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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
15 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 385 421
Rank change year-on-year -38 +36 +37
Contract jobs citing SAML 215 126 106
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.46% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.19% 1.84% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 78 69
10th Percentile £400 £362 £350
25th Percentile £455 £409 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £496 £595
Median % change year-on-year +5.85% -16.64% -0.83%
75th Percentile £631 £580 £638
90th Percentile £750 £641 £680
UK median daily rate £525 £531 £600
% change year-on-year -1.13% -11.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 1
10th Percentile £58.93 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £77.50 - £24.18
75th Percentile £85.54 - -
90th Percentile £87.56 - -
UK median hourly rate £77.50 £55.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +40.91% +127.46% -

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 9,824 6,855 8,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.25% 25.05% 24.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,456 4,670 5,469
10th Percentile £375 £353 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.02% -5.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 161 177
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £27.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.50 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -2.99%

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 15 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAML in England over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 15 September 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 -57 89 £538 -5.37% 155
South East -15 53 £500 -9.09% 22
North of England -55 42 £550 +27.02% 25
Yorkshire -25 23 £575 +40.59% 11
North West -39 17 £512 +14.85% 12
South West -46 11 £575 +9.52% 8
Midlands -50 11 £402 -3.13% 8
West Midlands -46 9 £425 -29.52% 6
East Midlands -22 2 £401 -2.79% 2
East of England -28 2 £513 - 3
North East - 2 £438 - 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 13 (6.05%) Confluence
2 5 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.47%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.86%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 141 (65.58%) Azure
2 111 (51.63%) Entra ID
3 77 (35.81%) AWS
4 55 (25.58%) GCP
5 36 (16.74%) SaaS
6 17 (7.91%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (7.91%) GitHub
7 14 (6.51%) Boomi
8 13 (6.05%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (6.05%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (5.12%) Azure Key Vault
10 9 (4.19%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (4.19%) iPaaS
11 8 (3.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (2.79%) Azure AKS
12 6 (2.79%) Azure API Management
12 6 (2.79%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (2.79%) OCI
13 5 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (2.33%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.56%) DNS
2 25 (11.63%) SSL
3 22 (10.23%) Firewall
4 16 (7.44%) Kerberos
5 15 (6.98%) HTTP
6 13 (6.05%) Network Security
6 13 (6.05%) TCP/IP
7 11 (5.12%) VPN
8 10 (4.65%) DHCP
8 10 (4.65%) IPsec
9 8 (3.72%) WAN
10 6 (2.79%) HTTPS
10 6 (2.79%) LAN
11 5 (2.33%) SD-WAN
11 5 (2.33%) Wireless
12 4 (1.86%) Internet
12 4 (1.86%) X.509
13 3 (1.40%) BGP
13 3 (1.40%) OSPF
13 3 (1.40%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.26%) NoSQL
2 6 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (2.79%) Metadata
3 3 (1.40%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.93%) MySQL
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.47%) Db2
5 1 (0.47%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.47%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.47%) Parquet
5 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.47%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 15 (6.98%) JIRA
2 13 (6.05%) Git
3 9 (4.19%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.26%) Browser DevTools
5 6 (2.79%) GitLab
6 3 (1.40%) Fiddler
6 3 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.47%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.47%) Gerrit
7 1 (0.47%) Maven
7 1 (0.47%) Moq
7 1 (0.47%) Postman
7 1 (0.47%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 49 (22.79%) Social Skills
2 43 (20.00%) Finance
3 30 (13.95%) Documentation Skills
4 25 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.63%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.19%) Banking
6 7 (3.26%) Aerospace
7 6 (2.79%) Legal
8 5 (2.33%) Military
9 4 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.86%) Publishing
10 3 (1.40%) Retail
10 3 (1.40%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Advertising
12 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.47%) French Language
12 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (25.58%) Architect
2 21 (9.77%) Developer
3 19 (8.84%) Solutions Architect
4 15 (6.98%) IAM Specialist
5 14 (6.51%) Technical Architect
6 13 (6.05%) Consultant
7 11 (5.12%) Lead
8 10 (4.65%) Senior
9 9 (4.19%) Security Engineer
10 8 (3.72%) IAM Developer
11 7 (3.26%) Network Engineer
11 7 (3.26%) Security Architect
12 6 (2.79%) Java Developer
12 6 (2.79%) Product Owner
12 6 (2.79%) Technical Consultant
13 5 (2.33%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (2.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (2.33%) Integration Architect
13 5 (2.33%) Systems Engineer
14 4 (1.86%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (73.95%) OAuth
2 138 (64.19%) OpenID
3 82 (38.14%) OAuth2
4 62 (28.84%) LDAP
5 49 (22.79%) REST
6 33 (15.35%) SailPoint
7 28 (13.02%) SOAP
7 28 (13.02%) Terraform
8 23 (10.70%) JSON
9 22 (10.23%) JWT
10 17 (7.91%) Web Services
11 16 (7.44%) Kafka
12 14 (6.51%) Middleware
12 14 (6.51%) XML
13 13 (6.05%) GraphQL
13 13 (6.05%) RESTful
13 13 (6.05%) Swagger
14 12 (5.58%) .NET
15 11 (5.12%) OpenAPI
16 9 (4.19%) FIDO
Miscellaneous
1 39 (18.14%) Cloud Native
2 37 (17.21%) Onboarding
3 22 (10.23%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (9.77%) PKI
5 20 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (6.51%) Product Ownership
7 12 (5.58%) Security Posture
8 10 (4.65%) Management Information System
9 8 (3.72%) IoT
10 6 (2.79%) Data Centre
10 6 (2.79%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (2.33%) AI Agents
11 5 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (2.33%) Replication
12 4 (1.86%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.86%) Clustering
12 4 (1.86%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.98%) Windows
2 14 (6.51%) Linux
3 5 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.40%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.40%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.40%) Unix
5 2 (0.93%) VMS
6 1 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.47%) CatOS
6 1 (0.47%) CentOS
6 1 (0.47%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (32.56%) Identity Access Management
2 61 (28.37%) CI/CD
2 61 (28.37%) RBAC
3 51 (23.72%) DevOps
4 43 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (19.53%) Zero Trust
6 34 (15.81%) Event-Driven
6 34 (15.81%) Roadmaps
7 33 (15.35%) Cybersecurity
8 32 (14.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 31 (14.42%) Integration Patterns
10 30 (13.95%) Microservices
10 30 (13.95%) Migration
11 29 (13.49%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 29 (13.49%) Stakeholder Management
12 28 (13.02%) Privileged Access Management
12 28 (13.02%) Runbook
13 27 (12.56%) Infrastructure as Code
14 25 (11.63%) Agile
14 25 (11.63%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 51 (23.72%) PowerShell
1 51 (23.72%) Python
2 31 (14.42%) Java
3 17 (7.91%) SQL
4 12 (5.58%) Bash
5 7 (3.26%) C#
5 7 (3.26%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.86%) Bicep
6 4 (1.86%) Groovy
7 3 (1.40%) Go
7 3 (1.40%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.93%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.47%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.47%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.47%) Perl
9 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.47%) R
9 1 (0.47%) Ruby
9 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (24.19%) Security Cleared
2 37 (17.21%) SC Cleared
3 30 (13.95%) Degree
4 24 (11.16%) CISSP
5 14 (6.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (5.58%) Azure Certification
7 11 (5.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (5.12%) CISM
8 10 (4.65%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.79%) DV Cleared
11 5 (2.33%) CSPO
11 5 (2.33%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.86%) CEH
12 4 (1.86%) GIAC
13 3 (1.40%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.93%) CRISC
14 2 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (13.49%) GDPR
3 28 (13.02%) NIST
4 9 (4.19%) Data Quality
5 8 (3.72%) NCSC
6 6 (2.79%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (2.33%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.40%) QA
9 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.47%) GRC
10 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
System Software
1 98 (45.58%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.05%) Docker
3 3 (1.40%) OpenAM
3 3 (1.40%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.47%) Squid
Systems Management
1 77 (35.81%) Single Sign-On
2 34 (15.81%) Kubernetes
3 25 (11.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 8 (3.72%) Ansible
5 5 (2.33%) PingFederate
6 4 (1.86%) CA Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.86%) Grafana
6 4 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.86%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.86%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.93%) Consul
7 2 (0.93%) Packer
7 2 (0.93%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.47%) Argo
8 1 (0.47%) CASB
8 1 (0.47%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.47%) Istio
8 1 (0.47%) Puppet
8 1 (0.47%) systemd
8 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 102 (47.44%) Microsoft
2 27 (12.56%) Okta
3 26 (12.09%) Google
4 18 (8.37%) Oracle
4 18 (8.37%) Ping Identity
5 17 (7.91%) CyberArk
6 14 (6.51%) BeyondTrust
6 14 (6.51%) ServiceNow
7 12 (5.58%) Cisco
7 12 (5.58%) MuleSoft
7 12 (5.58%) Palo Alto
8 10 (4.65%) IBM
8 10 (4.65%) SAP
9 9 (4.19%) ForgeRock
9 9 (4.19%) Informatica
9 9 (4.19%) Workday
10 8 (3.72%) TIBCO
10 8 (3.72%) WSO2
11 6 (2.79%) F5
11 6 (2.79%) Salesforce
218 SAML jobs in England