SAML Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 257 257 367
Rank change year-on-year 0 +110 +118
Contract jobs citing SAML 47 88 110
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.47% 0.57% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.83% 2.40% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 53 81
10th Percentile £411 £426 £400
25th Percentile £500 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £622 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% +3.67% +2.56%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £650
90th Percentile £661 £730 £725
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +3.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

SAML
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SAML trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SAML
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SAML.

SAML daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SAML over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

SAML daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (4.26%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) Appian
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.13%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.13%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.17%) Azure
2 16 (34.04%) Entra ID
3 13 (27.66%) AWS
4 7 (14.89%) SaaS
5 5 (10.64%) IaaS
5 5 (10.64%) PaaS
6 4 (8.51%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (8.51%) GCP
6 4 (8.51%) Serverless
7 3 (6.38%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (6.38%) AWS KMS
7 3 (6.38%) OCI
7 3 (6.38%) Route 53
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.26%) Apigee
8 2 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (2.13%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) SSL
2 5 (10.64%) Kerberos
3 4 (8.51%) Network Security
3 4 (8.51%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (6.38%) Firewall
4 3 (6.38%) HTTP
4 3 (6.38%) IPsec
5 2 (4.26%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (4.26%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (4.26%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (4.26%) HTTPS
5 2 (4.26%) LAN
5 2 (4.26%) NGFW
5 2 (4.26%) SNMP
5 2 (4.26%) TACACS
5 2 (4.26%) VPN
5 2 (4.26%) Wireless
5 2 (4.26%) WLAN
6 1 (2.13%) FTP
6 1 (2.13%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) MongoDB
1 4 (8.51%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.13%) MySQL
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) GitLab
2 3 (6.38%) JIRA
2 3 (6.38%) Maven
3 1 (2.13%) Git
3 1 (2.13%) Hudson
3 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.13%) Mockito
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (2.13%) Postman
3 1 (2.13%) Toad
General
1 8 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.38%) German Language
5 1 (2.13%) Automotive
5 1 (2.13%) Billing
5 1 (2.13%) Finance
5 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Retail
5 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) Architect
2 9 (19.15%) Senior
3 5 (10.64%) IAM Specialist
3 5 (10.64%) IT Security Officer
3 5 (10.64%) Lead
3 5 (10.64%) Security Architect
3 5 (10.64%) Security Officer
4 4 (8.51%) AWS Specialist
4 4 (8.51%) Developer
4 4 (8.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (8.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Technical Architect
4 4 (8.51%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (4.26%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 2 (4.26%) IAM Project Manager
5 2 (4.26%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (72.34%) OAuth
2 23 (48.94%) OpenID
3 16 (34.04%) LDAP
4 12 (25.53%) OAuth2
5 9 (19.15%) REST
6 6 (12.77%) Web Services
7 5 (10.64%) Keycloak
7 5 (10.64%) SailPoint
8 4 (8.51%) JWT
8 4 (8.51%) Node.js
8 4 (8.51%) SOAP
8 4 (8.51%) Spring
8 4 (8.51%) Spring Boot
8 4 (8.51%) XACML
9 2 (4.26%) 802.1X
9 2 (4.26%) Ajax
9 2 (4.26%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (4.26%) RESTful
10 1 (2.13%) SPML
10 1 (2.13%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Enterprise Software
1 7 (14.89%) Product Ownership
1 7 (14.89%) Security Posture
2 5 (10.64%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.26%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.26%) Operational Technology
4 2 (4.26%) PKI
5 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Life Science
5 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Linux
1 2 (4.26%) Windows
2 1 (2.13%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (53.19%) Identity Access Management
2 18 (38.30%) Agile
3 17 (36.17%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (34.04%) DevOps
5 15 (31.91%) RBAC
6 9 (19.15%) Project Management
7 8 (17.02%) Identity Management
8 7 (14.89%) CI/CD
8 7 (14.89%) Microservices
9 6 (12.77%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (12.77%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 5 (10.64%) Cloud Security
10 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (10.64%) ITIL
10 5 (10.64%) Mentoring
10 5 (10.64%) Roadmaps
10 5 (10.64%) Secrets Management
10 5 (10.64%) Security Architecture
10 5 (10.64%) Security Management
10 5 (10.64%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.40%) PowerShell
2 10 (21.28%) Java
2 10 (21.28%) Python
3 7 (14.89%) JavaScript
3 7 (14.89%) SQL
4 2 (4.26%) Groovy
4 2 (4.26%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.13%) Bash
5 1 (2.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (12.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (6.38%) CISM
2 3 (6.38%) CISSP
2 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared
2 3 (6.38%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.26%) CCIE
3 2 (4.26%) CCIE Security
3 2 (4.26%) CCNA
3 2 (4.26%) CCNP
3 2 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.26%) Degree
3 2 (4.26%) OCP
3 2 (4.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.02%) GDPR
1 8 (17.02%) NIST
2 7 (14.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (12.77%) HIPAA
3 6 (12.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (6.38%) PCI DSS
5 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (2.13%) NCSC
6 1 (2.13%) QA
6 1 (2.13%) SLA
6 1 (2.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (36.17%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.64%) Docker
3 3 (6.38%) RACF
4 2 (4.26%) OpenAM
4 2 (4.26%) OpenDJ
4 2 (4.26%) OpenIDM
5 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (63.83%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (23.40%) Terraform
3 8 (17.02%) Kubernetes
4 7 (14.89%) Ansible
5 3 (6.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (6.38%) Packer
6 1 (2.13%) Argo
6 1 (2.13%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (29.79%) Microsoft
2 11 (23.40%) Okta
3 5 (10.64%) Oracle
4 4 (8.51%) Ping Identity
5 3 (6.38%) ForgeRock
6 2 (4.26%) Cisco
6 2 (4.26%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.13%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (2.13%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.13%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.13%) Google
7 1 (2.13%) Hitachi
7 1 (2.13%) HubSpot
7 1 (2.13%) IBM
7 1 (2.13%) Rapid7
7 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.13%) SAP
7 1 (2.13%) Talend
7 1 (2.13%) VMware