Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring SAML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries 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 620 698 802
Rank change year-on-year +78 +104 +89
Permanent jobs citing SAML 72 198 187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.20% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.85% 0.94% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 60 75 112
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £41,341
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +16.67% -9.28%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +27.27% -1.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

SAML falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,460 21,099 31,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.26% 21.42% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,443 15,769 19,367
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £51,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SAML in the UK

SAML
Top 13 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 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +118 56 £75,000 +8.30% 138
UK excluding London +94 38 £80,000 +14.29% 114
Work from Home +181 33 £80,000 +21.91% 42
London +89 22 £76,500 +11.68% 37
Scotland +67 15 £94,637 +11.34% 5
North of England +89 6 £42,500 +6.25% 22
South East +92 5 £32,500 -64.86% 31
Midlands +83 5 £75,000 +63.04% 23
West Midlands +54 5 £75,000 -3.23% 10
North West +35 5 £42,500 +6.25% 12
East of England +58 4 £65,000 -0.94% 18
South West +72 3 £80,000 +28.00% 15
Yorkshire - 1 - - 8

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 11 (15.28%) Umbraco
2 9 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (4.17%) WordPress
4 2 (2.78%) Apache
4 2 (2.78%) Confluence
4 2 (2.78%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.39%) Appian
5 1 (1.39%) IIS
5 1 (1.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (4.17%) SOLIDWORKS
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (12.50%) NetSuite
2 4 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (4.17%) Sprinklr
4 2 (2.78%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 41 (56.94%) Azure
2 22 (30.56%) Entra ID
2 22 (30.56%) SaaS
3 13 (18.06%) AWS
4 12 (16.67%) GCP
5 10 (13.89%) IaaS
6 9 (12.50%) Boomi
6 9 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 6 (8.33%) Mimecast
7 6 (8.33%) PaaS
8 5 (6.94%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (6.94%) Serverless
9 4 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (19.44%) Firewall
2 9 (12.50%) DHCP
2 9 (12.50%) DNS
3 8 (11.11%) Kerberos
4 5 (6.94%) SD-WAN
4 5 (6.94%) WAN
5 3 (4.17%) DKIM
5 3 (4.17%) DMARC
5 3 (4.17%) Network Security
5 3 (4.17%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (4.17%) SNMP
5 3 (4.17%) VLAN
5 3 (4.17%) VSAN
6 2 (2.78%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (2.78%) SAN
7 1 (1.39%) HTTP
7 1 (1.39%) SSL
7 1 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.39%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.28%) BigQuery
2 10 (13.89%) Relational Database
3 6 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (4.17%) Big Data
4 3 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.78%) Flink
5 2 (2.78%) MySQL
6 1 (1.39%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.39%) Redis
6 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (20.83%) JIRA
2 11 (15.28%) Git
3 6 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.56%) GitLab
5 2 (2.78%) Gatling
5 2 (2.78%) JMeter
5 2 (2.78%) Postman
5 2 (2.78%) REST Assured
5 2 (2.78%) SoapUI
5 2 (2.78%) TestRail
6 1 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 20 (27.78%) Finance
1 20 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.28%) Banking
3 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.94%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.17%) Legal
5 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.39%) Advertising
6 1 (1.39%) Automotive
6 1 (1.39%) Back Office
6 1 (1.39%) Front Office
6 1 (1.39%) Law
6 1 (1.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (25.00%) Architect
2 14 (19.44%) Developer
3 13 (18.06%) Lead
4 12 (16.67%) Senior
4 12 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (15.28%) Lead Architect
5 11 (15.28%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 9 (12.50%) NetSuite Developer
6 9 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 9 (12.50%) Technical Developer
7 8 (11.11%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
7 8 (11.11%) Identity Management Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (5.56%) Analyst
10 4 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 4 (5.56%) Software Engineer
11 3 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (4.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (4.17%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (65.28%) OAuth
2 28 (38.89%) OpenID
3 21 (29.17%) CSS
4 14 (19.44%) Middleware
5 13 (18.06%) React
6 12 (16.67%) LDAP
7 11 (15.28%) Ajax
7 11 (15.28%) jQuery
7 11 (15.28%) REST
8 10 (13.89%) HTML
8 10 (13.89%) Web Services
8 10 (13.89%) XML
9 9 (12.50%) Restlet
10 8 (11.11%) SOAP
11 7 (9.72%) JWT
11 7 (9.72%) SailPoint
12 6 (8.33%) OAuth2
13 5 (6.94%) Kafka
14 3 (4.17%) Akka
14 3 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.06%) PKI
2 10 (13.89%) Onboarding
3 9 (12.50%) Virtual Team
4 7 (9.72%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (5.56%) Management Information System
6 3 (4.17%) Clustering
6 3 (4.17%) Data Centre
6 3 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (4.17%) Replication
6 3 (4.17%) Robotics
6 3 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (4.17%) Social Network
7 2 (2.78%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.78%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.78%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.39%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.39%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (27.78%) Windows
2 15 (20.83%) Windows Server
3 8 (11.11%) Linux
4 7 (9.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (4.17%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.39%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (36.11%) Agile
2 25 (34.72%) Project Management
3 19 (26.39%) Analytics
3 19 (26.39%) Cybersecurity
4 17 (23.61%) Migration
5 15 (20.83%) High Availability
5 15 (20.83%) Identity Access Management
6 14 (19.44%) Data Analytics
7 13 (18.06%) DevOps
7 13 (18.06%) Identity Management
7 13 (18.06%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 13 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (18.06%) Web Development
8 12 (16.67%) User Experience
9 11 (15.28%) Content Management
9 11 (15.28%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (15.28%) Domain-Driven Design
9 11 (15.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (15.28%) MVC
9 11 (15.28%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 22 (30.56%) JavaScript
2 16 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 16 (22.22%) SQL
3 9 (12.50%) Java
4 4 (5.56%) Python
5 2 (2.78%) Groovy
5 2 (2.78%) Rust
5 2 (2.78%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.39%) Bash
6 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (12.50%) Degree
1 9 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (11.11%) CISSP
3 5 (6.94%) CISM
3 5 (6.94%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.17%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.78%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.78%) CCNA
5 2 (2.78%) CCNP
5 2 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.78%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.78%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.39%) CEH
6 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.39%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) NIST
2 3 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.17%) PMO
3 2 (2.78%) SLA
4 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 26 (36.11%) Active Directory
2 12 (16.67%) Docker
3 6 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (6.94%) Hyper-V
4 5 (6.94%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (4.17%) DFS Replication
5 3 (4.17%) Firmware
5 3 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.39%) NDS
Systems Management
1 46 (63.89%) Single Sign-On
2 10 (13.89%) Terraform
3 9 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 7 (9.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (6.94%) QRadar
6 4 (5.56%) Ansible
7 3 (4.17%) FortiGate
8 2 (2.78%) Argo
8 2 (2.78%) Graylog
8 2 (2.78%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.39%) CA Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.39%) PingFederate
9 1 (1.39%) SCCM
9 1 (1.39%) SCOM
Vendors
1 40 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.89%) SolarWinds
3 9 (12.50%) MuleSoft
4 8 (11.11%) VMware
5 7 (9.72%) Splunk
6 6 (8.33%) ForgeRock
6 6 (8.33%) Meraki
7 5 (6.94%) Veeam
8 4 (5.56%) Okta
8 4 (5.56%) Ping Identity
8 4 (5.56%) SAP
9 3 (4.17%) Aderant
9 3 (4.17%) Adobe
9 3 (4.17%) DocuSign
9 3 (4.17%) IBM
9 3 (4.17%) Salesforce
10 2 (2.78%) Cisco
10 2 (2.78%) Google
10 2 (2.78%) OneLogin
10 2 (2.78%) SimCorp