RBAC Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC, Role-Based Security)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring RBAC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 315 319
Rank change year-on-year +45 +4 +121
Contract jobs citing RBAC 108 52 103
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.69% 0.30% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.36% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 41 69
10th Percentile £371 £413 £381
25th Percentile £407 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £598
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +0.42% +13.81%
75th Percentile £525 £613 £650
90th Percentile £600 £638 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £595
% change year-on-year -16.67% +0.84% +4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £33.97
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £64.50 - £64.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £54.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

RBAC 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 in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,020 14,491 18,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.17% 83.43% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,432 8,180 12,443
10th Percentile £225 £240 £256
25th Percentile £367 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £669 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,523 1,069 1,298
10th Percentile £14.13 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.14 £18.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.32 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.10% +1.18% +71.89%
75th Percentile £40.46 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.40 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.75
% change year-on-year -39.40% -2.92% +43.84%

RBAC
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RBAC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

RBAC job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

RBAC
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RBAC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RBAC

RBAC
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RBAC in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RBAC in the UK excluding London

RBAC
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RBAC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RBAC

RBAC
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RBAC within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 October 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
North of England -7 35 £409 -25.64% 13
Midlands +5 27 £435 -24.39% 11
Yorkshire -4 21 £406 -18.80% 2
East of England +15 16 £550 -4.35% 7
East Midlands - 16 £430 - 1
South West +30 15 £475 -24.00% 13
South East +3 14 £492 -18.68% 19
North West -12 14 £430 -25.22% 11
West Midlands -8 11 £450 -21.74% 11
Scotland -8 3 £599 -4.92% 10
RBAC
UK

RBAC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.78%) Confluence
2 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.93%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.93%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.93%) InDesign
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.93%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (2.78%) SAP PM
2 2 (1.85%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.93%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.93%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 50 (46.30%) Azure
2 48 (44.44%) AWS
3 29 (26.85%) GCP
4 28 (25.93%) Entra ID
5 20 (18.52%) SaaS
6 17 (15.74%) GitHub
7 13 (12.04%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (11.11%) Power Platform
9 11 (10.19%) Azure AKS
9 11 (10.19%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (9.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (9.26%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (9.26%) Serverless
11 9 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (7.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (6.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 6 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (4.63%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 15 (13.89%) Firewall
2 8 (7.41%) VPN
3 4 (3.70%) DNS
3 4 (3.70%) Kerberos
3 4 (3.70%) SSL
4 3 (2.78%) SSH
5 2 (1.85%) Network Security
5 2 (1.85%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.93%) HTTP
6 1 (0.93%) VoIP
6 1 (0.93%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.11%) Power BI
2 8 (7.41%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (4.63%) Metadata
5 3 (2.78%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.78%) Delta Lake
5 3 (2.78%) GIS
5 3 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.78%) Tableau
6 2 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.85%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.85%) Looker
6 2 (1.85%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.85%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.93%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 11 (10.19%) GitLab
2 8 (7.41%) Git
3 7 (6.48%) JIRA
4 4 (3.70%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.85%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.93%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.93%) Dreamweaver
6 1 (0.93%) Log4j
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.93%) Poetry
6 1 (0.93%) Pylint
General
1 40 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.26%) Banking
3 8 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.41%) Finance
4 7 (6.48%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.70%) Legal
6 3 (2.78%) Retail
7 2 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.85%) Marketing
7 2 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.85%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.85%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.93%) Electronics
8 1 (0.93%) Law
8 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (14.81%) Analyst
2 13 (12.04%) Consultant
3 12 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 10 (9.26%) Architect
5 8 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (6.48%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
6 7 (6.48%) Identity Management Engineer
6 7 (6.48%) NetBackup Engineer
7 6 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Developer
8 5 (4.63%) Release Manager
9 4 (3.70%) Data Engineer
9 4 (3.70%) Environment And Release Manager
9 4 (3.70%) IAM Project Manager
9 4 (3.70%) Project Manager
9 4 (3.70%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) Data Analyst
10 3 (2.78%) Security Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (27.78%) SAML
2 29 (26.85%) OAuth
3 25 (23.15%) OpenID
4 21 (19.44%) LDAP
5 11 (10.19%) Hibernate
5 11 (10.19%) Spring
6 9 (8.33%) OAuth2
7 7 (6.48%) JSON
8 6 (5.56%) Kafka
8 6 (5.56%) SailPoint
9 5 (4.63%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (3.70%) PySpark
10 4 (3.70%) RESTful
10 4 (3.70%) YAML
11 3 (2.78%) ADO
11 3 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (2.78%) pytest
12 2 (1.85%) ARM Templates
12 2 (1.85%) Streamlit
13 1 (0.93%) React
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.59%) Onboarding
2 15 (13.89%) Cloud Native
3 10 (9.26%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.78%) IoT
5 3 (2.78%) SCADA
6 2 (1.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.85%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.85%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.93%) Blog
7 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.93%) PKI
7 1 (0.93%) PMI
7 1 (0.93%) Replication
7 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.93%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.89%) Linux
2 6 (5.56%) Windows
3 4 (3.70%) AIX
3 4 (3.70%) Solaris
4 2 (1.85%) VMS
5 1 (0.93%) Android
5 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.93%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (31.48%) DevOps
2 32 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 30 (27.78%) CI/CD
4 24 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
5 21 (19.44%) Containerisation
6 20 (18.52%) Migration
7 18 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (15.74%) Agile
8 17 (15.74%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (13.89%) Data Protection
9 15 (13.89%) Identity Management
9 15 (13.89%) Observability
10 14 (12.96%) Analytics
11 13 (12.04%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
13 11 (10.19%) Disaster Recovery
14 10 (9.26%) Artificial Intelligence
14 10 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (9.26%) DevSecOps
14 10 (9.26%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 24 (22.22%) Python
2 22 (20.37%) PowerShell
3 19 (17.59%) SQL
4 12 (11.11%) Java
5 9 (8.33%) Bash
6 6 (5.56%) Bicep
7 4 (3.70%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.85%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.85%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.93%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.93%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.93%) C#
10 1 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.93%) Scala
10 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.93%) X++
Qualifications
1 15 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.04%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 6 (5.56%) Degree
4 4 (3.70%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.85%) CISSP
6 2 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.93%) CAPM
7 1 (0.93%) CISA
7 1 (0.93%) CISM
7 1 (0.93%) GIAC
7 1 (0.93%) IBM Certification
7 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.93%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (24.07%) GDPR
2 15 (13.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (12.04%) HIPAA
4 7 (6.48%) NIST
5 6 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (4.63%) SOC 2
7 4 (3.70%) Data Quality
8 3 (2.78%) PSD2
9 2 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.85%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.93%) FIPS 140-2
10 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.93%) QA
10 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (30.56%) Active Directory
2 24 (22.22%) Docker
3 7 (6.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (31.48%) Kubernetes
2 33 (30.56%) Terraform
3 18 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (10.19%) Prometheus
4 11 (10.19%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 8 (7.41%) Grafana
6 7 (6.48%) NetBackup
6 7 (6.48%) Oracle RMAN
7 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (3.70%) Ansible
9 3 (2.78%) PingFederate
9 3 (2.78%) SCCM
10 2 (1.85%) Control-M
10 2 (1.85%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.85%) Puppet
11 1 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.93%) Istio
11 1 (0.93%) Podman
Vendors
1 41 (37.96%) Microsoft
2 17 (15.74%) Oracle
3 13 (12.04%) IBM
3 13 (12.04%) Ping Identity
4 12 (11.11%) CyberArk
5 9 (8.33%) Dynatrace
6 8 (7.41%) Alibaba
6 8 (7.41%) Google
7 7 (6.48%) Databricks
7 7 (6.48%) Veritas
7 7 (6.48%) VMware
8 5 (4.63%) ForgeRock
8 5 (4.63%) SAP
9 3 (2.78%) BeyondTrust
9 3 (2.78%) Informatica
9 3 (2.78%) Okta
9 3 (2.78%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.78%) Splunk
10 2 (1.85%) Avaya
10 2 (1.85%) Genesys