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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 417 441
Rank change year-on-year +53 +24 +106
Contract jobs citing SAML 185 90 130
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.30% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.68% 1.36% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 61 90
10th Percentile £400 £400 £305
25th Percentile £425 £500 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £591 £650 £681
90th Percentile £675 £700 £703
UK median daily rate £523 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.83% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £59.00 - -

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 6,902 6,610 8,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.29% 21.80% 21.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,629 4,224 6,131
10th Percentile £350 £358 £369
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £625 £666 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 95 174
10th Percentile £31.10 £26.35 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.33 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%

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 7 December 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 7 December 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 +20 65 £550 -8.33% 20
North of England -5 38 £430 - 29
South West - 34 £545 - 14
Yorkshire -17 25 £420 - 9
Midlands -29 23 £500 -16.67% 17
West Midlands -21 17 £563 -5.82% 9
South East -22 14 £575 -8.00% 22
North West -3 13 £446 - 19
East of England - 9 £425 - 8
East Midlands -18 6 £415 -30.83% 7
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 24 (12.97%) Confluence
2 11 (5.95%) Apache
2 11 (5.95%) IIS
2 11 (5.95%) JBoss
2 11 (5.95%) WebSphere
3 10 (5.41%) iPlanet
3 10 (5.41%) WebSphere Application Server
4 7 (3.78%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (7.03%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 92 (49.73%) Azure
2 67 (36.22%) AWS
3 62 (33.51%) Entra ID
4 30 (16.22%) GCP
5 28 (15.14%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (14.05%) SaaS
7 13 (7.03%) GitHub
8 12 (6.49%) PaaS
9 9 (4.86%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (4.86%) Azure AKS
9 9 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (4.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (4.86%) OpenShift
10 8 (4.32%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (3.78%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.70%) Azure Storage
12 5 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (2.16%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (2.16%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 30 (16.22%) Kerberos
2 25 (13.51%) Firewall
2 25 (13.51%) SSL
3 22 (11.89%) DNS
4 10 (5.41%) VPN
5 7 (3.78%) Wireshark
6 6 (3.24%) Network Security
7 5 (2.70%) Internet
7 5 (2.70%) SSH
8 4 (2.16%) HTTP
8 4 (2.16%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.16%) Wireless
9 3 (1.62%) BGP
9 3 (1.62%) BIG-IP
9 3 (1.62%) Ethereal
9 3 (1.62%) HTTPS
9 3 (1.62%) IPsec
9 3 (1.62%) LAN
9 3 (1.62%) OSPF
9 3 (1.62%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.41%) Oracle Database
2 4 (2.16%) Power BI
3 3 (1.62%) Metadata
4 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (12.97%) JIRA
2 23 (12.43%) Jenkins
3 15 (8.11%) Git
4 11 (5.95%) Bitbucket Server
4 11 (5.95%) CA Release Automation
5 8 (4.32%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.08%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.08%) Fiddler
6 2 (1.08%) GitLab
6 2 (1.08%) Maven
6 2 (1.08%) Postman
6 2 (1.08%) Selenium
7 1 (0.54%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.54%) git-flow
7 1 (0.54%) gulp
7 1 (0.54%) JMeter
7 1 (0.54%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.54%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.54%) webpack
General
1 82 (44.32%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.38%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (13.51%) Finance
4 20 (10.81%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (5.95%) Aviation
6 10 (5.41%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.70%) Banking
9 4 (2.16%) Legal
10 3 (1.62%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.62%) Retail
11 2 (1.08%) Billing
12 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.54%) Law
12 1 (0.54%) Police
12 1 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 42 (22.70%) Architect
2 21 (11.35%) Senior
3 16 (8.65%) Business Analyst
4 15 (8.11%) Analyst
5 14 (7.57%) Developer
6 12 (6.49%) Security Engineer
7 11 (5.95%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (5.95%) Consultant
7 11 (5.95%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (5.41%) ServiceNow Architect
9 9 (4.86%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.86%) Senior Architect
10 8 (4.32%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (4.32%) Security Architect
11 7 (3.78%) ForgeRock Developer
11 7 (3.78%) Lead
11 7 (3.78%) Technical Analyst
12 6 (3.24%) Network Engineer
12 6 (3.24%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (73.51%) OAuth
2 121 (65.41%) OpenID
3 67 (36.22%) LDAP
4 54 (29.19%) OAuth2
5 24 (12.97%) REST
6 20 (10.81%) JSON
7 16 (8.65%) AngularJS
8 15 (8.11%) HTML
8 15 (8.11%) SOAP
9 14 (7.57%) HTML5
9 14 (7.57%) RabbitMQ
9 14 (7.57%) SailPoint
10 13 (7.03%) Apache Camel
10 13 (7.03%) JDBC
10 13 (7.03%) jQuery
10 13 (7.03%) ODBC
10 13 (7.03%) Web Services
11 9 (4.86%) JWT
12 8 (4.32%) RESTful
13 7 (3.78%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.35%) Onboarding
2 16 (8.65%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.49%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (5.41%) PKI
4 10 (5.41%) Private Cloud
5 9 (4.86%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.78%) Replication
7 4 (2.16%) BYOD
7 4 (2.16%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.54%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.54%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.54%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.54%) PMI
9 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (19.46%) Windows
2 24 (12.97%) Linux
2 24 (12.97%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.32%) Unix
4 5 (2.70%) AIX
4 5 (2.70%) Solaris
5 2 (1.08%) CatOS
6 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (37.30%) Identity Access Management
2 59 (31.89%) RBAC
3 56 (30.27%) DevOps
4 45 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (22.70%) Identity Management
6 36 (19.46%) CI/CD
7 32 (17.30%) Cybersecurity
8 30 (16.22%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 27 (14.59%) Agile
9 27 (14.59%) Migration
10 26 (14.05%) Privileged Access Management
11 25 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 23 (12.43%) Microservices
12 23 (12.43%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (9.73%) Integration Patterns
15 17 (9.19%) Change Management
15 17 (9.19%) DevSecOps
15 17 (9.19%) Zero Trust
16 16 (8.65%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 49 (26.49%) PowerShell
2 30 (16.22%) Python
3 29 (15.68%) JavaScript
4 18 (9.73%) Java
5 15 (8.11%) Groovy
6 10 (5.41%) Bash
7 8 (4.32%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.16%) C#
8 4 (2.16%) SQL
9 3 (1.62%) PHP
10 2 (1.08%) Go
11 1 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.54%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 57 (30.81%) Security Cleared
2 34 (18.38%) SC Cleared
3 24 (12.97%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (9.73%) Degree
5 17 (9.19%) CISSP
5 17 (9.19%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.86%) CISM
7 8 (4.32%) AWS Certification
7 8 (4.32%) TOGAF Certification
8 6 (3.24%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.70%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.62%) PhD
12 2 (1.08%) CCSP
12 2 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.54%) GIAC
13 1 (0.54%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.54%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (20.00%) GDPR
2 23 (12.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (8.65%) NIST
4 12 (6.49%) HIPAA
5 11 (5.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (5.41%) SOC 2
7 8 (4.32%) PCI DSS
8 7 (3.78%) QA
9 5 (2.70%) PSD2
10 4 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (2.16%) Data Quality
11 2 (1.08%) SLA
12 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.54%) NCSC
12 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 93 (50.27%) Active Directory
2 16 (8.65%) Docker
3 8 (4.32%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 6 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.62%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.08%) OpenAM
6 2 (1.08%) OpenDJ
6 2 (1.08%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.54%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 101 (54.59%) Single Sign-On
2 26 (14.05%) Terraform
3 24 (12.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 18 (9.73%) Kubernetes
5 11 (5.95%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (5.41%) CA Wily
7 9 (4.86%) PingFederate
7 9 (4.86%) Progress Chef
8 8 (4.32%) Tivoli
9 7 (3.78%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (2.70%) Tivoli Identity Manager
11 4 (2.16%) Ansible
12 3 (1.62%) SCCM
13 1 (0.54%) Argo
13 1 (0.54%) Grafana
13 1 (0.54%) HP Operations Orchestration
13 1 (0.54%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.54%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 88 (47.57%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.35%) Ping Identity
2 21 (11.35%) Splunk
3 19 (10.27%) CyberArk
3 19 (10.27%) ServiceNow
4 15 (8.11%) IBM
5 13 (7.03%) BMC
5 13 (7.03%) HP
5 13 (7.03%) Ivanti
5 13 (7.03%) Okta
5 13 (7.03%) Remedy
5 13 (7.03%) VMware
6 12 (6.49%) ForgeRock
7 11 (5.95%) AppDynamics
7 11 (5.95%) Broadcom
7 11 (5.95%) Oracle
8 8 (4.32%) Alibaba
9 7 (3.78%) BeyondTrust
9 7 (3.78%) Zscaler
10 5 (2.70%) SAP