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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 378 400
Rank change year-on-year +26 +22 +128
Contract jobs citing SAML 221 95 147
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.38% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.84% 1.69% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 69 95
10th Percentile £406 £473 £333
25th Percentile £450 £538 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £607 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +10.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £651 £700
90th Percentile £715 £774 £847
UK median daily rate £525 £604 £600
% change year-on-year -13.01% +0.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £25.00
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.00 - £25.00

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 7,793 5,618 7,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.47% 22.76% 20.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,231 3,773 5,433
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £419 £428 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £669
90th Percentile £738 £788 £769
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 85 206
10th Percentile £35.18 £27.26 £21.04
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.06 £40.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +31.36% -25.05%
75th Percentile £71.13 £68.75 £65.94
90th Percentile £79.60 £81.80 £75.77
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 11 March 2026.

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 11 March 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
London +16 100 £550 -12.00% 7
North of England -44 33 £459 -12.57% 4
South West +13 31 £550 -16.98%
Yorkshire -45 26 £469 -21.83% 1
Midlands -48 26 £438 -26.32% 1
West Midlands -40 22 £350 -41.40% 1
South East -48 17 £600 -4.38% 2
East of England - 8 £425 -
North West -35 7 £417 -20.57% 3
East Midlands -33 4 £442 -24.72%
North East - 1 - -
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 12 (5.43%) Confluence
2 7 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.36%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.45%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) IIS
5 1 (0.45%) iPlanet
5 1 (0.45%) JBoss
5 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 8 (3.62%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.45%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 116 (52.49%) Azure
2 79 (35.75%) Entra ID
3 58 (26.24%) AWS
4 28 (12.67%) GCP
5 21 (9.50%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (8.60%) OpenShift
7 18 (8.14%) PaaS
8 16 (7.24%) SaaS
9 12 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (5.43%) Serverless
10 9 (4.07%) GitHub
11 8 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (3.17%) Azure Storage
12 7 (3.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (3.17%) IaaS
12 7 (3.17%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.26%) Azure AKS
13 5 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (2.26%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 45 (20.36%) DNS
2 43 (19.46%) Kerberos
3 30 (13.57%) Firewall
4 20 (9.05%) SSL
5 17 (7.69%) HTTP
6 16 (7.24%) DHCP
7 13 (5.88%) VPN
8 12 (5.43%) IPsec
9 9 (4.07%) HTTPS
9 9 (4.07%) Wireless
10 8 (3.62%) LAN
10 8 (3.62%) Network Security
10 8 (3.62%) TCP/IP
10 8 (3.62%) WAN
11 7 (3.17%) BIG-IP
11 7 (3.17%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (3.17%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (3.17%) Ethereal
11 7 (3.17%) Reverse Proxy
11 7 (3.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.17%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.36%) BigQuery
2 3 (1.36%) GIS
2 3 (1.36%) Power BI
3 2 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.90%) MySQL
3 2 (0.90%) Tableau
4 1 (0.45%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.45%) Metadata
4 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.45%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 27 (12.22%) Jenkins
2 12 (5.43%) JIRA
3 4 (1.81%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (1.81%) Git
3 4 (1.81%) GitLab
3 4 (1.81%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.90%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.90%) Postman
4 2 (0.90%) Selenium
5 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.45%) Gatling
5 1 (0.45%) git-flow
5 1 (0.45%) gulp
5 1 (0.45%) JMeter
5 1 (0.45%) JUnit
5 1 (0.45%) Maven
5 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.45%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 92 (41.63%) Social Skills
2 44 (19.91%) Finance
3 40 (18.10%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (13.57%) Documentation Skills
5 17 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.88%) Banking
6 13 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (4.98%) Aviation
8 9 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.26%) Legal
10 3 (1.36%) Retail
11 2 (0.90%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.90%) Billing
11 2 (0.90%) Military
12 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.45%) Law
12 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (28.51%) Architect
2 18 (8.14%) Developer
2 18 (8.14%) Senior
3 15 (6.79%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (5.88%) Analyst
4 13 (5.88%) CyberArk Architect
5 12 (5.43%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (5.43%) Consultant
6 11 (4.98%) Security Architect
7 9 (4.07%) Network Engineer
7 9 (4.07%) Security Engineer
7 9 (4.07%) Technical Architect
8 8 (3.62%) Applications Engineer
8 8 (3.62%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (3.62%) Cybersecurity Architect
9 7 (3.17%) Business Analyst
9 7 (3.17%) ForgeRock Developer
9 7 (3.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (3.17%) Lead
10 6 (2.71%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (75.11%) OAuth
2 135 (61.09%) OpenID
3 69 (31.22%) OAuth2
4 66 (29.86%) LDAP
5 18 (8.14%) REST
6 17 (7.69%) SailPoint
7 15 (6.79%) JWT
7 15 (6.79%) RESTful
8 12 (5.43%) .NET
9 9 (4.07%) GraphQL
10 7 (3.17%) Web Services
11 5 (2.26%) .NET Core
11 5 (2.26%) .NET Framework
11 5 (2.26%) HTML
11 5 (2.26%) Spring
11 5 (2.26%) Spring Boot
11 5 (2.26%) XACML
12 4 (1.81%) AngularJS
12 4 (1.81%) Node.js
12 4 (1.81%) React
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.29%) Onboarding
2 27 (12.22%) Cloud Native
3 22 (9.95%) Replication
4 16 (7.24%) Management Information System
5 12 (5.43%) Private Cloud
6 11 (4.98%) PKI
7 8 (3.62%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.26%) BYOD
9 5 (2.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (2.26%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.36%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.36%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.90%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.90%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (19.46%) Windows
2 31 (14.03%) Windows Server
3 16 (7.24%) Linux
4 4 (1.81%) AIX
4 4 (1.81%) CatOS
4 4 (1.81%) Solaris
5 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (34.39%) Identity Access Management
2 70 (31.67%) RBAC
3 61 (27.60%) DevOps
4 58 (26.24%) CI/CD
5 56 (25.34%) Cybersecurity
6 45 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (17.65%) Identity Management
8 37 (16.74%) Migration
9 32 (14.48%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (13.12%) Secrets Management
11 28 (12.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 27 (12.22%) Architectural Patterns
13 25 (11.31%) Agile
13 25 (11.31%) Privileged Access Management
14 23 (10.41%) Design Patterns
14 23 (10.41%) SIEM
15 22 (9.95%) Validation
16 21 (9.50%) Microservices
16 21 (9.50%) Roadmaps
16 21 (9.50%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 58 (26.24%) PowerShell
2 43 (19.46%) Python
3 23 (10.41%) Java
4 18 (8.14%) JavaScript
5 15 (6.79%) SQL
6 10 (4.52%) C#
7 9 (4.07%) Bash
7 9 (4.07%) Go
8 6 (2.71%) Groovy
9 4 (1.81%) Bicep
10 3 (1.36%) PHP
11 2 (0.90%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 80 (36.20%) Security Cleared
2 52 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 27 (12.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (8.60%) DV Cleared
5 17 (7.69%) Degree
6 16 (7.24%) CISSP
7 10 (4.52%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (3.17%) CISM
9 6 (2.71%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.26%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.36%) PhD
12 2 (0.90%) CCSP
13 1 (0.45%) CISA
13 1 (0.45%) HND
13 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (18.10%) GDPR
2 36 (16.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (14.03%) NIST
4 22 (9.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 15 (6.79%) NCSC
6 10 (4.52%) SOC 2
7 9 (4.07%) PCI DSS
8 7 (3.17%) HIPAA
9 5 (2.26%) Data Quality
9 5 (2.26%) PSD2
9 5 (2.26%) QA
10 4 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (1.36%) GRC
11 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (1.36%) SLA
12 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 90 (40.72%) Active Directory
2 14 (6.33%) Docker
3 11 (4.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.17%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.71%) RACF
6 2 (0.90%) OpenAM
6 2 (0.90%) OpenDJ
6 2 (0.90%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.45%) Squid
7 1 (0.45%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 100 (45.25%) Single Sign-On
2 42 (19.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 40 (18.10%) Kubernetes
4 26 (11.76%) Terraform
5 7 (3.17%) PingFederate
6 2 (0.90%) Ansible
6 2 (0.90%) Grafana
6 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.45%) Argo
7 1 (0.45%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.45%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.45%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Identity Manager
7 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.45%) SCCM
7 1 (0.45%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 101 (45.70%) Microsoft
2 34 (15.38%) CyberArk
3 29 (13.12%) Okta
4 25 (11.31%) Splunk
5 19 (8.60%) Ping Identity
6 17 (7.69%) VMware
7 13 (5.88%) ForgeRock
7 13 (5.88%) Google
8 9 (4.07%) Cisco
8 9 (4.07%) Palo Alto
8 9 (4.07%) ServiceNow
9 8 (3.62%) SAP
10 7 (3.17%) BeyondTrust
10 7 (3.17%) CheckPoint
10 7 (3.17%) F5
11 6 (2.71%) Zscaler
12 5 (2.26%) Oracle
13 4 (1.81%) Netskope
14 3 (1.36%) BiZZdesign
14 3 (1.36%) ESRI