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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 404 447
Rank change year-on-year +135 +43 +147
Contract jobs citing RBAC 275 183 263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.95% 0.43% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.49% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 124 166
10th Percentile £411 £475 £413
25th Percentile £475 £522 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £600 £567
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +5.82% -5.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £600 £540
% change year-on-year -10.83% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £38.31
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate - - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £64.50
90th Percentile - - £79.75
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 26,416 37,097 52,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.93% 86.26% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,973 23,888 36,212
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £627 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.40% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,082 2,438 1,719
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.15 £16.00 £16.23
Median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.48% +1.39% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.23 £38.06 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.72% +8.74% +75.00%

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 13 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 13 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 +131 223 £545 -9.21% 164
London +85 121 £540 -11.84% 56
Work from Home +82 101 £540 -10.74% 70
UK excluding London +68 101 £535 -10.83% 168
North of England +37 31 £463 -8.64% 53
South East +47 30 £575 -4.96% 32
North West +32 25 £463 -5.13% 45
Midlands +18 17 £507 -7.77% 16
West Midlands +16 13 £625 +13.64% 7
South West +52 12 £548 -4.70% 12
Scotland +11 12 £646 +10.00% 50
Yorkshire +18 6 £435 -21.00% 8
East Midlands +10 4 £440 -26.75% 8
East of England - 2 £525 - 9
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 14 (5.09%) Confluence
2 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.73%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (0.73%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 2 (0.73%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.36%) Apache
4 1 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.82%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) SAP PM
2 2 (0.73%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.36%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 154 (56.00%) Azure
2 84 (30.55%) Entra ID
3 77 (28.00%) AWS
4 42 (15.27%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (15.27%) GCP
5 31 (11.27%) Power Platform
6 28 (10.18%) GitHub
7 22 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (6.91%) SaaS
8 19 (6.91%) Serverless
9 17 (6.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 17 (6.18%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (5.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (5.82%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (5.09%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (5.09%) IaaS
12 11 (4.00%) Azure Storage
12 11 (4.00%) PaaS
13 10 (3.64%) Azure AKS
13 10 (3.64%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 38 (13.82%) Firewall
2 25 (9.09%) DNS
3 24 (8.73%) VPN
4 15 (5.45%) DHCP
5 13 (4.73%) Kerberos
6 12 (4.36%) WAN
7 10 (3.64%) LAN
8 8 (2.91%) Network Security
8 8 (2.91%) SAN
9 6 (2.18%) SSL
10 4 (1.45%) iSCSI
10 4 (1.45%) OpenLDAP
10 4 (1.45%) VLAN
11 3 (1.09%) NGFW
12 2 (0.73%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.73%) X.509
13 1 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.18%) Power BI
2 16 (5.82%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (4.00%) Data Lake
4 8 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (2.55%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.82%) GIS
6 5 (1.82%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.45%) ObjectStore
8 3 (1.09%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.09%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.09%) SSDT
9 2 (0.73%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.73%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.73%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.73%) Parquet
10 1 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.36%) Redis
10 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (5.82%) JIRA
2 13 (4.73%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.27%) Git
3 9 (3.27%) GitLab
4 3 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.73%) 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
General
1 66 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 33 (12.00%) Finance
3 30 (10.91%) Public Sector
4 21 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.82%) Banking
6 13 (4.73%) Marketing
7 7 (2.55%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.18%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.45%) Legal
10 3 (1.09%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Electronics
12 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 86 (31.27%) Architect
2 31 (11.27%) Solutions Architect
3 29 (10.55%) Senior
4 25 (9.09%) Lead
5 21 (7.64%) Analyst
5 21 (7.64%) Developer
6 18 (6.55%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (5.82%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (5.45%) Azure Architect
8 15 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (5.09%) Data Architect
9 14 (5.09%) Security Architect
10 11 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (3.64%) Project Manager
12 9 (3.27%) Active Directory Architect
12 9 (3.27%) Consultant
13 8 (2.91%) Business Analyst
13 8 (2.91%) ServiceNow Architect
13 8 (2.91%) Wintel Architect
14 7 (2.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (14.91%) OAuth
2 36 (13.09%) SailPoint
3 35 (12.73%) SAML
4 25 (9.09%) OpenID
5 20 (7.27%) ARM Templates
6 19 (6.91%) LDAP
7 18 (6.55%) AngularJS
8 16 (5.82%) HTML
9 14 (5.09%) OAuth2
10 11 (4.00%) Node.js
10 11 (4.00%) REST
11 10 (3.64%) .NET
12 9 (3.27%) Kafka
13 8 (2.91%) CSS
13 8 (2.91%) Web Services
14 7 (2.55%) React
15 6 (2.18%) Angular 2
15 6 (2.18%) HTML5
15 6 (2.18%) JSON
15 6 (2.18%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.00%) Onboarding
2 23 (8.36%) PKI
3 17 (6.18%) Data Centre
3 17 (6.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (5.45%) Cloud Native
4 15 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (5.09%) Security Posture
6 11 (4.00%) CMDB
7 10 (3.64%) Replication
8 8 (2.91%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.82%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.45%) SCADA
12 3 (1.09%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.09%) BYOD
12 3 (1.09%) IoT
12 3 (1.09%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
13 2 (0.73%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.64%) Windows
2 27 (9.82%) Windows Server
3 17 (6.18%) Linux
4 5 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.45%) Unix
5 4 (1.45%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.73%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.73%) VMS
7 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (28.36%) DevOps
1 78 (28.36%) Identity Access Management
2 70 (25.45%) CI/CD
3 55 (20.00%) Migration
4 54 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (18.55%) Agile
6 50 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 38 (13.82%) Analytics
8 34 (12.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 33 (12.00%) Identity Management
10 28 (10.18%) ETL
11 27 (9.82%) Cloud Security
12 26 (9.45%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 25 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
14 24 (8.73%) Containerisation
15 23 (8.36%) Collaborative Working
16 20 (7.27%) Business Intelligence
16 20 (7.27%) Data Security
16 20 (7.27%) Zero Trust
17 18 (6.55%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (14.91%) Python
2 40 (14.55%) PowerShell
3 33 (12.00%) Bicep
4 27 (9.82%) SQL
5 23 (8.36%) JavaScript
6 19 (6.91%) Bash
7 15 (5.45%) Java
8 11 (4.00%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.18%) BeanShell
9 6 (2.18%) C#
10 5 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.09%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.73%) Groovy
13 1 (0.36%) Go
13 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.36%) VB
13 1 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 70 (25.45%) Security Cleared
2 54 (19.64%) SC Cleared
3 42 (15.27%) Azure Certification
4 18 (6.55%) AWS Certification
5 12 (4.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (3.64%) CISSP
7 7 (2.55%) Degree
8 6 (2.18%) CISM
9 4 (1.45%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.45%) MCSE
9 4 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.09%) PMP
11 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.36%) OCP
12 1 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (16.36%) GDPR
2 29 (10.55%) HIPAA
3 21 (7.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 19 (6.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (4.73%) NIST
6 10 (3.64%) PCI DSS
7 9 (3.27%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.45%) GRC
8 4 (1.45%) QA
8 4 (1.45%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.73%) FIPS 140-2
9 2 (0.73%) NCSC
9 2 (0.73%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.36%) FedRAMP
10 1 (0.36%) GxP
10 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 93 (33.82%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.18%) Docker
3 14 (5.09%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (2.18%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.45%) BitLocker
7 4 (1.45%) vSphere
8 2 (0.73%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.36%) IAG
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 59 (21.45%) Terraform
2 47 (17.09%) Single Sign-On
3 46 (16.73%) Kubernetes
4 8 (2.91%) Ansible
5 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (2.18%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (1.82%) WSUS
8 3 (1.09%) Istio
8 3 (1.09%) Tivoli Identity Manager
9 2 (0.73%) Argo
9 2 (0.73%) Grafana
9 2 (0.73%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.36%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.36%) Kibana
10 1 (0.36%) logstash
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 93 (33.82%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.09%) Google
3 22 (8.00%) ServiceNow
4 21 (7.64%) CyberArk
5 18 (6.55%) Oracle
6 12 (4.36%) Okta
6 12 (4.36%) SAP
7 10 (3.64%) Citrix
7 10 (3.64%) Databricks
8 9 (3.27%) VMware
9 7 (2.55%) ForgeRock
10 4 (1.45%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.45%) Ping Identity
10 4 (1.45%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.09%) IBM
11 3 (1.09%) Informatica
11 3 (1.09%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.09%) UiPath
12 2 (0.73%) Mapbox
12 2 (0.73%) Workday