SAML Contracts in the City of London

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring SAML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAML over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 105 157
Rank change year-on-year -6 +52 +21
Contract jobs citing SAML 5 21 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.30% 0.97% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.12% 4.19% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 10
10th Percentile £478 £313 £392
25th Percentile £500 £363 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £641 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +22.10% -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £678 £663 £834
90th Percentile £721 £890 £875
Central London median daily rate £630 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +22.93% -4.65% -6.52%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 447 501 958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.69% 23.21% 27.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 349 617
10th Percentile £405 £400 £425
25th Percentile £455 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £625
Median % change year-on-year -0.81% -11.28% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £738
90th Percentile £755 £790 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing SAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for SAML in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAML in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SAML in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAML in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAML in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) OCI
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
1 1 (20.00%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) OAuth
2 4 (80.00%) OpenID
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (20.00%) JWT
4 1 (20.00%) LDAP
4 1 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (20.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Key Management
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) API Integration
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Groovy
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) OCP
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Certification
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
1 3 (60.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) OpenAM
1 1 (20.00%) OpenDJ
1 1 (20.00%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (20.00%) ForgeRock
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft