SAML Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring SAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 73 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing SAML 5 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.48% 1.12% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.09% 3.75% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £335 £531 -
25th Percentile £388 £550 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - -
75th Percentile £563 £669 -
90th Percentile £615 £700 -
Scotland median daily rate £550 £600 £750
% change year-on-year -8.33% -20.00% +30.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 239 240 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 22.81% 29.89% 21.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 137 115
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £320 £404 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £470 £435
Median % change year-on-year -14.47% +8.05% -14.71%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £506
90th Percentile £640 £600 £619
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £460
% change year-on-year -5.26% +3.37% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile - - £51.38
25th Percentile - £52.50 £51.56
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +2.33% +76.55%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £56.56
90th Percentile - - £57.13
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% - +15.23%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

SAML job vacancy trend in Glasgow

SAML
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SAML

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAML in Glasgow over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAML in Glasgow

SAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Akamai
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (80.00%) Cloudflare
2 4 (80.00%) Kong
2 4 (80.00%) Serverless
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon MSK
3 3 (60.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) HTTP
2 1 (20.00%) CTI
2 1 (20.00%) PSTN
2 1 (20.00%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Bitbucket
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Voice Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) OAuth
2 4 (80.00%) Kafka
2 4 (80.00%) OAuth2
2 4 (80.00%) OpenID
2 4 (80.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (80.00%) React
3 3 (60.00%) gRPC
3 3 (60.00%) WebSockets
4 1 (20.00%) JWT
4 1 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (20.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (60.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (60.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (20.00%) IVR
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) GitOps
1 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) Low Latency
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) Runbook
2 3 (60.00%) SIEM
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Case Management
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) WFM
3 1 (20.00%) Workforce Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (40.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Argo
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Dynatrace
1 4 (80.00%) ForgeRock
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce