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

 6 months to
28 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 394 409
Rank change year-on-year -19 +15 +64
Contract jobs citing SAML 210 117 120
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.42% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.15% 1.71% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 76 73
10th Percentile £400 £361 £313
25th Percentile £464 £410 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -5.98% -2.50%
75th Percentile £638 £604 £645
90th Percentile £750 £679 £695
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.78% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 1
10th Percentile £58.93 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £77.50 - £24.18
75th Percentile £85.54 - -
90th Percentile £87.56 - -
UK median hourly rate £77.50 £55.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +40.91% +127.46% -

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 9,788 6,843 8,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.38% 24.84% 24.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,447 4,702 5,580
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 164 185
10th Percentile £29.35 £31.25 £27.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.24 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.71% -13.04% -3.85%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.72 £75.00 £74.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -1.83%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -58 90 £525 -12.72% 111
South East -9 53 £500 -9.09% 18
North of England -47 41 £563 +38.04% 21
Yorkshire -39 21 £620 +51.59% 11
North West -34 18 £525 +45.76% 10
South West -21 11 £575 +1.59% 10
Midlands -55 10 £401 -3.37% 5
West Midlands -49 8 £425 -30.78% 3
East Midlands -29 2 £401 -3.37% 2
North East - 2 £438 -
East of England -19 1 - - 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 (5.71%) Confluence
2 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.95%) Apache
4 1 (0.48%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.90%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 140 (66.67%) Azure
2 109 (51.90%) Entra ID
3 76 (36.19%) AWS
4 53 (25.24%) GCP
5 35 (16.67%) SaaS
6 18 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (7.62%) GitHub
8 15 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (5.71%) Boomi
9 12 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (3.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (3.33%) iPaaS
13 6 (2.86%) Azure AKS
13 6 (2.86%) Azure API Management
13 6 (2.86%) OCI
14 5 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (2.38%) Azure App Service
14 5 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 35 (16.67%) DNS
2 27 (12.86%) SSL
3 24 (11.43%) Firewall
4 20 (9.52%) HTTP
4 20 (9.52%) TCP/IP
5 19 (9.05%) Kerberos
6 14 (6.67%) Network Security
7 13 (6.19%) VPN
8 11 (5.24%) DHCP
8 11 (5.24%) IPsec
9 10 (4.76%) WAN
10 8 (3.81%) HTTPS
10 8 (3.81%) LAN
11 6 (2.86%) SD-WAN
11 6 (2.86%) Wireless
12 5 (2.38%) Internet
13 4 (1.90%) BIG-IP
13 4 (1.90%) Cisco ASA
13 4 (1.90%) Wireshark
13 4 (1.90%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 6 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (2.38%) Metadata
4 3 (1.43%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.95%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.48%) Db2
6 1 (0.48%) MySQL
6 1 (0.48%) Parquet
6 1 (0.48%) Power BI
6 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (7.14%) JIRA
2 11 (5.24%) Browser DevTools
2 11 (5.24%) Git
3 8 (3.81%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.86%) GitLab
5 3 (1.43%) Fiddler
5 3 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.48%) Maven
6 1 (0.48%) Moq
General
1 51 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 45 (21.43%) Finance
3 30 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (13.81%) Documentation Skills
5 26 (12.38%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.71%) Banking
7 7 (3.33%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.86%) Legal
9 5 (2.38%) Military
10 4 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.90%) Publishing
11 3 (1.43%) Retail
11 3 (1.43%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (27.14%) Architect
2 20 (9.52%) Developer
3 17 (8.10%) Solutions Architect
4 15 (7.14%) IAM Specialist
4 15 (7.14%) Technical Architect
5 11 (5.24%) Consultant
5 11 (5.24%) Lead
6 10 (4.76%) Senior
7 8 (3.81%) Network Engineer
7 8 (3.81%) Security Engineer
8 7 (3.33%) IAM Developer
8 7 (3.33%) Security Architect
9 6 (2.86%) Java Developer
10 5 (2.38%) Analyst
10 5 (2.38%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (2.38%) Integration Architect
10 5 (2.38%) Product Owner
10 5 (2.38%) Support Engineer
10 5 (2.38%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (2.38%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (73.33%) OAuth
2 131 (62.38%) OpenID
3 79 (37.62%) OAuth2
4 63 (30.00%) LDAP
5 42 (20.00%) REST
6 33 (15.71%) SailPoint
7 26 (12.38%) SOAP
7 26 (12.38%) Terraform
8 21 (10.00%) JSON
9 20 (9.52%) JWT
10 17 (8.10%) Web Services
11 13 (6.19%) RESTful
12 12 (5.71%) .NET
12 12 (5.71%) Middleware
12 12 (5.71%) XML
13 11 (5.24%) GraphQL
14 10 (4.76%) Kafka
14 10 (4.76%) Swagger
15 9 (4.29%) OpenAPI
16 7 (3.33%) FIDO
Miscellaneous
1 34 (16.19%) Onboarding
2 32 (15.24%) Cloud Native
3 19 (9.05%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (8.57%) PKI
5 15 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (5.71%) Product Ownership
6 12 (5.71%) Security Posture
7 9 (4.29%) Management Information System
8 8 (3.81%) IoT
9 6 (2.86%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.90%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.90%) Clustering
11 4 (1.90%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.90%) Replication
12 3 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.62%) Windows
2 13 (6.19%) Linux
3 5 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.90%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.43%) Unix
6 2 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.95%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.95%) VMS
7 1 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.48%) CatOS
7 1 (0.48%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (31.43%) Identity Access Management
2 58 (27.62%) RBAC
3 56 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 49 (23.33%) DevOps
5 44 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (17.14%) Zero Trust
7 33 (15.71%) Roadmaps
8 32 (15.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 31 (14.76%) Runbook
10 30 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
11 29 (13.81%) Cybersecurity
11 29 (13.81%) Migration
12 27 (12.86%) Event-Driven
12 27 (12.86%) ITIL
12 27 (12.86%) Privileged Access Management
13 26 (12.38%) Infrastructure as Code
13 26 (12.38%) Stakeholder Management
14 25 (11.90%) Microservices
14 25 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
15 24 (11.43%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 46 (21.90%) Python
2 45 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 27 (12.86%) Java
4 15 (7.14%) SQL
5 14 (6.67%) Bash
6 7 (3.33%) C#
6 7 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.90%) Bicep
8 3 (1.43%) Go
8 3 (1.43%) Groovy
8 3 (1.43%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.95%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.48%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.48%) Perl
10 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.48%) R
10 1 (0.48%) Ruby
10 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (25.24%) Security Cleared
2 39 (18.57%) SC Cleared
3 28 (13.33%) Degree
4 22 (10.48%) CISSP
5 13 (6.19%) Azure Certification
5 13 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (5.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (5.24%) CISM
7 10 (4.76%) AWS Certification
8 8 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.86%) DV Cleared
10 5 (2.38%) CSPO
10 5 (2.38%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.90%) CEH
11 4 (1.90%) GIAC
12 3 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.95%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (15.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (14.29%) NIST
3 28 (13.33%) GDPR
4 10 (4.76%) Data Quality
5 8 (3.81%) NCSC
6 6 (2.86%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (2.38%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.43%) QA
9 2 (0.95%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.48%) GRC
10 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
System Software
1 96 (45.71%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.71%) Docker
3 4 (1.90%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.43%) OpenAM
4 3 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.48%) RACF
5 1 (0.48%) Squid
Systems Management
1 70 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 29 (13.81%) Kubernetes
3 27 (12.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 8 (3.81%) Ansible
5 5 (2.38%) PingFederate
6 4 (1.90%) CA Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (1.43%) Grafana
7 3 (1.43%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.95%) Consul
8 2 (0.95%) Packer
8 2 (0.95%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.48%) Argo
9 1 (0.48%) CASB
9 1 (0.48%) Istio
9 1 (0.48%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.48%) systemd
9 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 98 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.90%) Google
2 25 (11.90%) Okta
3 17 (8.10%) Ping Identity
4 16 (7.62%) CyberArk
4 16 (7.62%) Oracle
5 14 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 13 (6.19%) Cisco
6 13 (6.19%) Palo Alto
7 12 (5.71%) BeyondTrust
8 11 (5.24%) Zscaler
9 10 (4.76%) MuleSoft
9 10 (4.76%) SAP
10 9 (4.29%) Workday
11 8 (3.81%) IBM
12 7 (3.33%) F5
12 7 (3.33%) ForgeRock
12 7 (3.33%) Informatica
13 6 (2.86%) Salesforce
13 6 (2.86%) WSO2
160 SAML jobs in England