SAML Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring SAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SAML 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 2.59% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 - -
75th Percentile £431 - -
90th Percentile £443 - -
East of England median daily rate £419 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Bedfordshire

SAML falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 29 8 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 12.50% 4.88% 15.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 19
10th Percentile £378 £351 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £528
90th Percentile £656 £760 £570
East of England median daily rate £500 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - +20.37% -16.92%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAML relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

SAML job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

SAML
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 13 November 2025. 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
Luton - 6 £419 - 1
SAML
East of England

SAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 6 (100.00%) PaaS
General
1 5 (83.33%) Aviation
2 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (83.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (83.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) OpenID
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Migration
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Observability
3 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (50.00%) CRM
4 3 (50.00%) Network Design
5 2 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft