SAML Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring SAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 114 138
Rank change year-on-year +10 +24 +26
Contract jobs citing SAML 8 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.52% 0.12% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.40% 0.53% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 5
10th Percentile £518 - £563
25th Percentile £524 £713 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +11.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £669 £738 £700
90th Percentile £700 - £745
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.55%

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 334 379 496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.87% 22.49% 20.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 245 323
10th Percentile £358 £356 £400
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £498
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -5.73% +4.74%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £625 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £505 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -7.68% -0.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £49.50
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate - - £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - - +229.36%
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

SAML job vacancy trend in Scotland

SAML
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SAML

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAML in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAML in Scotland

SAML
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SAML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SAML

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 18 December 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
Glasgow - 3 £613 - 2
Perthshire - 3 £600 -
Edinburgh +6 2 £523 -27.86% 2
SAML
UK

SAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) OCI
4 1 (12.50%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) NewSQL
1 2 (25.00%) OLTP
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Database Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Lead
1 2 (25.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) ForgeRock Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) OAuth
2 7 (87.50%) OpenID
3 3 (37.50%) SailPoint
4 2 (25.00%) OAuth2
5 1 (12.50%) JWT
5 1 (12.50%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (12.50%) LDAP
5 1 (12.50%) REST
5 1 (12.50%) RESTful
5 1 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) High Availability
5 1 (12.50%) Architectural Design
5 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
5 1 (12.50%) Compliance Audit
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (12.50%) Digital Identity
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 1 (12.50%) Microservices
5 1 (12.50%) Observability
5 1 (12.50%) RBAC
5 1 (12.50%) SDLC
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (25.00%) ANSI SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Go
4 1 (12.50%) Groovy
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) PSD2
1 1 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) CyberArk
2 2 (25.00%) ForgeRock
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Ping Identity