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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 418 463
Rank change year-on-year +29 +45 +125
Contract jobs citing SAML 126 110 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.33% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.02% 1.49% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 71 87
10th Percentile £362 £363 £340
25th Percentile £411 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £595 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% -0.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £631 £675
90th Percentile £620 £675 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £24.18 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 -
% change year-on-year +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 6,247 7,369 9,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.48% 22.37% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,237 4,862 6,744
10th Percentile £350 £356 £380
25th Percentile £413 £443 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £810 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 177 164
10th Percentile £31.39 £27.45 £36.84
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% -3.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £73.67
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.46 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.34% +2.67% -4.00%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SAML 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 60 £568 +1.43% 32
North of England +8 25 £448 -27.74% 7
Midlands -35 18 £422 -32.15% 3
East Midlands -8 14 £415 -33.06%
Yorkshire -3 13 £439 +46.33% 4
North West -5 12 £448 -27.74% 3
South West +29 8 £525 +16.67% 3
South East +15 5 £525 +156.10% 15
West Midlands -20 4 £603 -7.23% 3
East of England +4 1 - - 6
SAML
UK

SAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (12.70%) Confluence
2 14 (11.11%) WebSphere
3 13 (10.32%) WebSphere Application Server
4 11 (8.73%) Apache
4 11 (8.73%) IIS
4 11 (8.73%) JBoss
5 10 (7.94%) iPlanet
6 5 (3.97%) CMS
6 5 (3.97%) Headless CMS
7 4 (3.17%) SharePoint
8 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (10.32%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.79%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (53.97%) AWS
2 55 (43.65%) Azure
3 40 (31.75%) Entra ID
4 34 (26.98%) GCP
5 22 (17.46%) SaaS
6 15 (11.90%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (10.32%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (9.52%) OpenShift
9 8 (6.35%) Azure AKS
9 8 (6.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 7 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (5.56%) OCI
11 6 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (4.76%) Serverless
12 5 (3.97%) Amazon Cognito
12 5 (3.97%) Amazon S3
12 5 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (3.97%) GitHub
13 3 (2.38%) IBM Cloud
14 2 (1.59%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.67%) SSL
2 20 (15.87%) Kerberos
3 8 (6.35%) VPN
4 7 (5.56%) Firewall
5 6 (4.76%) DNS
6 4 (3.17%) HTTP
6 4 (3.17%) Network Security
6 4 (3.17%) Wireshark
7 3 (2.38%) BGP
7 3 (2.38%) Internet
7 3 (2.38%) OSPF
7 3 (2.38%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.59%) DHCP
8 2 (1.59%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.79%) SSH
9 1 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.94%) Oracle Database
2 5 (3.97%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.59%) Metadata
3 2 (1.59%) Power BI
4 1 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.79%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 17 (13.49%) Jenkins
2 16 (12.70%) JIRA
3 13 (10.32%) Git
4 11 (8.73%) Bitbucket Server
4 11 (8.73%) CA Release Automation
5 8 (6.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.38%) Log4j
7 2 (1.59%) Fiddler
7 2 (1.59%) GitLab
8 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.79%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.79%) Maven
8 1 (0.79%) Postman
8 1 (0.79%) SonarQube
General
1 48 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (11.11%) Finance
4 10 (7.94%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.17%) Banking
7 2 (1.59%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.59%) French Language
7 2 (1.59%) Publishing
7 2 (1.59%) Retail
8 1 (0.79%) Aviation
8 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.79%) Police
8 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (23.81%) Architect
2 15 (11.90%) Senior
3 10 (7.94%) Business Analyst
3 10 (7.94%) ServiceNow Architect
4 9 (7.14%) Analyst
5 8 (6.35%) Consultant
5 8 (6.35%) Senior Architect
6 7 (5.56%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
6 7 (5.56%) Identity Management Engineer
6 7 (5.56%) Security Engineer
7 6 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.76%) IAM Specialist
8 5 (3.97%) AWS Specialist
8 5 (3.97%) Designer
8 5 (3.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.97%) Security Architect
8 5 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.97%) Solutions Designer
9 4 (3.17%) Administrator
9 4 (3.17%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (78.57%) OAuth
2 86 (68.25%) OpenID
3 63 (50.00%) LDAP
4 29 (23.02%) OAuth2
5 22 (17.46%) REST
6 20 (15.87%) JSON
7 17 (13.49%) SOAP
8 16 (12.70%) JDBC
9 14 (11.11%) AngularJS
9 14 (11.11%) Spring
10 13 (10.32%) Apache Camel
10 13 (10.32%) Hibernate
10 13 (10.32%) HTML
10 13 (10.32%) HTML5
10 13 (10.32%) jQuery
10 13 (10.32%) ODBC
10 13 (10.32%) RabbitMQ
10 13 (10.32%) SailPoint
10 13 (10.32%) Web Services
11 5 (3.97%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.70%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.90%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (7.94%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.17%) PKI
4 4 (3.17%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.38%) Replication
6 2 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.79%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.79%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.79%) PMI
7 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.87%) Linux
2 14 (11.11%) Windows
3 10 (7.94%) Unix
3 10 (7.94%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.79%) AIX
4 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.79%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.79%) Solaris
4 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (47.62%) Identity Access Management
2 49 (38.89%) DevOps
3 39 (30.95%) RBAC
4 36 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (26.19%) CI/CD
6 31 (24.60%) Identity Management
7 25 (19.84%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 22 (17.46%) Agile
9 18 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (13.49%) Integration Patterns
10 17 (13.49%) Zero Trust
11 16 (12.70%) Containerisation
11 16 (12.70%) Scrum
12 14 (11.11%) ITSM
12 14 (11.11%) Microservices
12 14 (11.11%) Migration
13 12 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (8.73%) DevSecOps
14 11 (8.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 10 (7.94%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (19.05%) PowerShell
2 20 (15.87%) Java
3 19 (15.08%) Python
4 18 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 15 (11.90%) Groovy
6 8 (6.35%) Shell Script
7 7 (5.56%) Bash
8 3 (2.38%) SQL
9 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.79%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 24 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.32%) AWS Certification
4 10 (7.94%) Degree
5 6 (4.76%) CISSP
5 6 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.17%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.17%) CISM
7 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.38%) OCP
7 3 (2.38%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.59%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (23.81%) GDPR
2 19 (15.08%) HIPAA
3 18 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (10.32%) NIST
5 12 (9.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (6.35%) SOC 2
7 3 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (2.38%) PCI DSS
7 3 (2.38%) QA
8 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.79%) GRC
System Software
1 53 (42.06%) Active Directory
2 23 (18.25%) Docker
3 8 (6.35%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 5 (3.97%) OpenAM
5 2 (1.59%) OpenDJ
5 2 (1.59%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 76 (60.32%) Single Sign-On
2 24 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 20 (15.87%) Terraform
4 13 (10.32%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 11 (8.73%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (7.94%) CA Wily
7 9 (7.14%) Progress Chef
8 8 (6.35%) Tivoli
9 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (3.17%) Ansible
10 4 (3.17%) PingFederate
11 3 (2.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (2.38%) Prometheus
11 3 (2.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (1.59%) SCCM
13 1 (0.79%) HP Operations Orchestration
13 1 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 49 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 26 (20.63%) IBM
3 23 (18.25%) Ping Identity
4 17 (13.49%) ServiceNow
4 17 (13.49%) Splunk
5 16 (12.70%) Okta
6 15 (11.90%) Oracle
7 13 (10.32%) BMC
7 13 (10.32%) HP
7 13 (10.32%) Ivanti
7 13 (10.32%) Remedy
8 11 (8.73%) Broadcom
8 11 (8.73%) ForgeRock
9 10 (7.94%) AppDynamics
10 9 (7.14%) CyberArk
11 8 (6.35%) Alibaba
12 6 (4.76%) Zscaler
13 4 (3.17%) SAP
14 3 (2.38%) Red Hat
14 3 (2.38%) Salesforce