SAML Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring SAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SAML 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.52% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.81% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £305 - -
25th Percentile £324 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 - -
75th Percentile £477 - -
90th Percentile £481 - -
North West median daily rate £401 £525 £350
% change year-on-year -23.71% +50.00% -33.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 172 76 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 26.14% 16.85% 9.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 55 38
10th Percentile £330 £303 £301
25th Percentile £358 £356 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £391 £488
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -19.79% +1.59%
75th Percentile £500 £571 £539
90th Percentile £675 £639 £575
North West median daily rate £450 £470 £500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £95.75 £82.50 -
Median hourly rate £96.50 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.53% - -
75th Percentile £97.25 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £62.50 £65.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.58% +41.84% +2.62%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAML relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

SAML job vacancy trend in Cheshire

SAML
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing SAML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing SAML

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAML in Cheshire over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAML in Cheshire

SAML
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 29 January 2026. 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
Knutsford - 10 £433 - 1
SAML
North West

SAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (90.00%) Apache
1 9 (90.00%) IIS
1 9 (90.00%) JBoss
1 9 (90.00%) WebSphere
2 8 (80.00%) iPlanet
2 8 (80.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 8 (80.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 9 (90.00%) CA Release Automation
1 9 (90.00%) Git
1 9 (90.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (70.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
3 3 (30.00%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) OAuth
1 10 (100.00%) OpenID
2 8 (80.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Linux
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (70.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (70.00%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (40.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Groovy
2 7 (70.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 8 (80.00%) Docker
2 7 (70.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) CA Single Sign-On
2 8 (80.00%) CA Wily
2 8 (80.00%) Progress Chef
3 7 (70.00%) Tivoli
4 5 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Broadcom
2 8 (80.00%) AppDynamics
2 8 (80.00%) IBM
2 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (80.00%) Oracle
2 8 (80.00%) Splunk