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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 379 387
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 +131
Contract jobs citing SAML 209 96 168
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.39% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.57% 1.75% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 63 111
10th Percentile £369 £406 £375
25th Percentile £463 £472 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% -2.50%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £875 £782 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £598
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.77% -0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile £51.25 - £24.34
25th Percentile £67.19 - £24.59
Median hourly rate £77.50 - £25.00
75th Percentile £83.02 - -
90th Percentile £85.89 - -
UK median hourly rate £77.50 - £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 8,118 5,494 7,779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.20% 22.58% 20.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,350 3,802 5,469
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £631 £656 £675
90th Percentile £738 £790 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 108 245
10th Percentile £31.62 £31.69 £22.60
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.19 £68.75
90th Percentile £79.60 £81.11 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%

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 June 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 7 June 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 7 June 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 -10 113 £550 -12.70% 36
North of England -50 38 £563 +7.14% 11
South East -37 26 £750 +30.43% 16
Yorkshire -41 23 £598 +23.32% 1
Midlands -42 18 £400 -7.99% 2
North West -35 14 £550 +4.76% 10
West Midlands -45 13 £350 -41.96% 1
South West -22 6 £550 -11.11%
East Midlands -31 5 £438 +1.74% 1
North East - 2 £413 -
East of England - 1 - - 5
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 9 (4.31%) Confluence
2 8 (3.83%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.44%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 5 (2.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.48%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 127 (60.77%) Azure
2 98 (46.89%) Entra ID
3 66 (31.58%) AWS
4 39 (18.66%) GCP
5 24 (11.48%) SaaS
6 18 (8.61%) OpenShift
7 16 (7.66%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (5.74%) Serverless
9 11 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (3.35%) GitHub
10 7 (3.35%) IaaS
10 7 (3.35%) PaaS
11 6 (2.87%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (2.87%) Cloud Run
11 6 (2.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (2.87%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.39%) Google Workspace
12 5 (2.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (1.91%) OneDrive
13 4 (1.91%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 42 (20.10%) DNS
2 36 (17.22%) Kerberos
3 26 (12.44%) SSL
4 22 (10.53%) Firewall
5 21 (10.05%) DHCP
6 19 (9.09%) HTTP
7 15 (7.18%) IPsec
7 15 (7.18%) TCP/IP
7 15 (7.18%) VPN
8 13 (6.22%) Network Security
9 12 (5.74%) WAN
10 11 (5.26%) HTTPS
11 10 (4.78%) LAN
12 9 (4.31%) Wireless
13 7 (3.35%) BIG-IP
13 7 (3.35%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (3.35%) Cisco Nexus
13 7 (3.35%) Reverse Proxy
14 6 (2.87%) Wireshark
15 5 (2.39%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.78%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.39%) Metadata
3 3 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.44%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.44%) GIS
3 3 (1.44%) MySQL
3 3 (1.44%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.96%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.48%) Db2
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.48%) Parquet
5 1 (0.48%) Power BI
5 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (7.66%) Jenkins
2 11 (5.26%) JIRA
3 10 (4.78%) Browser DevTools
4 5 (2.39%) GitLab
5 4 (1.91%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.44%) Fiddler
6 3 (1.44%) Git
7 2 (0.96%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.48%) JUnit
8 1 (0.48%) Moq
8 1 (0.48%) Postman
8 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 66 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 50 (23.92%) Finance
3 28 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.96%) Documentation Skills
5 24 (11.48%) Public Sector
6 16 (7.66%) Banking
7 14 (6.70%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.39%) Military
8 5 (2.39%) Retail
9 4 (1.91%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.44%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (30.62%) Architect
2 17 (8.13%) Technical Architect
3 16 (7.66%) Developer
4 14 (6.70%) Senior
5 13 (6.22%) CyberArk Architect
6 10 (4.78%) IAM Specialist
7 9 (4.31%) Lead
7 9 (4.31%) Network Engineer
8 8 (3.83%) Applications Engineer
8 8 (3.83%) Consultant
8 8 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (3.35%) Analyst
9 7 (3.35%) Security Architect
9 7 (3.35%) Security Engineer
10 6 (2.87%) IAM Developer
10 6 (2.87%) Java Developer
11 5 (2.39%) Senior Architect
11 5 (2.39%) Senior Technical Architect
11 5 (2.39%) Support Engineer
11 5 (2.39%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (76.08%) OAuth
2 135 (64.59%) OpenID
3 79 (37.80%) LDAP
4 73 (34.93%) OAuth2
5 27 (12.92%) REST
5 27 (12.92%) SailPoint
6 15 (7.18%) Web Services
7 13 (6.22%) JWT
7 13 (6.22%) RESTful
8 12 (5.74%) SOAP
9 11 (5.26%) .NET
10 10 (4.78%) JSON
11 8 (3.83%) Spring Boot
12 7 (3.35%) Spring
13 6 (2.87%) Middleware
14 5 (2.39%) GraphQL
14 5 (2.39%) J2EE
14 5 (2.39%) JDBC
14 5 (2.39%) Node.js
14 5 (2.39%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (19.62%) Onboarding
2 36 (17.22%) Cloud Native
3 16 (7.66%) Replication
4 14 (6.70%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (5.26%) PKI
7 8 (3.83%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.83%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.87%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.39%) IoT
10 4 (1.91%) Clustering
10 4 (1.91%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.91%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.91%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.44%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.44%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.44%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (13.88%) Windows
2 17 (8.13%) Windows Server
3 16 (7.66%) Linux
4 3 (1.44%) CatOS
4 3 (1.44%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.96%) VMS
6 1 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (32.06%) CI/CD
1 67 (32.06%) DevOps
2 65 (31.10%) Identity Access Management
3 62 (29.67%) RBAC
4 44 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
5 37 (17.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (13.88%) Migration
7 28 (13.40%) Architectural Patterns
7 28 (13.40%) Roadmaps
8 27 (12.92%) Agile
8 27 (12.92%) Stakeholder Management
8 27 (12.92%) Zero Trust
9 26 (12.44%) Runbook
10 25 (11.96%) Design Patterns
10 25 (11.96%) Microservices
10 25 (11.96%) Threat Modelling
11 23 (11.00%) Architectural Design
11 23 (11.00%) High Availability
12 22 (10.53%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (21.53%) PowerShell
2 40 (19.14%) Python
3 34 (16.27%) Java
4 20 (9.57%) SQL
5 10 (4.78%) Bash
6 9 (4.31%) Go
7 8 (3.83%) C#
8 6 (2.87%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.39%) Bicep
10 3 (1.44%) Groovy
10 3 (1.44%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (32.06%) Security Cleared
2 55 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.66%) CISSP
3 16 (7.66%) Degree
4 11 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (4.31%) CISM
6 8 (3.83%) Azure Certification
7 7 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.87%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.44%) CSPO
9 3 (1.44%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.96%) CEH
10 2 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.96%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.48%) CRISC
11 1 (0.48%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 37 (17.70%) GDPR
3 35 (16.75%) NIST
4 20 (9.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 19 (9.09%) NCSC
6 7 (3.35%) HIPAA
7 6 (2.87%) PCI DSS
8 5 (2.39%) Data Quality
8 5 (2.39%) SOC 2
9 4 (1.91%) GRC
10 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 85 (40.67%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.18%) Docker
3 7 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.35%) VMware NSX
4 6 (2.87%) RACF
5 2 (0.96%) Squid
Systems Management
1 87 (41.63%) Single Sign-On
2 49 (23.44%) Kubernetes
3 36 (17.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 29 (13.88%) Terraform
5 4 (1.91%) Ansible
5 4 (1.91%) CA Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.91%) PingFederate
6 3 (1.44%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.96%) Grafana
7 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.96%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.48%) Argo
8 1 (0.48%) CASB
8 1 (0.48%) Consul
8 1 (0.48%) Packer
8 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 93 (44.50%) Microsoft
2 38 (18.18%) Okta
3 32 (15.31%) CyberArk
4 18 (8.61%) ServiceNow
4 18 (8.61%) Splunk
5 16 (7.66%) Google
6 15 (7.18%) Ping Identity
7 11 (5.26%) Cisco
7 11 (5.26%) Palo Alto
8 10 (4.78%) SAP
8 10 (4.78%) Zscaler
9 9 (4.31%) VMware
10 8 (3.83%) ForgeRock
11 7 (3.35%) CheckPoint
11 7 (3.35%) F5
11 7 (3.35%) Workday
12 5 (2.39%) Oracle
13 4 (1.91%) Citrix
13 4 (1.91%) Netskope
13 4 (1.91%) SolarWinds