SAML Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring SAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 97 118
Rank change year-on-year -1 +21 +13
Contract jobs citing SAML 6 12 1
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.45% 0.75% 0.056%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.14% 3.45% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 1
10th Percentile £449 £538 -
25th Percentile £514 £613 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £650 £310
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +109.68% -38.00%
75th Percentile £626 - £315
90th Percentile £640 £651 -
South East median daily rate £525 £625 £290
% change year-on-year -16.00% +115.52% -27.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 280 348 273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 21.08% 21.70% 15.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 230 145
10th Percentile £325 £380 £308
25th Percentile £413 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £600
90th Percentile £643 £653 £675
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 6
10th Percentile £42.05 £42.20 £35.70
25th Percentile £56.66 £57.89 £54.94
Median hourly rate £81.00 £61.60 £72.28
Median % change year-on-year +31.49% -14.78% +5.33%
75th Percentile - - £90.25
90th Percentile - £68.23 -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -7.69%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

SAML job vacancy trend in Berkshire

SAML
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SAML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SAML

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAML in Berkshire over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAML in Berkshire

SAML
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SAML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SAML

SAML
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 5 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
Reading +13 4 £600 -7.69% 4
Bracknell - 1 £575 -
SAML
South East

SAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 4 (66.67%) GitHub
2 3 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) OCI
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Billing
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) OAuth
2 5 (83.33%) OpenID
3 4 (66.67%) OAuth2
4 3 (50.00%) .NET
4 3 (50.00%) .NET Core
4 3 (50.00%) ARM Templates
4 3 (50.00%) GraphQL
4 3 (50.00%) REST
5 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
5 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
5 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (16.67%) JWT
6 1 (16.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (66.67%) RBAC
2 3 (50.00%) AI
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) API Management
2 3 (50.00%) B2C
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 3 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) MLOps
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) User Experience
2 3 (50.00%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) CRM
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
2 3 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) PHP
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
2 1 (16.67%) VMware