Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SAML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SAML over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 624 849 800
Rank change year-on-year +225 -49 -249
Permanent jobs citing SAML 117 227 304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.18% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.83% 0.57% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 69 120 171
10th Percentile £44,600 £41,210 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% +7.08% -25.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,290 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.22% -5.46%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14,018 40,128 49,552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.33% 32.38% 38.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10,969 24,275 32,022
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,258 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% +5.00%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SAML in the UK

SAML
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SAML.

Salary trend for SAML in the UK

SAML
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAML over the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for SAML in the UK

SAML
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the UK over the 6 months to 4 December 2023. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +248 106 £62,500 -3.85% 41
UK excluding London +208 69 £60,000 +9.09% 21
Work from Home +190 49 £62,500 -3.85% 25
South West +100 44 £61,250 +45.98% 5
London +212 42 £62,825 -21.47% 25
North of England +137 7 £60,000 +9.09% 2
South East +143 6 £55,000 -30.16% 8
North West +104 5 £55,000 - 1
East of England +124 4 £60,000 +4.48% 3
Scotland +55 4 £62,500 +25.00% 3
West Midlands +126 2 £37,000 -45.19% 1
Midlands +112 2 £37,000 -45.19% 1
North East +49 2 £65,000 +1.96%
Northern Ireland +32 1 £67,500 +12.50%
Wales +19 1 £65,000 +188.89%

SAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (3.42%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.56%) Apache
2 3 (2.56%) Confluence
2 3 (2.56%) MS Exchange
3 2 (1.71%) Moodle
4 1 (0.85%) IIS
4 1 (0.85%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 68 (58.12%) AWS
2 48 (41.03%) Azure
3 41 (35.04%) AWS CloudFormation
4 35 (29.91%) Entra ID
5 23 (19.66%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (17.95%) PaaS
7 13 (11.11%) IaaS
8 11 (9.40%) SaaS
9 9 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (7.69%) GCP
9 9 (7.69%) Serverless
10 8 (6.84%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (6.84%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (6.84%) dbt
10 8 (6.84%) OpenShift
11 5 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (4.27%) Amazon S3
11 5 (4.27%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (3.42%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (32.48%) DNS
1 38 (32.48%) TCP/IP
2 30 (25.64%) DHCP
3 29 (24.79%) HTTP
4 18 (15.38%) VPN
5 15 (12.82%) Firewall
6 13 (11.11%) Kerberos
7 7 (5.98%) LAN
7 7 (5.98%) WAN
8 4 (3.42%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (2.56%) Internet
10 1 (0.85%) BGP
10 1 (0.85%) DMZ
10 1 (0.85%) IPsec
10 1 (0.85%) NAS
10 1 (0.85%) SAN
10 1 (0.85%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.85%) SSL
10 1 (0.85%) VLAN
10 1 (0.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (7.69%) Redis
2 8 (6.84%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (4.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.56%) MySQL
6 1 (0.85%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (17.95%) Jenkins
2 8 (6.84%) JIRA
3 5 (4.27%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.56%) Selenium
4 3 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (2.56%) Subversion
5 1 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 62 (52.99%) Social Skills
2 39 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 33 (28.21%) Finance
4 4 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (3.42%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.71%) Retail
5 2 (1.71%) Spanish Language
6 1 (0.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.85%) Billing
6 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.85%) Games
6 1 (0.85%) Law
6 1 (0.85%) Legal
6 1 (0.85%) Marketing
6 1 (0.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 40 (34.19%) Senior
2 21 (17.95%) Architect
3 15 (12.82%) Cloud Architect
4 13 (11.11%) Developer
5 12 (10.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.55%) Account Manager
6 10 (8.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (8.55%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (8.55%) Technical Account Manager
6 10 (8.55%) Technical Manager
7 9 (7.69%) Senior Architect
8 8 (6.84%) Site Engineer
8 8 (6.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (5.98%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (5.98%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (5.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (5.98%) Lead
9 7 (5.98%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.13%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 6 (5.13%) Python/Django Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (58.97%) OpenID
2 47 (40.17%) OAuth
3 32 (27.35%) HTML
4 22 (18.80%) OAuth2
5 14 (11.97%) Django
6 8 (6.84%) Keycloak
6 8 (6.84%) LDAP
7 6 (5.13%) Flask
7 6 (5.13%) JSON
7 6 (5.13%) Microsoft Graph
7 6 (5.13%) OpenAPI
7 6 (5.13%) REST
7 6 (5.13%) Swagger
8 4 (3.42%) .NET
8 4 (3.42%) FIDO
8 4 (3.42%) Web Services
9 3 (2.56%) SailPoint
9 3 (2.56%) WebAuthn
10 2 (1.71%) HTML5
10 2 (1.71%) SPNEGO
Miscellaneous
1 29 (24.79%) Cloud Native
1 29 (24.79%) Cyberattack
2 14 (11.97%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (11.97%) Private Cloud
3 10 (8.55%) Management Information System
4 9 (7.69%) Data Centre
5 7 (5.98%) PKI
6 6 (5.13%) Data Structures
6 6 (5.13%) Product Ownership
7 5 (4.27%) Onboarding
8 4 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.71%) Educational Technology
10 2 (1.71%) Learning Management System
10 2 (1.71%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.85%) Blackberry
11 1 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (21.37%) Linux
1 25 (21.37%) Windows
2 19 (16.24%) Unix
3 15 (12.82%) Windows 10
4 9 (7.69%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.85%) Android
6 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.85%) Debian
6 1 (0.85%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.85%) Solaris
6 1 (0.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (55.56%) Agile
2 45 (38.46%) DevOps
3 44 (37.61%) Identity Management
4 43 (36.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (35.04%) Technical Leadership
6 36 (30.77%) Roadmaps
7 33 (28.21%) Technology Roadmap
8 31 (26.50%) DevSecOps
8 31 (26.50%) Line Management
9 30 (25.64%) Cloud Security
9 30 (25.64%) SDLC
10 25 (21.37%) Identity Access Management
11 24 (20.51%) CI/CD
12 21 (17.95%) Open Source
13 18 (15.38%) ITIL
14 14 (11.97%) Configuration Management
15 12 (10.26%) High Availability
16 11 (9.40%) Information Security
17 10 (8.55%) Computer Science
17 10 (8.55%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.08%) Python
2 16 (13.68%) Java
3 7 (5.98%) SQL
4 6 (5.13%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.42%) Bash
5 4 (3.42%) C#
5 4 (3.42%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.56%) Bicep
6 3 (2.56%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.85%) C++
Qualifications
1 49 (41.88%) Security Cleared
2 31 (26.50%) AWS Certification
3 29 (24.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 29 (24.79%) DV Cleared
4 17 (14.53%) Degree
5 16 (13.68%) SC Cleared
6 6 (5.13%) Azure Certification
6 6 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.42%) CCNA
7 4 (3.42%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.71%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.98%) QA
2 5 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.71%) NIST
3 2 (1.71%) SLA
4 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.85%) GDPR
4 1 (0.85%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (25.64%) Active Directory
2 16 (13.68%) Docker
3 12 (10.26%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (8.55%) vCloud
5 8 (6.84%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (2.56%) Shibboleth
7 2 (1.71%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.71%) vSphere
8 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.85%) RACF
Systems Management
1 58 (49.57%) Terraform
2 27 (23.08%) Single Sign-On
3 25 (21.37%) Kubernetes
4 14 (11.97%) Ansible
5 12 (10.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 9 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (5.13%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.56%) Packer
8 3 (2.56%) Puppet
8 3 (2.56%) Salt
9 2 (1.71%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.85%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 29 (24.79%) Microsoft
2 21 (17.95%) VMware
3 16 (13.68%) Cisco
4 15 (12.82%) Google
5 11 (9.40%) MobileIron
6 9 (7.69%) Red Hat
7 4 (3.42%) CyberArk
8 3 (2.56%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.56%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.71%) Blackboard
9 2 (1.71%) Meraki
9 2 (1.71%) Okta
9 2 (1.71%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.85%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.85%) IBM
10 1 (0.85%) Juniper
10 1 (0.85%) Splunk
10 1 (0.85%) Verimatrix