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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 390 394
Rank change year-on-year +13 +4 +108
Contract jobs citing SAML 212 94 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.39% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.65% 1.72% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 69 110
10th Percentile £366 £463 £375
25th Percentile £459 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% - -
75th Percentile £616 £675 £684
90th Percentile £715 £790 £750
UK median daily rate £548 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -8.75% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
UK median hourly rate - - £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 8,012 5,473 7,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.48% 22.48% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,358 3,800 5,346
10th Percentile £358 £365 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -3.51%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 89 163
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.42 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £35.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.36
90th Percentile £78.90 £83.17 £73.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +1.56% +38.59% -28.95%

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 April 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 April 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 -20 102 £539 -14.52% 13
North of England -44 38 £537 +2.29% 3
Midlands -44 25 £400 -30.43% 1
South West -8 24 £570 -7.88% 1
Yorkshire -37 24 £504 +7.36% 2
West Midlands -43 22 £350 -40.43% 1
South East -52 15 £600 -4.00% 7
North West -20 14 £550 +4.76% 1
East Midlands -39 3 £438 -21.52%
East of England - 3 £425 - 3
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 13 (6.13%) Confluence
2 6 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.42%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (3.77%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.47%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 116 (54.72%) Azure
2 83 (39.15%) Entra ID
3 54 (25.47%) AWS
4 35 (16.51%) GCP
5 19 (8.96%) SaaS
6 18 (8.49%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (8.49%) OpenShift
7 14 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (6.13%) PaaS
9 12 (5.66%) Serverless
10 7 (3.30%) Azure Storage
10 7 (3.30%) GitHub
10 7 (3.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 7 (3.30%) IaaS
10 7 (3.30%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.83%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.36%) Azure AKS
12 5 (2.36%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (2.36%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 50 (23.58%) DNS
2 39 (18.40%) Kerberos
3 36 (16.98%) Firewall
4 26 (12.26%) SSL
5 20 (9.43%) DHCP
6 18 (8.49%) HTTP
7 14 (6.60%) VPN
8 12 (5.66%) IPsec
9 11 (5.19%) TCP/IP
10 10 (4.72%) HTTPS
10 10 (4.72%) LAN
10 10 (4.72%) WAN
11 9 (4.25%) Network Security
11 9 (4.25%) Wireless
12 7 (3.30%) BIG-IP
12 7 (3.30%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (3.30%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (3.30%) Ethereal
12 7 (3.30%) Reverse Proxy
12 7 (3.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.30%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.89%) Metadata
3 3 (1.42%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.42%) GIS
4 2 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.94%) MySQL
4 2 (0.94%) Power BI
4 2 (0.94%) Tableau
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.47%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 26 (12.26%) Jenkins
2 15 (7.08%) JIRA
3 8 (3.77%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (1.89%) GitLab
4 4 (1.89%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.94%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.94%) Git
5 2 (0.94%) Postman
5 2 (0.94%) Selenium
6 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.47%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.47%) Gatling
6 1 (0.47%) git-flow
6 1 (0.47%) JMeter
6 1 (0.47%) JUnit
6 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.47%) WebDriver
General
1 77 (36.32%) Social Skills
2 47 (22.17%) Finance
3 35 (16.51%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (14.62%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (7.55%) Banking
6 14 (6.60%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (6.60%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.36%) Retail
9 3 (1.42%) Legal
10 2 (0.94%) Billing
10 2 (0.94%) Military
11 1 (0.47%) Aviation
11 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 59 (27.83%) Architect
2 19 (8.96%) Senior
3 13 (6.13%) CyberArk Architect
3 13 (6.13%) Developer
3 13 (6.13%) Solutions Architect
4 10 (4.72%) Analyst
4 10 (4.72%) Consultant
4 10 (4.72%) Network Engineer
4 10 (4.72%) Technical Architect
5 8 (3.77%) Applications Engineer
6 7 (3.30%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (2.83%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 6 (2.83%) Lead
7 6 (2.83%) Security Architect
7 6 (2.83%) Security Engineer
7 6 (2.83%) Senior Architect
7 6 (2.83%) Tester
8 5 (2.36%) Business Analyst
8 5 (2.36%) Support Engineer
8 5 (2.36%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (75.47%) OAuth
2 132 (62.26%) OpenID
3 68 (32.08%) LDAP
4 67 (31.60%) OAuth2
5 21 (9.91%) SailPoint
6 19 (8.96%) REST
7 16 (7.55%) JWT
8 10 (4.72%) .NET
8 10 (4.72%) RESTful
9 7 (3.30%) GraphQL
9 7 (3.30%) Web Services
10 6 (2.83%) Spring
10 6 (2.83%) Spring Boot
11 5 (2.36%) .NET Core
11 5 (2.36%) .NET Framework
11 5 (2.36%) XACML
12 4 (1.89%) ARM Templates
12 4 (1.89%) J2EE
12 4 (1.89%) JSON
12 4 (1.89%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.62%) Onboarding
2 28 (13.21%) Cloud Native
3 21 (9.91%) Replication
4 12 (5.66%) PKI
4 12 (5.66%) Private Cloud
5 10 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.30%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.36%) IoT
8 4 (1.89%) Clustering
8 4 (1.89%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.89%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.42%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.94%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 48 (22.64%) Windows
2 30 (14.15%) Windows Server
3 17 (8.02%) Linux
4 4 (1.89%) AIX
4 4 (1.89%) CatOS
4 4 (1.89%) Solaris
5 3 (1.42%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (33.96%) RBAC
2 68 (32.08%) Identity Access Management
3 60 (28.30%) DevOps
4 55 (25.94%) CI/CD
5 50 (23.58%) Cybersecurity
6 43 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (16.04%) Migration
8 30 (14.15%) Identity Management
9 29 (13.68%) Infrastructure as Code
9 29 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
10 25 (11.79%) Secrets Management
11 24 (11.32%) Design Patterns
11 24 (11.32%) Roadmaps
12 23 (10.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 23 (10.85%) Validation
13 22 (10.38%) Architectural Patterns
13 22 (10.38%) Threat Modelling
14 21 (9.91%) High Availability
14 21 (9.91%) Privileged Access Management
14 21 (9.91%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 50 (23.58%) PowerShell
2 38 (17.92%) Python
3 29 (13.68%) Java
4 16 (7.55%) SQL
5 15 (7.08%) JavaScript
6 11 (5.19%) C#
7 10 (4.72%) Bash
8 9 (4.25%) Go
9 4 (1.89%) Bicep
9 4 (1.89%) Groovy
10 3 (1.42%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.42%) PHP
Qualifications
1 74 (34.91%) Security Cleared
2 46 (21.70%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (8.96%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.72%) Degree
6 9 (4.25%) CISSP
7 7 (3.30%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.36%) CISM
9 3 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.94%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.47%) CEH
11 1 (0.47%) HND
11 1 (0.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (16.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (15.09%) GDPR
2 32 (15.09%) NIST
3 19 (8.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 15 (7.08%) NCSC
5 8 (3.77%) PCI DSS
5 8 (3.77%) SOC 2
6 5 (2.36%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.36%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.42%) GRC
7 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.94%) QA
9 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 92 (43.40%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.19%) Docker
2 11 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.30%) VMware NSX
4 6 (2.83%) RACF
5 2 (0.94%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.94%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.94%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.47%) Squid
Systems Management
1 88 (41.51%) Single Sign-On
2 49 (23.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 40 (18.87%) Kubernetes
4 25 (11.79%) Terraform
5 5 (2.36%) PingFederate
6 4 (1.89%) CA Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.94%) Grafana
8 1 (0.47%) Ansible
8 1 (0.47%) Argo
8 1 (0.47%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle Identity Manager
8 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.47%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 94 (44.34%) Microsoft
2 38 (17.92%) CyberArk
3 32 (15.09%) Okta
4 24 (11.32%) Splunk
5 17 (8.02%) VMware
6 14 (6.60%) ServiceNow
7 12 (5.66%) Google
8 10 (4.72%) Ping Identity
9 9 (4.25%) BeyondTrust
9 9 (4.25%) Cisco
9 9 (4.25%) Palo Alto
10 8 (3.77%) SAP
10 8 (3.77%) Zscaler
11 7 (3.30%) CheckPoint
11 7 (3.30%) F5
12 6 (2.83%) ForgeRock
13 4 (1.89%) Netskope
13 4 (1.89%) Oracle
14 3 (1.42%) Citrix
14 3 (1.42%) Forcepoint