SAML Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for SAML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SAML over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 252 360 481
Rank change year-on-year +108 +121 -116
Contract jobs citing SAML 89 108 138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.59% 0.43% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.47% 1.70% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 80 92
10th Percentile £426 £400 £408
25th Percentile £525 £459 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - +10.09%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £688
90th Percentile £730 £725 £711
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £586
% change year-on-year - +2.35% +6.59%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

SAML is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,606 6,337 13,079
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.00% 25.22% 29.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,531 4,711 9,657
10th Percentile £331 £395 £400
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +13.40%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £731
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 80 116
10th Percentile £24.68 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.65
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%

SAML
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SAML trend for jobs with a WFH option

SAML
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing SAML over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

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 (2.25%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 1 (1.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (32.58%) Azure
2 19 (21.35%) Entra ID
3 18 (20.22%) AWS
3 18 (20.22%) GCP
4 7 (7.87%) PaaS
5 6 (6.74%) IaaS
6 5 (5.62%) CloudFront
6 5 (5.62%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (5.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (3.37%) SaaS
8 2 (2.25%) Apigee
8 2 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.25%) Serverless
9 1 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.12%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (1.12%) AWS KMS
9 1 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.12%) GitHub
9 1 (1.12%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.36%) NetScaler
2 6 (6.74%) DNS
2 6 (6.74%) Kerberos
2 6 (6.74%) Network Security
2 6 (6.74%) VPN
3 3 (3.37%) SSL
4 2 (2.25%) Firewall
4 2 (2.25%) HTTP
4 2 (2.25%) SSH
5 1 (1.12%) Internet
5 1 (1.12%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.12%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.62%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.49%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.37%) MySQL
4 2 (2.25%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Maven
2 4 (4.49%) GitLab
3 2 (2.25%) gulp
3 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.25%) JIRA
4 1 (1.12%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.12%) Git
4 1 (1.12%) InstallShield
General
1 16 (17.98%) Public Sector
2 14 (15.73%) Finance
3 9 (10.11%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.62%) Retail
5 2 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.12%) Automotive
6 1 (1.12%) Banking
6 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.12%) German Language
6 1 (1.12%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (42.70%) Architect
2 26 (29.21%) Developer
3 14 (15.73%) Java Developer
4 8 (8.99%) ForgeRock Architect
5 7 (7.87%) Security Engineer
5 7 (7.87%) Senior
6 6 (6.74%) Security Architect
7 5 (5.62%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Consultant
7 5 (5.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 4 (4.49%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.37%) Azure Architect
9 3 (3.37%) ForgeRock Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) IAM Consultant
9 3 (3.37%) IAM Developer
9 3 (3.37%) Java Scala Developer
9 3 (3.37%) Scala Developer
9 3 (3.37%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (3.37%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (52.81%) OpenID
2 43 (48.31%) OAuth
3 24 (26.97%) REST
4 14 (15.73%) LDAP
5 12 (13.48%) Spring
6 11 (12.36%) AngularJS
6 11 (12.36%) Restlet
6 11 (12.36%) Spring Boot
7 10 (11.24%) GWT
7 10 (11.24%) JAX-RS
7 10 (11.24%) OAuth2
8 9 (10.11%) .NET
9 6 (6.74%) SailPoint
9 6 (6.74%) Tailwind CSS
9 6 (6.74%) XACML
10 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (5.62%) RESTful
11 4 (4.49%) React
12 3 (3.37%) JSON
12 3 (3.37%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.87%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.62%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.62%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 4 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.37%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.25%) Educational Technology
5 2 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.25%) Insider Threat
5 2 (2.25%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.12%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.12%) IoT
6 1 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.12%) NHS
6 1 (1.12%) PKI
6 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.99%) Windows
2 3 (3.37%) Linux
3 2 (2.25%) Android
3 2 (2.25%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.12%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.12%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (34.83%) Identity Access Management
2 21 (23.60%) Identity Management
3 15 (16.85%) User Acceptance Testing
4 13 (14.61%) Cloud Security
5 11 (12.36%) Agile
5 11 (12.36%) Build Automation
6 9 (10.11%) Migration
6 9 (10.11%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (10.11%) User Experience
7 8 (8.99%) CI/CD
7 8 (8.99%) DevOps
8 7 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (7.87%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 7 (7.87%) Roadmaps
8 7 (7.87%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (7.87%) Use Case
9 6 (6.74%) DevSecOps
9 6 (6.74%) Incident Response
9 6 (6.74%) TDD
9 6 (6.74%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (24.72%) Java
2 15 (16.85%) JavaScript
3 13 (14.61%) Python
4 7 (7.87%) SQL
5 6 (6.74%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.49%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.37%) C#
7 3 (3.37%) Scala
8 2 (2.25%) Bash
8 2 (2.25%) Go
9 1 (1.12%) BeanShell
9 1 (1.12%) Groovy
9 1 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.12%) PHP
9 1 (1.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (12.36%) SC Cleared
1 11 (12.36%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.62%) AWS Certification
2 5 (5.62%) Degree
3 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.12%) CISSP
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.37%) PCI DSS
1 3 (3.37%) WCAG
2 2 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.25%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.25%) QA
3 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.12%) HL7
3 1 (1.12%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (14.61%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.87%) Docker
3 2 (2.25%) OpenIDM
4 1 (1.12%) OpenAM
4 1 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (46.07%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (6.74%) Ansible
2 6 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.74%) PingFederate
3 3 (3.37%) Terraform
4 1 (1.12%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (21.35%) Google
2 12 (13.48%) ForgeRock
2 12 (13.48%) Okta
3 11 (12.36%) Citrix
4 8 (8.99%) Ping Identity
5 5 (5.62%) CyberArk
5 5 (5.62%) MuleSoft
6 4 (4.49%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (4.49%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.49%) Oracle
6 4 (4.49%) Zscaler
7 3 (3.37%) IBM
8 2 (2.25%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.25%) BeyondTrust
8 2 (2.25%) CheckPoint
8 2 (2.25%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.25%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.12%) Cognizant
9 1 (1.12%) Palo Alto