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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 426 419
Rank change year-on-year +62 -7 +124
Contract jobs citing SAML 187 87 138
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.30% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.69% 1.36% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 60 96
10th Percentile £400 £382 £315
25th Percentile £425 £505 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.96% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £691
90th Percentile £682 £739 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -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 £63.00 - -

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 6,941 6,399 8,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.33% 21.82% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,632 4,087 6,018
10th Percentile £350 £357 £370
25th Percentile £413 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £665 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £772
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 89 167
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.80
25th Percentile £43.77 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.88 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -19.23%

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 14 December 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 14 December 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 +32 71 £551 -8.13% 20
South West - 34 £545 - 10
North of England -7 33 £446 - 17
Midlands -34 23 £500 -16.67% 14
Yorkshire -26 20 £449 - 10
West Midlands -30 17 £563 -5.82% 8
South East -5 15 £588 -6.00% 18
North West -8 13 £446 - 5
East of England - 9 £425 - 9
East Midlands -20 6 £415 -30.83% 6
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 (12.83%) Confluence
2 11 (5.88%) Apache
2 11 (5.88%) IIS
2 11 (5.88%) JBoss
2 11 (5.88%) WebSphere
3 10 (5.35%) iPlanet
3 10 (5.35%) WebSphere Application Server
4 7 (3.74%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (6.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 93 (49.73%) Azure
2 63 (33.69%) Entra ID
3 62 (33.16%) AWS
4 25 (13.37%) GCP
4 25 (13.37%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (10.16%) SaaS
6 13 (6.95%) GitHub
7 12 (6.42%) PaaS
8 10 (5.35%) OpenShift
9 9 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (4.28%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.67%) Azure Storage
11 5 (2.67%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (2.14%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.60%) Azure Functions
13 3 (1.60%) Serverless
13 3 (1.60%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 33 (17.65%) Kerberos
2 25 (13.37%) Firewall
2 25 (13.37%) SSL
3 23 (12.30%) DNS
4 10 (5.35%) VPN
5 7 (3.74%) Wireshark
6 6 (3.21%) Network Security
7 5 (2.67%) Internet
7 5 (2.67%) SSH
8 4 (2.14%) HTTP
8 4 (2.14%) HTTPS
8 4 (2.14%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.14%) Wireless
9 3 (1.60%) BGP
9 3 (1.60%) BIG-IP
9 3 (1.60%) DHCP
9 3 (1.60%) IPsec
9 3 (1.60%) LAN
9 3 (1.60%) OSPF
9 3 (1.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.35%) Oracle Database
2 4 (2.14%) Power BI
3 3 (1.60%) Metadata
4 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (12.83%) Jenkins
1 24 (12.83%) JIRA
2 15 (8.02%) Git
3 11 (5.88%) Bitbucket Server
3 11 (5.88%) CA Release Automation
4 8 (4.28%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.07%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.07%) Fiddler
5 2 (1.07%) GitLab
5 2 (1.07%) Maven
5 2 (1.07%) Postman
5 2 (1.07%) Selenium
6 1 (0.53%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.53%) git-flow
6 1 (0.53%) gulp
6 1 (0.53%) JMeter
6 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.53%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.53%) webpack
General
1 80 (42.78%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.72%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (13.90%) Finance
4 21 (11.23%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (5.88%) Aviation
5 11 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.35%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.14%) Legal
8 3 (1.60%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.60%) Banking
9 2 (1.07%) Billing
9 2 (1.07%) Retail
10 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Law
10 1 (0.53%) Police
10 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (24.06%) Architect
2 22 (11.76%) Senior
3 15 (8.02%) Developer
4 12 (6.42%) Analyst
4 12 (6.42%) Azure Engineer
4 12 (6.42%) Security Engineer
4 12 (6.42%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (5.88%) Consultant
6 10 (5.35%) Business Analyst
6 10 (5.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (5.35%) ServiceNow Architect
7 9 (4.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (4.81%) Senior Architect
8 8 (4.28%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (4.28%) Lead
8 8 (4.28%) Security Architect
9 7 (3.74%) ForgeRock Developer
9 7 (3.74%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (3.21%) Network Engineer
10 6 (3.21%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (73.80%) OAuth
2 122 (65.24%) OpenID
3 72 (38.50%) LDAP
4 53 (28.34%) OAuth2
5 24 (12.83%) REST
6 17 (9.09%) HTML
7 16 (8.56%) AngularJS
7 16 (8.56%) SailPoint
8 15 (8.02%) JSON
8 15 (8.02%) SOAP
9 14 (7.49%) HTML5
9 14 (7.49%) RabbitMQ
10 13 (6.95%) Apache Camel
10 13 (6.95%) JDBC
10 13 (6.95%) jQuery
10 13 (6.95%) ODBC
10 13 (6.95%) Web Services
11 12 (6.42%) JWT
12 9 (4.81%) RESTful
13 7 (3.74%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.70%) Onboarding
2 16 (8.56%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.35%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (5.35%) PKI
3 10 (5.35%) Private Cloud
4 9 (4.81%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.28%) Replication
6 7 (3.74%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.14%) BYOD
7 4 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.14%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.53%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.53%) PMI
10 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (19.79%) Windows
2 25 (13.37%) Windows Server
3 24 (12.83%) Linux
4 8 (4.28%) Unix
5 5 (2.67%) AIX
5 5 (2.67%) Solaris
6 2 (1.07%) CatOS
7 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (37.97%) Identity Access Management
2 53 (28.34%) RBAC
3 52 (27.81%) DevOps
4 47 (25.13%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (20.86%) Identity Management
6 37 (19.79%) CI/CD
7 32 (17.11%) Cybersecurity
8 31 (16.58%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 29 (15.51%) Migration
10 28 (14.97%) Agile
11 27 (14.44%) Privileged Access Management
12 26 (13.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 24 (12.83%) Microservices
14 19 (10.16%) Integration Patterns
14 19 (10.16%) Zero Trust
15 18 (9.63%) Stakeholder Management
16 17 (9.09%) Change Management
16 17 (9.09%) DevSecOps
17 16 (8.56%) Validation
17 16 (8.56%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 30 (16.04%) Python
3 29 (15.51%) JavaScript
4 18 (9.63%) Java
5 15 (8.02%) Groovy
6 10 (5.35%) Bash
7 8 (4.28%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.14%) C#
9 3 (1.60%) PHP
9 3 (1.60%) SQL
10 2 (1.07%) Go
11 1 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 60 (32.09%) Security Cleared
2 36 (19.25%) SC Cleared
3 25 (13.37%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (9.63%) Degree
5 17 (9.09%) CISSP
5 17 (9.09%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.81%) CISM
7 8 (4.28%) AWS Certification
7 8 (4.28%) TOGAF Certification
8 6 (3.21%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.67%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.60%) PhD
12 2 (1.07%) CCSP
12 2 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.53%) CISA
13 1 (0.53%) GIAC
13 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (19.79%) GDPR
2 24 (12.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (9.09%) NIST
4 12 (6.42%) HIPAA
5 11 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (5.35%) SOC 2
7 8 (4.28%) PCI DSS
8 7 (3.74%) QA
9 5 (2.67%) PSD2
10 4 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (2.14%) Data Quality
11 2 (1.07%) NCSC
11 2 (1.07%) SLA
12 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 92 (49.20%) Active Directory
2 16 (8.56%) Docker
3 8 (4.28%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 6 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.60%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.07%) OpenAM
6 2 (1.07%) OpenDJ
6 2 (1.07%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 98 (52.41%) Single Sign-On
2 27 (14.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 21 (11.23%) Terraform
4 12 (6.42%) Kubernetes
5 11 (5.88%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (5.35%) CA Wily
7 9 (4.81%) PingFederate
7 9 (4.81%) Progress Chef
8 8 (4.28%) Tivoli
9 7 (3.74%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (2.67%) Tivoli Identity Manager
11 4 (2.14%) Ansible
12 3 (1.60%) 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 92 (49.20%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.76%) CyberArk
2 22 (11.76%) Ping Identity
2 22 (11.76%) Splunk
3 19 (10.16%) ServiceNow
4 15 (8.02%) IBM
4 15 (8.02%) Okta
5 13 (6.95%) BMC
5 13 (6.95%) HP
5 13 (6.95%) Ivanti
5 13 (6.95%) Remedy
5 13 (6.95%) VMware
6 12 (6.42%) ForgeRock
7 11 (5.88%) AppDynamics
7 11 (5.88%) Broadcom
7 11 (5.88%) Oracle
8 7 (3.74%) BeyondTrust
8 7 (3.74%) Zscaler
9 6 (3.21%) SAP
10 5 (2.67%) Google