SAML Contracts in London

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 297 412
Rank change year-on-year -14 +115 +106
Contract jobs citing SAML 40 95 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.33% 0.54% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.26% 2.12% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 60 52
10th Percentile £443 £375 £400
25th Percentile £538 £459 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -2.04%
75th Percentile £750 £691 £726
90th Percentile £795 £855 £823
England median daily rate £575 £598 £600
% change year-on-year -3.77% -0.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
England median hourly rate - £25.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,177 4,487 6,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.96% 25.73% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,223 3,352 5,192
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £725
90th Percentile £838 £838 £810
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.70% -1.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 25 36
10th Percentile - £16.25 £30.38
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £36.89
Median hourly rate £48.50 £42.50 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.12% -36.80% +41.58%
75th Percentile £65.63 £62.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.80 £82.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SAML in London

SAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SAML in London

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAML in London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAML in London

SAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAML in London.

Hourly rate trend for SAML in London

SAML
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the London region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
Central London -8 7 £630 +26.00% 2
SAML
England

SAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) Azure
2 14 (35.00%) Entra ID
3 9 (22.50%) AWS
4 7 (17.50%) OCI
5 6 (15.00%) SuccessFactors
6 4 (10.00%) SaaS
7 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (7.50%) Google Workspace
8 2 (5.00%) GCP
8 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (5.00%) Serverless
9 1 (2.50%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.50%) AWS KMS
9 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.50%) Boomi
9 1 (2.50%) IaaS
9 1 (2.50%) Route 53
9 1 (2.50%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.00%) HTTPS
2 5 (12.50%) HTTP
2 5 (12.50%) SSL
3 4 (10.00%) Firewall
4 2 (5.00%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.50%) DNS
5 1 (2.50%) IPsec
5 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.50%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) GitLab
3 1 (2.50%) Maven
General
1 8 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Banking
4 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Finance
5 2 (5.00%) French Language
6 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (60.00%) Architect
2 10 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 4 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (7.50%) Developer
4 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Administrator
5 2 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Lead
6 1 (2.50%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Architect
6 1 (2.50%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (2.50%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) ForgeRock Developer
6 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Consultant
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle Architect
6 1 (2.50%) SailPoint Architect
6 1 (2.50%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (82.50%) OAuth
2 25 (62.50%) OpenID
3 14 (35.00%) LDAP
4 11 (27.50%) REST
4 11 (27.50%) SOAP
5 7 (17.50%) SailPoint
6 6 (15.00%) JWT
7 5 (12.50%) JSON
7 5 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (12.50%) Web Services
7 5 (12.50%) XML
8 4 (10.00%) JDBC
8 4 (10.00%) ODBC
9 3 (7.50%) FIDO
9 3 (7.50%) OAuth2
10 2 (5.00%) Node.js
10 2 (5.00%) XACML
11 1 (2.50%) RESTful
11 1 (2.50%) SPML
11 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Management Information System
1 7 (17.50%) Onboarding
2 5 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.00%) PKI
5 1 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.50%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
1 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (55.00%) Identity Access Management
2 11 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 10 (25.00%) DevOps
4 9 (22.50%) Project Management
5 8 (20.00%) Migration
6 7 (17.50%) Agile
6 7 (17.50%) Computer Science
6 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
6 7 (17.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 7 (17.50%) Roadmaps
7 6 (15.00%) Identity Management
7 6 (15.00%) Key Management
7 6 (15.00%) RBAC
8 5 (12.50%) Analytics
8 5 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 5 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
8 5 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
8 5 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
9 4 (10.00%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 17 (42.50%) Python
2 15 (37.50%) Java
3 9 (22.50%) PowerShell
4 7 (17.50%) JavaScript
5 5 (12.50%) Groovy
6 2 (5.00%) Bash
6 2 (5.00%) SQL
7 1 (2.50%) C#
7 1 (2.50%) Ruby
7 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Degree
1 8 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (15.00%) OCP
3 6 (15.00%) Oracle Certification
4 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
5 4 (10.00%) CISSP
6 3 (7.50%) AWS Certification
7 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (2.50%) CISM
8 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (25.00%) NIST
2 10 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 5 (12.50%) GDPR
5 4 (10.00%) HIPAA
6 1 (2.50%) GRC
6 1 (2.50%) NCSC
6 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
6 1 (2.50%) QA
6 1 (2.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (32.50%) Active Directory
2 8 (20.00%) OpenAM
3 5 (12.50%) OpenDJ
3 5 (12.50%) OpenIDM
4 2 (5.00%) Docker
5 1 (2.50%) RACF
Systems Management
1 24 (60.00%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (7.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 3 (7.50%) Terraform
3 2 (5.00%) Ansible
3 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.50%) Packer
Vendors
1 14 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (25.00%) Okta
3 8 (20.00%) ForgeRock
4 7 (17.50%) Oracle
5 6 (15.00%) SAP
6 5 (12.50%) CyberArk
6 5 (12.50%) Qualtrics
7 4 (10.00%) Google
7 4 (10.00%) OpenText
8 2 (5.00%) Ping Identity
9 1 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (2.50%) IBM
9 1 (2.50%) NetIQ
9 1 (2.50%) Netskope
9 1 (2.50%) Rapid7
9 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
9 1 (2.50%) webMethods