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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 411 520 612
Rank change year-on-year +109 +92 -6
Contract jobs citing Privileged Access Management 176 178 238
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.32% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.36% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 126 153
10th Percentile £413 £450 £341
25th Percentile £513 £510 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £703 £713 £643
90th Percentile £775 £844 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £600 £520
% change year-on-year +4.17% +15.38% +4.00%

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 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Privileged Access Management in the UK

Privileged Access Management
Top 13 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 12 June 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 +93 135 £625 +4.17% 43
London +73 78 £600 - 22
UK excluding London +49 70 £625 +4.17% 18
Work from Home +68 54 £570 -0.87% 14
South East +41 40 £675 +12.50% 8
Scotland +53 16 £515 +10.75%
Midlands +20 8 £613 -6.67% 5
West Midlands +19 6 £638 -2.86% 5
North of England +9 3 £644 +17.05% 3
North West +16 2 £644 +7.29% 2
South West -2 2 £588 -2.08% 2
Yorkshire +5 1 - - 1
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 10 (5.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.70%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 2 (1.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.14%) Apache
3 2 (1.14%) IIS
3 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.14%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.14%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.70%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (26.70%) Azure
2 25 (14.20%) AWS
3 23 (13.07%) Entra ID
4 7 (3.98%) GitHub
5 6 (3.41%) GCP
6 5 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.84%) SaaS
7 4 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (1.70%) IaaS
9 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.14%) OCI
10 1 (0.57%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.57%) PaaS
10 1 (0.57%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.57%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.57%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.11%) Network Security
2 7 (3.98%) DHCP
2 7 (3.98%) DNS
3 6 (3.41%) Firewall
4 4 (2.27%) DMZ
4 4 (2.27%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (2.27%) SSH
4 4 (2.27%) VPN
5 2 (1.14%) BGP
5 2 (1.14%) EIGRP
5 2 (1.14%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.14%) OSPF
6 1 (0.57%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.57%) HTTP
6 1 (0.57%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.57%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.27%) MySQL
2 4 (2.27%) RDBMS
2 4 (2.27%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.14%) DB2
5 1 (0.57%) Power BI
5 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (6.82%) JIRA
2 10 (5.68%) JMeter
2 10 (5.68%) LoadRunner
3 8 (4.55%) Robot Framework
3 8 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (3.98%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.70%) Git
5 3 (1.70%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 35 (19.89%) Finance
2 33 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.25%) Banking
5 9 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.98%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.70%) Front Office
8 3 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.70%) Retail
9 2 (1.14%) Advertising
9 2 (1.14%) Automotive
9 2 (1.14%) Law
9 2 (1.14%) Legal
10 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.57%) Marketing
10 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (19.89%) Architect
2 23 (13.07%) Consultant
3 19 (10.80%) Security Manager
4 18 (10.23%) Security Architect
4 18 (10.23%) Senior
5 17 (9.66%) Project Manager
6 15 (8.52%) Analyst
7 14 (7.95%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 12 (6.82%) Security Engineer
9 11 (6.25%) Management Consultant
10 10 (5.68%) Security Analyst
10 10 (5.68%) Security Project Manager
11 9 (5.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 9 (5.11%) Lead
11 9 (5.11%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
11 9 (5.11%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (3.98%) Identity and Access Management Consultant
13 6 (3.41%) CyberArk Consultant
13 6 (3.41%) IAM Consultant
13 6 (3.41%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.64%) SailPoint
2 6 (3.41%) SAML
3 5 (2.84%) .NET
3 5 (2.84%) HTML
3 5 (2.84%) LDAP
3 5 (2.84%) OpenID
4 4 (2.27%) HTML5
4 4 (2.27%) Middleware
4 4 (2.27%) REST
4 4 (2.27%) Web Services
5 3 (1.70%) JDBC
5 3 (1.70%) JSP
5 3 (1.70%) OAuth
6 2 (1.14%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.14%) EJB
6 2 (1.14%) J2EE
6 2 (1.14%) RESTful
6 2 (1.14%) Servlets
6 2 (1.14%) XML
7 1 (0.57%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.64%) Management Information System
2 18 (10.23%) Onboarding
3 14 (7.95%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.68%) Private Cloud
5 9 (5.11%) PKI
6 8 (4.55%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.98%) Hedge funds
7 7 (3.98%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.84%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.84%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.27%) Operational Technology
9 4 (2.27%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (1.14%) CMDB
11 2 (1.14%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.14%) PMI
12 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.50%) Windows
2 14 (7.95%) Unix
3 13 (7.39%) Linux
4 11 (6.25%) Windows Server
5 8 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (42.61%) Identity Access Management
2 61 (34.66%) Cybersecurity
3 46 (26.14%) Information Security
4 30 (17.05%) Use Case
5 26 (14.77%) Agile
6 20 (11.36%) Test Automation
6 20 (11.36%) Vulnerability Management
7 18 (10.23%) SIEM
8 17 (9.66%) Cloud Security
8 17 (9.66%) Migration
8 17 (9.66%) Secrets Management
9 16 (9.09%) Project Management
10 15 (8.52%) Identity Management
11 13 (7.39%) Penetration Testing
11 13 (7.39%) RBAC
11 13 (7.39%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 12 (6.82%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (6.25%) Incident Management
13 11 (6.25%) Risk Management
13 11 (6.25%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.95%) Python
2 13 (7.39%) PowerShell
3 11 (6.25%) SQL
4 9 (5.11%) Java
5 2 (1.14%) C#
6 1 (0.57%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 54 (30.68%) Security Cleared
2 25 (14.20%) SC Cleared
3 22 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 20 (11.36%) CISSP
5 19 (10.80%) Degree
6 11 (6.25%) CISM
7 7 (3.98%) PMI Certification
8 5 (2.84%) PMP
9 4 (2.27%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.14%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.14%) CCNP
11 2 (1.14%) GIAC
11 2 (1.14%) SANS
12 1 (0.57%) CCNA
12 1 (0.57%) CCSP
12 1 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (7.95%) NIST
3 9 (5.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 5 (2.84%) GRC
5 3 (1.70%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.70%) QA
6 2 (1.14%) GDPR
6 2 (1.14%) NCSC
6 2 (1.14%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (27.84%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.98%) Docker
4 2 (1.14%) Terminal Services
4 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (9.09%) Ansible
1 16 (9.09%) Terraform
2 11 (6.25%) NetIQ Identity Manager
2 11 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (3.98%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.98%) Puppet
4 3 (1.70%) PingFederate
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.57%) CASB
Vendors
1 51 (28.98%) CyberArk
2 43 (24.43%) Microsoft
3 16 (9.09%) Oracle
4 12 (6.82%) NetIQ
4 12 (6.82%) Okta
5 11 (6.25%) Centrify
6 10 (5.68%) ServiceNow
6 10 (5.68%) VMware
7 8 (4.55%) BeyondTrust
8 5 (2.84%) CheckPoint
9 4 (2.27%) Google
9 4 (2.27%) SAP
10 3 (1.70%) ForgeRock
11 2 (1.14%) Adobe
11 2 (1.14%) Cisco
11 2 (1.14%) McAfee
11 2 (1.14%) WALLIX
11 2 (1.14%) Zscaler
12 1 (0.57%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.57%) Salesforce