XACML Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 296 340 472
Rank change year-on-year +44 +132 -
Contract jobs citing XACML 8 5 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.081% 0.033% 0.019%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.31% 0.14% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile £534 £776 -
25th Percentile £585 £819 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £890 £650
Median % change year-on-year -29.78% +36.92% -
75th Percentile £630 £895 £850
90th Percentile £633 £898 -
UK median daily rate £625 £913 £700
% change year-on-year -31.51% +30.36% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

XACML
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

XACML trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

XACML
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

XACML daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) AWS KMS
1 3 (37.50%) IaaS
1 3 (37.50%) PaaS
1 3 (37.50%) Route 53
1 3 (37.50%) SaaS
1 3 (37.50%) Serverless
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) IPsec
1 3 (37.50%) Kerberos
1 3 (37.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
1 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
1 3 (37.50%) Maven
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) OAuth
1 5 (62.50%) OpenID
2 4 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 4 (50.00%) SAML
3 3 (37.50%) Node.js
3 3 (37.50%) REST
3 3 (37.50%) Spring
3 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
3 3 (37.50%) Web Services
4 1 (12.50%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (50.00%) SOA
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) BPEL
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
3 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Project Management
3 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 3 (37.50%) Security Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Software Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) TDD
3 3 (37.50%) UML
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
1 3 (37.50%) RACF
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Ansible
2 4 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (37.50%) Packer
3 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) IBM
1 2 (25.00%) Okta
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
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