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

 6 months to
31 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 394 419
Rank change year-on-year -25 +25 +54
Contract jobs citing SAML 211 119 119
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.43% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.16% 1.72% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 78 72
10th Percentile £400 £362 £368
25th Percentile £459 £411 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -11.79% -
75th Percentile £638 £603 £646
90th Percentile £750 £678 £698
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
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 9,753 6,907 8,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.32% 24.89% 24.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,423 4,743 5,578
10th Percentile £376 £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 264 166 183
10th Percentile £29.35 £31.25 £32.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.24 £54.79 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.72% -12.34% -3.10%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.51 £76.85 £74.79
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%

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 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 31 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 31 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 -41 90 £525 -8.70% 72
South East -17 54 £500 -9.09% 13
North of England -51 41 £563 +38.04% 14
Yorkshire -39 21 £620 +51.59% 7
North West -37 18 £525 +45.76% 7
South West -32 11 £575 +1.59% 6
Midlands -56 10 £401 -3.37% 2
West Midlands -39 8 £425 -30.78% 2
East Midlands -25 2 £401 -3.37%
North East - 2 £438 -
East of England -16 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 (5.69%) Confluence
2 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.95%) Apache
4 1 (0.47%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.90%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 141 (66.82%) Azure
2 109 (51.66%) Entra ID
3 77 (36.49%) AWS
4 54 (25.59%) GCP
5 35 (16.59%) SaaS
6 18 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (7.58%) GitHub
8 15 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (6.16%) Boomi
10 12 (5.69%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (4.74%) Azure Key Vault
12 8 (3.79%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (3.79%) iPaaS
12 8 (3.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (2.84%) Azure AKS
13 6 (2.84%) Azure API Management
13 6 (2.84%) OCI
14 5 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (2.37%) Azure App Service
14 5 (2.37%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 35 (16.59%) DNS
2 27 (12.80%) SSL
3 24 (11.37%) Firewall
4 21 (9.95%) HTTP
5 20 (9.48%) TCP/IP
6 19 (9.00%) Kerberos
7 14 (6.64%) Network Security
8 13 (6.16%) VPN
9 11 (5.21%) DHCP
9 11 (5.21%) IPsec
10 10 (4.74%) WAN
11 8 (3.79%) HTTPS
11 8 (3.79%) LAN
12 6 (2.84%) SD-WAN
12 6 (2.84%) Wireless
13 5 (2.37%) Internet
14 4 (1.90%) BIG-IP
14 4 (1.90%) Cisco ASA
14 4 (1.90%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (1.90%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.32%) NoSQL
2 6 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (2.37%) Metadata
4 3 (1.42%) 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 (0.47%) Db2
6 1 (0.47%) MySQL
6 1 (0.47%) Parquet
6 1 (0.47%) Power BI
6 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (7.11%) JIRA
2 11 (5.21%) Browser DevTools
2 11 (5.21%) Git
3 8 (3.79%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.84%) GitLab
5 3 (1.42%) Fiddler
5 3 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.47%) Maven
6 1 (0.47%) Moq
General
1 51 (24.17%) Social Skills
2 45 (21.33%) Finance
3 30 (14.22%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (13.74%) Documentation Skills
5 26 (12.32%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.69%) Banking
7 7 (3.32%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.84%) Legal
9 5 (2.37%) Military
10 4 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.90%) Publishing
11 3 (1.42%) Retail
11 3 (1.42%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (27.49%) Architect
2 20 (9.48%) Developer
3 18 (8.53%) Solutions Architect
4 15 (7.11%) IAM Specialist
4 15 (7.11%) Technical Architect
5 11 (5.21%) Consultant
5 11 (5.21%) Lead
6 10 (4.74%) Senior
7 8 (3.79%) Network Engineer
7 8 (3.79%) Security Engineer
8 7 (3.32%) IAM Developer
8 7 (3.32%) Security Architect
9 6 (2.84%) Java Developer
10 5 (2.37%) Analyst
10 5 (2.37%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (2.37%) Integration Architect
10 5 (2.37%) Product Owner
10 5 (2.37%) Support Engineer
10 5 (2.37%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (2.37%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (73.46%) OAuth
2 131 (62.09%) OpenID
3 79 (37.44%) OAuth2
4 63 (29.86%) LDAP
5 43 (20.38%) REST
6 33 (15.64%) SailPoint
7 27 (12.80%) SOAP
8 26 (12.32%) Terraform
9 22 (10.43%) JSON
10 21 (9.95%) JWT
11 17 (8.06%) Web Services
12 13 (6.16%) Middleware
12 13 (6.16%) RESTful
12 13 (6.16%) XML
13 12 (5.69%) .NET
13 12 (5.69%) GraphQL
14 11 (5.21%) Kafka
14 11 (5.21%) Swagger
15 10 (4.74%) OpenAPI
16 7 (3.32%) FIDO
Miscellaneous
1 34 (16.11%) Onboarding
2 33 (15.64%) Cloud Native
3 19 (9.00%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (8.53%) PKI
5 16 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (5.69%) Product Ownership
6 12 (5.69%) Security Posture
7 9 (4.27%) Management Information System
8 8 (3.79%) IoT
9 6 (2.84%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.84%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.37%) 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 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.58%) Windows
2 13 (6.16%) Linux
3 5 (2.37%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.90%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.42%) Unix
6 2 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.95%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.95%) VMS
7 1 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.47%) CatOS
7 1 (0.47%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (31.28%) Identity Access Management
2 58 (27.49%) RBAC
3 56 (26.54%) CI/CD
4 49 (23.22%) DevOps
5 44 (20.85%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (17.06%) Zero Trust
7 33 (15.64%) Roadmaps
8 32 (15.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 31 (14.69%) Integration Patterns
9 31 (14.69%) Runbook
10 29 (13.74%) Cybersecurity
10 29 (13.74%) Migration
11 28 (13.27%) Event-Driven
12 27 (12.80%) ITIL
12 27 (12.80%) Privileged Access Management
13 26 (12.32%) Infrastructure as Code
13 26 (12.32%) Stakeholder Management
14 25 (11.85%) Microservices
14 25 (11.85%) Technical Leadership
15 24 (11.37%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 46 (21.80%) Python
2 45 (21.33%) PowerShell
3 27 (12.80%) Java
4 15 (7.11%) SQL
5 14 (6.64%) Bash
6 7 (3.32%) C#
6 7 (3.32%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.90%) Bicep
8 3 (1.42%) Go
8 3 (1.42%) Groovy
8 3 (1.42%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.95%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.47%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.47%) Perl
10 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.47%) R
10 1 (0.47%) Ruby
10 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (25.12%) Security Cleared
2 39 (18.48%) SC Cleared
3 28 (13.27%) Degree
4 22 (10.43%) CISSP
5 13 (6.16%) Azure Certification
5 13 (6.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (5.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (5.21%) CISM
7 10 (4.74%) AWS Certification
8 8 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.84%) DV Cleared
10 5 (2.37%) CSPO
10 5 (2.37%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.90%) CEH
11 4 (1.90%) GIAC
12 3 (1.42%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.42%) 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 (15.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (14.22%) NIST
3 28 (13.27%) GDPR
4 10 (4.74%) Data Quality
5 8 (3.79%) NCSC
6 6 (2.84%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (2.37%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.42%) QA
9 2 (0.95%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.47%) GRC
10 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
System Software
1 96 (45.50%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.69%) Docker
3 4 (1.90%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.42%) OpenAM
4 3 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.47%) RACF
5 1 (0.47%) Squid
Systems Management
1 70 (33.18%) Single Sign-On
2 29 (13.74%) Kubernetes
3 27 (12.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 8 (3.79%) Ansible
5 5 (2.37%) 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 (1.42%) Grafana
7 3 (1.42%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.95%) Consul
8 2 (0.95%) Packer
8 2 (0.95%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.47%) Argo
9 1 (0.47%) CASB
9 1 (0.47%) Istio
9 1 (0.47%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.47%) systemd
9 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 98 (46.45%) Microsoft
2 26 (12.32%) Google
3 25 (11.85%) Okta
4 17 (8.06%) Oracle
4 17 (8.06%) Ping Identity
5 16 (7.58%) CyberArk
6 14 (6.64%) ServiceNow
7 13 (6.16%) Cisco
7 13 (6.16%) Palo Alto
8 12 (5.69%) BeyondTrust
9 11 (5.21%) MuleSoft
9 11 (5.21%) Zscaler
10 10 (4.74%) SAP
11 9 (4.27%) IBM
11 9 (4.27%) Workday
12 8 (3.79%) Informatica
13 7 (3.32%) F5
13 7 (3.32%) ForgeRock
13 7 (3.32%) TIBCO
13 7 (3.32%) WSO2
101 SAML jobs in England