RBAC Contracts

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC, Role-Based Security)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring RBAC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RBAC 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 271 391 463
Rank change year-on-year +120 +72 +99
Contract jobs citing RBAC 276 193 260
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 0.44% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.51% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 128 163
10th Percentile £418 £450 £413
25th Percentile £491 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -8.13%
75th Percentile £651 £655 £641
90th Percentile £700 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £548 £600 £540
% change year-on-year -8.75% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate - - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £72.13
90th Percentile - - £85.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £61.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

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%

RBAC
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing RBAC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for RBAC in the UK

RBAC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for RBAC in the UK

RBAC
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RBAC over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RBAC in the UK

RBAC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RBAC.

Hourly rate trend for RBAC in the UK

RBAC
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 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 +117 226 £550 -8.33% 115
London +84 122 £575 -6.12% 48
UK excluding London +88 103 £548 -8.75% 80
Work from Home +67 98 £550 -9.09% 70
South East +47 31 £575 -4.96% 31
North of England +34 31 £463 -11.90% 12
North West +30 25 £463 -5.13% 5
South West +58 18 £548 -4.78% 12
Midlands +15 12 £600 +9.09% 14
Scotland +15 12 £646 +10.00% 3
West Midlands +9 11 £625 +13.64% 9
Yorkshire +10 6 £435 -22.76% 7
East of England - 2 £525 - 8
East Midlands +8 1 £575 -4.17% 5
Wales - 1 £600 -

RBAC
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 13 (4.71%) Confluence
2 7 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.72%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (0.72%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 2 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.36%) Apache
4 1 (0.36%) nginx
4 1 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.81%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) SAP GRC
1 3 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.72%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 151 (54.71%) Azure
2 89 (32.25%) Entra ID
3 73 (26.45%) AWS
4 39 (14.13%) GCP
5 38 (13.77%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (10.14%) Power Platform
7 23 (8.33%) GitHub
8 21 (7.61%) SaaS
9 17 (6.16%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (6.16%) Serverless
10 16 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (5.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 15 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (5.07%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (4.71%) IaaS
14 12 (4.35%) PaaS
15 11 (3.99%) Azure Storage
16 10 (3.62%) Azure AKS
16 10 (3.62%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 39 (14.13%) Firewall
2 31 (11.23%) DNS
3 24 (8.70%) VPN
4 17 (6.16%) Kerberos
5 15 (5.43%) DHCP
6 12 (4.35%) WAN
7 10 (3.62%) LAN
8 9 (3.26%) Network Security
9 8 (2.90%) SAN
9 8 (2.90%) SSL
10 5 (1.81%) OpenLDAP
11 4 (1.45%) iSCSI
11 4 (1.45%) NGFW
11 4 (1.45%) VLAN
12 2 (0.72%) X.509
13 1 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.06%) Power BI
2 16 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.99%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (1.81%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.81%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.45%) ObjectStore
5 4 (1.45%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.09%) SSDT
7 2 (0.72%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.72%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.72%) GIS
7 2 (0.72%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.72%) Parquet
7 2 (0.72%) Redis
8 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (5.43%) JIRA
2 10 (3.62%) Git
2 10 (3.62%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.26%) GitLab
4 3 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.72%) Vite
6 1 (0.36%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.36%) Hudson
6 1 (0.36%) JMeter
6 1 (0.36%) MSI
6 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.36%) Postman
6 1 (0.36%) Selenium
6 1 (0.36%) Snyk
6 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
General
1 63 (22.83%) Social Skills
2 31 (11.23%) Finance
2 31 (11.23%) Public Sector
3 22 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.43%) Banking
5 12 (4.35%) Marketing
6 10 (3.62%) Aerospace
7 6 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.17%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.45%) Legal
9 3 (1.09%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.72%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.72%) Retail
11 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 91 (32.97%) Architect
2 36 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
3 33 (11.96%) Senior
4 25 (9.06%) Lead
5 21 (7.61%) Analyst
5 21 (7.61%) Developer
6 17 (6.16%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (6.16%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (5.43%) Security Architect
8 14 (5.07%) Azure Architect
9 13 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (3.62%) Active Directory Architect
10 10 (3.62%) Data Architect
10 10 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.26%) Project Manager
12 8 (2.90%) Business Analyst
12 8 (2.90%) Consultant
12 8 (2.90%) ServiceNow Architect
12 8 (2.90%) Wintel Architect
13 7 (2.54%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (15.94%) OAuth
2 39 (14.13%) SAML
3 34 (12.32%) SailPoint
4 23 (8.33%) OpenID
5 22 (7.97%) LDAP
6 20 (7.25%) ARM Templates
7 18 (6.52%) AngularJS
8 16 (5.80%) .NET
8 16 (5.80%) HTML
9 14 (5.07%) OAuth2
10 12 (4.35%) REST
11 11 (3.99%) Node.js
12 8 (2.90%) CSS
12 8 (2.90%) Web Services
13 7 (2.54%) React
14 6 (2.17%) Angular 2
14 6 (2.17%) HTML5
14 6 (2.17%) JSON
14 6 (2.17%) Kafka
14 6 (2.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.59%) Onboarding
2 29 (10.51%) PKI
3 22 (7.97%) Data Centre
4 15 (5.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (5.43%) Security Posture
5 14 (5.07%) Replication
6 13 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (4.35%) Cloud Native
8 10 (3.62%) CMDB
8 10 (3.62%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (2.17%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.81%) Management Information System
13 3 (1.09%) Algorithms
13 3 (1.09%) BYOD
14 2 (0.72%) Cloud Security Posture
14 2 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
14 2 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.59%) Windows
2 27 (9.78%) Windows Server
3 14 (5.07%) Linux
4 5 (1.81%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (1.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.45%) Unix
5 4 (1.45%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (29.71%) Identity Access Management
2 74 (26.81%) DevOps
3 65 (23.55%) CI/CD
4 56 (20.29%) Migration
5 55 (19.93%) Agile
6 51 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 36 (13.04%) Identity Management
9 34 (12.32%) Analytics
10 32 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
11 28 (10.14%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 26 (9.42%) Cloud Security
12 26 (9.42%) Privileged Access Management
13 25 (9.06%) ETL
14 24 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
15 23 (8.33%) Containerisation
16 20 (7.25%) Data Security
17 18 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
17 18 (6.52%) Cost Optimisation
18 17 (6.16%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 44 (15.94%) PowerShell
2 36 (13.04%) Python
3 29 (10.51%) Bicep
4 24 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 24 (8.70%) SQL
5 18 (6.52%) Bash
6 12 (4.35%) Java
7 11 (3.99%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.17%) BeanShell
8 6 (2.17%) C#
9 3 (1.09%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.72%) Groovy
10 2 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.72%) VBScript
11 1 (0.36%) Go
11 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 74 (26.81%) Security Cleared
2 58 (21.01%) SC Cleared
3 40 (14.49%) Azure Certification
4 17 (6.16%) AWS Certification
5 12 (4.35%) CISSP
5 12 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.90%) CISM
7 7 (2.54%) Degree
8 4 (1.45%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.45%) MCSE
8 4 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.36%) OCP
11 1 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.36%) PMP
11 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (14.49%) GDPR
2 25 (9.06%) HIPAA
3 22 (7.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 15 (5.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (3.99%) NIST
6 9 (3.26%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.17%) Data Quality
7 6 (2.17%) GRC
8 4 (1.45%) QA
9 3 (1.09%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.72%) FIPS 140-2
10 2 (0.72%) NCSC
10 2 (0.72%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.36%) FedRAMP
11 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 100 (36.23%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.80%) Docker
3 12 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.81%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.45%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.45%) vSphere
7 3 (1.09%) IAG
8 2 (0.72%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 55 (19.93%) Terraform
2 51 (18.48%) Single Sign-On
3 44 (15.94%) Kubernetes
4 9 (3.26%) Ansible
5 6 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.81%) vCenter Server
6 5 (1.81%) WSUS
7 4 (1.45%) Istio
8 3 (1.09%) Argo
9 2 (0.72%) Grafana
9 2 (0.72%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.36%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.36%) Nessus
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.36%) Puppet
10 1 (0.36%) SCCM
10 1 (0.36%) SCOM
Vendors
1 92 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.06%) Google
3 22 (7.97%) ServiceNow
4 18 (6.52%) CyberArk
5 15 (5.43%) Oracle
6 11 (3.99%) Okta
7 10 (3.62%) SAP
8 9 (3.26%) Citrix
8 9 (3.26%) VMware
9 7 (2.54%) Databricks
9 7 (2.54%) ForgeRock
10 4 (1.45%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.45%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.09%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.09%) UiPath
12 2 (0.72%) Mapbox
12 2 (0.72%) Workday
13 1 (0.36%) BeyondTrust
13 1 (0.36%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.36%) Ping Identity