SAML Contract Job Trends in the South West

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West 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 106 139 128
Rank change year-on-year +33 -11 +46
Contract jobs citing SAML 11 5 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.56% 0.19% 0.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.74% 1.15% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 19
10th Percentile £413 £380 £408
25th Percentile £463 £406 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £670
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -32.84% -
75th Percentile £547 - £675
90th Percentile £569 - £717
England median daily rate £499 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.88% - -4.00%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £63.00 £24.18 -
% change year-on-year +160.55% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 294 433 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.91% 16.73% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 237 415
10th Percentile £299 £352 £360
25th Percentile £413 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +2.38% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £651 £690 £725
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 51 38
10th Percentile £61.80 £65.00 £48.32
25th Percentile - - £48.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.36 £58.59
% change year-on-year -13.19% +8.13% -9.86%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for SAML in the South West

SAML
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing SAML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing SAML

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for SAML in the South West

SAML
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Gloucestershire - 5 £525 - 2
Somerset - 4 £425 - 4
Wiltshire +7 1 £575 -
Bristol +7 1 £523 +16.22% 5
SAML
England

SAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (36.36%) AWS
3 4 (36.36%) Entra ID
4 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
4 3 (27.27%) SaaS
4 3 (27.27%) ShareGate
5 2 (18.18%) GCP
6 1 (9.09%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Kerberos
2 2 (18.18%) VPN
3 1 (9.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Metadata
1 3 (27.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Aerospace
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Aviation
4 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Analyst
1 3 (27.27%) Consultant
1 3 (27.27%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) ForgeRock Developer
3 1 (9.09%) IAM Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) OpenID
2 7 (63.64%) OAuth
3 6 (54.55%) LDAP
4 3 (27.27%) OAuth2
5 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 1 (9.09%) Apache Camel
5 1 (9.09%) HTML
5 1 (9.09%) HTML5
5 1 (9.09%) JDBC
5 1 (9.09%) jQuery
5 1 (9.09%) JSON
5 1 (9.09%) ODBC
5 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (9.09%) REST
5 1 (9.09%) RESTful
5 1 (9.09%) SOAP
5 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) RBAC
1 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (36.36%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (27.27%) Change Management
3 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) Data Discovery
3 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
3 3 (27.27%) Data Transformation
3 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
3 3 (27.27%) Information Architecture
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Remediation Plan
3 3 (27.27%) Runbook
3 3 (27.27%) Technical Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) Technical Discovery
4 2 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (18.18%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (18.18%) User Experience
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) CISM
3 2 (18.18%) CISSP
4 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) GDPR
2 5 (45.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (27.27%) QA
4 2 (18.18%) SOC 2
5 1 (9.09%) PSD2
5 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) PingFederate
1 5 (45.45%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (27.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Ping Identity
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
4 1 (9.09%) BMC
4 1 (9.09%) ForgeRock
4 1 (9.09%) HP
4 1 (9.09%) Ivanti
4 1 (9.09%) Remedy
4 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow