SAML Contracts in Reading

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 89 76
Rank change year-on-year +33 -13 +19
Contract jobs citing SAML 4 2 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.67% 0.17% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.94% 1.00% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile £618 - £458
25th Percentile £626 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £500 £615
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -18.70% +62.78%
75th Percentile £650 - £623
90th Percentile - - £649
Berkshire median daily rate £625 £500 £595
% change year-on-year +25.00% -15.97% +21.70%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 136 200 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 22.78% 16.78% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 131 173
10th Percentile £350 £325 £407
25th Percentile £409 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £680
90th Percentile £663 £675 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £56.50 £72.76
25th Percentile - £56.65 £76.89
Median hourly rate £77.19 £58.30 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +32.40% -26.38% +143.66%
75th Percentile - £61.60 -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £77.19 £61.60 £78.75
% change year-on-year +25.31% -21.78% +20.23%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for SAML in Reading

SAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for SAML in Reading

SAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
3 2 (50.00%) SaaS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
1 3 (75.00%) NGFW
1 3 (75.00%) SSL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (75.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OpenID
1 1 (25.00%) SPML
1 1 (25.00%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Application Security
1 3 (75.00%) Data Security
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 3 (75.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) SIEM
1 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) SOA
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CISM
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) VMware