SAML Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring SAML skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SAML 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 2.11% - 1.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.00% - 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £675
25th Percentile £413 - £681
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £705
75th Percentile £497 - £723
90th Percentile £533 - £724
South West median daily rate £525 £450 £670
% change year-on-year +16.67% -32.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £63.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 20 28 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 10.53% 14.21% 32.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 43
10th Percentile - £388 £378
25th Percentile £413 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.18% -4.26%
75th Percentile £649 £575 £690
90th Percentile - £624 £721
South West median daily rate £514 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £60.15 - £46.13
25th Percentile £60.38 £42.50 £47.78
Median hourly rate £61.50 £45.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% -13.28% -3.17%
75th Percentile £63.38 £47.50 £55.47
90th Percentile £64.05 - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for SAML in Somerset

SAML
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing SAML

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAML in Somerset over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAML in Somerset

SAML
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
Yeovil - 3 £425 - 1
Street - 1 £557 -
SAML
South West

SAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (75.00%) SaaS
1 3 (75.00%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Metadata
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) LDAP
2 3 (75.00%) OAuth
2 3 (75.00%) OpenID
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) Apache Camel
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) JDBC
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) ODBC
3 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Change Management
1 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (75.00%) Data Discovery
1 3 (75.00%) Data Transformation
1 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (75.00%) Information Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) RBAC
1 3 (75.00%) Remediation Plan
1 3 (75.00%) Runbook
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Analysis
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Discovery
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) GDPR
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (75.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) BMC
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Ivanti
2 1 (25.00%) Remedy
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow