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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 624 742 794
Rank change year-on-year +118 +52 +117
Permanent jobs citing SAML 78 166 174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.16% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.82% 0.77% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 63 75 112
10th Percentile £43,000 £52,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £66,125 £60,625 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £73,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.47% +34.09% -16.84%

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 9,568 21,459 28,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 20.70% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,873 15,949 17,957
10th Percentile £38,350 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £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 31 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 31 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 +149 57 £75,000 +7.14% 81
UK excluding London +104 45 £80,000 +8.47% 33
Work from Home +110 37 £80,000 +21.91% 38
London +88 22 £70,000 +2.19% 54
Scotland +61 20 £94,637 +11.34% 4
Midlands +69 8 £75,000 +63.04% 7
South East +65 8 £32,500 -64.86% 6
West Midlands +63 8 £75,000 -3.23% 3
South West +107 4 £87,500 +25.00% 5
North of England +38 3 £66,000 +32.00% 6
East of England +49 2 £50,000 -23.80% 1
North West +1 2 £66,000 +32.00% 4
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

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 (14.10%) Umbraco
2 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.56%) Apache
3 2 (2.56%) Confluence
4 1 (1.28%) Appian
4 1 (1.28%) CMS
4 1 (1.28%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.28%) IIS
4 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (11.54%) NetSuite
2 8 (10.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.56%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 42 (53.85%) Azure
2 16 (20.51%) Entra ID
3 15 (19.23%) GCP
4 14 (17.95%) AWS
5 13 (16.67%) SaaS
6 11 (14.10%) IaaS
7 9 (11.54%) Boomi
8 6 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (7.69%) PaaS
9 5 (6.41%) Amazon S3
9 5 (6.41%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (3.85%) Serverless
12 2 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (2.56%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.26%) Kerberos
2 7 (8.97%) DHCP
2 7 (8.97%) DNS
3 6 (7.69%) SAN
4 5 (6.41%) Firewall
5 2 (2.56%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (1.28%) HTTP
6 1 (1.28%) IPsec
6 1 (1.28%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.28%) Multicast
6 1 (1.28%) Network Security
6 1 (1.28%) OSPF
6 1 (1.28%) SNMP
6 1 (1.28%) SSH
6 1 (1.28%) SSL
6 1 (1.28%) VLAN
6 1 (1.28%) VoIP
6 1 (1.28%) VPN
6 1 (1.28%) Wireshark
6 1 (1.28%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.10%) BigQuery
2 10 (12.82%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.85%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.56%) Flink
5 2 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.28%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.28%) MySQL
6 1 (1.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (20.51%) JIRA
2 11 (14.10%) Git
3 6 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.41%) GitLab
5 2 (2.56%) Gatling
5 2 (2.56%) JMeter
5 2 (2.56%) Postman
5 2 (2.56%) REST Assured
5 2 (2.56%) SoapUI
5 2 (2.56%) TestRail
General
1 25 (32.05%) Social Skills
2 22 (28.21%) Finance
3 15 (19.23%) Banking
4 10 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.85%) Law
6 2 (2.56%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.56%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.56%) Retail
7 1 (1.28%) Advertising
7 1 (1.28%) Automotive
7 1 (1.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (23.08%) Developer
1 18 (23.08%) Lead
2 16 (20.51%) Architect
3 14 (17.95%) Senior
4 11 (14.10%) Lead Architect
4 11 (14.10%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 11 (14.10%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (11.54%) NetSuite Developer
5 9 (11.54%) Senior Developer
5 9 (11.54%) Technical Developer
6 8 (10.26%) Software Engineer
7 7 (8.97%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (8.97%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
7 7 (8.97%) Identity Management Engineer
7 7 (8.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (8.97%) Integration Developer
8 6 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support
8 6 (7.69%) SAP Developer
9 5 (6.41%) 2nd Line Support
9 5 (6.41%) Integration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (71.79%) OAuth
2 33 (42.31%) OpenID
3 21 (26.92%) CSS
4 17 (21.79%) Middleware
5 15 (19.23%) REST
6 14 (17.95%) React
7 12 (15.38%) LDAP
7 12 (15.38%) OAuth2
8 11 (14.10%) Ajax
8 11 (14.10%) jQuery
8 11 (14.10%) SOAP
9 10 (12.82%) HTML
9 10 (12.82%) SailPoint
9 10 (12.82%) Web Services
9 10 (12.82%) XML
10 9 (11.54%) Restlet
11 7 (8.97%) BAPI
11 7 (8.97%) IBM Integration Bus
11 7 (8.97%) JMS
12 6 (7.69%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.79%) PKI
2 9 (11.54%) Virtual Team
3 7 (8.97%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (7.69%) Clustering
5 5 (6.41%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.85%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.56%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.56%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.56%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (1.28%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.28%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.28%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.28%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 22 (28.21%) Windows
2 20 (25.64%) Windows Server
3 9 (11.54%) Linux
4 6 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (3.85%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (34.62%) Agile
2 19 (24.36%) Analytics
2 19 (24.36%) Project Management
3 18 (23.08%) Migration
4 17 (21.79%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (19.23%) Identity Access Management
6 13 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (16.67%) Web Development
7 12 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
7 12 (15.38%) High Availability
7 12 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (14.10%) Content Management
8 11 (14.10%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (14.10%) Data Analytics
8 11 (14.10%) Domain-Driven Design
8 11 (14.10%) MVC
8 11 (14.10%) Software Deployment
8 11 (14.10%) User Experience
9 10 (12.82%) Data Modelling
9 10 (12.82%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (29.49%) JavaScript
2 15 (19.23%) PowerShell
2 15 (19.23%) SQL
3 11 (14.10%) Java
4 3 (3.85%) Go
4 3 (3.85%) Python
5 2 (2.56%) Groovy
5 2 (2.56%) Rust
5 2 (2.56%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (10.26%) CISSP
2 7 (8.97%) Degree
3 6 (7.69%) CCNA
3 6 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 5 (6.41%) Azure Certification
4 5 (6.41%) CCNP
4 5 (6.41%) CISM
4 5 (6.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (5.13%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.56%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.56%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.28%) CEH
7 1 (1.28%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.97%) NIST
2 6 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (6.41%) SLA
4 1 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 23 (29.49%) Active Directory
2 11 (14.10%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (7.69%) Docker
4 6 (7.69%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.28%) Firmware
5 1 (1.28%) NDS
5 1 (1.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (52.56%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (8.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 7 (8.97%) Terraform
3 6 (7.69%) Kubernetes
4 5 (6.41%) QRadar
5 4 (5.13%) Ansible
6 3 (3.85%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.56%) Argo
7 2 (2.56%) Graylog
7 2 (2.56%) SCCM
8 1 (1.28%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.28%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.28%) Nessus
8 1 (1.28%) PingFederate
8 1 (1.28%) SCOM
8 1 (1.28%) WMI
8 1 (1.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (44.87%) Microsoft
2 14 (17.95%) VMware
3 10 (12.82%) ForgeRock
4 9 (11.54%) MuleSoft
5 8 (10.26%) SAP
6 7 (8.97%) IBM
6 7 (8.97%) Splunk
7 6 (7.69%) SolarWinds
7 6 (7.69%) Veeam
8 5 (6.41%) Google
8 5 (6.41%) Okta
8 5 (6.41%) Ping Identity
9 3 (3.85%) Cisco
9 3 (3.85%) Facebook
10 2 (2.56%) Citrix
10 2 (2.56%) SimCorp
11 1 (1.28%) Dell
11 1 (1.28%) F5
11 1 (1.28%) Meraki
11 1 (1.28%) NetIQ