SAML Contracts in the South East

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 148 200 204
Rank change year-on-year +52 +4 +44
Contract jobs citing SAML 11 5 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.37% 0.090% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.20% 0.68% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 11
10th Percentile £470 - £450
25th Percentile £547 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £641 - £623
90th Percentile £650 - -
England median daily rate £594 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -1.04% - +3.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 500 730 1,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.61% 13.13% 17.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 462 737
10th Percentile £350 £313 £363
25th Percentile £411 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £591 £619 £638
90th Percentile £661 £661 £719
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 36 37
10th Percentile £28.99 £35.00 £40.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £56.13 £55.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.13 £76.25 £79.61
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SAML in the South East

SAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAML in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SAML in the South East

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAML in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAML in the South East

SAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAML in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SAML in the South East

SAML
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the South East 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
Thames Valley +48 8 £625 +25.00% 11
Berkshire +37 8 £625 +25.00% 6
Hampshire - 3 £650 - 8
Surrey - 1 £500 - 2
SAML
England

SAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (18.18%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) Entra ID
3 5 (45.45%) SaaS
4 4 (36.36%) AWS
4 4 (36.36%) IaaS
4 4 (36.36%) PaaS
5 3 (27.27%) Azure AKS
5 3 (27.27%) Azure API Management
5 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (27.27%) GCP
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (18.18%) Serverless
7 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (9.09%) Azure App Service
7 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (9.09%) Azure Storage
7 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Network Security
1 3 (27.27%) NGFW
1 3 (27.27%) SSL
2 1 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Security Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) React Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) OAuth
1 4 (36.36%) OpenID
2 2 (18.18%) LDAP
3 1 (9.09%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
3 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
3 1 (9.09%) Entity Framework
3 1 (9.09%) JSON
3 1 (9.09%) React
3 1 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) RESTful
3 1 (9.09%) SPML
3 1 (9.09%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
3 1 (9.09%) PKI
3 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 1 (9.09%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 1 (9.09%) Android
3 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
3 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) RBAC
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (36.36%) Migration
2 4 (36.36%) TOGAF
3 3 (27.27%) API Management
3 3 (27.27%) Application Security
3 3 (27.27%) Data Security
3 3 (27.27%) Microservices
3 3 (27.27%) Network Load Balancing
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
3 3 (27.27%) Security Architecture
3 3 (27.27%) SIEM
4 2 (18.18%) Business Case
4 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
4 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (18.18%) Value Proposition
5 1 (9.09%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) C#
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
1 3 (27.27%) Python
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Bash
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) CISM
1 3 (27.27%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) Active Directory
2 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) SCCM
3 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Apple
3 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
3 1 (9.09%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) Okta
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle