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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 384 379
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 +138
Contract jobs citing SAML 209 91 158
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.37% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.63% 1.66% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 66 108
10th Percentile £364 £440 £375
25th Percentile £450 £513 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% -2.58% -
75th Percentile £613 £665 £675
90th Percentile £765 £770 £750
UK median daily rate £543 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -7.66% -2.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £24.34
25th Percentile £51.25 - £24.59
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £25.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £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 7,936 5,466 7,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.61% 22.42% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,289 3,784 5,338
10th Percentile £363 £370 £350
25th Percentile £421 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -0.95% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 101 220
10th Percentile £33.75 £30.25 £22.42
25th Percentile £52.13 £51.25 £42.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -1 110 £539 -10.70% 22
North of England -41 35 £556 +5.95% 10
Midlands -53 24 £419 -27.17% 1
West Midlands -41 21 £350 -40.43%
Yorkshire -39 20 £575 +22.60% 4
South East -49 19 £600 +4.35% 10
North West -29 14 £550 +4.76% 6
South West -15 12 £563 -9.09% 2
East of England - 4 £425 - 7
East Midlands -34 3 £438 -10.67% 1
North East - 2 £413 -
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 8 (3.83%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.35%) Confluence
3 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.44%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 9 (4.31%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 120 (57.42%) Azure
2 93 (44.50%) Entra ID
3 60 (28.71%) AWS
4 38 (18.18%) GCP
5 20 (9.57%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (8.61%) OpenShift
6 18 (8.61%) SaaS
7 12 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (5.74%) PaaS
8 10 (4.78%) Serverless
9 7 (3.35%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (3.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (3.35%) IaaS
9 7 (3.35%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.39%) Azure AKS
10 5 (2.39%) Cloud Run
10 5 (2.39%) GitHub
10 5 (2.39%) Google Workspace
11 4 (1.91%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.91%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 46 (22.01%) DNS
2 36 (17.22%) Kerberos
3 29 (13.88%) Firewall
4 27 (12.92%) SSL
5 22 (10.53%) HTTP
6 21 (10.05%) DHCP
7 17 (8.13%) IPsec
7 17 (8.13%) VPN
8 14 (6.70%) TCP/IP
8 14 (6.70%) WAN
9 13 (6.22%) HTTPS
9 13 (6.22%) LAN
10 11 (5.26%) Wireless
11 10 (4.78%) BIG-IP
11 10 (4.78%) Cisco ASA
11 10 (4.78%) Cisco Nexus
11 10 (4.78%) Network Security
12 9 (4.31%) Wireshark
13 8 (3.83%) Ethereal
14 7 (3.35%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.31%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.91%) Metadata
3 3 (1.44%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.44%) GIS
4 2 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.96%) MySQL
4 2 (0.96%) Power BI
4 2 (0.96%) Tableau
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.48%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 19 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 9 (4.31%) Browser DevTools
2 9 (4.31%) JIRA
3 6 (2.87%) GitLab
4 4 (1.91%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.96%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.96%) Fiddler
5 2 (0.96%) Git
5 2 (0.96%) Postman
5 2 (0.96%) Selenium
6 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.48%) Gatling
6 1 (0.48%) git-flow
6 1 (0.48%) JMeter
6 1 (0.48%) JUnit
6 1 (0.48%) Moq
6 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.48%) WebDriver
General
1 75 (35.89%) Social Skills
2 50 (23.92%) Finance
3 32 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (13.88%) Documentation Skills
5 20 (9.57%) Public Sector
6 16 (7.66%) Banking
7 14 (6.70%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.39%) Retail
9 4 (1.91%) Legal
10 3 (1.44%) Military
10 3 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.48%) Law
12 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (27.27%) Architect
2 18 (8.61%) Senior
3 16 (7.66%) Developer
4 13 (6.22%) CyberArk Architect
5 12 (5.74%) Analyst
5 12 (5.74%) Network Engineer
6 11 (5.26%) Technical Architect
7 10 (4.78%) IAM Specialist
8 8 (3.83%) Applications Engineer
9 7 (3.35%) Consultant
9 7 (3.35%) Security Engineer
9 7 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.87%) Senior Architect
11 5 (2.39%) Business Analyst
11 5 (2.39%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 5 (2.39%) Security Architect
11 5 (2.39%) Senior Technical Architect
11 5 (2.39%) Support Engineer
11 5 (2.39%) Systems Engineer
11 5 (2.39%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (73.68%) OAuth
2 130 (62.20%) OpenID
3 76 (36.36%) LDAP
4 65 (31.10%) OAuth2
5 27 (12.92%) SailPoint
6 20 (9.57%) REST
7 13 (6.22%) JWT
8 12 (5.74%) RESTful
8 12 (5.74%) Web Services
9 8 (3.83%) SOAP
10 7 (3.35%) .NET
10 7 (3.35%) J2EE
10 7 (3.35%) JSON
11 6 (2.87%) Spring
11 6 (2.87%) Spring Boot
12 5 (2.39%) JDBC
12 5 (2.39%) XACML
13 4 (1.91%) Middleware
14 3 (1.44%) CSS
14 3 (1.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (16.75%) Onboarding
2 29 (13.88%) Cloud Native
3 16 (7.66%) Replication
4 14 (6.70%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (5.74%) PKI
6 7 (3.35%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.87%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.39%) IoT
8 5 (2.39%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.91%) Clustering
9 4 (1.91%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.91%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.44%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.96%) BYOD
11 2 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (0.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (16.27%) Windows
2 20 (9.57%) Windows Server
3 16 (7.66%) Linux
4 5 (2.39%) CatOS
5 3 (1.44%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.48%) Unix
6 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (32.06%) Identity Access Management
2 64 (30.62%) RBAC
3 61 (29.19%) DevOps
4 57 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 46 (22.01%) Cybersecurity
6 39 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (17.22%) Migration
8 31 (14.83%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (12.92%) Runbook
10 26 (12.44%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (11.96%) Design Patterns
11 25 (11.96%) Secrets Management
11 25 (11.96%) Zero Trust
12 24 (11.48%) Identity Management
13 23 (11.00%) Architectural Design
13 23 (11.00%) Threat Modelling
14 22 (10.53%) Architectural Patterns
14 22 (10.53%) High Availability
14 22 (10.53%) Roadmaps
14 22 (10.53%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 44 (21.05%) PowerShell
2 40 (19.14%) Python
3 32 (15.31%) Java
4 19 (9.09%) SQL
5 10 (4.78%) Go
6 8 (3.83%) Bash
6 8 (3.83%) C#
7 7 (3.35%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.39%) Groovy
9 4 (1.91%) Bicep
10 3 (1.44%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (30.14%) Security Cleared
2 45 (21.53%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.66%) Degree
4 15 (7.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (5.74%) CISSP
6 7 (3.35%) CISM
6 7 (3.35%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.87%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.44%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.48%) CEH
10 1 (0.48%) GIAC
10 1 (0.48%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 36 (17.22%) NIST
3 33 (15.79%) GDPR
4 21 (10.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 15 (7.18%) NCSC
6 7 (3.35%) HIPAA
6 7 (3.35%) PCI DSS
7 5 (2.39%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.91%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.44%) GRC
9 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.96%) QA
11 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 89 (42.58%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.22%) Docker
3 10 (4.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.78%) VMware NSX
4 6 (2.87%) RACF
5 2 (0.96%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.96%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.96%) OpenIDM
5 2 (0.96%) Squid
Systems Management
1 83 (39.71%) Single Sign-On
2 45 (21.53%) Kubernetes
3 37 (17.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 27 (12.92%) Terraform
5 4 (1.91%) CA Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.91%) PingFederate
6 3 (1.44%) Ansible
6 3 (1.44%) Grafana
7 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.96%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.96%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.48%) Argo
8 1 (0.48%) CASB
8 1 (0.48%) Consul
8 1 (0.48%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.48%) Packer
8 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 94 (44.98%) Microsoft
2 35 (16.75%) CyberArk
3 33 (15.79%) Okta
4 20 (9.57%) Splunk
5 17 (8.13%) ServiceNow
6 14 (6.70%) Google
6 14 (6.70%) VMware
7 12 (5.74%) Cisco
7 12 (5.74%) Palo Alto
8 11 (5.26%) SAP
9 10 (4.78%) CheckPoint
9 10 (4.78%) F5
10 9 (4.31%) Ping Identity
10 9 (4.31%) Zscaler
11 6 (2.87%) ForgeRock
11 6 (2.87%) Workday
12 5 (2.39%) BeyondTrust
12 5 (2.39%) SolarWinds
13 4 (1.91%) Citrix
13 4 (1.91%) Netskope