SAML Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 256 363 490
Rank change year-on-year +107 +127 -116
Contract jobs citing SAML 91 105 133
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.61% 0.43% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.51% 1.69% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 79 88
10th Percentile £429 £400 £408
25th Percentile £525 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £688
90th Percentile £719 £725 £716
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and 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 3,629 6,225 12,985
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.52% 25.26% 29.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,545 4,638 9,580
10th Percentile £339 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.24%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £645
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 77 124
10th Percentile £24.45 £22.50 £21.30
25th Percentile - £45.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

SAML
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SAML trend for jobs with a WFH option

SAML
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SAML.

SAML daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SAML over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

SAML daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (4.40%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 1 (1.10%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (35.16%) Azure
2 22 (24.18%) Entra ID
3 20 (21.98%) AWS
3 20 (21.98%) GCP
4 8 (8.79%) PaaS
5 7 (7.69%) IaaS
6 6 (6.59%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (5.49%) CloudFront
7 5 (5.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (4.40%) SaaS
9 2 (2.20%) Apigee
9 2 (2.20%) Serverless
10 1 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.10%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (1.10%) AWS KMS
10 1 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.10%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.10%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.09%) NetScaler
2 6 (6.59%) DNS
2 6 (6.59%) Kerberos
2 6 (6.59%) Network Security
2 6 (6.59%) VPN
3 4 (4.40%) SSH
4 3 (3.30%) SSL
5 2 (2.20%) Firewall
6 1 (1.10%) HTTP
6 1 (1.10%) Internet
6 1 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.10%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.59%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.49%) MySQL
2 5 (5.49%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.20%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Maven
2 4 (4.40%) GitLab
3 2 (2.20%) gulp
3 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.20%) JIRA
4 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.10%) Git
4 1 (1.10%) InstallShield
General
1 16 (17.58%) Public Sector
2 14 (15.38%) Finance
3 8 (8.79%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.49%) Retail
5 1 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.10%) Automotive
5 1 (1.10%) Banking
5 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.10%) Law
Job Titles
1 39 (42.86%) Architect
2 26 (28.57%) Developer
3 14 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 8 (8.79%) ForgeRock Architect
5 7 (7.69%) Consultant
5 7 (7.69%) Security Engineer
5 7 (7.69%) Senior
6 6 (6.59%) Security Architect
7 5 (5.49%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 4 (4.40%) Azure Architect
8 4 (4.40%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.30%) ForgeRock Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) IAM Consultant
9 3 (3.30%) IAM Developer
9 3 (3.30%) Java Scala Developer
9 3 (3.30%) Scala Developer
9 3 (3.30%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (53.85%) OpenID
2 43 (47.25%) OAuth
3 24 (26.37%) REST
4 16 (17.58%) LDAP
5 12 (13.19%) AngularJS
5 12 (13.19%) Spring
6 11 (12.09%) Restlet
6 11 (12.09%) Spring Boot
7 10 (10.99%) .NET
7 10 (10.99%) GWT
7 10 (10.99%) JAX-RS
8 9 (9.89%) OAuth2
9 8 (8.79%) SailPoint
10 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Graph
10 6 (6.59%) Tailwind CSS
10 6 (6.59%) XACML
11 5 (5.49%) RESTful
12 4 (4.40%) React
13 3 (3.30%) JSON
13 3 (3.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.49%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 4 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.20%) Clustering
5 2 (2.20%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.20%) Educational Technology
5 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.20%) Insider Threat
5 2 (2.20%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.10%) IoT
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.10%) NHS
6 1 (1.10%) PKI
6 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.99%) Windows
2 5 (5.49%) Linux
3 2 (2.20%) Android
3 2 (2.20%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.10%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.10%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (34.07%) Identity Access Management
2 21 (23.08%) Identity Management
3 15 (16.48%) User Acceptance Testing
4 13 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 11 (12.09%) Agile
5 11 (12.09%) Build Automation
5 11 (12.09%) User Experience
6 9 (9.89%) Migration
7 8 (8.79%) CI/CD
7 8 (8.79%) DevOps
7 8 (8.79%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (8.79%) Use Case
8 7 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (7.69%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 7 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (6.59%) DevSecOps
9 6 (6.59%) Incident Response
9 6 (6.59%) Infrastructure Management
9 6 (6.59%) Roadmaps
9 6 (6.59%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.08%) Java
2 16 (17.58%) JavaScript
3 12 (13.19%) Python
4 7 (7.69%) SQL
5 6 (6.59%) PowerShell
5 6 (6.59%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.30%) Scala
7 2 (2.20%) Bash
7 2 (2.20%) C#
7 2 (2.20%) Go
8 1 (1.10%) BeanShell
8 1 (1.10%) Groovy
8 1 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 13 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 5 (5.49%) Degree
4 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.10%) CISSP
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.30%) PCI DSS
1 3 (3.30%) WCAG
2 2 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.20%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.20%) QA
3 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.10%) HL7
3 1 (1.10%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (16.48%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.69%) Docker
3 2 (2.20%) OpenIDM
4 1 (1.10%) OpenAM
4 1 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (47.25%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (6.59%) Ansible
2 6 (6.59%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.59%) PingFederate
3 3 (3.30%) Terraform
4 2 (2.20%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.10%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (20.88%) Google
2 12 (13.19%) ForgeRock
2 12 (13.19%) Okta
3 11 (12.09%) Citrix
4 8 (8.79%) Ping Identity
5 7 (7.69%) CyberArk
6 6 (6.59%) MuleSoft
6 6 (6.59%) Oracle
7 4 (4.40%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (4.40%) ServiceNow
7 4 (4.40%) Zscaler
8 3 (3.30%) IBM
8 3 (3.30%) Microsoft
9 2 (2.20%) Atlassian
9 2 (2.20%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (2.20%) CheckPoint
9 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.10%) Cognizant
10 1 (1.10%) Palo Alto