SAML Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 329 394
Rank change year-on-year +25 +65 +43
Contract jobs citing SAML 35 70 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.34% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.46% 2.13% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 53 35
10th Percentile £440 £370 £428
25th Percentile £499 £494 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £600 £675 £694
90th Percentile £644 - £725
UK median daily rate £585 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.58% - +3.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,391 3,290 4,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.69% 15.85% 18.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,652 2,153 3,284
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 199 91
10th Percentile £31.71 £21.63 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -24.00% +27.55%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.80 £75.00 £78.00
UK 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 UK excluding London

Job postings citing SAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SAML in the UK excluding London

SAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAML in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SAML in the UK excluding London

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAML in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAML in the UK excluding London

SAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAML in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SAML in the UK excluding London

SAML
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +27 15 £525 -15.32% 22
South East +51 10 £575 +15.00% 35
Yorkshire +9 9 £469 +8.56% 8
Midlands +1 7 £575 -7.56% 23
North West +16 6 £525 -17.32% 12
East Midlands +1 4 £490 -21.01% 11
West Midlands +10 3 £588 -9.62% 10
South West +35 2 £619 +65.00% 14
Scotland +5 2 £600 -17.24% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 3
SAML
UK

SAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (5.71%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (2.86%) Anypoint
3 1 (2.86%) Mule
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (11.43%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (45.71%) AWS
2 12 (34.29%) Azure
3 10 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 7 (20.00%) GCP
5 6 (17.14%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (14.29%) GitHub
6 5 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (14.29%) IaaS
6 5 (14.29%) PaaS
6 5 (14.29%) SaaS
7 4 (11.43%) Lucidchart
8 3 (8.57%) Azure AKS
8 3 (8.57%) Azure API Management
8 3 (8.57%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (8.57%) Serverless
9 2 (5.71%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (2.86%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) Kerberos
2 3 (8.57%) SSL
3 2 (5.71%) HTTP
3 2 (5.71%) Network Security
3 2 (5.71%) NGFW
4 1 (2.86%) Firewall
4 1 (2.86%) FTP
4 1 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (8.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.86%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.86%) Git
3 1 (2.86%) Maven
3 1 (2.86%) Mockito
3 1 (2.86%) Toad
General
1 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.71%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Retail
4 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) Architect
2 4 (11.43%) Analyst
2 4 (11.43%) Data Architect
2 4 (11.43%) Security Architect
2 4 (11.43%) Systems Analyst
3 3 (8.57%) Developer
3 3 (8.57%) Senior
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Architect
4 2 (5.71%) LDAP Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Lead
4 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Developer
5 1 (2.86%) ForgeRock Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) IAM Consultant
5 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Lead Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle Architect
5 1 (2.86%) React Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (71.43%) OAuth
2 20 (57.14%) OpenID
3 10 (28.57%) LDAP
4 6 (17.14%) OAuth2
5 5 (14.29%) JWT
5 5 (14.29%) Kafka
5 5 (14.29%) REST
6 4 (11.43%) SOAP
7 3 (8.57%) RESTful
7 3 (8.57%) Spring
8 2 (5.71%) Ajax
8 2 (5.71%) Hibernate
8 2 (5.71%) JSON
8 2 (5.71%) Middleware
8 2 (5.71%) Web Services
9 1 (2.86%) .NET
9 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
9 1 (2.86%) JMS
9 1 (2.86%) XACML
9 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
1 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (8.57%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (8.57%) Onboarding
1 3 (8.57%) Security Posture
2 2 (5.71%) PKI
2 2 (5.71%) Replication
3 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
2 2 (5.71%) Unix
2 2 (5.71%) Windows
3 1 (2.86%) Android
3 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) Identity Access Management
2 18 (51.43%) RBAC
3 11 (31.43%) CI/CD
4 9 (25.71%) DevOps
4 9 (25.71%) Migration
5 8 (22.86%) Containerisation
5 8 (22.86%) Identity Management
6 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (17.14%) Data Security
7 6 (17.14%) Privileged Access Management
8 5 (14.29%) Analytics
8 5 (14.29%) ETL
8 5 (14.29%) TOGAF
9 4 (11.43%) API Management
9 4 (11.43%) Continuous Deployment
9 4 (11.43%) Cost Optimisation
9 4 (11.43%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (11.43%) Integration Patterns
9 4 (11.43%) Microservices
9 4 (11.43%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) Java
2 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
3 4 (11.43%) Python
3 4 (11.43%) SQL
4 3 (8.57%) C#
5 2 (5.71%) Bash
6 1 (2.86%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.86%) Bicep
6 1 (2.86%) DataWeave
6 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) CISSP
3 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.71%) CISM
3 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.86%) Degree
4 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.86%) OCP
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) GDPR
1 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (8.57%) NIST
2 2 (5.71%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.86%) NCSC
3 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (34.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (11.43%) Docker
3 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (34.29%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (31.43%) Kubernetes
3 6 (17.14%) Terraform
4 2 (5.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (5.71%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Istio
5 1 (2.86%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) IBM
2 3 (8.57%) MuleSoft
2 3 (8.57%) Okta
2 3 (8.57%) Oracle
2 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow
2 3 (8.57%) VMware
3 2 (5.71%) ForgeRock
3 2 (5.71%) Ping Identity
3 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.86%) Apple
4 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.86%) Talend