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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 540 652
Rank change year-on-year +169 +112 -160
Contract jobs citing SAML 212 176 216
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.30% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.37% 1.28% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 117 136
10th Percentile £395 £408 £408
25th Percentile £494 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year - +2.35% +6.59%
75th Percentile £700 £655 £688
90th Percentile £750 £738 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £580
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% +16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £24.34 - -
25th Percentile £24.59 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 - £77.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £77.00

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 8,956 13,731 24,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.64% 23.25% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,224 10,014 17,633
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 153 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £40.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.44 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -25.78% +29.29% +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
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 6 May 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 6 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
England +133 159 £600 - 30
London +122 94 £595 -0.83% 15
Work from Home +111 88 £621 +3.50% 11
UK excluding London +77 70 £600 +9.09% 17
Midlands +53 25 £622 -2.43% 2
East Midlands - 17 £620 - 2
North of England +30 11 £620 -4.62% 2
Scotland +42 10 £725 +45.00% 3
South West +17 10 £375 -31.82% 3
West Midlands +25 8 £650 +1.96%
Yorkshire - 7 £432 -
South East +8 5 £500 -13.04% 7
Wales - 5 £513 -
North West +23 4 £635 +4.74% 1
East of England +12 4 £550 -

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 (3.77%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.36%) IIS
3 4 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.94%) Confluence
4 2 (0.94%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 64 (30.19%) Entra ID
2 62 (29.25%) Azure
3 40 (18.87%) AWS
4 38 (17.92%) GCP
5 15 (7.08%) SaaS
6 11 (5.19%) PaaS
7 10 (4.72%) IaaS
8 8 (3.77%) Power Platform
9 7 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.36%) CloudFront
10 5 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.89%) GitHub
12 3 (1.42%) Amazon Glacier
12 3 (1.42%) Apigee
12 3 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.42%) Cohesity
12 3 (1.42%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.49%) DNS
2 17 (8.02%) Firewall
3 12 (5.66%) Kerberos
3 12 (5.66%) Network Security
4 11 (5.19%) HTTP
4 11 (5.19%) NetScaler
4 11 (5.19%) VPN
5 9 (4.25%) SSL
6 7 (3.30%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.89%) IPsec
7 4 (1.89%) Wireshark
8 3 (1.42%) BGP
8 3 (1.42%) HTTPS
8 3 (1.42%) iSCSI
8 3 (1.42%) MPLS
8 3 (1.42%) SSH
8 3 (1.42%) VoIP
9 1 (0.47%) LAN
9 1 (0.47%) S/MIME
9 1 (0.47%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.77%) Apache Hive
1 8 (3.77%) Big Data
1 8 (3.77%) Impala
1 8 (3.77%) Power BI
1 8 (3.77%) Tableau
2 6 (2.83%) NoSQL
2 6 (2.83%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.42%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (1.42%) MySQL
4 2 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.47%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (3.77%) Maven
2 7 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.36%) GitLab
3 5 (2.36%) JIRA
4 4 (1.89%) Fiddler
5 3 (1.42%) Git
5 3 (1.42%) gulp
6 2 (0.94%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.47%) Gradle
7 1 (0.47%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.47%) Mockito
7 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (20.28%) Social Skills
2 41 (19.34%) Public Sector
3 29 (13.68%) Finance
4 15 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.36%) Retail
6 3 (1.42%) Banking
6 3 (1.42%) German Language
7 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.47%) Automotive
8 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.47%) Law
8 1 (0.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 82 (38.68%) Architect
2 42 (19.81%) Developer
3 24 (11.32%) Java Developer
4 17 (8.02%) Security Architect
5 15 (7.08%) Consultant
6 12 (5.66%) ForgeRock Architect
6 12 (5.66%) Senior
7 11 (5.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 11 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (4.25%) IAM Consultant
9 8 (3.77%) Security Engineer
10 7 (3.30%) AWS Architect
10 7 (3.30%) AWS Solution Architect
11 6 (2.83%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (2.83%) Senior Developer
12 5 (2.36%) Administrator
12 5 (2.36%) Applications Engineer
12 5 (2.36%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.36%) ForgeRock Engineer
12 5 (2.36%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (54.72%) OpenID
2 103 (48.58%) OAuth
3 46 (21.70%) REST
4 34 (16.04%) LDAP
5 23 (10.85%) Spring
6 22 (10.38%) Spring Boot
7 21 (9.91%) OAuth2
7 21 (9.91%) Restlet
8 20 (9.43%) GWT
8 20 (9.43%) JAX-RS
9 18 (8.49%) XACML
10 17 (8.02%) AngularJS
11 14 (6.60%) .NET
12 13 (6.13%) SailPoint
13 11 (5.19%) Tailwind CSS
14 10 (4.72%) Node.js
14 10 (4.72%) RESTful
15 8 (3.77%) PySpark
15 8 (3.77%) Web Services
16 7 (3.30%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.72%) Cloud Native
1 10 (4.72%) PKI
2 8 (3.77%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.30%) Insider Threat
4 6 (2.83%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.83%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.36%) NHS
5 5 (2.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 5 (2.36%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (1.89%) Educational Technology
6 4 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (1.42%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.42%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (0.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.91%) Windows
2 4 (1.89%) Linux
2 4 (1.89%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.42%) Android
3 3 (1.42%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.47%) Unix
4 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (33.96%) Identity Access Management
2 40 (18.87%) DevOps
3 34 (16.04%) Identity Management
4 22 (10.38%) Agile
4 22 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (9.91%) Infrastructure Automation
5 21 (9.91%) Migration
6 20 (9.43%) RBAC
7 18 (8.49%) Cloud Security
7 18 (8.49%) Roadmaps
8 17 (8.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (7.55%) Threat Detection
10 15 (7.08%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 15 (7.08%) Use Case
10 15 (7.08%) User Acceptance Testing
10 15 (7.08%) User Experience
11 14 (6.60%) Security Architecture
12 13 (6.13%) Risk Management
12 13 (6.13%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (5.19%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 43 (20.28%) Java
2 40 (18.87%) Python
3 32 (15.09%) JavaScript
4 21 (9.91%) PowerShell
5 13 (6.13%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.19%) Scala
7 7 (3.30%) SQL
8 5 (2.36%) Bash
8 5 (2.36%) C#
9 4 (1.89%) Go
9 4 (1.89%) Perl
10 3 (1.42%) BeanShell
10 3 (1.42%) Groovy
10 3 (1.42%) PHP
10 3 (1.42%) Ruby
11 2 (0.94%) ABAP
11 2 (0.94%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.94%) SOQL
12 1 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 38 (17.92%) Security Cleared
2 37 (17.45%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.66%) Degree
4 8 (3.77%) CISSP
5 6 (2.83%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.42%) CCIE
6 3 (1.42%) CCNP
6 3 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.42%) CISM
6 3 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.94%) CISA
8 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.77%) WCAG
2 5 (2.36%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.89%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (1.89%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.89%) QA
4 2 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (0.94%) NIST
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) GDPR
5 1 (0.47%) HL7
5 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (21.23%) Active Directory
2 14 (6.60%) Docker
3 4 (1.89%) Firmware
3 4 (1.89%) OpenAM
3 4 (1.89%) OpenIDM
4 3 (1.42%) NFS
4 3 (1.42%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.47%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.47%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 101 (47.64%) Single Sign-On
2 16 (7.55%) Ansible
3 14 (6.60%) PingFederate
4 11 (5.19%) Kubernetes
5 9 (4.25%) Terraform
6 4 (1.89%) SCOM
7 3 (1.42%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.42%) vRealize
8 2 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.47%) Consul
9 1 (0.47%) Istio
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 43 (20.28%) Microsoft
2 36 (16.98%) Google
3 35 (16.51%) Okta
4 20 (9.43%) ForgeRock
5 16 (7.55%) Ping Identity
6 12 (5.66%) Citrix
7 11 (5.19%) IBM
8 8 (3.77%) ServiceNow
8 8 (3.77%) Talend
9 7 (3.30%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (3.30%) CyberArk
9 7 (3.30%) Zscaler
10 6 (2.83%) Cisco
10 6 (2.83%) Oracle
11 5 (2.36%) MuleSoft
11 5 (2.36%) VMware
12 4 (1.89%) F5
12 4 (1.89%) Palo Alto
13 3 (1.42%) Aruba
13 3 (1.42%) SolarWinds