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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 521 597
Rank change year-on-year +146 +76 -117
Contract jobs citing SAML 166 126 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.26% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.18% 1.16% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 83 108
10th Percentile £375 £400 £394
25th Percentile £460 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.56%
75th Percentile £675 £714 £688
90th Percentile £730 £795 £758
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £594
% change year-on-year - +1.05% +3.26%
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 7,617 10,847 18,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.75% 22.78% 26.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,406 8,048 14,266
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £557 £570
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -2.28% +14.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £791 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 129 203
10th Percentile £22.63 £29.15 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +11.70%
75th Percentile £66.38 £75.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%

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 28 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 28 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 +104 97 £585 -2.50% 11
Midlands +47 26 £622 -2.43% 3
East Midlands - 17 £620 -
South West 0 12 £413 -36.54% 2
North of England +34 11 £620 -4.62%
West Midlands +15 8 £650 +1.96% 3
Yorkshire - 7 £432 -
East of England +12 5 £550 - 1
South East +3 5 £500 -13.04% 5
North West +23 4 £635 +22.41%
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 (4.82%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.61%) IIS
3 5 (3.01%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.41%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 2 (1.20%) Confluence
6 1 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 5 (3.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (43.37%) Azure
2 46 (27.71%) Entra ID
3 40 (24.10%) AWS
4 34 (20.48%) GCP
5 12 (7.23%) PaaS
5 12 (7.23%) SaaS
6 11 (6.63%) IaaS
7 8 (4.82%) Power Platform
8 7 (4.22%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.01%) CloudFront
10 5 (3.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.41%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (2.41%) GitHub
11 4 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.81%) Apigee
12 3 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (1.81%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.24%) DNS
2 15 (9.04%) Firewall
3 12 (7.23%) Network Security
4 11 (6.63%) VPN
5 10 (6.02%) NetScaler
6 9 (5.42%) SSL
7 8 (4.82%) Kerberos
7 8 (4.82%) TCP/IP
8 6 (3.61%) HTTP
9 5 (3.01%) SSH
9 5 (3.01%) Wireshark
10 4 (2.41%) IPsec
11 3 (1.81%) HTTPS
11 3 (1.81%) MPLS
11 3 (1.81%) VoIP
12 1 (0.60%) Internet
12 1 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.60%) LAN
12 1 (0.60%) S/MIME
12 1 (0.60%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.82%) Apache Hive
1 8 (4.82%) Big Data
1 8 (4.82%) Impala
1 8 (4.82%) Power BI
1 8 (4.82%) SQL Server
1 8 (4.82%) Tableau
2 5 (3.01%) MySQL
3 4 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.81%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (1.81%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (4.82%) Maven
2 7 (4.22%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.01%) Fiddler
3 5 (3.01%) GitLab
3 5 (3.01%) JIRA
4 4 (2.41%) Git
5 3 (1.81%) gulp
6 2 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.60%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.60%) Gradle
7 1 (0.60%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.60%) Mockito
7 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (16.27%) Finance
2 18 (10.84%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.64%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.61%) Retail
6 4 (2.41%) Banking
7 2 (1.20%) Automotive
7 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.20%) Law
7 2 (1.20%) Legal
8 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (43.37%) Architect
2 35 (21.08%) Developer
3 21 (12.65%) Java Developer
4 16 (9.64%) Security Architect
5 14 (8.43%) Consultant
6 12 (7.23%) ForgeRock Architect
7 11 (6.63%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (6.02%) Senior
9 9 (5.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 8 (4.82%) IAM Consultant
10 8 (4.82%) Security Engineer
11 7 (4.22%) AWS Architect
11 7 (4.22%) AWS Solution Architect
11 7 (4.22%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.61%) Azure Architect
12 6 (3.61%) Technical Architect
13 5 (3.01%) Administrator
13 5 (3.01%) Applications Engineer
13 5 (3.01%) Senior Developer
13 5 (3.01%) SharePoint Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (50.00%) OpenID
2 74 (44.58%) OAuth
3 39 (23.49%) REST
4 34 (20.48%) LDAP
5 18 (10.84%) Spring
6 17 (10.24%) AngularJS
6 17 (10.24%) Spring Boot
7 16 (9.64%) .NET
7 16 (9.64%) Restlet
8 15 (9.04%) GWT
8 15 (9.04%) JAX-RS
9 14 (8.43%) OAuth2
9 14 (8.43%) XACML
10 11 (6.63%) SailPoint
11 9 (5.42%) Tailwind CSS
12 8 (4.82%) PySpark
12 8 (4.82%) Web Services
13 7 (4.22%) JSON
13 7 (4.22%) Microsoft Graph
13 7 (4.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.02%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.42%) PKI
3 7 (4.22%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.22%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.01%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.01%) Insider Threat
5 4 (2.41%) Clustering
5 4 (2.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.41%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (2.41%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.81%) Educational Technology
6 3 (1.81%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.81%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.20%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.65%) Windows
2 7 (4.22%) Linux
3 3 (1.81%) Android
3 3 (1.81%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.60%) Unix
4 1 (0.60%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (29.52%) Identity Access Management
2 30 (18.07%) Identity Management
3 24 (14.46%) DevOps
4 21 (12.65%) Migration
5 20 (12.05%) Agile
6 19 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (10.24%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 16 (9.64%) RBAC
9 15 (9.04%) Security Architecture
10 14 (8.43%) Technical Leadership
10 14 (8.43%) Use Case
11 13 (7.83%) Cloud Security
12 12 (7.23%) Risk Management
13 11 (6.63%) CI/CD
13 11 (6.63%) User Experience
14 10 (6.02%) Build Automation
14 10 (6.02%) Roadmaps
14 10 (6.02%) TDD
14 10 (6.02%) User Acceptance Testing
15 9 (5.42%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 35 (21.08%) Java
2 32 (19.28%) Python
3 30 (18.07%) JavaScript
4 25 (15.06%) PowerShell
5 11 (6.63%) Scala
5 11 (6.63%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.01%) Bash
7 4 (2.41%) Go
8 3 (1.81%) BeanShell
8 3 (1.81%) Perl
8 3 (1.81%) SQL
9 2 (1.20%) ABAP
9 2 (1.20%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.20%) C#
9 2 (1.20%) Groovy
9 2 (1.20%) SOQL
10 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 19 (11.45%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.84%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.42%) Degree
4 8 (4.82%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.22%) CISSP
6 3 (1.81%) CCIE
6 3 (1.81%) CCNP
6 3 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.81%) CISM
6 3 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.20%) CISA
8 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.61%) WCAG
2 5 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.41%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.41%) QA
4 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.20%) NIST
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (25.90%) Active Directory
2 11 (6.63%) Docker
3 4 (2.41%) Firmware
3 4 (2.41%) OpenAM
4 3 (1.81%) OpenIDM
5 2 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.60%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.60%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 87 (52.41%) Single Sign-On
2 13 (7.83%) Ansible
2 13 (7.83%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.02%) Terraform
4 9 (5.42%) PingFederate
5 5 (3.01%) SCOM
6 3 (1.81%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.20%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.60%) Consul
8 1 (0.60%) Istio
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.60%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (17.47%) Google
2 23 (13.86%) Okta
3 20 (12.05%) Microsoft
4 18 (10.84%) ForgeRock
5 11 (6.63%) Citrix
6 10 (6.02%) Ping Identity
6 10 (6.02%) ServiceNow
7 8 (4.82%) IBM
7 8 (4.82%) Talend
8 7 (4.22%) CyberArk
8 7 (4.22%) MuleSoft
8 7 (4.22%) Oracle
9 6 (3.61%) Cisco
10 5 (3.01%) F5
11 4 (2.41%) Palo Alto
11 4 (2.41%) Salesforce
12 3 (1.81%) BeyondTrust
12 3 (1.81%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.81%) New Relic
12 3 (1.81%) SAP