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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 373 389
Rank change year-on-year -15 +16 +132
Contract jobs citing SAML 207 104 162
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.43% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.62% 1.91% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 77 112
10th Percentile £403 £466 £364
25th Percentile £463 £538 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £603 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.95% +0.50% -
75th Percentile £613 £669 £678
90th Percentile £715 £778 £749
UK median daily rate £540 £603 £620
% change year-on-year -10.45% -2.74% +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 7,915 5,454 7,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.81% 22.47% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,304 3,765 5,406
10th Percentile £359 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -1.47% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 88 169
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.85 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.20 £37.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.78 £83.27 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -12 99 £550 -12.70% 13
North of England -51 34 £469 -10.67% 3
Midlands -45 25 £438 -23.91% 1
South West -4 24 £570 -7.88% 1
West Midlands -36 22 £350 -40.43% 1
Yorkshire -42 22 £450 -4.05% 2
South East -59 16 £600 -4.38% 7
North West -27 12 £500 -4.76% 1
East of England - 4 £425 - 3
East Midlands -36 3 £438 -21.52%
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 14 (6.76%) Confluence
2 5 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.45%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (3.86%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 112 (54.11%) Azure
2 79 (38.16%) Entra ID
3 52 (25.12%) AWS
4 30 (14.49%) GCP
5 18 (8.70%) OpenShift
6 15 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (6.76%) PaaS
7 14 (6.76%) SaaS
8 12 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (5.80%) Serverless
9 7 (3.38%) Azure Storage
9 7 (3.38%) GitHub
9 7 (3.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (3.38%) IaaS
10 6 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.90%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.42%) Azure AKS
11 5 (2.42%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (2.42%) Cloud Run
12 4 (1.93%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 46 (22.22%) DNS
2 40 (19.32%) Kerberos
3 29 (14.01%) Firewall
4 23 (11.11%) SSL
5 18 (8.70%) HTTP
6 16 (7.73%) DHCP
7 12 (5.80%) IPsec
7 12 (5.80%) VPN
8 10 (4.83%) HTTPS
9 9 (4.35%) TCP/IP
9 9 (4.35%) Wireless
10 8 (3.86%) LAN
10 8 (3.86%) WAN
11 7 (3.38%) BIG-IP
11 7 (3.38%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (3.38%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (3.38%) Ethereal
11 7 (3.38%) Reverse Proxy
11 7 (3.38%) Wireshark
12 6 (2.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.38%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.93%) Metadata
3 3 (1.45%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.45%) GIS
4 2 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.97%) MySQL
4 2 (0.97%) Power BI
4 2 (0.97%) Tableau
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.48%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 26 (12.56%) Jenkins
2 14 (6.76%) JIRA
3 5 (2.42%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (1.93%) GitLab
4 4 (1.93%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.97%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.97%) Git
5 2 (0.97%) Postman
5 2 (0.97%) Selenium
6 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.48%) Gatling
6 1 (0.48%) git-flow
6 1 (0.48%) JMeter
6 1 (0.48%) JUnit
6 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.48%) WebDriver
General
1 75 (36.23%) Social Skills
2 41 (19.81%) Finance
3 31 (14.98%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (14.01%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (7.73%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.76%) Banking
7 13 (6.28%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.42%) Aviation
9 5 (2.42%) Retail
10 3 (1.45%) Legal
11 2 (0.97%) Billing
11 2 (0.97%) Military
12 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 60 (28.99%) Architect
2 18 (8.70%) Senior
3 14 (6.76%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (6.28%) CyberArk Architect
5 12 (5.80%) Analyst
6 11 (5.31%) Developer
7 10 (4.83%) Consultant
7 10 (4.83%) Technical Architect
8 9 (4.35%) Network Engineer
9 8 (3.86%) Applications Engineer
9 8 (3.86%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (3.38%) Business Analyst
10 7 (3.38%) Security Architect
11 6 (2.90%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 6 (2.90%) Lead
11 6 (2.90%) Security Engineer
11 6 (2.90%) Senior Architect
11 6 (2.90%) Tester
12 5 (2.42%) Active Directory Engineer
12 5 (2.42%) IAM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (75.85%) OAuth
2 125 (60.39%) OpenID
3 68 (32.85%) LDAP
4 65 (31.40%) OAuth2
5 19 (9.18%) SailPoint
6 18 (8.70%) REST
7 15 (7.25%) JWT
8 10 (4.83%) .NET
8 10 (4.83%) RESTful
9 8 (3.86%) GraphQL
10 7 (3.38%) Web Services
11 6 (2.90%) Spring
11 6 (2.90%) Spring Boot
12 5 (2.42%) .NET Core
12 5 (2.42%) .NET Framework
12 5 (2.42%) XACML
13 4 (1.93%) ARM Templates
13 4 (1.93%) J2EE
13 4 (1.93%) JSON
13 4 (1.93%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.46%) Onboarding
2 26 (12.56%) Cloud Native
3 21 (10.14%) Replication
4 12 (5.80%) Private Cloud
5 10 (4.83%) PKI
6 9 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.35%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.93%) Clustering
9 4 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.45%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.45%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.45%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.97%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.97%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (0.97%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.97%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (19.81%) Windows
2 30 (14.49%) Windows Server
3 15 (7.25%) Linux
4 4 (1.93%) AIX
4 4 (1.93%) CatOS
4 4 (1.93%) Solaris
5 1 (0.48%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (32.85%) Identity Access Management
1 68 (32.85%) RBAC
2 59 (28.50%) DevOps
3 53 (25.60%) CI/CD
4 51 (24.64%) Cybersecurity
5 38 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (16.91%) Migration
7 34 (16.43%) Identity Management
8 31 (14.98%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (12.08%) Secrets Management
11 24 (11.59%) Agile
12 23 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
12 23 (11.11%) Design Patterns
12 23 (11.11%) Privileged Access Management
13 22 (10.63%) Validation
14 21 (10.14%) High Availability
14 21 (10.14%) Roadmaps
14 21 (10.14%) SIEM
14 21 (10.14%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 49 (23.67%) PowerShell
2 38 (18.36%) Python
3 27 (13.04%) Java
4 16 (7.73%) JavaScript
4 16 (7.73%) SQL
5 10 (4.83%) Bash
5 10 (4.83%) C#
6 9 (4.35%) Go
7 5 (2.42%) Groovy
8 4 (1.93%) Bicep
9 3 (1.45%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 74 (35.75%) Security Cleared
2 48 (23.19%) SC Cleared
3 23 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (9.18%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.83%) Degree
6 9 (4.35%) CISSP
7 6 (2.90%) CISM
8 5 (2.42%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.93%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.97%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.48%) HND
12 1 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (17.39%) GDPR
2 35 (16.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (15.94%) NIST
4 19 (9.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 15 (7.25%) NCSC
6 9 (4.35%) SOC 2
7 7 (3.38%) PCI DSS
8 6 (2.90%) HIPAA
9 5 (2.42%) Data Quality
10 4 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (1.45%) GRC
11 3 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (1.45%) QA
12 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 90 (43.48%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.31%) Docker
2 11 (5.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.38%) VMware NSX
4 6 (2.90%) RACF
5 2 (0.97%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.97%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.97%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.48%) Squid
Systems Management
1 93 (44.93%) Single Sign-On
2 49 (23.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 38 (18.36%) Kubernetes
4 24 (11.59%) Terraform
5 8 (3.86%) PingFederate
6 4 (1.93%) CA Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.97%) Ansible
7 2 (0.97%) Grafana
8 1 (0.48%) Argo
8 1 (0.48%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle Identity Manager
8 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 92 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 36 (17.39%) CyberArk
3 31 (14.98%) Okta
4 24 (11.59%) Splunk
5 17 (8.21%) VMware
6 14 (6.76%) Ping Identity
6 14 (6.76%) ServiceNow
7 12 (5.80%) Google
8 9 (4.35%) BeyondTrust
8 9 (4.35%) Cisco
8 9 (4.35%) Palo Alto
9 8 (3.86%) SAP
10 7 (3.38%) CheckPoint
10 7 (3.38%) F5
10 7 (3.38%) ForgeRock
11 6 (2.90%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.93%) Netskope
12 4 (1.93%) Oracle
13 3 (1.45%) ESRI
13 3 (1.45%) Forcepoint