XACML Contracts

eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 508 562 712
Rank change year-on-year +54 +150 +143
Contract jobs citing XACML 12 20 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.046% 0.010%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.18% 0.22% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 6
10th Percentile £530 £773 £513
25th Percentile £585 £863 £546
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £913 £700
Median % change year-on-year -31.51% +30.36% -
75th Percentile £635 £950 £831
90th Percentile £672 - £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £630 - £588

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

XACML
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for XACML in the UK

XACML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for XACML in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for XACML in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XACML 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 +48 8 £630 -30.96% 4
Work from Home +44 8 £625 -29.78%
London +29 6 £630 -30.96% 3
South East - 1 £630 -
UK excluding London - 1 £630 - 1

XACML
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) AWS KMS
1 3 (25.00%) IaaS
1 3 (25.00%) PaaS
1 3 (25.00%) Route 53
1 3 (25.00%) SaaS
1 3 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) IPsec
1 3 (25.00%) Kerberos
1 3 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
1 3 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) OAuth
1 7 (58.33%) OpenID
2 4 (33.33%) OAuth2
2 4 (33.33%) SAML
3 3 (25.00%) Node.js
3 3 (25.00%) REST
3 3 (25.00%) Spring
3 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (8.33%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
2 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) API Design
4 4 (33.33%) SOA
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) BPEL
5 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (25.00%) Data Architecture
5 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (25.00%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (25.00%) Microservices
5 3 (25.00%) Project Management
5 3 (25.00%) Security Architecture
5 3 (25.00%) Software Architecture
5 3 (25.00%) TDD
5 3 (25.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
1 3 (25.00%) RACF
2 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Ansible
2 4 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (25.00%) Packer
3 3 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) IBM
2 3 (25.00%) Okta
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft