XACML Contracts in England

eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring XACML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited XACML 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 477 525 648
Rank change year-on-year +48 +123 +133
Contract jobs citing XACML 8 17 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.046% 0.010%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.15% 0.23% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 5
10th Percentile £557 £773 £566
25th Percentile £585 £863 £645
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £913 £750
Median % change year-on-year -30.96% +21.67% -
75th Percentile £669 £950 £850
90th Percentile £678 - -
UK median daily rate £625 £913 £700
% change year-on-year -31.51% +30.36% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

XACML falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

XACML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing XACML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for XACML in England

XACML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XACML in England.

Daily rate trend for XACML in England

XACML
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XACML within the England region 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
London +29 6 £630 -30.96% 3
South East - 1 £630 -
XACML
UK

XACML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (25.00%) IaaS
1 2 (25.00%) PaaS
1 2 (25.00%) Route 53
1 2 (25.00%) SaaS
1 2 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) IPsec
1 2 (25.00%) Kerberos
1 2 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) OAuth
1 6 (75.00%) OpenID
2 3 (37.50%) OAuth2
2 3 (37.50%) SAML
3 2 (25.00%) Node.js
3 2 (25.00%) REST
3 2 (25.00%) Spring
3 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (12.50%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (50.00%) API Design
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) SOA
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) BPEL
4 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) Project Management
4 2 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Software Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) TDD
4 2 (25.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
1 2 (25.00%) RACF
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (25.00%) Packer
3 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Okta