SAML Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 396 440
Rank change year-on-year +71 +44 -79
Contract jobs citing SAML 71 51 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.22% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.19% 1.19% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 35 48
10th Percentile £374 £428 £450
25th Percentile £461 £469 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £583
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.58% +16.50%
75th Percentile £669 £671 £647
90th Percentile £675 £725 £729
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.00 - £77.00
% change year-on-year - - +28.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London 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 3,239 4,303 6,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 18.34% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,122 3,217 4,324
10th Percentile £324 £359 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £689 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 92 136
10th Percentile £21.63 £22.26 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.95 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% +31.63% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £63.95
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.07 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SAML in the UK excluding London

SAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAML in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SAML in the UK excluding London

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAML in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAML in the UK excluding London

SAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAML in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SAML in the UK excluding London

SAML
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Midlands +57 25 £622 -2.43% 2
East Midlands - 17 £620 - 2
North of England +33 11 £620 -4.62% 1
South West +10 11 £413 -25.00% 3
Scotland +44 10 £725 +45.00% 3
West Midlands +27 8 £650 +1.96%
Yorkshire - 7 £432 -
South East +12 5 £500 -13.04% 8
Wales - 5 £513 -
North West +13 4 £635 +4.74%
East of England +11 4 £550 - 1
SAML
UK

SAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (4.23%) IIS
1 3 (4.23%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (9.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (28.17%) Entra ID
2 19 (26.76%) Azure
3 17 (23.94%) AWS
4 13 (18.31%) GCP
5 5 (7.04%) CloudFront
5 5 (7.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.23%) Apigee
8 2 (2.82%) Boomi
8 2 (2.82%) GitHub
9 1 (1.41%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.41%) Serverless
9 1 (1.41%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.86%) DNS
2 5 (7.04%) Network Security
2 5 (7.04%) VPN
3 4 (5.63%) SSL
4 3 (4.23%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.23%) Wireshark
5 2 (2.82%) HTTP
5 2 (2.82%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.23%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 6 (8.45%) Maven
2 5 (7.04%) GitLab
3 4 (5.63%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.23%) Fiddler
4 3 (4.23%) gulp
4 3 (4.23%) JIRA
5 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.41%) Cypress.io
General
1 14 (19.72%) Public Sector
2 7 (9.86%) Finance
3 5 (7.04%) Retail
3 5 (7.04%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.41%) Automotive
5 1 (1.41%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.41%) Legal
Job Titles
1 30 (42.25%) Architect
2 19 (26.76%) Developer
3 13 (18.31%) Java Developer
4 12 (16.90%) ForgeRock Architect
5 5 (7.04%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Security Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Administrator
6 4 (5.63%) Consultant
6 4 (5.63%) IAM Consultant
6 4 (5.63%) Senior
7 3 (4.23%) Designer
7 3 (4.23%) ForgeRock Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (4.23%) IAM Developer
7 3 (4.23%) Java Scala Developer
7 3 (4.23%) Scala Developer
7 3 (4.23%) SharePoint Administrator
7 3 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (57.75%) OAuth
2 37 (52.11%) OpenID
3 17 (23.94%) LDAP
4 15 (21.13%) REST
5 13 (18.31%) OAuth2
6 9 (12.68%) Spring
6 9 (12.68%) Spring Boot
7 8 (11.27%) GWT
7 8 (11.27%) JAX-RS
7 8 (11.27%) Restlet
8 7 (9.86%) .NET
9 6 (8.45%) Web Services
10 5 (7.04%) React
11 4 (5.63%) Keycloak
11 4 (5.63%) Node.js
11 4 (5.63%) SailPoint
12 3 (4.23%) .NET Framework
12 3 (4.23%) JSON
12 3 (4.23%) RESTful
12 3 (4.23%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.45%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.04%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.04%) NHS
3 4 (5.63%) Insider Threat
3 4 (5.63%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.23%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.23%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.82%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.41%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.41%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.41%) IoT
6 1 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.27%) Windows
2 3 (4.23%) Android
2 3 (4.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (35.21%) Identity Access Management
2 20 (28.17%) Identity Management
3 13 (18.31%) Cloud Security
4 12 (16.90%) Agile
5 11 (15.49%) DevOps
5 11 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (15.49%) Technical Leadership
6 10 (14.08%) Migration
7 9 (12.68%) CI/CD
8 7 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (9.86%) Infrastructure Management
8 7 (9.86%) Stakeholder Identification
8 7 (9.86%) TDD
9 6 (8.45%) Software Engineering
9 6 (8.45%) Test Automation
9 6 (8.45%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (7.04%) Data Security
10 5 (7.04%) Defensive Programming
10 5 (7.04%) Penetration Testing
10 5 (7.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 19 (26.76%) Java
2 9 (12.68%) JavaScript
2 9 (12.68%) Python
3 8 (11.27%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.63%) Bash
4 4 (5.63%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.23%) BeanShell
5 3 (4.23%) Scala
6 2 (2.82%) Apex Code
6 2 (2.82%) Go
6 2 (2.82%) SOQL
7 1 (1.41%) ABAP
7 1 (1.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (7.04%) AWS Certification
2 3 (4.23%) Degree
3 2 (2.82%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.82%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.41%) CISM
4 1 (1.41%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.63%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (4.23%) QA
3 2 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.82%) NIST
3 2 (2.82%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.41%) GDPR
4 1 (1.41%) HL7
4 1 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (28.17%) Active Directory
2 11 (15.49%) Docker
3 3 (4.23%) OpenAM
3 3 (4.23%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 43 (60.56%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (8.45%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.04%) Ansible
4 3 (4.23%) SCOM
5 2 (2.82%) Terraform
6 1 (1.41%) Istio
Vendors
1 15 (21.13%) ForgeRock
2 14 (19.72%) Google
3 12 (16.90%) Microsoft
4 11 (15.49%) Okta
5 7 (9.86%) CrowdStrike
5 7 (9.86%) Zscaler
6 4 (5.63%) Salesforce
7 3 (4.23%) Atlassian
7 3 (4.23%) F5
8 2 (2.82%) Ariba
8 2 (2.82%) Citrix
8 2 (2.82%) SAP
9 1 (1.41%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (1.41%) Cognizant
9 1 (1.41%) Concur
9 1 (1.41%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.41%) Thycotic