Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 398 537 626
Rank change year-on-year +139 +89 -146
Contract jobs citing SAML 204 183 226
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.31% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.30% 1.31% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 119 140
10th Percentile £400 £410 £408
25th Percentile £494 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £657 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £620 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +7.83% - +15.00%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 contract job vacancies 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 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £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 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SAML in the UK

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for SAML in the UK

SAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SAML in the UK

SAML
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 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
England +142 155 £600 - 29
London +103 92 £595 -0.83% 14
Work from Home +104 84 £622 +3.67% 11
UK excluding London +76 64 £620 +7.83% 18
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
Scotland +33 7 £700 +40.00% 4
Yorkshire - 6 £434 -
South East +13 5 £500 -13.04% 6
Wales - 5 £513 -
East of England +20 4 £550 - 1
North West +12 4 £635 +4.74% 1

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 (3.92%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.45%) IIS
3 4 (1.96%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.98%) Confluence
4 2 (0.98%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.49%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 62 (30.39%) Azure
1 62 (30.39%) Entra ID
2 40 (19.61%) AWS
3 33 (16.18%) GCP
4 15 (7.35%) SaaS
5 11 (5.39%) PaaS
6 10 (4.90%) IaaS
7 8 (3.92%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.45%) CloudFront
9 5 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (1.96%) GitHub
11 3 (1.47%) Amazon Glacier
11 3 (1.47%) Apigee
11 3 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.47%) Cohesity
11 3 (1.47%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.82%) DNS
2 17 (8.33%) Firewall
3 12 (5.88%) Kerberos
4 11 (5.39%) HTTP
4 11 (5.39%) NetScaler
4 11 (5.39%) Network Security
4 11 (5.39%) VPN
5 9 (4.41%) SSL
6 7 (3.43%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.96%) IPsec
7 4 (1.96%) Wireshark
8 3 (1.47%) BGP
8 3 (1.47%) HTTPS
8 3 (1.47%) iSCSI
8 3 (1.47%) MPLS
8 3 (1.47%) SSH
8 3 (1.47%) VoIP
9 1 (0.49%) LAN
9 1 (0.49%) S/MIME
9 1 (0.49%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.92%) Apache Hive
1 8 (3.92%) Big Data
1 8 (3.92%) Impala
1 8 (3.92%) Power BI
1 8 (3.92%) Tableau
2 6 (2.94%) NoSQL
2 6 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (1.47%) MySQL
4 2 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.49%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.45%) GitLab
2 5 (2.45%) JIRA
3 4 (1.96%) Fiddler
3 4 (1.96%) Maven
4 3 (1.47%) Git
4 3 (1.47%) gulp
5 2 (0.98%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.49%) Gradle
6 1 (0.49%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.49%) Mockito
6 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 44 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 39 (19.12%) Public Sector
3 28 (13.73%) Finance
4 15 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.45%) Retail
6 3 (1.47%) Banking
6 3 (1.47%) German Language
7 2 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.49%) Automotive
8 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.49%) French Language
8 1 (0.49%) Law
8 1 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 79 (38.73%) Architect
2 37 (18.14%) Developer
3 20 (9.80%) Java Developer
4 17 (8.33%) Security Architect
5 15 (7.35%) Consultant
6 12 (5.88%) ForgeRock Architect
7 11 (5.39%) Senior
7 11 (5.39%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (4.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 9 (4.41%) IAM Consultant
10 7 (3.43%) AWS Architect
10 7 (3.43%) AWS Solution Architect
10 7 (3.43%) Security Engineer
11 6 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (2.45%) Administrator
12 5 (2.45%) Applications Engineer
12 5 (2.45%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.45%) ForgeRock Engineer
12 5 (2.45%) Senior Developer
12 5 (2.45%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (54.90%) OpenID
2 103 (50.49%) OAuth
3 42 (20.59%) REST
4 34 (16.67%) LDAP
5 21 (10.29%) OAuth2
6 19 (9.31%) Spring
7 18 (8.82%) Spring Boot
8 17 (8.33%) AngularJS
8 17 (8.33%) Restlet
8 17 (8.33%) XACML
9 16 (7.84%) GWT
9 16 (7.84%) JAX-RS
10 14 (6.86%) .NET
11 13 (6.37%) SailPoint
12 11 (5.39%) Tailwind CSS
13 10 (4.90%) RESTful
14 9 (4.41%) Node.js
15 8 (3.92%) PySpark
15 8 (3.92%) Web Services
16 7 (3.43%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.90%) Cloud Native
1 10 (4.90%) PKI
2 8 (3.92%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.43%) Insider Threat
4 6 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.94%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.45%) NHS
5 5 (2.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 5 (2.45%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (1.96%) Educational Technology
6 4 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.96%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (1.47%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.47%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.98%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (0.98%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.29%) Windows
2 4 (1.96%) Linux
2 4 (1.96%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.47%) Android
3 3 (1.47%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.49%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.49%) Unix
4 1 (0.49%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (35.29%) Identity Access Management
2 41 (20.10%) DevOps
3 32 (15.69%) Identity Management
4 22 (10.78%) Infrastructure Automation
4 22 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (10.29%) Agile
5 21 (10.29%) Migration
6 20 (9.80%) RBAC
7 19 (9.31%) Roadmaps
8 18 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (8.33%) Threat Detection
10 16 (7.84%) Cloud Security
11 15 (7.35%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 15 (7.35%) Use Case
11 15 (7.35%) User Experience
12 14 (6.86%) Security Architecture
13 13 (6.37%) Risk Management
13 13 (6.37%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (6.37%) User Acceptance Testing
14 11 (5.39%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 39 (19.12%) Java
1 39 (19.12%) Python
2 32 (15.69%) JavaScript
3 21 (10.29%) PowerShell
4 12 (5.88%) TypeScript
5 11 (5.39%) Scala
6 7 (3.43%) SQL
7 5 (2.45%) Bash
7 5 (2.45%) C#
8 4 (1.96%) Go
8 4 (1.96%) Perl
9 3 (1.47%) BeanShell
9 3 (1.47%) Groovy
9 3 (1.47%) PHP
9 3 (1.47%) Ruby
10 2 (0.98%) ABAP
10 2 (0.98%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.98%) SOQL
11 1 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 38 (18.63%) Security Cleared
2 37 (18.14%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.90%) Degree
4 8 (3.92%) CISSP
5 6 (2.94%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.47%) CCIE
6 3 (1.47%) CCNP
6 3 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.47%) CISM
6 3 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.98%) CISA
8 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.92%) WCAG
2 5 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.96%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.96%) QA
4 3 (1.47%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (0.98%) NIST
6 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.49%) GDPR
6 1 (0.49%) HL7
6 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (20.59%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.37%) Docker
3 4 (1.96%) Firmware
3 4 (1.96%) OpenAM
3 4 (1.96%) OpenIDM
4 3 (1.47%) NFS
4 3 (1.47%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.49%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.49%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 94 (46.08%) Single Sign-On
2 15 (7.35%) Ansible
3 14 (6.86%) PingFederate
4 10 (4.90%) Kubernetes
5 9 (4.41%) Terraform
6 4 (1.96%) SCOM
7 3 (1.47%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.47%) vRealize
8 2 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.49%) Consul
9 1 (0.49%) Istio
9 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.49%) SCCM
Vendors
1 44 (21.57%) Microsoft
2 31 (15.20%) Google
3 30 (14.71%) Okta
4 20 (9.80%) ForgeRock
5 16 (7.84%) Ping Identity
6 12 (5.88%) Citrix
7 10 (4.90%) IBM
8 8 (3.92%) CyberArk
8 8 (3.92%) ServiceNow
8 8 (3.92%) Talend
9 6 (2.94%) Cisco
9 6 (2.94%) Oracle
10 5 (2.45%) MuleSoft
10 5 (2.45%) VMware
11 4 (1.96%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.96%) F5
11 4 (1.96%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.96%) Zscaler
12 3 (1.47%) Aruba
12 3 (1.47%) SolarWinds