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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 518 637
Rank change year-on-year +156 +119 -135
Contract jobs citing SAML 211 170 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.30% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.36% 1.29% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 119 127
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £489 £475 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £688
90th Percentile £750 £738 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £575 £585
% change year-on-year +4.35% -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 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 8,924 13,173 23,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.96% 23.13% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,198 9,621 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 £665
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 246 144 237
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £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 £74.47 £80.25 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +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 18 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 18 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 +139 159 £600 - 25
London +114 92 £575 -4.17% 14
Work from Home +92 91 £620 +3.33% 11
UK excluding London +77 72 £600 +4.35% 13
Midlands +46 25 £622 -2.43% 1
East Midlands - 17 £620 -
North of England +37 11 £620 -4.62% 1
South West -3 11 £413 -34.00% 3
Scotland +44 10 £725 +45.00% 2
West Midlands +29 8 £650 +1.96% 1
Yorkshire - 7 £432 -
South East +21 5 £500 -13.04% 6
East of England +8 5 £550 -
Wales - 5 £513 -
North West +19 4 £635 +4.74% 1

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 4 (1.90%) 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 67 (31.75%) Entra ID
2 66 (31.28%) Azure
3 42 (19.91%) GCP
4 39 (18.48%) 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%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (1.90%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.90%) GitHub
11 4 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
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%) SSL
6 8 (3.79%) HTTP
6 8 (3.79%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.37%) SSH
7 5 (2.37%) Wireshark
8 4 (1.90%) IPsec
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%) SQL Server
1 8 (3.79%) Tableau
2 6 (2.84%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.37%) MySQL
4 4 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.42%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.47%) Hadoop
7 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 37 (17.54%) Social Skills
3 30 (14.22%) Finance
4 9 (4.27%) 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%) 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 15 (7.11%) 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%) Azure Architect
12 5 (2.37%) SharePoint Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (54.50%) OpenID
2 100 (47.39%) OAuth
3 45 (21.33%) REST
4 36 (17.06%) 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 18 (8.53%) AngularJS
9 18 (8.53%) OAuth2
9 18 (8.53%) XACML
10 16 (7.58%) .NET
11 15 (7.11%) SailPoint
12 11 (5.21%) Tailwind CSS
13 10 (4.74%) RESTful
14 8 (3.79%) PySpark
14 8 (3.79%) Web Services
15 7 (3.32%) JSON
15 7 (3.32%) Node.js
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%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.37%) NHS
5 5 (2.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 5 (2.37%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.90%) Clustering
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%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.95%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.95%) Windows
2 6 (2.84%) 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 17 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (8.06%) RBAC
8 17 (8.06%) User Experience
9 16 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (7.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 15 (7.11%) Roadmaps
10 15 (7.11%) Threat Detection
10 15 (7.11%) User Acceptance Testing
11 14 (6.64%) Security Architecture
11 14 (6.64%) Use Case
12 13 (6.16%) Risk Management
12 13 (6.16%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (5.21%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 42 (19.91%) Java
2 37 (17.54%) Python
3 33 (15.64%) JavaScript
4 24 (11.37%) 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%) Groovy
11 2 (0.95%) ABAP
11 2 (0.95%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.95%) C#
11 2 (0.95%) SOQL
12 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 38 (18.01%) Security Cleared
2 37 (17.54%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.69%) Degree
4 8 (3.79%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.79%) CISSP
5 3 (1.42%) CCIE
5 3 (1.42%) CCNP
5 3 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.42%) CISM
5 3 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.95%) CISA
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
7 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 46 (21.80%) 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
1 104 (49.29%) 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
8 2 (0.95%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.47%) Consul
9 1 (0.47%) Istio
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 39 (18.48%) 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 10 (4.74%) ServiceNow
9 9 (4.27%) CyberArk
10 8 (3.79%) Oracle
10 8 (3.79%) Talend
11 7 (3.32%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (3.32%) Zscaler
12 6 (2.84%) Cisco
12 6 (2.84%) MuleSoft
13 5 (2.37%) F5
14 4 (1.90%) Palo Alto
14 4 (1.90%) Salesforce
14 4 (1.90%) SAP
15 3 (1.42%) Atlassian