SAML Contracts in Scotland

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 114 119 156
Rank change year-on-year +5 +37 0
Contract jobs citing SAML 2 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.12% 0.45% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.52% 2.14% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - £665 £415
25th Percentile - £688 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £725 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +45.00% -14.53%
75th Percentile - £775 £525
90th Percentile - - £645
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +3.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 386 467 691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.75% 21.06% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 302 527
10th Percentile £348 £328 £406
25th Percentile £408 £411 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £549
90th Percentile £600 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £33.58 £49.99
25th Percentile - £44.94 £53.38
Median hourly rate - £53.75 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -8.94% +24.93%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £64.52
90th Percentile - - £67.81
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SAML in Scotland

SAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for SAML in Scotland

SAML
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Edinburgh -4 1 - - 2
Glasgow - 1 £600 - 1
SAML
UK

SAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (50.00%) Amazon Cognito
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) Apigee
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Mockito
1 1 (50.00%) Toad
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OpenID
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Camel
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (50.00%) JWT
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Batch
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (50.00%) Data Encryption
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Istio
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Okta
2 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (50.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Talend