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

 6 months to
3 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 387 395
Rank change year-on-year -42 +8 +73
Contract jobs citing SAML 207 119 118
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.43% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.12% 1.74% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 77 71
10th Percentile £400 £362 £363
25th Percentile £455 £410 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £514 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.84% -14.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £603 £645
90th Percentile £750 £676 £675
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.09% -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 9,749 6,844 8,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.37% 25.00% 24.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,427 4,696 5,529
10th Percentile £375 £356 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
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 262 167 181
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £31.25
25th Percentile £50.88 £42.05 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.70 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.35% -12.48% -0.79%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.67 £76.48 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £53.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +22.07% -13.56% -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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -46 85 £538 -6.52% 123
South East -16 53 £500 -9.09% 18
North of England -40 42 £556 +36.00% 18
Yorkshire -34 22 £604 +47.62% 10
North West -35 18 £525 +34.55% 8
South West -31 11 £575 +1.59% 8
Midlands -56 10 £401 -3.37% 6
West Midlands -44 8 £425 -30.78% 3
East Midlands -31 2 £401 -3.37% 3
North East - 2 £438 -
East of England -21 1 - - 2
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 (5.80%) Confluence
2 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.97%) Apache
4 1 (0.48%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.93%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.97%) 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 (67.63%) Azure
2 110 (53.14%) Entra ID
3 74 (35.75%) AWS
4 51 (24.64%) GCP
5 36 (17.39%) SaaS
6 18 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (7.73%) GitHub
8 14 (6.76%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (6.28%) Boomi
10 12 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (4.83%) Azure Key Vault
12 8 (3.86%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (3.86%) iPaaS
12 8 (3.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (2.90%) Azure AKS
13 6 (2.90%) Azure API Management
13 6 (2.90%) OCI
14 5 (2.42%) AtomSphere
14 5 (2.42%) Azure App Service
14 5 (2.42%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 30 (14.49%) DNS
2 25 (12.08%) SSL
3 24 (11.59%) Firewall
4 17 (8.21%) Kerberos
5 16 (7.73%) HTTP
6 15 (7.25%) TCP/IP
7 14 (6.76%) Network Security
8 13 (6.28%) VPN
9 11 (5.31%) DHCP
9 11 (5.31%) IPsec
10 10 (4.83%) WAN
11 8 (3.86%) HTTPS
11 8 (3.86%) LAN
12 6 (2.90%) SD-WAN
12 6 (2.90%) Wireless
13 5 (2.42%) Internet
14 4 (1.93%) BIG-IP
14 4 (1.93%) Cisco ASA
14 4 (1.93%) Wireshark
14 4 (1.93%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.38%) NoSQL
2 6 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (2.42%) Metadata
4 3 (1.45%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.97%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.97%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.48%) Db2
6 1 (0.48%) MySQL
6 1 (0.48%) Parquet
6 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (7.25%) JIRA
2 12 (5.80%) Git
3 8 (3.86%) Browser DevTools
3 8 (3.86%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.90%) GitLab
5 3 (1.45%) Fiddler
5 3 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.48%) Maven
6 1 (0.48%) Moq
General
1 47 (22.71%) Social Skills
2 41 (19.81%) Finance
3 29 (14.01%) Documentation Skills
4 26 (12.56%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (12.56%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.35%) Banking
6 7 (3.38%) Aerospace
7 6 (2.90%) Legal
8 5 (2.42%) Military
9 4 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.93%) Publishing
10 3 (1.45%) Retail
10 3 (1.45%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (27.05%) Architect
2 20 (9.66%) Developer
3 17 (8.21%) Solutions Architect
4 15 (7.25%) IAM Specialist
4 15 (7.25%) Technical Architect
5 11 (5.31%) Consultant
5 11 (5.31%) Lead
6 10 (4.83%) Senior
7 8 (3.86%) Network Engineer
7 8 (3.86%) Security Engineer
8 7 (3.38%) IAM Developer
8 7 (3.38%) Security Architect
9 6 (2.90%) Java Developer
9 6 (2.90%) Product Owner
10 5 (2.42%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (2.42%) Integration Architect
10 5 (2.42%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (2.42%) Technical Consultant
11 4 (1.93%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (1.93%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (73.43%) OAuth
2 133 (64.25%) OpenID
3 80 (38.65%) OAuth2
4 63 (30.43%) LDAP
5 45 (21.74%) REST
6 32 (15.46%) SailPoint
7 27 (13.04%) SOAP
7 27 (13.04%) Terraform
8 22 (10.63%) JSON
9 21 (10.14%) JWT
10 17 (8.21%) Web Services
11 13 (6.28%) Middleware
11 13 (6.28%) RESTful
11 13 (6.28%) XML
12 12 (5.80%) .NET
12 12 (5.80%) GraphQL
12 12 (5.80%) Kafka
13 11 (5.31%) Swagger
14 10 (4.83%) OpenAPI
15 7 (3.38%) FIDO
Miscellaneous
1 35 (16.91%) Cloud Native
2 34 (16.43%) Onboarding
3 20 (9.66%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (9.18%) PKI
5 16 (7.73%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (6.76%) Product Ownership
7 12 (5.80%) Security Posture
8 9 (4.35%) Management Information System
9 8 (3.86%) IoT
10 6 (2.90%) Data Centre
10 6 (2.90%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.93%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.93%) Clustering
12 4 (1.93%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.93%) Replication
13 3 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
14 2 (0.97%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.73%) Windows
2 13 (6.28%) Linux
3 5 (2.42%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.93%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.45%) Unix
6 2 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.97%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.97%) VMS
7 1 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.48%) CatOS
7 1 (0.48%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (32.37%) Identity Access Management
2 58 (28.02%) CI/CD
3 57 (27.54%) RBAC
4 49 (23.67%) DevOps
5 43 (20.77%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (17.87%) Zero Trust
7 34 (16.43%) Roadmaps
8 32 (15.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 31 (14.98%) Integration Patterns
10 30 (14.49%) Cybersecurity
10 30 (14.49%) Event-Driven
11 27 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
11 27 (13.04%) Microservices
11 27 (13.04%) Migration
11 27 (13.04%) Privileged Access Management
11 27 (13.04%) Runbook
12 26 (12.56%) ITIL
12 26 (12.56%) Stakeholder Management
13 25 (12.08%) Agile
13 25 (12.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 46 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 44 (21.26%) Python
3 28 (13.53%) Java
4 15 (7.25%) SQL
5 11 (5.31%) Bash
6 7 (3.38%) C#
6 7 (3.38%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.93%) Bicep
8 3 (1.45%) Go
8 3 (1.45%) Groovy
8 3 (1.45%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.97%) 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 52 (25.12%) Security Cleared
2 38 (18.36%) SC Cleared
3 29 (14.01%) Degree
4 22 (10.63%) CISSP
5 14 (6.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (6.28%) Azure Certification
7 11 (5.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (5.31%) CISM
8 10 (4.83%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.90%) DV Cleared
11 5 (2.42%) CSPO
11 5 (2.42%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.93%) CEH
12 4 (1.93%) GIAC
13 3 (1.45%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.97%) CRISC
14 2 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (13.53%) GDPR
2 28 (13.53%) NIST
3 9 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.86%) NCSC
5 6 (2.90%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (2.42%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.45%) QA
8 2 (0.97%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.48%) GRC
9 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
System Software
1 97 (46.86%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.80%) Docker
3 4 (1.93%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.45%) OpenAM
4 3 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.48%) Squid
Systems Management
1 69 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 30 (14.49%) Kubernetes
3 27 (13.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 8 (3.86%) Ansible
5 5 (2.42%) PingFederate
6 4 (1.93%) CA Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (1.45%) Grafana
7 3 (1.45%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.97%) Consul
8 2 (0.97%) Packer
8 2 (0.97%) 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 99 (47.83%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.08%) Google
2 25 (12.08%) Okta
3 17 (8.21%) Oracle
3 17 (8.21%) Ping Identity
4 16 (7.73%) CyberArk
5 14 (6.76%) ServiceNow
6 13 (6.28%) Cisco
6 13 (6.28%) Palo Alto
7 12 (5.80%) BeyondTrust
8 11 (5.31%) MuleSoft
9 10 (4.83%) SAP
10 9 (4.35%) IBM
10 9 (4.35%) Workday
11 8 (3.86%) Informatica
11 8 (3.86%) Zscaler
12 7 (3.38%) F5
12 7 (3.38%) ForgeRock
12 7 (3.38%) TIBCO
12 7 (3.38%) WSO2
167 SAML jobs in England