Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SAML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SAML over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 739 773 903
Rank change year-on-year +34 +130 -189
Permanent jobs citing SAML 166 173 372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.77% 0.63% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 74 113 121
10th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,313 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,250 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.42% -14.29% +27.27%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,750 £55,000 £66,140
% change year-on-year +34.09% -16.84% +10.23%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

SAML is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,566 27,616 70,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.49% 29.13% 41.57%
Number of salaries quoted 16,031 17,933 29,817
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,834 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,650 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SAML in the UK

SAML
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SAML.

Salary trend for SAML in the UK

SAML
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAML over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SAML in the UK

SAML
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +4 125 £73,750 +34.09% 16
Scotland +8 81 £85,000 +41.67% 1
England -10 79 £69,250 +20.43% 27
Work from Home +35 48 £65,620 +17.70% 38
London +69 38 £68,500 -11.61% 11
South East -4 21 £92,500 +27.59% 5
South West -36 10 £70,000 +51.13% 5
Midlands -16 4 £46,000 -5.64% 3
North of England +14 3 £50,000 -9.09% 1
Wales +5 3 £55,000 -12.91%
East of England -13 3 £65,620 +9.37% 1
North West -26 3 £50,000 -9.09%
East Midlands - 3 £46,000 -
West Midlands -18 1 £77,500 +58.97% 3

SAML
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 8 (4.82%) Skype for Business
2 6 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.01%) Apache
3 5 (3.01%) Confluence
3 5 (3.01%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.41%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.81%) GlassFish
5 3 (1.81%) JBoss
6 1 (0.60%) nginx
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 62 (37.35%) Azure
2 40 (24.10%) AWS
3 24 (14.46%) Entra ID
4 17 (10.24%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (6.63%) SaaS
6 10 (6.02%) PaaS
7 9 (5.42%) IaaS
8 7 (4.22%) Azure AKS
8 7 (4.22%) GitHub
9 5 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.41%) GCP
11 3 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.81%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.81%) AWS CloudTrail
11 3 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (1.81%) Serverless
12 2 (1.20%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 71 (42.77%) Kerberos
2 38 (22.89%) Firewall
3 35 (21.08%) DNS
4 12 (7.23%) Reverse Proxy
5 11 (6.63%) WAN
6 10 (6.02%) LAN
7 9 (5.42%) SD-WAN
7 9 (5.42%) SSL
7 9 (5.42%) Wireless
8 8 (4.82%) BGP
8 8 (4.82%) Internet
8 8 (4.82%) MPLS
8 8 (4.82%) Network Security
8 8 (4.82%) OSPF
8 8 (4.82%) Skype
8 8 (4.82%) TCP/IP
8 8 (4.82%) VoIP
8 8 (4.82%) VPN
9 2 (1.20%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (1.20%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (39.16%) Metadata
2 7 (4.22%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.01%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.01%) MySQL
5 4 (2.41%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.41%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.41%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.81%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.81%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.81%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (1.81%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 70 (42.17%) Bitbucket
2 68 (40.96%) Jenkins
3 65 (39.16%) Artifactory
3 65 (39.16%) Git
4 5 (3.01%) JIRA
5 2 (1.20%) GitLab
5 2 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.20%) Subversion
General
1 83 (50.00%) Law
2 80 (48.19%) Finance
3 72 (43.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 71 (42.77%) Marketing
5 19 (11.45%) Social Skills
6 8 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.01%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.41%) Banking
8 4 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.41%) Retail
9 2 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.60%) Automotive
10 1 (0.60%) Legal
10 1 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 75 (45.18%) Lead
2 68 (40.96%) Software Engineer
3 65 (39.16%) Lead Software Engineer
4 51 (30.72%) Senior
5 42 (25.30%) Senior Software Engineer
6 33 (19.88%) Architect
7 14 (8.43%) Analyst
8 11 (6.63%) Developer
9 10 (6.02%) Technical Architect
10 8 (4.82%) Network Analyst
10 8 (4.82%) Network Security Analyst
10 8 (4.82%) Security Analyst
11 7 (4.22%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (4.22%) DevOps Developer
11 7 (4.22%) Django Developer
11 7 (4.22%) Python Developer
11 7 (4.22%) Python/Django Developer
12 6 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.61%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 6 (3.61%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (68.67%) OpenID
2 82 (49.40%) LDAP
3 80 (48.19%) JSON
4 70 (42.17%) Web Services
5 69 (41.57%) RESTful
5 69 (41.57%) XML
6 65 (39.16%) JSON-LD
7 62 (37.35%) OAuth
8 27 (16.27%) REST
9 10 (6.02%) Django
9 10 (6.02%) Flask
9 10 (6.02%) Microsoft Graph
10 8 (4.82%) 802.1X
11 7 (4.22%) OpenAPI
11 7 (4.22%) Swagger
12 5 (3.01%) .NET
12 5 (3.01%) CSS
12 5 (3.01%) HTML
12 5 (3.01%) J2EE
13 4 (2.41%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 78 (46.99%) Management Information System
2 65 (39.16%) Enterprise Cloud
2 65 (39.16%) Reference Data
3 11 (6.63%) Client/Server
3 11 (6.63%) Data Centre
4 10 (6.02%) Data Structures
5 9 (5.42%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (4.82%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.82%) Video Conferencing
7 7 (4.22%) Public Cloud
8 6 (3.61%) Cloud Native
8 6 (3.61%) Onboarding
9 5 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.41%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.81%) Private Cloud
12 2 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
13 1 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
13 1 (0.60%) Replication
13 1 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (16.87%) Linux
2 14 (8.43%) Windows
3 7 (4.22%) Unix
4 5 (3.01%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.81%) AIX
5 3 (1.81%) Solaris
5 3 (1.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.81%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.20%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.60%) VMS
7 1 (0.60%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (66.87%) Identity Access Management
2 105 (63.25%) Agile
3 76 (45.78%) Roadmaps
3 76 (45.78%) SDLC
4 73 (43.98%) CI/CD
5 71 (42.77%) Software Engineering
6 69 (41.57%) Continuous Delivery
6 69 (41.57%) Test Automation
7 66 (39.76%) Architectural Design
8 65 (39.16%) Community of Practice
8 65 (39.16%) Data Modelling
8 65 (39.16%) Data Pipeline
8 65 (39.16%) Data Transformation
8 65 (39.16%) Information Architecture
8 65 (39.16%) Ontologies
8 65 (39.16%) Operational Stability
8 65 (39.16%) RDF
8 65 (39.16%) Use Case
9 33 (19.88%) Scrum
10 30 (18.07%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 67 (40.36%) Go
2 65 (39.16%) Prolog
2 65 (39.16%) SPARQL
3 33 (19.88%) Java
4 19 (11.45%) Python
5 13 (7.83%) SQL
6 9 (5.42%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.01%) C#
8 4 (2.41%) Bash
9 2 (1.20%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.60%) Groovy
10 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (10.84%) SC Cleared
1 18 (10.84%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.43%) Azure Certification
2 14 (8.43%) CISSP
3 10 (6.02%) CISM
4 6 (3.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (3.01%) Degree
6 2 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.20%) CCSP
6 2 (1.20%) CISA
6 2 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.60%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.43%) NIST
2 11 (6.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 10 (6.02%) QA
4 6 (3.61%) PCI DSS
5 5 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.41%) GDPR
7 3 (1.81%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.60%) PMO
9 1 (0.60%) SLA
9 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 101 (60.84%) Active Directory
2 20 (12.05%) Virtual Servers
3 17 (10.24%) Docker
4 3 (1.81%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.60%) DFS Replication
5 1 (0.60%) FreeRADIUS
5 1 (0.60%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.60%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.60%) Shibboleth
5 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (17.47%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (8.43%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.42%) Terraform
4 8 (4.82%) Ansible
5 5 (3.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.81%) Oracle Statspack
7 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.20%) Packer
7 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.20%) Puppet
7 2 (1.20%) Salt
8 1 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.60%) NetIQ Identity Manager
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 36 (21.69%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.83%) Google
3 8 (4.82%) CheckPoint
3 8 (4.82%) Okta
3 8 (4.82%) Ribbon
4 7 (4.22%) Oracle
5 5 (3.01%) Atlassian
5 5 (3.01%) Cisco
5 5 (3.01%) ForgeRock
5 5 (3.01%) SolarWinds
6 4 (2.41%) Qualys
6 4 (2.41%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.41%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.41%) Splunk
6 4 (2.41%) VMware
7 3 (1.81%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.81%) New Relic
7 3 (1.81%) NGA Human Resources
7 3 (1.81%) Northgate
8 1 (0.60%) Meraki