SPML Contracts in England

Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML)
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 507 651 -
Rank change year-on-year +144 - -
Contract jobs citing SPML 29 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.078% 0.006% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.39% 0.026% -
Number of daily rates quoted 20 3 0
10th Percentile £495 - -
25th Percentile £567 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £569 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.64% - -
75th Percentile £699 - -
90th Percentile £700 - -
UK median daily rate £606 £650 -
% change year-on-year -6.73% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

SPML 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 7,503 11,586 19,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.23% 23.08% 27.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,336 8,569 14,399
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 £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 138 211
10th Percentile £22.42 £28.73 £22.50
25th Percentile £42.81 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +31.31% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -28.95% +31.31% +10.00%

SPML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SPML in England

SPML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SPML in England

SPML
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SPML in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SPML in England

SPML
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 SPML within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 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 +129 25 £613 +7.64%
North of England - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
SPML
UK

SPML
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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (62.07%) GitHub
2 8 (27.59%) AWS
2 8 (27.59%) Azure
2 8 (27.59%) GCP
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.90%) DNS
2 2 (6.90%) Firewall
2 2 (6.90%) Network Security
2 2 (6.90%) SSL
3 1 (3.45%) 4G
3 1 (3.45%) 5G
3 1 (3.45%) HTTP
3 1 (3.45%) SIGTRAN
3 1 (3.45%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (62.07%) MySQL
1 18 (62.07%) Oracle Reports
1 18 (62.07%) SQL Server
General
1 16 (55.17%) Finance
2 11 (37.93%) Financial Institution
3 6 (20.69%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (17.24%) Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Architect
1 10 (34.48%) SailPoint Engineer
2 8 (27.59%) Developer
2 8 (27.59%) SailPoint Architect
2 8 (27.59%) SailPoint Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Software Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Senior
4 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Security Architect
6 1 (3.45%) IAM Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (93.10%) XML
2 26 (89.66%) HTML
2 26 (89.66%) JSP
2 26 (89.66%) LDAP
2 26 (89.66%) SailPoint
2 26 (89.66%) Servlets
2 26 (89.66%) SOAP
3 17 (58.62%) JDBC
3 17 (58.62%) Web Services
4 2 (6.90%) OAuth
4 2 (6.90%) OpenID
4 2 (6.90%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (62.07%) Onboarding
2 8 (27.59%) Mainframe
3 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.90%) PKI
3 2 (6.90%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Solaris
1 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (86.21%) RBAC
2 8 (27.59%) Secrets Management
2 8 (27.59%) Technical Architecture
3 5 (17.24%) Architectural Design
3 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
4 3 (10.34%) Data Protection
5 2 (6.90%) Business Continuity
5 2 (6.90%) Business Continuity Planning
5 2 (6.90%) Business Strategy
5 2 (6.90%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (6.90%) Configuration Management
5 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (6.90%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (6.90%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (6.90%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (6.90%) Risk Management
5 2 (6.90%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 26 (89.66%) Java
1 26 (89.66%) JavaScript
2 25 (86.21%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) CISA
1 2 (6.90%) CISM
1 2 (6.90%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 26 (89.66%) Active Directory
1 26 (89.66%) IAG
2 25 (86.21%) ACF2
2 25 (86.21%) RACF
Vendors
1 26 (89.66%) ServiceNow
2 18 (62.07%) Oracle
2 18 (62.07%) Sybase
3 8 (27.59%) BeyondTrust
3 8 (27.59%) CyberArk
4 2 (6.90%) CA
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.45%) Nokia