SAML Contracts in England

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 516 617
Rank change year-on-year +131 +101 -134
Contract jobs citing SAML 166 120 170
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.26% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.12% 1.13% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 81 101
10th Percentile £375 £400 £408
25th Percentile £456 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £650 £713 £688
90th Percentile £700 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £581 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -3.17% - +4.35%
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 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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,836 10,653 18,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.89% 22.65% 26.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,490 7,931 14,067
10th Percentile £350 £394 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £800 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 136 204
10th Percentile £22.73 £32.88 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £49.75 £65.00 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +22.07% +17.03%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £76.89
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +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 12 June 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 12 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
London +98 94 £560 -6.67% 10
Midlands +43 28 £622 -2.43% 4
East Midlands - 17 £620 -
South West -1 13 £413 -36.54% 2
North of England +25 11 £620 +19.52% 1
West Midlands +25 9 £650 +1.96% 4
Yorkshire - 7 £432 - 1
East of England +9 5 £550 - 1
South East +4 5 £500 -13.04% 7
North West +16 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
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 76 (45.78%) Azure
2 51 (30.72%) Entra ID
3 39 (23.49%) AWS
4 33 (19.88%) GCP
5 12 (7.23%) SaaS
6 11 (6.63%) PaaS
7 10 (6.02%) IaaS
8 8 (4.82%) Power Platform
9 7 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (3.01%) CloudFront
11 5 (3.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.41%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (2.41%) GitHub
13 3 (1.81%) Apigee
13 3 (1.81%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (1.81%) OCI
13 3 (1.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.24%) DNS
2 15 (9.04%) Firewall
3 12 (7.23%) Network Security
4 10 (6.02%) NetScaler
4 10 (6.02%) VPN
5 8 (4.82%) Kerberos
5 8 (4.82%) SSL
5 8 (4.82%) TCP/IP
6 6 (3.61%) HTTP
7 5 (3.01%) SSH
7 5 (3.01%) Wireshark
8 4 (2.41%) IPsec
8 4 (2.41%) MPLS
9 3 (1.81%) HTTPS
9 3 (1.81%) VoIP
10 2 (1.20%) SD-WAN
10 2 (1.20%) WAN
11 1 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.60%) NAS
11 1 (0.60%) S/MIME
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 26 (15.66%) Finance
2 19 (11.45%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.64%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.61%) Retail
6 4 (2.41%) Legal
7 3 (1.81%) Automotive
7 3 (1.81%) Banking
8 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.20%) Law
9 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (40.96%) Architect
2 35 (21.08%) Developer
3 21 (12.65%) Java Developer
4 16 (9.64%) Security Architect
5 13 (7.83%) Consultant
6 12 (7.23%) ForgeRock Architect
7 10 (6.02%) Senior
7 10 (6.02%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (5.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 9 (5.42%) Security Engineer
9 8 (4.82%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (4.22%) AWS Architect
10 7 (4.22%) AWS Solution Architect
10 7 (4.22%) IAM Consultant
11 5 (3.01%) Administrator
11 5 (3.01%) Applications Engineer
11 5 (3.01%) Azure Architect
11 5 (3.01%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.01%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.01%) SharePoint Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (47.59%) OpenID
2 76 (45.78%) OAuth
3 38 (22.89%) REST
4 34 (20.48%) LDAP
5 18 (10.84%) Spring
6 17 (10.24%) Spring Boot
7 16 (9.64%) AngularJS
7 16 (9.64%) Restlet
8 15 (9.04%) .NET
8 15 (9.04%) GWT
8 15 (9.04%) JAX-RS
9 14 (8.43%) OAuth2
10 12 (7.23%) XACML
11 10 (6.02%) SailPoint
12 9 (5.42%) Tailwind CSS
13 8 (4.82%) PySpark
13 8 (4.82%) Web Services
14 7 (4.22%) JSON
15 6 (3.61%) .NET Framework
15 6 (3.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.63%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.82%) 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%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.20%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (14.46%) Windows
2 8 (4.82%) 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 51 (30.72%) Identity Access Management
2 34 (20.48%) Identity Management
3 26 (15.66%) DevOps
4 23 (13.86%) Migration
5 20 (12.05%) Agile
6 19 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (10.24%) RBAC
8 15 (9.04%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 14 (8.43%) CI/CD
10 13 (7.83%) Cloud Security
10 13 (7.83%) Security Architecture
10 13 (7.83%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (7.23%) Use Case
12 11 (6.63%) User Experience
13 10 (6.02%) Build Automation
13 10 (6.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (6.02%) Risk Management
13 10 (6.02%) TDD
13 10 (6.02%) User Acceptance Testing
14 9 (5.42%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 35 (21.08%) Java
2 32 (19.28%) Python
3 28 (16.87%) 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%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.20%) SOQL
10 1 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 18 (10.84%) SC Cleared
1 18 (10.84%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.82%) AWS Certification
3 7 (4.22%) CISSP
4 6 (3.61%) Degree
5 3 (1.81%) CCIE
5 3 (1.81%) CCNP
5 3 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.81%) CISM
6 2 (1.20%) CISA
6 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.61%) WCAG
2 5 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.41%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.41%) QA
4 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.20%) NIST
4 2 (1.20%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (28.92%) 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 86 (51.81%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (8.43%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.83%) Ansible
4 11 (6.63%) Terraform
5 9 (5.42%) PingFederate
6 5 (3.01%) SCOM
7 3 (1.81%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.20%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (1.20%) Oracle Identity Management
9 1 (0.60%) Consul
9 1 (0.60%) Istio
9 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.60%) NetIQ Identity Manager
9 1 (0.60%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (18.07%) Google
2 24 (14.46%) Microsoft
3 19 (11.45%) Okta
4 18 (10.84%) ForgeRock
5 11 (6.63%) Citrix
6 10 (6.02%) Oracle
7 9 (5.42%) Ping Identity
7 9 (5.42%) ServiceNow
8 8 (4.82%) IBM
8 8 (4.82%) Talend
9 6 (3.61%) Cisco
9 6 (3.61%) CyberArk
9 6 (3.61%) MuleSoft
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%) Cloudera
12 3 (1.81%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.81%) New Relic