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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 377 399
Rank change year-on-year +12 +22 +121
Contract jobs citing SAML 220 100 151
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.41% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.81% 1.81% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 74 98
10th Percentile £406 £481 £348
25th Percentile £457 £538 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.08% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £618 £669 £700
90th Percentile £715 £784 £778
UK median daily rate £537 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -14.08% +4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £25.00
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.00 - £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 7,829 5,537 7,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.20% 22.60% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,252 3,758 5,402
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -0.37% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £790 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 86 193
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.30 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.19 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.38 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.20 £83.48 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 18 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 18 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 +12 100 £550 -12.70% 8
North of England -38 36 £470 -10.48% 3
South West +5 29 £555 -16.23%
Yorkshire -39 27 £470 -6.00% 1
Midlands -41 25 £438 -24.73% 1
West Midlands -38 22 £350 -41.40% 1
South East -55 16 £600 -4.38% 5
North West -32 9 £470 -10.48% 2
East of England - 8 £425 - 2
East Midlands -37 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 12 (5.45%) Confluence
2 7 (3.18%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.36%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 8 (3.64%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.45%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 118 (53.64%) Azure
2 80 (36.36%) Entra ID
3 58 (26.36%) AWS
4 28 (12.73%) GCP
5 20 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (8.18%) OpenShift
6 18 (8.18%) PaaS
7 15 (6.82%) SaaS
8 12 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (5.45%) Serverless
9 9 (4.09%) GitHub
10 8 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.18%) Azure Storage
11 7 (3.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 7 (3.18%) IaaS
11 7 (3.18%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.27%) Azure AKS
12 5 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (2.27%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 44 (20.00%) DNS
2 43 (19.55%) Kerberos
3 30 (13.64%) Firewall
4 20 (9.09%) SSL
5 17 (7.73%) HTTP
6 15 (6.82%) DHCP
7 12 (5.45%) IPsec
7 12 (5.45%) VPN
8 9 (4.09%) HTTPS
8 9 (4.09%) Wireless
9 8 (3.64%) LAN
9 8 (3.64%) Network Security
9 8 (3.64%) TCP/IP
9 8 (3.64%) WAN
10 7 (3.18%) BIG-IP
10 7 (3.18%) Cisco ASA
10 7 (3.18%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (3.18%) Ethereal
10 7 (3.18%) Reverse Proxy
10 7 (3.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.18%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.36%) BigQuery
2 3 (1.36%) GIS
2 3 (1.36%) Power BI
3 2 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.91%) MySQL
3 2 (0.91%) Tableau
4 1 (0.45%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.45%) Metadata
4 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.45%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 26 (11.82%) Jenkins
2 12 (5.45%) JIRA
3 4 (1.82%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (1.82%) GitLab
3 4 (1.82%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.36%) Git
5 2 (0.91%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.91%) Postman
5 2 (0.91%) Selenium
6 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.45%) Gatling
6 1 (0.45%) git-flow
6 1 (0.45%) gulp
6 1 (0.45%) JMeter
6 1 (0.45%) JUnit
6 1 (0.45%) Maven
6 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.45%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 90 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 43 (19.55%) Finance
3 39 (17.73%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
5 17 (7.73%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.36%) Banking
7 13 (5.91%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (4.55%) Aviation
9 9 (4.09%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.27%) Legal
11 3 (1.36%) Retail
12 2 (0.91%) Billing
12 2 (0.91%) Military
13 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Law
13 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 64 (29.09%) Architect
2 18 (8.18%) Developer
2 18 (8.18%) Senior
3 14 (6.36%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (5.91%) Analyst
4 13 (5.91%) CyberArk Architect
5 12 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (5.00%) Security Architect
7 10 (4.55%) Consultant
7 10 (4.55%) Technical Architect
8 9 (4.09%) Network Engineer
8 9 (4.09%) Security Engineer
9 8 (3.64%) Applications Engineer
9 8 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (3.64%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 7 (3.18%) Business Analyst
10 7 (3.18%) ForgeRock Developer
10 7 (3.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.18%) Lead
11 6 (2.73%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (75.45%) OAuth
2 133 (60.45%) OpenID
3 70 (31.82%) OAuth2
4 64 (29.09%) LDAP
5 17 (7.73%) REST
5 17 (7.73%) SailPoint
6 15 (6.82%) JWT
6 15 (6.82%) RESTful
7 12 (5.45%) .NET
8 9 (4.09%) GraphQL
9 7 (3.18%) Web Services
10 6 (2.73%) Spring
10 6 (2.73%) Spring Boot
11 5 (2.27%) .NET Core
11 5 (2.27%) .NET Framework
11 5 (2.27%) HTML
11 5 (2.27%) XACML
12 4 (1.82%) AngularJS
12 4 (1.82%) CSS
12 4 (1.82%) React
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.36%) Onboarding
2 26 (11.82%) Cloud Native
3 21 (9.55%) Replication
4 16 (7.27%) Management Information System
5 12 (5.45%) Private Cloud
6 11 (5.00%) PKI
7 9 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (3.18%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.73%) Security Posture
10 5 (2.27%) BYOD
10 5 (2.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.36%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.36%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.91%) AI Agents
13 2 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.91%) Mainframe
13 2 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (19.09%) Windows
2 30 (13.64%) Windows Server
3 15 (6.82%) Linux
4 4 (1.82%) AIX
4 4 (1.82%) CatOS
4 4 (1.82%) Solaris
5 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (34.09%) Identity Access Management
2 70 (31.82%) RBAC
3 59 (26.82%) DevOps
4 57 (25.91%) CI/CD
5 56 (25.45%) Cybersecurity
6 44 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (18.18%) Identity Management
8 37 (16.82%) Migration
9 32 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (13.18%) Secrets Management
11 28 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
12 27 (12.27%) Architectural Patterns
13 25 (11.36%) Agile
13 25 (11.36%) Design Patterns
14 24 (10.91%) Privileged Access Management
15 23 (10.45%) SIEM
16 22 (10.00%) Validation
17 21 (9.55%) Microservices
17 21 (9.55%) Roadmaps
17 21 (9.55%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 56 (25.45%) PowerShell
2 43 (19.55%) Python
3 24 (10.91%) Java
4 18 (8.18%) JavaScript
5 14 (6.36%) SQL
6 10 (4.55%) C#
7 9 (4.09%) Bash
7 9 (4.09%) Go
8 5 (2.27%) Groovy
9 4 (1.82%) Bicep
10 3 (1.36%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.36%) PHP
11 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 77 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 50 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 26 (11.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (8.64%) DV Cleared
5 17 (7.73%) Degree
6 14 (6.36%) CISSP
7 9 (4.09%) TOGAF Certification
8 6 (2.73%) CISM
8 6 (2.73%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.27%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.36%) PhD
11 2 (0.91%) CCSP
12 1 (0.45%) HND
12 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (17.27%) GDPR
2 35 (15.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (13.64%) NIST
4 22 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 15 (6.82%) NCSC
6 9 (4.09%) PCI DSS
6 9 (4.09%) SOC 2
7 6 (2.73%) HIPAA
8 5 (2.27%) Data Quality
8 5 (2.27%) PSD2
9 4 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (1.82%) QA
10 3 (1.36%) GRC
10 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (1.36%) SLA
11 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 89 (40.45%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.91%) Docker
3 11 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.18%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.73%) RACF
6 2 (0.91%) OpenAM
6 2 (0.91%) OpenDJ
6 2 (0.91%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.45%) Squid
Systems Management
1 99 (45.00%) Single Sign-On
2 44 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 40 (18.18%) Kubernetes
4 26 (11.82%) Terraform
5 5 (2.27%) PingFederate
6 2 (0.91%) Ansible
6 2 (0.91%) Grafana
6 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.45%) Argo
7 1 (0.45%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Identity Manager
7 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 100 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 34 (15.45%) CyberArk
3 29 (13.18%) Okta
4 24 (10.91%) Splunk
5 17 (7.73%) VMware
6 16 (7.27%) Ping Identity
7 13 (5.91%) Google
8 12 (5.45%) ForgeRock
9 9 (4.09%) Cisco
9 9 (4.09%) Palo Alto
10 8 (3.64%) ServiceNow
11 7 (3.18%) BeyondTrust
11 7 (3.18%) CheckPoint
11 7 (3.18%) F5
11 7 (3.18%) SAP
12 6 (2.73%) Zscaler
13 4 (1.82%) Netskope
13 4 (1.82%) Oracle
14 3 (1.36%) ESRI
14 3 (1.36%) SolarWinds