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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 384 385
Rank change year-on-year -17 +1 +131
Contract jobs citing SAML 213 100 166
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.41% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.60% 1.81% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 65 109
10th Percentile £368 £404 £375
25th Percentile £461 £469 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £653 £669 £650
90th Percentile £873 £774 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £581
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.03% -3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 3
10th Percentile £51.25 - £24.34
25th Percentile £72.81 - £24.59
Median hourly rate £77.50 - £25.00
75th Percentile £84.34 - -
90th Percentile £87.24 - -
UK median hourly rate £77.50 £55.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +40.91% +120.00% -

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 8,181 5,526 7,838
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.16% 22.47% 20.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,398 3,841 5,492
10th Percentile £363 £360 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £741 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 107 250
10th Percentile £30.45 £31.49 £22.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £48.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +25.63% -23.46%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.03 £81.15 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £50.00
% change year-on-year +10.40% +17.75% -23.08%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +3 113 £550 -12.70% 21
North of England -41 36 £563 +7.14% 5
South East -37 31 £750 +30.43% 9
Yorkshire -44 21 £620 +27.97% 2
Midlands -50 18 £400 -7.99%
North West -27 14 £550 +4.76% 3
West Midlands -41 13 £350 -41.96%
South West -16 6 £550 -11.11% 2
East Midlands -24 5 £438 +1.74%
North East - 2 £413 -
East of England - 1 - - 4
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 9 (4.23%) Confluence
2 8 (3.76%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.41%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 5 (2.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.94%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.47%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 131 (61.50%) Azure
2 98 (46.01%) Entra ID
3 73 (34.27%) AWS
4 41 (19.25%) GCP
5 27 (12.68%) SaaS
6 17 (7.98%) OpenShift
7 16 (7.51%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (5.63%) Serverless
9 11 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (4.69%) GitHub
11 7 (3.29%) IaaS
11 7 (3.29%) PaaS
11 7 (3.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (2.82%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (2.82%) Cloud Run
12 6 (2.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (2.82%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.35%) Google Workspace
14 4 (1.88%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 41 (19.25%) DNS
2 35 (16.43%) Kerberos
3 28 (13.15%) SSL
4 24 (11.27%) Firewall
5 20 (9.39%) DHCP
6 19 (8.92%) HTTP
7 17 (7.98%) TCP/IP
7 17 (7.98%) VPN
8 15 (7.04%) IPsec
9 13 (6.10%) Network Security
10 12 (5.63%) WAN
11 11 (5.16%) Wireless
12 10 (4.69%) HTTPS
12 10 (4.69%) LAN
13 7 (3.29%) BIG-IP
13 7 (3.29%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (3.29%) Cisco Nexus
13 7 (3.29%) Reverse Proxy
14 6 (2.82%) Wireshark
15 5 (2.35%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.69%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.35%) Metadata
3 3 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.41%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.41%) GIS
3 3 (1.41%) MySQL
3 3 (1.41%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.94%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.47%) Db2
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.47%) Parquet
5 1 (0.47%) Power BI
5 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (7.04%) Jenkins
2 11 (5.16%) JIRA
3 10 (4.69%) Browser DevTools
4 5 (2.35%) GitLab
5 4 (1.88%) Git
5 4 (1.88%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.41%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.94%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.47%) JUnit
8 1 (0.47%) Moq
8 1 (0.47%) Postman
8 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 68 (31.92%) Social Skills
2 50 (23.47%) Finance
3 29 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (12.68%) Documentation Skills
5 26 (12.21%) Public Sector
6 16 (7.51%) Banking
7 13 (6.10%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.35%) Military
8 5 (2.35%) Retail
9 4 (1.88%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.88%) Legal
10 3 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 67 (31.46%) Architect
2 20 (9.39%) Technical Architect
3 15 (7.04%) Developer
4 13 (6.10%) Senior
5 12 (5.63%) CyberArk Architect
6 11 (5.16%) IAM Specialist
7 10 (4.69%) Lead
8 9 (4.23%) Network Engineer
8 9 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (3.76%) Analyst
9 8 (3.76%) Applications Engineer
9 8 (3.76%) Consultant
9 8 (3.76%) Security Engineer
10 7 (3.29%) Security Architect
11 6 (2.82%) IAM Developer
11 6 (2.82%) Java Developer
12 5 (2.35%) Senior Architect
12 5 (2.35%) Senior Technical Architect
12 5 (2.35%) Support Engineer
12 5 (2.35%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (75.12%) OAuth
2 136 (63.85%) OpenID
3 81 (38.03%) LDAP
4 75 (35.21%) OAuth2
5 29 (13.62%) REST
5 29 (13.62%) SailPoint
6 18 (8.45%) Web Services
7 13 (6.10%) SOAP
8 12 (5.63%) .NET
8 12 (5.63%) JSON
8 12 (5.63%) RESTful
9 11 (5.16%) JWT
10 8 (3.76%) Spring Boot
11 7 (3.29%) Middleware
11 7 (3.29%) Spring
12 6 (2.82%) GraphQL
13 5 (2.35%) FIDO
13 5 (2.35%) JDBC
13 5 (2.35%) Node.js
13 5 (2.35%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (19.25%) Onboarding
2 38 (17.84%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.04%) Replication
4 14 (6.57%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (5.16%) PKI
6 9 (4.23%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.23%) Security Posture
7 7 (3.29%) IoT
7 7 (3.29%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (2.35%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.88%) Clustering
9 4 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.88%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.88%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.41%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.41%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.41%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 29 (13.62%) Windows
2 17 (7.98%) Linux
2 17 (7.98%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.41%) CatOS
3 3 (1.41%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.94%) Unix
4 2 (0.94%) VMS
5 1 (0.47%) CentOS
5 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (34.27%) CI/CD
2 68 (31.92%) DevOps
3 66 (30.99%) Identity Access Management
4 64 (30.05%) RBAC
5 45 (21.13%) Cybersecurity
6 40 (18.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 38 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (14.55%) Migration
8 31 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
9 29 (13.62%) Roadmaps
10 28 (13.15%) Zero Trust
11 27 (12.68%) Agile
11 27 (12.68%) Architectural Patterns
11 27 (12.68%) Microservices
11 27 (12.68%) Runbook
12 24 (11.27%) Design Patterns
13 23 (10.80%) ITSM
13 23 (10.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 23 (10.80%) Threat Modelling
14 22 (10.33%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 46 (21.60%) PowerShell
2 44 (20.66%) Python
3 35 (16.43%) Java
4 21 (9.86%) SQL
5 11 (5.16%) Bash
6 9 (4.23%) Go
7 8 (3.76%) C#
8 6 (2.82%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.35%) Bicep
10 3 (1.41%) Groovy
10 3 (1.41%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (31.92%) Security Cleared
2 57 (26.76%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.33%) Degree
4 18 (8.45%) CISSP
5 12 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (4.69%) Azure Certification
6 10 (4.69%) CISM
7 9 (4.23%) AWS Certification
8 8 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.88%) CSPO
11 3 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.41%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.94%) CEH
12 2 (0.94%) CRISC
12 2 (0.94%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.47%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (18.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 38 (17.84%) GDPR
3 37 (17.37%) NIST
4 20 (9.39%) NCSC
5 19 (8.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (3.29%) HIPAA
6 7 (3.29%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.82%) Data Quality
7 6 (2.82%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.88%) GRC
9 3 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.47%) QA
10 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (40.38%) Active Directory
2 16 (7.51%) Docker
3 7 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.29%) VMware NSX
4 6 (2.82%) RACF
5 2 (0.94%) Squid
Systems Management
1 85 (39.91%) Single Sign-On
2 50 (23.47%) Kubernetes
3 36 (16.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 31 (14.55%) Terraform
5 7 (3.29%) Ansible
6 4 (1.88%) CA Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.88%) PingFederate
7 3 (1.41%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.94%) Grafana
8 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.94%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.47%) Argo
9 1 (0.47%) CASB
9 1 (0.47%) Consul
9 1 (0.47%) Packer
9 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 94 (44.13%) Microsoft
2 38 (17.84%) Okta
3 30 (14.08%) CyberArk
4 19 (8.92%) ServiceNow
5 18 (8.45%) Ping Identity
5 18 (8.45%) Splunk
6 16 (7.51%) Google
7 13 (6.10%) Cisco
7 13 (6.10%) Palo Alto
8 10 (4.69%) SAP
8 10 (4.69%) Zscaler
9 9 (4.23%) ForgeRock
9 9 (4.23%) VMware
10 8 (3.76%) Workday
11 7 (3.29%) CheckPoint
11 7 (3.29%) F5
12 6 (2.82%) Oracle
13 4 (1.88%) Citrix
13 4 (1.88%) Netskope
13 4 (1.88%) SolarWinds
39 SAML jobs in England