SAML Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 250 362 480
Rank change year-on-year +112 +118 -122
Contract jobs citing SAML 91 106 135
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.60% 0.42% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.50% 1.67% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 78 90
10th Percentile £428 £400 £403
25th Percentile £525 £453 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £688
90th Percentile £723 £725 £714
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 3,636 6,344 12,982
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.12% 25.29% 29.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,551 4,723 9,580
10th Percentile £331 £399 £400
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.82%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £730
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 80 116
10th Percentile £24.45 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.65
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%

SAML
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SAML trend for jobs with a WFH option

SAML
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SAML.

SAML daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SAML over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

SAML daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (3.30%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 1 (1.10%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (34.07%) Azure
2 21 (23.08%) Entra ID
3 19 (20.88%) AWS
3 19 (20.88%) GCP
4 8 (8.79%) PaaS
5 7 (7.69%) IaaS
6 6 (6.59%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (5.49%) CloudFront
7 5 (5.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (4.40%) SaaS
9 2 (2.20%) Apigee
9 2 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.20%) Serverless
10 1 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.10%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (1.10%) AWS KMS
10 1 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.10%) GitHub
10 1 (1.10%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.09%) NetScaler
2 6 (6.59%) DNS
2 6 (6.59%) Kerberos
2 6 (6.59%) Network Security
2 6 (6.59%) VPN
3 3 (3.30%) SSH
3 3 (3.30%) SSL
4 2 (2.20%) Firewall
4 2 (2.20%) HTTP
5 1 (1.10%) Internet
5 1 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.10%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.49%) NoSQL
1 5 (5.49%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.40%) MySQL
3 3 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.20%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Maven
2 4 (4.40%) GitLab
3 2 (2.20%) gulp
3 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.20%) JIRA
4 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.10%) Git
4 1 (1.10%) InstallShield
General
1 16 (17.58%) Public Sector
2 14 (15.38%) Finance
3 9 (9.89%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.49%) Retail
5 2 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.10%) Automotive
6 1 (1.10%) Banking
6 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.10%) German Language
6 1 (1.10%) Law
Job Titles
1 39 (42.86%) Architect
2 26 (28.57%) Developer
3 14 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 8 (8.79%) ForgeRock Architect
5 7 (7.69%) Security Engineer
5 7 (7.69%) Senior
6 6 (6.59%) Consultant
6 6 (6.59%) Security Architect
7 5 (5.49%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 4 (4.40%) Azure Architect
8 4 (4.40%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.30%) ForgeRock Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) IAM Consultant
9 3 (3.30%) IAM Developer
9 3 (3.30%) Java Scala Developer
9 3 (3.30%) Scala Developer
9 3 (3.30%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (53.85%) OpenID
2 44 (48.35%) OAuth
3 25 (27.47%) REST
4 15 (16.48%) LDAP
5 12 (13.19%) AngularJS
5 12 (13.19%) Spring
6 11 (12.09%) Restlet
6 11 (12.09%) Spring Boot
7 10 (10.99%) .NET
7 10 (10.99%) GWT
7 10 (10.99%) JAX-RS
7 10 (10.99%) OAuth2
8 7 (7.69%) SailPoint
9 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Graph
9 6 (6.59%) Tailwind CSS
9 6 (6.59%) XACML
10 5 (5.49%) RESTful
11 4 (4.40%) React
12 3 (3.30%) JSON
12 3 (3.30%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.49%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 4 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.20%) Educational Technology
5 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.20%) Insider Threat
5 2 (2.20%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.10%) Clustering
6 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.10%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.10%) IoT
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.10%) NHS
6 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.89%) Windows
2 4 (4.40%) Linux
3 2 (2.20%) Android
3 2 (2.20%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.10%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.10%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (34.07%) Identity Access Management
2 21 (23.08%) Identity Management
3 15 (16.48%) User Acceptance Testing
4 13 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 11 (12.09%) Agile
5 11 (12.09%) Build Automation
6 10 (10.99%) User Experience
7 9 (9.89%) Migration
7 9 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (8.79%) CI/CD
8 8 (8.79%) DevOps
8 8 (8.79%) Use Case
9 7 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (7.69%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 7 (7.69%) Roadmaps
9 7 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (6.59%) DevSecOps
10 6 (6.59%) Incident Response
10 6 (6.59%) Infrastructure Management
10 6 (6.59%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (24.18%) Java
2 16 (17.58%) JavaScript
3 13 (14.29%) Python
4 7 (7.69%) SQL
5 6 (6.59%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.49%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.30%) C#
7 3 (3.30%) Scala
8 2 (2.20%) Bash
8 2 (2.20%) Go
9 1 (1.10%) BeanShell
9 1 (1.10%) Groovy
9 1 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.10%) PHP
9 1 (1.10%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (13.19%) SC Cleared
1 12 (13.19%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.59%) AWS Certification
3 5 (5.49%) Degree
4 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.10%) CISSP
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.30%) PCI DSS
1 3 (3.30%) WCAG
2 2 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.20%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.20%) QA
3 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.10%) HL7
3 1 (1.10%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.69%) Docker
3 2 (2.20%) OpenIDM
4 1 (1.10%) OpenAM
4 1 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (46.15%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (6.59%) Ansible
2 6 (6.59%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.59%) PingFederate
3 3 (3.30%) Terraform
4 1 (1.10%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.10%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (20.88%) Google
2 12 (13.19%) ForgeRock
2 12 (13.19%) Okta
3 11 (12.09%) Citrix
4 8 (8.79%) Ping Identity
5 6 (6.59%) CyberArk
5 6 (6.59%) MuleSoft
6 5 (5.49%) Oracle
7 4 (4.40%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (4.40%) Microsoft
7 4 (4.40%) Zscaler
8 3 (3.30%) IBM
8 3 (3.30%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.20%) Atlassian
9 2 (2.20%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (2.20%) CheckPoint
9 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.10%) Cognizant
10 1 (1.10%) Palo Alto