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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 307 358
Rank change year-on-year -15 +51 +64
Contract jobs citing SAML 55 69 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.38% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.97% 2.24% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 49 44
10th Percentile £368 £281 £361
25th Percentile £406 £494 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £620 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +7.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £674
90th Percentile £650 £698 £722
UK median daily rate £575 £577 £600
% change year-on-year -0.35% -3.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £25.00 -
% change year-on-year +120.00% - -

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 2,794 3,086 3,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.26% 16.80% 17.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,881 2,026 2,878
10th Percentile £313 £325 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £612 £600
90th Percentile £625 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 214 100
10th Percentile £31.25 £25.60 £36.54
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £58.60 £58.55
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +0.10% +1.82%
75th Percentile £67.13 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.61 £74.31 £77.55
UK median hourly rate £54.94 £53.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.21% -10.42% +6.50%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +2 19 £472 -25.67% 14
Yorkshire +5 17 £439 -7.58% 6
Midlands -20 16 £415 -33.28% 12
East Midlands -2 14 £415 -33.28% 3
Scotland -5 13 £600 -20.00% 2
South West +20 3 £575 +27.78% 7
South East +16 3 £550 +168.29% 8
North West 0 2 £588 -7.36% 8
West Midlands -15 2 £603 -7.23% 9
East of England +4 1 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 -
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 7 (12.73%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.82%) Mule
2 1 (1.82%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.82%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (7.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (7.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 37 (67.27%) AWS
2 26 (47.27%) GCP
3 22 (40.00%) Azure
4 16 (29.09%) Entra ID
5 10 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (18.18%) SaaS
6 9 (16.36%) Azure AKS
7 8 (14.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 7 (12.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (10.91%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (9.09%) GitHub
11 4 (7.27%) Lucidchart
11 4 (7.27%) OCI
12 3 (5.45%) Datadog
13 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (3.64%) IaaS
13 2 (3.64%) PaaS
14 1 (1.82%) IBM Cloud
14 1 (1.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 1 (1.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (23.64%) Kerberos
2 3 (5.45%) SSL
3 2 (3.64%) HTTP
4 1 (1.82%) Firewall
4 1 (1.82%) FTP
4 1 (1.82%) Internet
4 1 (1.82%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.09%) NewSQL
1 5 (9.09%) OLTP
1 5 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.45%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (5.45%) CockroachDB
3 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.82%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 7 (12.73%) JIRA
2 3 (5.45%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.64%) Git
4 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.82%) Log4j
4 1 (1.82%) Maven
4 1 (1.82%) Mockito
4 1 (1.82%) Toad
General
1 29 (52.73%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (14.55%) Finance
3 5 (9.09%) Banking
4 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.64%) Retail
5 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (18.18%) Business Analyst
2 9 (16.36%) Analyst
3 7 (12.73%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) Identity Management Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Architect
4 5 (9.09%) Database Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Developer
4 5 (9.09%) Senior
5 4 (7.27%) Lead
5 4 (7.27%) Systems Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Java Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) LDAP Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Python Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Security Architect
7 2 (3.64%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Technical Analyst
8 1 (1.82%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (90.91%) OAuth
2 44 (80.00%) OpenID
3 21 (38.18%) LDAP
4 14 (25.45%) Spring
5 13 (23.64%) Hibernate
6 12 (21.82%) OAuth2
7 10 (18.18%) JSON
8 5 (9.09%) JWT
8 5 (9.09%) REST
8 5 (9.09%) SailPoint
9 3 (5.45%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (5.45%) SOAP
10 2 (3.64%) Apache Camel
10 2 (3.64%) JDBC
10 2 (3.64%) JMS
10 2 (3.64%) Kafka
10 2 (3.64%) Middleware
10 2 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (3.64%) React
10 2 (3.64%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (30.91%) Cloud Native
2 9 (16.36%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (10.91%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.64%) Replication
4 2 (3.64%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.64%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.82%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.82%) PKI
5 1 (1.82%) PMI
5 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.82%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.36%) Linux
2 2 (3.64%) Unix
3 1 (1.82%) AIX
3 1 (1.82%) Solaris
3 1 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (52.73%) RBAC
2 20 (36.36%) DevOps
3 19 (34.55%) Identity Access Management
4 17 (30.91%) Identity Management
5 16 (29.09%) CI/CD
6 15 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (23.64%) Containerisation
7 13 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (21.82%) Agile
9 10 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (18.18%) GAP Analysis
10 9 (16.36%) DevSecOps
11 8 (14.55%) Privileged Access Management
11 8 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (14.55%) Workshop Facilitation
12 7 (12.73%) Privileged Identity Management
13 6 (10.91%) Microservices
13 6 (10.91%) Migration
13 6 (10.91%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 5 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 19 (34.55%) Java
2 12 (21.82%) Python
3 7 (12.73%) SQL
4 6 (10.91%) PowerShell
5 5 (9.09%) ANSI SQL
6 3 (5.45%) Go
7 1 (1.82%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.82%) Bash
7 1 (1.82%) Bicep
7 1 (1.82%) C#
7 1 (1.82%) DataWeave
7 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.82%) CBAP
3 1 (1.82%) CISSP
3 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.82%) Degree
3 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.82%) IBM Certification
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.82%) OCP
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (1.82%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (23.64%) GDPR
2 12 (21.82%) HIPAA
3 4 (7.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (7.27%) NIST
4 2 (3.64%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.82%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (1.82%) NCSC
5 1 (1.82%) SLA
5 1 (1.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 12 (21.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (56.36%) Kubernetes
2 24 (43.64%) Single Sign-On
3 18 (32.73%) Terraform
4 13 (23.64%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.82%) Ansible
6 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (34.55%) Microsoft
2 14 (25.45%) IBM
3 12 (21.82%) Ping Identity
4 8 (14.55%) Alibaba
5 5 (9.09%) CyberArk
6 3 (5.45%) MuleSoft
6 3 (5.45%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.64%) ForgeRock
7 2 (3.64%) Okta
7 2 (3.64%) Oracle
7 2 (3.64%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.82%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.82%) Facebook
8 1 (1.82%) Google
8 1 (1.82%) HP
8 1 (1.82%) Ivanti
8 1 (1.82%) Remedy
8 1 (1.82%) Splunk
8 1 (1.82%) Talend
8 1 (1.82%) TIBCO