Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 534 652
Rank change year-on-year +166 +118 -156
Contract jobs citing SAML 211 167 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.29% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.37% 1.26% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 114 130
10th Percentile £375 £404 £423
25th Percentile £484 £466 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £688 £657 £688
90th Percentile £750 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £580
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% +16.00%
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 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 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 8,901 13,257 23,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.92% 23.22% 26.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,172 9,669 17,311
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 150 242
10th Percentile £21.25 £29.58 £22.75
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 £65.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £74.80 £81.13 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.36% +28.36% +11.67%

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 15 May 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 15 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
England +129 159 £600 - 26
London +116 92 £585 -2.50% 14
Work from Home +112 91 £620 +3.33% 11
UK excluding London +71 72 £600 +9.09% 13
Midlands +54 25 £622 -2.43% 1
East Midlands - 17 £620 - 1
North of England +25 11 £620 -4.62% 1
South West +13 11 £413 -25.00% 3
Scotland +50 10 £725 +45.00% 2
West Midlands +24 8 £650 +1.96%
Yorkshire - 7 £432 -
East of England +16 5 £550 -
South East +7 5 £500 -13.04% 6
Wales - 5 £513 -
North West +17 4 £635 +4.74%

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 (3.79%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.84%) IIS
3 5 (2.37%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.42%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 2 (0.95%) Confluence
6 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (31.28%) Entra ID
2 65 (30.81%) Azure
3 41 (19.43%) GCP
4 38 (18.01%) AWS
5 13 (6.16%) SaaS
6 12 (5.69%) PaaS
7 11 (5.21%) IaaS
8 8 (3.79%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.37%) CloudFront
10 5 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (1.90%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.90%) GitHub
12 3 (1.42%) Apigee
12 3 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.58%) DNS
2 14 (6.64%) Firewall
3 12 (5.69%) Kerberos
3 12 (5.69%) Network Security
4 11 (5.21%) NetScaler
4 11 (5.21%) VPN
5 9 (4.27%) HTTP
5 9 (4.27%) SSL
6 8 (3.79%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.37%) Wireshark
8 4 (1.90%) IPsec
8 4 (1.90%) SSH
9 3 (1.42%) HTTPS
9 3 (1.42%) MPLS
9 3 (1.42%) VoIP
10 1 (0.47%) Internet
10 1 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.47%) LAN
10 1 (0.47%) S/MIME
10 1 (0.47%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.79%) Apache Hive
1 8 (3.79%) Big Data
1 8 (3.79%) Impala
1 8 (3.79%) Power BI
1 8 (3.79%) Tableau
2 7 (3.32%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.84%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.90%) MySQL
5 3 (1.42%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.47%) 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 (4.27%) Maven
2 7 (3.32%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.37%) Fiddler
3 5 (2.37%) GitLab
3 5 (2.37%) JIRA
4 4 (1.90%) Git
5 3 (1.42%) gulp
6 2 (0.95%) 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 40 (18.96%) Public Sector
2 38 (18.01%) Social Skills
3 30 (14.22%) Finance
4 10 (4.74%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.37%) Retail
6 3 (1.42%) Banking
7 2 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.95%) Law
7 2 (0.95%) Legal
8 1 (0.47%) Automotive
8 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.47%) German Language
8 1 (0.47%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 83 (39.34%) Architect
2 44 (20.85%) Developer
3 26 (12.32%) Java Developer
4 17 (8.06%) Security Architect
5 14 (6.64%) Consultant
6 12 (5.69%) ForgeRock Architect
6 12 (5.69%) Senior
7 11 (5.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 11 (5.21%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (4.27%) IAM Consultant
9 8 (3.79%) Security Engineer
10 7 (3.32%) AWS Architect
10 7 (3.32%) AWS Solution Architect
10 7 (3.32%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (2.84%) Administrator
11 6 (2.84%) Senior Developer
11 6 (2.84%) Technical Architect
12 5 (2.37%) Applications Engineer
12 5 (2.37%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.37%) SharePoint Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (54.50%) OpenID
2 101 (47.87%) OAuth
3 46 (21.80%) REST
4 35 (16.59%) LDAP
5 24 (11.37%) Spring
6 23 (10.90%) Spring Boot
7 22 (10.43%) Restlet
8 21 (9.95%) GWT
8 21 (9.95%) JAX-RS
9 19 (9.00%) OAuth2
10 18 (8.53%) AngularJS
10 18 (8.53%) XACML
11 16 (7.58%) .NET
12 14 (6.64%) SailPoint
13 11 (5.21%) Tailwind CSS
14 10 (4.74%) RESTful
15 8 (3.79%) Node.js
15 8 (3.79%) PySpark
15 8 (3.79%) Web Services
16 7 (3.32%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.74%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.79%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.32%) Insider Threat
3 7 (3.32%) PKI
4 6 (2.84%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.84%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.37%) NHS
5 5 (2.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 5 (2.37%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.90%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (1.90%) Educational Technology
6 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.90%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (1.42%) Clustering
7 3 (1.42%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.95%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.48%) Windows
2 5 (2.37%) Linux
3 3 (1.42%) Android
3 3 (1.42%) 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 72 (34.12%) Identity Access Management
2 39 (18.48%) DevOps
3 35 (16.59%) Identity Management
4 24 (11.37%) Agile
5 22 (10.43%) Migration
6 20 (9.48%) Infrastructure Automation
7 19 (9.00%) Cloud Security
8 18 (8.53%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (8.06%) RBAC
10 16 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (7.58%) Roadmaps
10 16 (7.58%) User Experience
11 15 (7.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 15 (7.11%) Threat Detection
11 15 (7.11%) User Acceptance Testing
12 14 (6.64%) Security Architecture
12 14 (6.64%) Use Case
13 13 (6.16%) Risk Management
13 13 (6.16%) Technical Leadership
14 11 (5.21%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 43 (20.38%) Java
2 38 (18.01%) Python
3 33 (15.64%) JavaScript
4 23 (10.90%) PowerShell
5 13 (6.16%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.21%) Scala
7 7 (3.32%) SQL
8 5 (2.37%) Bash
9 4 (1.90%) Go
9 4 (1.90%) Perl
10 3 (1.42%) BeanShell
10 3 (1.42%) C#
10 3 (1.42%) Groovy
11 2 (0.95%) ABAP
11 2 (0.95%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.95%) SOQL
12 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.47%) PHP
12 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (17.54%) Security Cleared
2 36 (17.06%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.69%) Degree
4 8 (3.79%) CISSP
5 7 (3.32%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.42%) CCIE
6 3 (1.42%) CCNP
6 3 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.42%) CISM
6 3 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.95%) CISA
8 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.79%) WCAG
2 5 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.90%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (1.90%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.90%) QA
4 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (0.95%) NIST
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) GDPR
5 1 (0.47%) HL7
5 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (21.33%) Active Directory
2 14 (6.64%) Docker
3 4 (1.90%) Firmware
3 4 (1.90%) OpenAM
3 4 (1.90%) OpenIDM
4 2 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.47%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.47%) Terminal Server
5 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 103 (48.82%) Single Sign-On
2 16 (7.58%) Ansible
3 14 (6.64%) PingFederate
4 12 (5.69%) Kubernetes
5 10 (4.74%) Terraform
6 5 (2.37%) SCOM
7 3 (1.42%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.47%) Consul
9 1 (0.47%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.47%) Istio
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 40 (18.96%) Microsoft
2 37 (17.54%) Google
3 35 (16.59%) Okta
4 20 (9.48%) ForgeRock
5 16 (7.58%) Ping Identity
6 12 (5.69%) Citrix
7 11 (5.21%) IBM
8 9 (4.27%) ServiceNow
9 8 (3.79%) CyberArk
9 8 (3.79%) Talend
10 7 (3.32%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (3.32%) Oracle
10 7 (3.32%) Zscaler
11 6 (2.84%) Cisco
11 6 (2.84%) MuleSoft
12 5 (2.37%) F5
13 4 (1.90%) Palo Alto
13 4 (1.90%) Salesforce
13 4 (1.90%) SAP
14 3 (1.42%) Dynatrace