SAML Contract Job Trends in Reading

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading 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 67 80 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Contract jobs citing SAML 4 12 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.61% 1.11% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.84% 4.49% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 0
10th Percentile £435 £538 -
25th Percentile £478 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £634 - -
90th Percentile £644 £651 -
Berkshire median daily rate £588 £650 £310
% change year-on-year -9.62% +109.68% -38.00%

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 141 267 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 21.43% 24.68% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 186 93
10th Percentile £398 £382 £350
25th Percentile £480 £430 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +11.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £609 £644 £638
90th Percentile £650 £666 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.84
Median hourly rate £81.00 £61.60 £17.34
Median % change year-on-year +31.49% +255.25% -77.11%
75th Percentile - £68.23 £17.84
90th Percentile - £72.21 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £81.00 £61.60 £72.28
% change year-on-year +31.49% -14.78% +5.33%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

SAML job vacancy trend in Reading

SAML
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SAML

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for SAML in Reading

SAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) OCI
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Billing
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) OAuth
1 4 (100.00%) OpenID
2 3 (75.00%) OAuth2
3 2 (50.00%) .NET
3 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
3 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (50.00%) REST
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (25.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) API Management
2 2 (50.00%) B2C
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) MLOps
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (25.00%) VMware