SAML Contract Job Trends in England

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring SAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 425 454
Rank change year-on-year +72 +29 +96
Contract jobs citing SAML 189 91 128
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.29% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.71% 1.35% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 60 89
10th Percentile £401 £382 £305
25th Percentile £425 £505 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £675
90th Percentile £665 £704 £700
UK median daily rate £521 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -13.21% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £59.00 - -

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 6,968 6,730 8,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.69% 21.72% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,693 4,269 6,227
10th Percentile £350 £360 £369
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -5.16%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 105 179
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.40 £65.00 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +22.64% -18.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.43 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -15.38% +19.13% -12.93%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

SAML job vacancy trend in England

SAML
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SAML

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAML in England over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAML in England

SAML
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SAML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SAML

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 29 November 2025. 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 +52 73 £550 -8.33% 21
North of England -5 39 £438 - 2
South West +39 32 £533 - 11
Yorkshire -3 26 £430 -
Midlands -34 20 £525 -12.50% 5
West Midlands -23 14 £575 -3.73% 5
South East -6 13 £563 -10.00% 14
North West -13 13 £446 - 1
East of England - 9 £425 -
East Midlands -13 6 £415 -30.83%
SAML
UK

SAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 24 (12.70%) Confluence
2 14 (7.41%) WebSphere
3 13 (6.88%) WebSphere Application Server
4 11 (5.82%) Apache
4 11 (5.82%) IIS
4 11 (5.82%) JBoss
5 10 (5.29%) iPlanet
6 7 (3.70%) SharePoint
7 5 (2.65%) CMS
7 5 (2.65%) Headless CMS
8 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (6.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (2.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 93 (49.21%) Azure
2 74 (39.15%) AWS
3 63 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 31 (16.40%) GCP
5 28 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (14.29%) SaaS
7 14 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (6.88%) GitHub
9 12 (6.35%) OpenShift
9 12 (6.35%) PaaS
10 9 (4.76%) Azure AKS
10 9 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 9 (4.76%) Serverless
11 8 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (2.65%) Amazon Cognito
14 5 (2.65%) Azure Storage
14 5 (2.65%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 31 (16.40%) Kerberos
2 25 (13.23%) SSL
3 22 (11.64%) Firewall
4 18 (9.52%) DNS
5 7 (3.70%) VPN
6 6 (3.17%) Network Security
7 5 (2.65%) Internet
7 5 (2.65%) SSH
8 4 (2.12%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.12%) Wireshark
9 3 (1.59%) BGP
9 3 (1.59%) OSPF
10 2 (1.06%) DHCP
10 2 (1.06%) Extranet
10 2 (1.06%) S/MIME
11 1 (0.53%) HTTP
11 1 (0.53%) SMTP
11 1 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.29%) Oracle Database
2 5 (2.65%) DynamoDB
3 4 (2.12%) Power BI
4 3 (1.59%) Metadata
5 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (13.76%) Jenkins
2 24 (12.70%) JIRA
3 15 (7.94%) Git
4 11 (5.82%) Bitbucket Server
4 11 (5.82%) CA Release Automation
5 8 (4.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.59%) GitLab
6 3 (1.59%) Log4j
7 2 (1.06%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.06%) Fiddler
7 2 (1.06%) Maven
7 2 (1.06%) Postman
7 2 (1.06%) Selenium
8 1 (0.53%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.53%) Gatling
8 1 (0.53%) git-flow
8 1 (0.53%) gulp
8 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.53%) webpack
General
1 86 (45.50%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (12.70%) Finance
4 19 (10.05%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (5.82%) Aviation
5 11 (5.82%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.12%) Banking
7 4 (2.12%) Legal
8 3 (1.59%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.59%) Publishing
8 3 (1.59%) Retail
9 2 (1.06%) Billing
10 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.53%) Law
10 1 (0.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 43 (22.75%) Architect
2 21 (11.11%) Senior
3 16 (8.47%) Business Analyst
4 15 (7.94%) Analyst
5 13 (6.88%) Consultant
5 13 (6.88%) Developer
5 13 (6.88%) Security Engineer
6 11 (5.82%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (5.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (5.82%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (5.29%) ServiceNow Architect
8 9 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (4.76%) Senior Architect
9 8 (4.23%) Security Architect
10 7 (3.70%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.70%) ForgeRock Developer
10 7 (3.70%) Lead
10 7 (3.70%) Technical Analyst
11 6 (3.17%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (75.66%) OAuth
2 124 (65.61%) OpenID
3 69 (36.51%) LDAP
4 59 (31.22%) OAuth2
5 25 (13.23%) REST
6 20 (10.58%) JSON
7 16 (8.47%) AngularJS
7 16 (8.47%) JDBC
8 15 (7.94%) HTML
8 15 (7.94%) SailPoint
8 15 (7.94%) SOAP
9 14 (7.41%) HTML5
9 14 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
10 13 (6.88%) Apache Camel
10 13 (6.88%) jQuery
10 13 (6.88%) ODBC
10 13 (6.88%) Web Services
11 9 (4.76%) JWT
12 8 (4.23%) RESTful
13 7 (3.70%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 17 (8.99%) Cloud Native
3 16 (8.47%) Management Information System
4 11 (5.82%) PKI
5 10 (5.29%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (5.29%) Private Cloud
6 9 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.70%) Replication
8 5 (2.65%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.12%) BYOD
10 3 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.53%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 34 (17.99%) Windows
2 26 (13.76%) Linux
3 23 (12.17%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.23%) Unix
5 5 (2.65%) AIX
5 5 (2.65%) Solaris
6 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (38.62%) Identity Access Management
2 62 (32.80%) RBAC
3 59 (31.22%) DevOps
4 49 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (22.22%) Identity Management
6 40 (21.16%) CI/CD
7 31 (16.40%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 30 (15.87%) Agile
8 30 (15.87%) Migration
9 29 (15.34%) Cybersecurity
10 26 (13.76%) Privileged Access Management
11 25 (13.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 25 (13.23%) Stakeholder Management
12 23 (12.17%) Microservices
13 22 (11.64%) Infrastructure as Code
14 19 (10.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 18 (9.52%) Integration Patterns
15 18 (9.52%) Zero Trust
16 17 (8.99%) Scrum
17 16 (8.47%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 49 (25.93%) PowerShell
2 31 (16.40%) Python
3 29 (15.34%) JavaScript
4 17 (8.99%) Java
5 15 (7.94%) Groovy
6 11 (5.82%) Bash
7 8 (4.23%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.12%) C#
8 4 (2.12%) SQL
9 3 (1.59%) PHP
10 1 (0.53%) Go
10 1 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.53%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 55 (29.10%) Security Cleared
2 34 (17.99%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (9.52%) Degree
5 17 (8.99%) CISSP
6 15 (7.94%) DV Cleared
7 13 (6.88%) AWS Certification
8 9 (4.76%) CISM
9 8 (4.23%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (3.17%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.65%) Master's Degree
12 4 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (1.59%) PhD
14 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (1.06%) CCSP
14 2 (1.06%) IBM Certification
14 2 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (19.05%) GDPR
2 23 (12.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (8.47%) NIST
4 12 (6.35%) HIPAA
5 11 (5.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (5.82%) SOC 2
6 7 (3.70%) PCI DSS
6 7 (3.70%) QA
7 5 (2.65%) PSD2
8 4 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (2.12%) Data Quality
9 2 (1.06%) SLA
10 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.53%) NCSC
10 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 89 (47.09%) Active Directory
2 20 (10.58%) Docker
3 8 (4.23%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.06%) OpenAM
5 2 (1.06%) OpenDJ
5 2 (1.06%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 102 (53.97%) Single Sign-On
2 28 (14.81%) Terraform
3 22 (11.64%) Kubernetes
4 21 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 11 (5.82%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (5.29%) CA Wily
7 9 (4.76%) PingFederate
7 9 (4.76%) Progress Chef
8 8 (4.23%) Tivoli
9 7 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (2.65%) Tivoli Identity Manager
11 4 (2.12%) Ansible
12 3 (1.59%) Prometheus
12 3 (1.59%) SCCM
13 1 (0.53%) Argo
13 1 (0.53%) Grafana
13 1 (0.53%) HP Operations Orchestration
13 1 (0.53%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.53%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 84 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.70%) Splunk
3 21 (11.11%) Ping Identity
4 19 (10.05%) ServiceNow
5 18 (9.52%) CyberArk
5 18 (9.52%) IBM
6 15 (7.94%) Okta
7 13 (6.88%) BMC
7 13 (6.88%) ForgeRock
7 13 (6.88%) HP
7 13 (6.88%) Ivanti
7 13 (6.88%) Remedy
8 12 (6.35%) Oracle
9 11 (5.82%) AppDynamics
9 11 (5.82%) Broadcom
10 9 (4.76%) VMware
11 8 (4.23%) Alibaba
12 7 (3.70%) Zscaler
13 6 (3.17%) BeyondTrust
14 5 (2.65%) SAP