Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SAML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SAML over the 6 months to 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 738 784 919
Rank change year-on-year +46 +135 -236
Permanent jobs citing SAML 170 179 354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.80% 0.60% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 77 112 120
10th Percentile £49,000 £41,250 £40,487
25th Percentile £56,625 £52,188 £47,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.17% -14.29% +27.27%
75th Percentile £87,500 £84,056 £90,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £66,140
% change year-on-year +27.27% -16.84% +12.58%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,194 29,674 67,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.92% 30.26% 41.18%
Number of salaries quoted 15,821 18,217 29,920
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,104 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +15.91%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SAML.

Salary trend for SAML in the UK

SAML
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAML over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SAML in the UK

SAML
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +25 125 £70,000 +27.27% 20
England +5 83 £68,500 +14.17% 32
Scotland +14 81 £85,000 +41.67% 1
Work from Home +63 48 £65,620 +9.37% 39
London +47 42 £68,500 -13.98% 20
South East +32 21 £92,500 +27.59% 14
South West -24 10 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Midlands -21 4 £46,000 -5.64% 3
North of England +24 3 £50,000 -9.09%
Wales +14 3 £55,000 -12.91%
East of England +5 3 £65,620 +9.37%
North West -13 3 £50,000 -9.09%
East Midlands - 3 £46,000 -
West Midlands +4 1 £77,500 +58.97% 3

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 (4.71%) Skype for Business
2 7 (4.12%) Apache
3 6 (3.53%) Confluence
3 6 (3.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.94%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.35%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.76%) GlassFish
6 3 (1.76%) JBoss
7 1 (0.59%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 62 (36.47%) Azure
2 39 (22.94%) AWS
3 25 (14.71%) Entra ID
4 17 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (8.24%) SaaS
6 13 (7.65%) PaaS
7 12 (7.06%) IaaS
8 10 (5.88%) Azure AKS
9 8 (4.71%) GitHub
10 7 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.35%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.35%) GCP
11 4 (2.35%) Serverless
12 3 (1.76%) AWS CloudTrail
12 3 (1.76%) Route 53
12 3 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 73 (42.94%) Kerberos
2 37 (21.76%) Firewall
3 35 (20.59%) DNS
4 12 (7.06%) Reverse Proxy
5 11 (6.47%) WAN
6 10 (5.88%) Internet
6 10 (5.88%) LAN
7 9 (5.29%) SD-WAN
7 9 (5.29%) SSL
7 9 (5.29%) Wireless
8 8 (4.71%) BGP
8 8 (4.71%) MPLS
8 8 (4.71%) Network Security
8 8 (4.71%) OSPF
8 8 (4.71%) Skype
8 8 (4.71%) TCP/IP
8 8 (4.71%) VoIP
8 8 (4.71%) VPN
9 2 (1.18%) NAS
9 2 (1.18%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (38.24%) Metadata
2 7 (4.12%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (3.53%) MySQL
3 6 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.94%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.35%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.35%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.35%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.76%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.76%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.76%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (1.76%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 71 (41.76%) Bitbucket
2 69 (40.59%) Jenkins
3 65 (38.24%) Artifactory
3 65 (38.24%) Git
4 6 (3.53%) JIRA
5 3 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.76%) Subversion
6 2 (1.18%) GitLab
6 2 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 83 (48.82%) Law
2 80 (47.06%) Finance
3 72 (42.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 71 (41.76%) Marketing
5 19 (11.18%) Social Skills
6 8 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.35%) Banking
7 4 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.35%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.35%) Retail
8 2 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.59%) Automotive
9 1 (0.59%) Legal
9 1 (0.59%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 75 (44.12%) Lead
2 68 (40.00%) Software Engineer
3 65 (38.24%) Lead Software Engineer
4 51 (30.00%) Senior
5 42 (24.71%) Senior Software Engineer
6 31 (18.24%) Architect
7 14 (8.24%) Analyst
8 12 (7.06%) Developer
9 9 (5.29%) Technical Architect
10 8 (4.71%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (4.71%) DevOps Developer
10 8 (4.71%) Django Developer
10 8 (4.71%) Network Analyst
10 8 (4.71%) Network Security Analyst
10 8 (4.71%) Python Developer
10 8 (4.71%) Python/Django Developer
10 8 (4.71%) Security Analyst
11 7 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.53%) Lead Architect
12 6 (3.53%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (66.47%) OpenID
2 83 (48.82%) LDAP
3 80 (47.06%) JSON
4 69 (40.59%) RESTful
4 69 (40.59%) Web Services
4 69 (40.59%) XML
5 65 (38.24%) JSON-LD
6 61 (35.88%) OAuth
7 26 (15.29%) REST
8 11 (6.47%) Django
8 11 (6.47%) Flask
8 11 (6.47%) Microsoft Graph
9 8 (4.71%) 802.1X
9 8 (4.71%) OpenAPI
9 8 (4.71%) Swagger
10 5 (2.94%) .NET
10 5 (2.94%) CSS
10 5 (2.94%) HTML
10 5 (2.94%) J2EE
11 4 (2.35%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 78 (45.88%) Management Information System
2 65 (38.24%) Enterprise Cloud
2 65 (38.24%) Reference Data
3 11 (6.47%) Client/Server
3 11 (6.47%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.47%) Data Structures
4 9 (5.29%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (5.29%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.71%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (4.12%) Public Cloud
7 6 (3.53%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.53%) Private Cloud
8 5 (2.94%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.35%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.59%) Life Science
11 1 (0.59%) Pharmacovigilance
11 1 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (17.06%) Linux
2 16 (9.41%) Windows
3 9 (5.29%) Unix
4 5 (2.94%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.35%) Solaris
6 3 (1.76%) AIX
6 3 (1.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.18%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.59%) Debian
8 1 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.59%) VMS
8 1 (0.59%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (66.47%) Identity Access Management
2 104 (61.18%) Agile
3 76 (44.71%) SDLC
4 75 (44.12%) Roadmaps
5 73 (42.94%) CI/CD
6 71 (41.76%) Software Engineering
7 69 (40.59%) Continuous Delivery
7 69 (40.59%) Test Automation
8 66 (38.82%) Architectural Design
9 65 (38.24%) Community of Practice
9 65 (38.24%) Data Modelling
9 65 (38.24%) Data Pipeline
9 65 (38.24%) Data Transformation
9 65 (38.24%) Information Architecture
9 65 (38.24%) Ontologies
9 65 (38.24%) Operational Stability
9 65 (38.24%) RDF
9 65 (38.24%) Use Case
10 32 (18.82%) DevOps
10 32 (18.82%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 67 (39.41%) Go
2 65 (38.24%) Prolog
2 65 (38.24%) SPARQL
3 33 (19.41%) Java
4 20 (11.76%) Python
5 15 (8.82%) SQL
6 9 (5.29%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.53%) Bash
8 5 (2.94%) C#
9 3 (1.76%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.18%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.59%) Groovy
11 1 (0.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 17 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.24%) CISSP
3 13 (7.65%) Azure Certification
4 10 (5.88%) CISM
5 6 (3.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (2.94%) Degree
7 2 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.18%) CCSP
7 2 (1.18%) CISA
7 2 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.59%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.24%) NIST
2 11 (6.47%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (6.47%) QA
3 6 (3.53%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.35%) GDPR
6 3 (1.76%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.59%) PMO
8 1 (0.59%) SLA
8 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 102 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 22 (12.94%) Docker
3 19 (11.18%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (1.76%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.76%) Shibboleth
4 3 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.59%) DFS Replication
5 1 (0.59%) FreeRADIUS
5 1 (0.59%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.59%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (16.47%) Single Sign-On
2 18 (10.59%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.65%) Terraform
4 9 (5.29%) Ansible
5 8 (4.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (2.94%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.76%) Oracle Statspack
7 3 (1.76%) Packer
7 3 (1.76%) Puppet
7 3 (1.76%) Salt
8 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.59%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 40 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.24%) Google
3 8 (4.71%) CheckPoint
3 8 (4.71%) Okta
3 8 (4.71%) Ribbon
4 6 (3.53%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.94%) Cisco
5 5 (2.94%) Oracle
6 4 (2.35%) ForgeRock
6 4 (2.35%) Qualys
6 4 (2.35%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.35%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.35%) SolarWinds
6 4 (2.35%) Splunk
6 4 (2.35%) VMware
7 3 (1.76%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.76%) New Relic
7 3 (1.76%) NGA Human Resources
7 3 (1.76%) Northgate
8 1 (0.59%) SonicWALL