 7 (4.43%) BeyondTrust
8 6 (3.80%) Cisco
8 6 (3.80%) NetIQ
9 5 (3.16%) CheckPoint
10 4 (2.53%) F5
10 4 (2.53%) ForgeRock
10 4 (2.53%) Genesys
10 4 (2.53%) WALLIX
11 3 (1.90%) SAP
12 2 (1.27%) Adobe
12 2 (1.27%) McAfee
12 2 (1.27%) Zscaler