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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 424 442
Rank change year-on-year +80 +18 +113
Contract jobs citing SAML 177 95 139
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.31% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.63% 1.40% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 61 99
10th Percentile £367 £413 £321
25th Percentile £413 £506 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £651 £681
90th Percentile £653 £738 £703
UK median daily rate £514 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -14.33% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £59.00 - -

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 6,740 6,778 8,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.88% 21.80% 22.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,560 4,320 6,404
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -6.91% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 102 176
10th Percentile £30.68 £27.00 £37.65
25th Percentile £42.63 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.38 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -16.92% +18.18% -15.38%

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 2025. 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 +17 68 £550 -8.33% 107
North of England +3 37 £430 - 45
South West +35 27 £525 +16.67% 32
Yorkshire -5 24 £420 - 12
Midlands -33 21 £415 -30.11% 12
North West - 13 £446 - 8
East Midlands -12 12 £410 -31.67% 3
South East -6 11 £525 -16.00% 124
West Midlands -28 9 £556 -6.86% 7
East of England -9 6 £413 - 31
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 24 (13.56%) Confluence
2 14 (7.91%) WebSphere
3 13 (7.34%) WebSphere Application Server
4 11 (6.21%) Apache
4 11 (6.21%) IIS
4 11 (6.21%) JBoss
5 10 (5.65%) iPlanet
6 6 (3.39%) SharePoint
7 5 (2.82%) CMS
7 5 (2.82%) Headless CMS
8 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (7.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 85 (48.02%) Azure
2 74 (41.81%) AWS
3 56 (31.64%) Entra ID
4 33 (18.64%) GCP
5 28 (15.82%) SaaS
6 23 (12.99%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (7.34%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (6.78%) OpenShift
9 10 (5.65%) GitHub
10 9 (5.08%) Serverless
11 8 (4.52%) Azure AKS
11 8 (4.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (4.52%) PaaS
12 7 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (2.82%) Amazon Cognito
14 5 (2.82%) Azure Storage
14 5 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 30 (16.95%) Kerberos
2 25 (14.12%) SSL
3 20 (11.30%) Firewall
4 16 (9.04%) DNS
5 7 (3.95%) VPN
6 6 (3.39%) Network Security
7 5 (2.82%) Internet
7 5 (2.82%) SSH
8 4 (2.26%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.26%) Wireshark
9 3 (1.69%) BGP
9 3 (1.69%) OSPF
10 2 (1.13%) DHCP
10 2 (1.13%) HTTP
10 2 (1.13%) S/MIME
11 1 (0.56%) Extranet
11 1 (0.56%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.56%) SMTP
11 1 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.65%) Oracle Database
2 5 (2.82%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.69%) Metadata
3 3 (1.69%) Power BI
4 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 24 (13.56%) Jenkins
1 24 (13.56%) JIRA
2 14 (7.91%) Git
3 11 (6.21%) Bitbucket Server
3 11 (6.21%) CA Release Automation
4 8 (4.52%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.69%) Log4j
6 2 (1.13%) Fiddler
6 2 (1.13%) GitLab
6 2 (1.13%) Maven
7 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.56%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.56%) gulp
7 1 (0.56%) Postman
7 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 76 (42.94%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.77%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (14.12%) Finance
4 16 (9.04%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (6.21%) Aviation
5 11 (6.21%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.26%) Banking
7 4 (2.26%) Legal
8 3 (1.69%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.69%) Publishing
8 3 (1.69%) Retail
9 2 (1.13%) Billing
10 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.56%) Police
10 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (23.16%) Architect
2 17 (9.60%) Senior
3 14 (7.91%) Consultant
4 12 (6.78%) Business Analyst
4 12 (6.78%) Security Engineer
4 12 (6.78%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (6.21%) Analyst
5 11 (6.21%) Developer
6 10 (5.65%) ServiceNow Architect
7 9 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (4.52%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (4.52%) Senior Architect
9 7 (3.95%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
9 7 (3.95%) Identity Management Engineer
9 7 (3.95%) Security Architect
10 6 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (3.39%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.39%) IAM Specialist
11 5 (2.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (78.53%) OAuth
2 120 (67.80%) OpenID
3 72 (40.68%) LDAP
4 56 (31.64%) OAuth2
5 26 (14.69%) REST
6 20 (11.30%) JSON
7 16 (9.04%) AngularJS
7 16 (9.04%) JDBC
7 16 (9.04%) SOAP
8 15 (8.47%) HTML
9 14 (7.91%) HTML5
10 13 (7.34%) Apache Camel
10 13 (7.34%) jQuery
10 13 (7.34%) ODBC
10 13 (7.34%) RabbitMQ
10 13 (7.34%) SailPoint
10 13 (7.34%) Web Services
11 12 (6.78%) Spring
12 11 (6.21%) Hibernate
13 9 (5.08%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.73%) Onboarding
2 17 (9.60%) Cloud Native
3 15 (8.47%) Management Information System
4 11 (6.21%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (5.65%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (5.08%) PKI
6 9 (5.08%) Private Cloud
7 7 (3.95%) Replication
8 5 (2.82%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.26%) BYOD
10 3 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.13%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 1 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 31 (17.51%) Windows
2 26 (14.69%) Linux
3 21 (11.86%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.52%) Unix
5 5 (2.82%) AIX
5 5 (2.82%) Solaris
6 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (40.11%) Identity Access Management
2 65 (36.72%) RBAC
3 54 (30.51%) DevOps
4 50 (28.25%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (23.73%) Identity Management
6 39 (22.03%) CI/CD
7 33 (18.64%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 27 (15.25%) Agile
9 26 (14.69%) Cybersecurity
10 23 (12.99%) Privileged Access Management
11 22 (12.43%) Infrastructure as Code
12 21 (11.86%) Migration
12 21 (11.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 21 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (11.30%) Zero Trust
14 19 (10.73%) Microservices
15 17 (9.60%) DevSecOps
16 16 (9.04%) Containerisation
16 16 (9.04%) Scrum
16 16 (9.04%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (26.55%) PowerShell
2 30 (16.95%) JavaScript
3 29 (16.38%) Python
4 20 (11.30%) Java
5 15 (8.47%) Groovy
6 12 (6.78%) Bash
7 8 (4.52%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.26%) C#
8 4 (2.26%) SQL
9 3 (1.69%) PHP
10 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (28.25%) Security Cleared
2 33 (18.64%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.17%) CISSP
3 18 (10.17%) Degree
3 18 (10.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (7.34%) AWS Certification
5 12 (6.78%) DV Cleared
6 10 (5.65%) CISM
7 8 (4.52%) TOGAF Certification
8 6 (3.39%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.82%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.69%) PhD
11 2 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.13%) CCSP
11 2 (1.13%) IBM Certification
11 2 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (23.16%) GDPR
2 25 (14.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (10.17%) HIPAA
4 17 (9.60%) NIST
5 12 (6.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (6.78%) SOC 2
6 7 (3.95%) PCI DSS
7 5 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (2.82%) PSD2
7 5 (2.82%) QA
8 4 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.69%) Data Quality
10 2 (1.13%) SLA
11 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 81 (45.76%) Active Directory
2 23 (12.99%) Docker
3 8 (4.52%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.56%) Firmware
5 1 (0.56%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.56%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.56%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 102 (57.63%) Single Sign-On
2 26 (14.69%) Terraform
3 22 (12.43%) Kubernetes
4 16 (9.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 11 (6.21%) CA Single Sign-On
5 11 (6.21%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 10 (5.65%) CA Wily
7 9 (5.08%) PingFederate
7 9 (5.08%) Progress Chef
8 8 (4.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (4.52%) Tivoli
9 5 (2.82%) Ansible
10 3 (1.69%) Prometheus
10 3 (1.69%) SCCM
11 1 (0.56%) HP Operations Orchestration
11 1 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.56%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 78 (44.07%) Microsoft
2 29 (16.38%) Ping Identity
3 24 (13.56%) IBM
4 23 (12.99%) Splunk
5 18 (10.17%) ServiceNow
6 17 (9.60%) CyberArk
7 14 (7.91%) ForgeRock
8 13 (7.34%) BMC
8 13 (7.34%) HP
8 13 (7.34%) Ivanti
8 13 (7.34%) Okta
8 13 (7.34%) Remedy
9 12 (6.78%) Oracle
10 11 (6.21%) Broadcom
11 10 (5.65%) AppDynamics
12 8 (4.52%) Alibaba
12 8 (4.52%) VMware
13 7 (3.95%) Zscaler
14 6 (3.39%) BeyondTrust
15 4 (2.26%) SAP