RBAC Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC, Role-Based Security)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 206 273 367
Rank change year-on-year +67 +94 +116
Contract jobs citing RBAC 98 72 110
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.99% 0.47% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.53% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 54 77
10th Percentile £420 £458 £421
25th Percentile £481 £516 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.70%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £688
90th Percentile £697 £726 £743
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £565
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -8.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

RBAC
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing RBAC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

RBAC trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

RBAC
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing RBAC.

RBAC daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

RBAC
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

RBAC daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

RBAC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (2.04%) Confluence
2 1 (1.02%) Apache
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.02%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 1 (1.02%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 60 (61.22%) Azure
2 39 (39.80%) Entra ID
3 19 (19.39%) AWS
4 17 (17.35%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (15.31%) Power Platform
6 10 (10.20%) GitHub
7 8 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (8.16%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (5.10%) Azure AKS
9 5 (5.10%) Route 53
9 5 (5.10%) Serverless
10 4 (4.08%) Azure Functions
10 4 (4.08%) GCP
10 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (3.06%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (3.06%) Power Automate
12 2 (2.04%) AWS KMS
12 2 (2.04%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.18%) DNS
2 8 (8.16%) Firewall
3 7 (7.14%) VPN
3 7 (7.14%) WAN
4 6 (6.12%) DHCP
5 5 (5.10%) LAN
6 4 (4.08%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (3.06%) Kerberos
8 2 (2.04%) Network Security
8 2 (2.04%) SSL
8 2 (2.04%) X.509
9 1 (1.02%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.27%) Power BI
2 4 (4.08%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.04%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.04%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (2.04%) GIS
4 2 (2.04%) ObjectStore
5 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.02%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.02%) Parquet
5 1 (1.02%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Git
2 3 (3.06%) GitLab
2 3 (3.06%) JIRA
2 3 (3.06%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (2.04%) Vite
4 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.02%) MSI
4 1 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.02%) Snyk
General
1 24 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.16%) Finance
3 7 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.10%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.06%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.04%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.04%) Marketing
8 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (30.61%) Architect
2 19 (19.39%) Senior
3 16 (16.33%) Lead
4 15 (15.31%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (10.20%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (10.20%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) Analyst
6 8 (8.16%) Developer
7 7 (7.14%) ServiceNow Architect
8 6 (6.12%) Lead Architect
8 6 (6.12%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 5 (5.10%) Active Directory Architect
9 5 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) IT Security Officer
9 5 (5.10%) Security Architect
9 5 (5.10%) Security Officer
9 5 (5.10%) Wintel Architect
10 4 (4.08%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (4.08%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (19.39%) OAuth
2 15 (15.31%) LDAP
2 15 (15.31%) SAML
3 11 (11.22%) SailPoint
4 9 (9.18%) AngularJS
4 9 (9.18%) HTML
5 8 (8.16%) OAuth2
6 7 (7.14%) OpenID
6 7 (7.14%) Web Services
7 4 (4.08%) .NET
7 4 (4.08%) Keycloak
7 4 (4.08%) Node.js
7 4 (4.08%) React
8 3 (3.06%) ARM Templates
8 3 (3.06%) JSON
8 3 (3.06%) REST
9 2 (2.04%) CSS
9 2 (2.04%) GeoJSON
9 2 (2.04%) Google Maps API
9 2 (2.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.27%) Onboarding
2 11 (11.22%) PKI
3 8 (8.16%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (7.14%) CMDB
5 6 (6.12%) Data Centre
5 6 (6.12%) Product Ownership
5 6 (6.12%) Security Posture
6 4 (4.08%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.06%) Algorithms
7 3 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.04%) BYOD
8 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.04%) Replication
9 1 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (1.02%) FMCG
9 1 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.02%) Insider Threat
9 1 (1.02%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.20%) Windows
2 6 (6.12%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.10%) Linux
4 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.02%) VMS
4 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (38.78%) Identity Access Management
2 30 (30.61%) DevOps
3 22 (22.45%) Agile
4 21 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (20.41%) CI/CD
6 18 (18.37%) Identity Management
7 17 (17.35%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 14 (14.29%) Migration
9 13 (13.27%) Cloud Security
9 13 (13.27%) Collaborative Working
10 12 (12.24%) B2C
11 11 (11.22%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (11.22%) ITSM
12 10 (10.20%) Analytics
12 10 (10.20%) Privileged Access Management
13 8 (8.16%) Business Intelligence
13 8 (8.16%) Service Management
14 7 (7.14%) Privileged Identity Management
14 7 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
14 7 (7.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.45%) PowerShell
2 11 (11.22%) JavaScript
3 9 (9.18%) Python
4 8 (8.16%) Bicep
5 7 (7.14%) SQL
6 6 (6.12%) Bash
7 5 (5.10%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.06%) C#
9 2 (2.04%) Java
9 2 (2.04%) VBScript
10 1 (1.02%) BeanShell
10 1 (1.02%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (20.41%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 15 (15.31%) Azure Certification
4 7 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.08%) Degree
5 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.04%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.02%) CISM
8 1 (1.02%) CISSP
8 1 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.02%) OCP
8 1 (1.02%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (1.02%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.24%) GDPR
2 7 (7.14%) HIPAA
2 7 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.08%) NIST
4 3 (3.06%) GRC
4 3 (3.06%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.04%) FIPS 140-2
5 2 (2.04%) NIST 800
5 2 (2.04%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.02%) NCSC
System Software
1 46 (46.94%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.12%) Docker
3 4 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (22.45%) Single Sign-On
2 17 (17.35%) Kubernetes
3 12 (12.24%) Terraform
4 5 (5.10%) Ansible
5 2 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.02%) Grafana
6 1 (1.02%) Istio
6 1 (1.02%) Nessus
6 1 (1.02%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.02%) Puppet
6 1 (1.02%) SCCM
6 1 (1.02%) SCOM
6 1 (1.02%) WSUS
Vendors
1 37 (37.76%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.24%) ServiceNow
3 10 (10.20%) CyberArk
4 6 (6.12%) Oracle
5 4 (4.08%) ForgeRock
6 3 (3.06%) Google
6 3 (3.06%) Okta
7 2 (2.04%) Mapbox
8 1 (1.02%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.02%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.02%) SAP
8 1 (1.02%) Workday