SAML Contracts in the Thames Valley

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 94 142 139
Rank change year-on-year +48 -3 +20
Contract jobs citing SAML 8 3 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.53% 0.11% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.91% 0.82% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 8
10th Percentile £498 - £432
25th Percentile £563 - £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £595
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -15.97% +21.70%
75th Percentile £644 - £623
90th Percentile £650 - £642
South East median daily rate £600 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 275 367 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.20% 13.66% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 234 352
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £600 £617 £625
90th Percentile £650 £673 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 8
10th Percentile £23.35 £56.58 £52.90
25th Percentile £27.11 £56.65 £75.06
Median hourly rate £31.50 £61.60 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -48.86% -21.78% +20.23%
75th Percentile £77.19 - £80.25
90th Percentile £86.38 £62.00 £80.48
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SAML in the Thames Valley

SAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAML in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SAML in the Thames Valley

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for SAML in the Thames Valley

SAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAML in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SAML in the Thames Valley

SAML
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +37 8 £625 +25.00% 8
SAML
South East

SAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Entra ID
3 5 (62.50%) SaaS
4 4 (50.00%) IaaS
4 4 (50.00%) PaaS
5 3 (37.50%) AWS
5 3 (37.50%) Azure AKS
5 3 (37.50%) Azure API Management
5 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (37.50%) GCP
6 2 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (25.00%) Serverless
7 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (12.50%) Azure App Service
7 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
7 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Network Security
1 3 (37.50%) NGFW
1 3 (37.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Security Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) React Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) OAuth
1 4 (50.00%) OpenID
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
2 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) SPML
2 1 (12.50%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
3 1 (12.50%) PKI
3 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 1 (12.50%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) RBAC
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 3 (37.50%) API Management
3 3 (37.50%) Application Security
3 3 (37.50%) Data Security
3 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) Network Load Balancing
3 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 3 (37.50%) Security Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) SIEM
4 2 (25.00%) Business Case
4 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Value Proposition
5 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy
5 1 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C#
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CISM
1 3 (37.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle