SAML Contracts in England

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SAML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SAML over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 522 615
Rank change year-on-year +142 +93 -114
Contract jobs citing SAML 155 141 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.28% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.08% 1.20% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 87 107
10th Percentile £375 £401 £403
25th Percentile £475 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £709 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £740
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £24.34 - -
25th Percentile £24.59 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,454 11,713 19,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.17% 23.17% 27.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,302 8,672 14,430
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 138 214
10th Percentile £21.63 £28.73 £21.30
25th Percentile £40.31 £48.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SAML in England

SAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SAML in England

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAML in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAML in England

SAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAML in England.

Hourly rate trend for SAML in England

SAML
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +103 92 £595 -0.83% 14
Midlands +45 25 £622 -2.43% 1
East Midlands - 17 £620 - 1
North of England +34 10 £620 -4.62% 2
West Midlands +35 8 £650 +1.96%
South West +14 8 £300 -47.83% 4
Yorkshire - 6 £434 -
South East +13 5 £500 -13.04% 6
East of England +20 4 £550 - 1
North West +12 4 £635 +4.74% 1
SAML
UK

SAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (5.16%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.23%) IIS
3 4 (2.58%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.29%) Confluence
4 2 (1.29%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.65%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.65%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.65%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 61 (39.35%) Azure
2 39 (25.16%) AWS
3 37 (23.87%) Entra ID
4 26 (16.77%) GCP
5 15 (9.68%) SaaS
6 10 (6.45%) PaaS
7 9 (5.81%) IaaS
8 8 (5.16%) Power Platform
9 7 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.23%) CloudFront
10 5 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.58%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (2.58%) GitHub
12 3 (1.94%) Apigee
12 3 (1.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (1.94%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.94%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.97%) DNS
2 16 (10.32%) Firewall
3 11 (7.10%) Network Security
3 11 (7.10%) VPN
4 10 (6.45%) NetScaler
5 9 (5.81%) HTTP
5 9 (5.81%) SSL
6 7 (4.52%) Kerberos
6 7 (4.52%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.58%) IPsec
7 4 (2.58%) Wireshark
8 3 (1.94%) HTTPS
8 3 (1.94%) MPLS
8 3 (1.94%) SSH
8 3 (1.94%) VoIP
9 2 (1.29%) BGP
9 2 (1.29%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.65%) NAS
10 1 (0.65%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.16%) Apache Hive
1 8 (5.16%) Big Data
1 8 (5.16%) Impala
1 8 (5.16%) Power BI
1 8 (5.16%) Tableau
2 6 (3.87%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.94%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (1.94%) MySQL
4 2 (1.29%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (3.87%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.23%) GitLab
2 5 (3.23%) JIRA
3 4 (2.58%) Fiddler
3 4 (2.58%) Maven
4 3 (1.94%) Git
4 3 (1.94%) gulp
5 2 (1.29%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.65%) Gradle
6 1 (0.65%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.65%) Mockito
6 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (16.77%) Finance
2 21 (13.55%) Social Skills
3 15 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.39%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.23%) Retail
6 3 (1.94%) Banking
6 3 (1.94%) German Language
7 2 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.65%) Automotive
8 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.65%) French Language
8 1 (0.65%) Law
8 1 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 68 (43.87%) Architect
2 30 (19.35%) Developer
3 17 (10.97%) Java Developer
4 14 (9.03%) Consultant
4 14 (9.03%) Security Architect
5 12 (7.74%) ForgeRock Architect
6 11 (7.10%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (6.45%) Senior
8 8 (5.16%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 8 (5.16%) IAM Consultant
9 7 (4.52%) AWS Architect
9 7 (4.52%) AWS Solution Architect
9 7 (4.52%) Security Engineer
10 6 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.23%) Applications Engineer
11 5 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.23%) Senior Developer
12 4 (2.58%) Administrator
12 4 (2.58%) Analyst
12 4 (2.58%) SharePoint Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (49.68%) OpenID
2 69 (44.52%) OAuth
3 34 (21.94%) REST
4 32 (20.65%) LDAP
5 15 (9.68%) AngularJS
5 15 (9.68%) OAuth2
6 14 (9.03%) Spring
6 14 (9.03%) XACML
7 13 (8.39%) .NET
7 13 (8.39%) Spring Boot
8 12 (7.74%) Restlet
9 11 (7.10%) GWT
9 11 (7.10%) JAX-RS
10 9 (5.81%) SailPoint
10 9 (5.81%) Tailwind CSS
11 8 (5.16%) Node.js
11 8 (5.16%) PySpark
11 8 (5.16%) Web Services
12 7 (4.52%) CSS
12 7 (4.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.81%) PKI
3 7 (4.52%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.23%) Insider Threat
6 4 (2.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.58%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (2.58%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.94%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.94%) Educational Technology
7 3 (1.94%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.29%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.29%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.29%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.90%) Windows
2 4 (2.58%) Linux
3 3 (1.94%) Android
3 3 (1.94%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.94%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.65%) Unix
4 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (27.74%) Identity Access Management
2 26 (16.77%) Identity Management
3 23 (14.84%) DevOps
4 21 (13.55%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (12.26%) Migration
6 18 (11.61%) RBAC
7 17 (10.97%) Agile
8 15 (9.68%) Use Case
9 14 (9.03%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 14 (9.03%) Roadmaps
9 14 (9.03%) Security Architecture
10 13 (8.39%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (7.74%) Cloud Security
11 12 (7.74%) Risk Management
12 10 (6.45%) Build Automation
12 10 (6.45%) CI/CD
12 10 (6.45%) User Acceptance Testing
13 9 (5.81%) User Experience
14 8 (5.16%) Application Security
14 8 (5.16%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 35 (22.58%) Python
2 33 (21.29%) Java
3 28 (18.06%) JavaScript
4 20 (12.90%) PowerShell
5 11 (7.10%) Scala
6 10 (6.45%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.23%) Bash
7 5 (3.23%) C#
8 4 (2.58%) Go
9 3 (1.94%) BeanShell
9 3 (1.94%) Perl
9 3 (1.94%) PHP
9 3 (1.94%) Ruby
9 3 (1.94%) SQL
10 2 (1.29%) ABAP
10 2 (1.29%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.29%) Groovy
10 2 (1.29%) SOQL
11 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 18 (11.61%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.97%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.81%) Degree
4 7 (4.52%) CISSP
5 6 (3.87%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.94%) CCIE
6 3 (1.94%) CCNP
6 3 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.94%) CISM
6 3 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.29%) CISA
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.87%) WCAG
2 5 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.58%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.58%) QA
4 2 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.29%) NIST
5 1 (0.65%) GDPR
5 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (23.87%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.81%) Docker
3 4 (2.58%) Firmware
3 4 (2.58%) OpenAM
4 3 (1.94%) OpenIDM
5 2 (1.29%) NFS
5 2 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.29%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.65%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.65%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 78 (50.32%) Single Sign-On
2 13 (8.39%) Ansible
3 10 (6.45%) Kubernetes
4 9 (5.81%) PingFederate
4 9 (5.81%) Terraform
5 4 (2.58%) SCOM
6 3 (1.94%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.29%) vRealize
8 1 (0.65%) Consul
8 1 (0.65%) Istio
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.65%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (15.48%) Google
2 23 (14.84%) Microsoft
3 22 (14.19%) Okta
4 17 (10.97%) ForgeRock
5 11 (7.10%) Citrix
6 10 (6.45%) Ping Identity
7 8 (5.16%) IBM
7 8 (5.16%) ServiceNow
7 8 (5.16%) Talend
8 6 (3.87%) Cisco
8 6 (3.87%) CyberArk
9 5 (3.23%) MuleSoft
9 5 (3.23%) Oracle
10 4 (2.58%) F5
10 4 (2.58%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.58%) VMware
11 3 (1.94%) BeyondTrust
11 3 (1.94%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.94%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.94%) New Relic