SAML Contracts in England

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 528 624
Rank change year-on-year +146 +96 -133
Contract jobs citing SAML 159 123 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.26% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.12% 1.11% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 83 98
10th Percentile £375 £400 £420
25th Percentile £460 £506 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £709 £688
90th Percentile £740 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £24.34 - -
25th Percentile £24.59 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 - £77.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 - £77.00
% change year-on-year - - +28.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 advertised in England with 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 7,485 11,072 18,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.57% 22.98% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,308 8,225 14,183
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £568
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 132 215
10th Percentile £22.50 £26.18 £23.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SAML in England

SAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAML in England.

Daily rate trend for SAML in England

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAML in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAML in England

SAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAML in England.

Hourly rate trend for SAML in England

SAML
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +118 92 £575 -4.17% 14
Midlands +50 25 £622 -2.43% 3
East Midlands - 17 £620 - 1
North of England +30 11 £620 -4.62%
South West +5 11 £413 -25.00% 3
West Midlands +32 8 £650 +1.96% 2
Yorkshire - 7 £432 -
East of England +14 5 £550 -
South East +1 5 £500 -13.04% 6
North West +17 4 £635 +4.74%
SAML
UK

SAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (5.03%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.77%) IIS
3 5 (3.14%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.52%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 2 (1.26%) Confluence
6 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 65 (40.88%) Azure
2 41 (25.79%) Entra ID
3 39 (24.53%) AWS
4 34 (21.38%) GCP
5 13 (8.18%) SaaS
6 11 (6.92%) PaaS
7 10 (6.29%) IaaS
8 8 (5.03%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (3.14%) CloudFront
10 5 (3.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.52%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (2.52%) GitHub
11 4 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.89%) Apigee
12 3 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.06%) DNS
2 14 (8.81%) Firewall
3 12 (7.55%) Network Security
4 11 (6.92%) VPN
5 10 (6.29%) NetScaler
6 9 (5.66%) SSL
7 8 (5.03%) TCP/IP
8 7 (4.40%) Kerberos
9 6 (3.77%) HTTP
10 5 (3.14%) SSH
10 5 (3.14%) Wireshark
11 4 (2.52%) IPsec
12 3 (1.89%) HTTPS
12 3 (1.89%) MPLS
12 3 (1.89%) VoIP
13 1 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
13 1 (0.63%) LAN
13 1 (0.63%) NAS
13 1 (0.63%) S/MIME
13 1 (0.63%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.03%) Apache Hive
1 8 (5.03%) Big Data
1 8 (5.03%) Impala
1 8 (5.03%) Power BI
1 8 (5.03%) SQL Server
1 8 (5.03%) Tableau
2 5 (3.14%) MySQL
3 4 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.26%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (5.03%) Maven
2 7 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.14%) Fiddler
3 5 (3.14%) GitLab
3 5 (3.14%) JIRA
4 4 (2.52%) Git
5 3 (1.89%) gulp
6 2 (1.26%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.63%) Gradle
7 1 (0.63%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.63%) Mockito
7 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (16.98%) Finance
2 16 (10.06%) Social Skills
3 15 (9.43%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.14%) Retail
6 3 (1.89%) Banking
7 2 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.26%) Law
7 2 (1.26%) Legal
8 1 (0.63%) Automotive
8 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 68 (42.77%) Architect
2 35 (22.01%) Developer
3 21 (13.21%) Java Developer
4 14 (8.81%) Consultant
4 14 (8.81%) Security Architect
5 12 (7.55%) ForgeRock Architect
6 11 (6.92%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (6.29%) Senior
8 9 (5.66%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 8 (5.03%) IAM Consultant
9 8 (5.03%) Security Engineer
10 7 (4.40%) AWS Architect
10 7 (4.40%) AWS Solution Architect
10 7 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.14%) Administrator
11 5 (3.14%) Applications Engineer
11 5 (3.14%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.14%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.14%) SharePoint Administrator
11 5 (3.14%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (49.06%) OpenID
2 68 (42.77%) OAuth
3 36 (22.64%) REST
4 34 (21.38%) LDAP
5 18 (11.32%) Spring
6 17 (10.69%) Spring Boot
7 16 (10.06%) AngularJS
7 16 (10.06%) Restlet
8 15 (9.43%) .NET
8 15 (9.43%) GWT
8 15 (9.43%) JAX-RS
9 14 (8.81%) XACML
10 12 (7.55%) OAuth2
11 11 (6.92%) SailPoint
12 9 (5.66%) Tailwind CSS
13 8 (5.03%) PySpark
13 8 (5.03%) Web Services
14 7 (4.40%) JSON
14 7 (4.40%) RESTful
15 6 (3.77%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.29%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (4.40%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.40%) PKI
3 5 (3.14%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.14%) Insider Threat
4 4 (2.52%) Clustering
4 4 (2.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.52%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (2.52%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.89%) Educational Technology
5 3 (1.89%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.26%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.26%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.26%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.26%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.21%) Windows
2 6 (3.77%) Linux
3 3 (1.89%) Android
3 3 (1.89%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.63%) Unix
4 1 (0.63%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (28.30%) Identity Access Management
2 29 (18.24%) Identity Management
3 23 (14.47%) DevOps
4 20 (12.58%) Migration
5 19 (11.95%) Agile
6 17 (10.69%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (10.06%) RBAC
8 14 (8.81%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 14 (8.81%) Security Architecture
8 14 (8.81%) Use Case
9 13 (8.18%) Cloud Security
9 13 (8.18%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (7.55%) Risk Management
11 11 (6.92%) CI/CD
11 11 (6.92%) User Experience
12 10 (6.29%) Build Automation
12 10 (6.29%) Roadmaps
12 10 (6.29%) User Acceptance Testing
13 9 (5.66%) Front End Development
13 9 (5.66%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 34 (21.38%) Java
2 32 (20.13%) Python
3 29 (18.24%) JavaScript
4 23 (14.47%) PowerShell
5 11 (6.92%) Scala
5 11 (6.92%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.14%) Bash
7 4 (2.52%) Go
8 3 (1.89%) BeanShell
8 3 (1.89%) Perl
8 3 (1.89%) SQL
9 2 (1.26%) ABAP
9 2 (1.26%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.26%) C#
9 2 (1.26%) Groovy
9 2 (1.26%) SOQL
10 1 (0.63%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 19 (11.95%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.32%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.66%) Degree
4 8 (5.03%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.40%) CISSP
6 3 (1.89%) CCIE
6 3 (1.89%) CCNP
6 3 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.89%) CISM
6 3 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.26%) CISA
8 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.77%) WCAG
2 5 (3.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.52%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.52%) QA
4 2 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.26%) NIST
5 1 (0.63%) GDPR
5 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (24.53%) Active Directory
2 10 (6.29%) Docker
3 4 (2.52%) Firmware
3 4 (2.52%) OpenAM
4 3 (1.89%) OpenIDM
5 2 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.63%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.63%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 84 (52.83%) Single Sign-On
2 13 (8.18%) Ansible
3 12 (7.55%) Kubernetes
4 10 (6.29%) Terraform
5 9 (5.66%) PingFederate
6 5 (3.14%) SCOM
7 3 (1.89%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.26%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.63%) Consul
9 1 (0.63%) Istio
9 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (18.24%) Google
2 23 (14.47%) Okta
3 20 (12.58%) Microsoft
4 17 (10.69%) ForgeRock
5 11 (6.92%) Citrix
6 10 (6.29%) Ping Identity
6 10 (6.29%) ServiceNow
7 8 (5.03%) IBM
7 8 (5.03%) Talend
8 7 (4.40%) CyberArk
8 7 (4.40%) Oracle
9 6 (3.77%) Cisco
9 6 (3.77%) MuleSoft
10 5 (3.14%) F5
11 4 (2.52%) Palo Alto
11 4 (2.52%) Salesforce
12 3 (1.89%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.89%) Polycom
12 3 (1.89%) SAP
12 3 (1.89%) SolarWinds