SAML Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring SAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 116 138
Rank change year-on-year +2 +22 +41
Contract jobs citing SAML 2 10 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.12% 0.46% 0.037%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.64% 2.46% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 1
10th Percentile £551 £530 -
25th Percentile £553 £538 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £650 £310
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +109.68% -44.89%
75th Percentile £634 - £315
90th Percentile £644 £651 -
South East median daily rate £550 £600 £290
% change year-on-year -8.33% +106.90% -42.00%

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 313 406 392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.47% 18.86% 14.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 269 278
10th Percentile £303 £375 £308
25th Percentile £400 £430 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £572 £638 £625
90th Percentile £625 £653 £675
South East median daily rate £474 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.71% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 10
10th Percentile - £50.87 £46.68
25th Percentile £13.25 - £50.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £61.60 £52.28
Median % change year-on-year -78.08% +17.83% -18.86%
75th Percentile £23.03 - £81.70
90th Percentile £28.60 £64.25 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -7.69%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

SAML job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

SAML
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SAML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SAML

SAML
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SAML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SAML

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 13 October 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 +2 2 £588 -9.62% 2
SAML
South East

SAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
2 1 (50.00%) JWT
2 1 (50.00%) OpenID
2 1 (50.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Conflict Management
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft