SAML Contracts

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring SAML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAML over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 539 636
Rank change year-on-year +155 +97 -140
Contract jobs citing SAML 214 159 232
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.29% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.32% 1.25% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 110 139
10th Percentile £375 £411 £445
25th Percentile £475 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £683 £688
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £593 £575 £585
% change year-on-year +3.04% -1.71% +17.00%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £77.00

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 contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,216 12,735 23,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.12% 22.93% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,364 9,287 17,252
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 152 225
10th Percentile £22.10 £31.18 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £49.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.85% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.38 £75.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £74.49 £80.25 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SAML in the UK

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAML over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAML in the UK

SAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SAML in the UK

SAML
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the UK over the 6 months to 11 June 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
England +144 166 £575 -4.17% 24
Work from Home +103 100 £613 +2.08% 35
London +99 94 £560 -6.67% 10
UK excluding London +75 75 £593 +3.04% 15
Midlands +42 28 £622 -2.43% 4
East Midlands - 17 £620 -
South West +4 13 £413 -36.54% 2
North of England +37 11 £620 +19.52% 1
West Midlands +19 9 £650 +1.96% 4
Scotland +37 8 £750 +50.00% 2
Yorkshire - 7 £432 - 1
East of England +7 5 £550 - 1
South East +6 5 £500 -13.04% 5
Wales - 5 £513 -
North West +15 4 £635 +22.41%

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 8 (3.74%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.80%) IIS
3 5 (2.34%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.87%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 2 (0.93%) Confluence
6 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 77 (35.98%) Azure
2 74 (34.58%) Entra ID
3 41 (19.16%) GCP
4 39 (18.22%) AWS
5 12 (5.61%) PaaS
5 12 (5.61%) SaaS
6 11 (5.14%) IaaS
7 8 (3.74%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.34%) CloudFront
10 5 (2.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.87%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.87%) GitHub
12 3 (1.40%) Apigee
12 3 (1.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (1.40%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.94%) DNS
2 15 (7.01%) Firewall
3 14 (6.54%) Kerberos
4 12 (5.61%) Network Security
5 11 (5.14%) NetScaler
6 10 (4.67%) VPN
7 8 (3.74%) SSL
7 8 (3.74%) TCP/IP
8 6 (2.80%) HTTP
9 5 (2.34%) SSH
9 5 (2.34%) Wireshark
10 4 (1.87%) IPsec
10 4 (1.87%) MPLS
11 3 (1.40%) HTTPS
11 3 (1.40%) VoIP
12 2 (0.93%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.93%) WAN
13 1 (0.47%) Internet
13 1 (0.47%) LAN
13 1 (0.47%) S/MIME
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.74%) Apache Hive
1 8 (3.74%) Big Data
1 8 (3.74%) Impala
1 8 (3.74%) NoSQL
1 8 (3.74%) Power BI
1 8 (3.74%) SQL Server
1 8 (3.74%) Tableau
2 5 (2.34%) MySQL
3 4 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.47%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (4.21%) Maven
2 7 (3.27%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.34%) Fiddler
3 5 (2.34%) GitLab
3 5 (2.34%) JIRA
4 4 (1.87%) Git
5 3 (1.40%) gulp
6 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.47%) Gradle
7 1 (0.47%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.47%) Mockito
7 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (17.76%) Social Skills
2 36 (16.82%) Public Sector
3 29 (13.55%) Finance
4 10 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.80%) Retail
6 4 (1.87%) Legal
7 3 (1.40%) Automotive
7 3 (1.40%) Banking
8 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.93%) Law
9 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.47%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 83 (38.79%) Architect
2 44 (20.56%) Developer
3 26 (12.15%) Java Developer
4 19 (8.88%) Security Architect
5 15 (7.01%) Consultant
6 12 (5.61%) ForgeRock Architect
7 11 (5.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 11 (5.14%) Senior
8 10 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.21%) IAM Consultant
9 9 (4.21%) Security Engineer
10 8 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.27%) AWS Architect
11 7 (3.27%) AWS Solution Architect
12 6 (2.80%) Senior Developer
13 5 (2.34%) Administrator
13 5 (2.34%) Analyst
13 5 (2.34%) Applications Engineer
13 5 (2.34%) ForgeRock Engineer
13 5 (2.34%) SharePoint Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (52.34%) OpenID
2 104 (48.60%) OAuth
3 45 (21.03%) REST
4 36 (16.82%) LDAP
5 24 (11.21%) Spring
6 23 (10.75%) Spring Boot
7 22 (10.28%) Restlet
8 21 (9.81%) GWT
8 21 (9.81%) JAX-RS
9 19 (8.88%) OAuth2
10 18 (8.41%) AngularJS
11 16 (7.48%) .NET
11 16 (7.48%) XACML
12 15 (7.01%) SailPoint
13 11 (5.14%) Tailwind CSS
14 8 (3.74%) PySpark
14 8 (3.74%) RESTful
14 8 (3.74%) Web Services
15 7 (3.27%) JSON
15 7 (3.27%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.14%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.74%) Management Information System
2 8 (3.74%) PKI
3 7 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.27%) Insider Threat
3 7 (3.27%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.80%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 5 (2.34%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.34%) NHS
5 5 (2.34%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.87%) Clustering
6 4 (1.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (1.87%) Educational Technology
6 4 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.87%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (1.40%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.21%) Windows
2 8 (3.74%) Linux
3 3 (1.40%) Android
3 3 (1.40%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.47%) Unix
4 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (34.11%) Identity Access Management
2 40 (18.69%) Identity Management
3 39 (18.22%) DevOps
4 26 (12.15%) Agile
5 24 (11.21%) Migration
6 19 (8.88%) Cloud Security
6 19 (8.88%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (8.41%) RBAC
8 17 (7.94%) Infrastructure Automation
9 16 (7.48%) User Experience
10 15 (7.01%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 15 (7.01%) User Acceptance Testing
11 14 (6.54%) CI/CD
12 13 (6.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 13 (6.07%) Security Architecture
12 13 (6.07%) Technical Leadership
13 12 (5.61%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (5.61%) Roadmaps
13 12 (5.61%) Threat Detection
13 12 (5.61%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 43 (20.09%) Java
2 36 (16.82%) Python
3 31 (14.49%) JavaScript
4 26 (12.15%) PowerShell
5 13 (6.07%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.14%) Scala
7 8 (3.74%) SQL
8 5 (2.34%) Bash
9 4 (1.87%) Go
9 4 (1.87%) Perl
10 3 (1.40%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.93%) ABAP
11 2 (0.93%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.93%) C#
11 2 (0.93%) Groovy
11 2 (0.93%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.93%) SOQL
12 1 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 33 (15.42%) SC Cleared
1 33 (15.42%) Security Cleared
2 9 (4.21%) Degree
3 8 (3.74%) AWS Certification
3 8 (3.74%) CISSP
4 3 (1.40%) CCIE
4 3 (1.40%) CCNP
4 3 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (1.40%) CISM
5 2 (0.93%) CISA
5 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.74%) WCAG
2 5 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.87%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.87%) QA
4 2 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (0.93%) NIST
4 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) GDPR
5 1 (0.47%) HL7
5 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 55 (25.70%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.01%) Docker
3 4 (1.87%) Firmware
3 4 (1.87%) OpenAM
4 3 (1.40%) OpenIDM
5 2 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.47%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.47%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 106 (49.53%) Single Sign-On
2 16 (7.48%) Ansible
3 15 (7.01%) PingFederate
4 14 (6.54%) Kubernetes
5 11 (5.14%) Terraform
6 5 (2.34%) SCOM
7 3 (1.40%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.93%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.93%) Oracle Identity Management
9 1 (0.47%) Consul
9 1 (0.47%) Istio
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.47%) NetIQ Identity Manager
9 1 (0.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 40 (18.69%) Microsoft
2 38 (17.76%) Google
3 30 (14.02%) Okta
4 20 (9.35%) ForgeRock
5 15 (7.01%) Ping Identity
6 12 (5.61%) Citrix
7 11 (5.14%) IBM
8 10 (4.67%) Oracle
9 9 (4.21%) ServiceNow
10 8 (3.74%) CyberArk
10 8 (3.74%) Talend
11 7 (3.27%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (3.27%) Zscaler
12 6 (2.80%) Cisco
12 6 (2.80%) MuleSoft
13 5 (2.34%) F5
14 4 (1.87%) Palo Alto
14 4 (1.87%) Salesforce
14 4 (1.87%) SAP
15 3 (1.40%) Dynatrace