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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 401 400
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 +69
Contract jobs citing SAML 208 115 125
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.42% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.46% 1.89% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 75 79
10th Percentile £400 £361 £350
25th Percentile £455 £408 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -5.98% -2.50%
75th Percentile £638 £612 £648
90th Percentile £750 £695 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £557 £590
% change year-on-year -5.75% -5.59% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 2
10th Percentile £57.39 - £24.26
25th Percentile £72.50 - £24.39
Median hourly rate £77.50 - £24.59
75th Percentile £83.68 - £24.80
90th Percentile £87.16 - £24.92
UK median hourly rate £77.50 £55.00 £24.59
% change year-on-year +40.91% +123.67% -

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 8,445 6,082 7,333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.53% 22.00% 21.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,525 4,168 5,030
10th Percentile £365 £350 £359
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £644 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £501 £550
% change year-on-year +4.90% -9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 155 228
10th Percentile £28.65 £31.25 £24.13
25th Percentile £46.25 £42.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -5.42%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.61 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -8.33%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -43 92 £525 -13.65% 121
South East -12 54 £500 -9.09% 22
North of England -44 40 £563 +38.55% 18
Yorkshire -35 21 £620 +51.59% 5
North West -33 17 £512 +53.48% 13
Midlands -59 10 £400 -3.61% 7
West Midlands -37 8 £375 -37.81% 5
South West -35 6 £550 -4.35% 11
East Midlands -28 2 £401 -3.37% 2
North East - 2 £438 -
East of England -20 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 13 (6.25%) Confluence
2 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.96%) Apache
4 1 (0.48%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.44%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.96%) 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
1 139 (66.83%) Azure
2 106 (50.96%) Entra ID
3 72 (34.62%) AWS
4 47 (22.60%) GCP
5 33 (15.87%) SaaS
6 19 (9.13%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (7.69%) GitHub
8 15 (7.21%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (4.81%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (4.81%) Boomi
11 9 (4.33%) Azure AKS
12 8 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (2.88%) Azure API Management
13 6 (2.88%) Azure App Service
13 6 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (2.88%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (2.88%) IaaS
13 6 (2.88%) iPaaS
13 6 (2.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (14.42%) DNS
2 25 (12.02%) Firewall
2 25 (12.02%) SSL
3 20 (9.62%) TCP/IP
4 19 (9.13%) HTTP
5 15 (7.21%) Kerberos
5 15 (7.21%) Network Security
6 14 (6.73%) VPN
7 10 (4.81%) WAN
8 8 (3.85%) DHCP
8 8 (3.85%) HTTPS
8 8 (3.85%) IPsec
8 8 (3.85%) LAN
8 8 (3.85%) Wireless
9 6 (2.88%) SD-WAN
10 4 (1.92%) BIG-IP
10 4 (1.92%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (1.92%) Internet
10 4 (1.92%) NGFW
10 4 (1.92%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.85%) NoSQL
2 7 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (2.40%) Metadata
3 5 (2.40%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.44%) MySQL
4 3 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.96%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (0.96%) Parquet
6 1 (0.48%) Db2
6 1 (0.48%) Power BI
6 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (7.69%) JIRA
2 12 (5.77%) Git
3 11 (5.29%) Browser DevTools
4 8 (3.85%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.88%) GitLab
6 3 (1.44%) Fiddler
6 3 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.48%) Maven
7 1 (0.48%) Moq
7 1 (0.48%) Postman
General
1 52 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 45 (21.63%) Finance
3 30 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (12.98%) Public Sector
5 25 (12.02%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (6.73%) Banking
7 6 (2.88%) Legal
8 5 (2.40%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.40%) Military
8 5 (2.40%) Retail
9 4 (1.92%) Publishing
10 3 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.96%) 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 52 (25.00%) Architect
2 22 (10.58%) Developer
3 16 (7.69%) IAM Specialist
3 16 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 15 (7.21%) Technical Architect
5 12 (5.77%) Senior
6 10 (4.81%) Lead
6 10 (4.81%) Network Engineer
7 9 (4.33%) Consultant
7 9 (4.33%) Security Engineer
8 7 (3.37%) IAM Developer
9 6 (2.88%) Analyst
9 6 (2.88%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (2.88%) Java Developer
9 6 (2.88%) Security Architect
10 5 (2.40%) Integration Architect
10 5 (2.40%) Product Owner
10 5 (2.40%) Support Engineer
10 5 (2.40%) Systems Engineer
11 4 (1.92%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (73.08%) OAuth
2 134 (64.42%) OpenID
3 83 (39.90%) OAuth2
4 62 (29.81%) LDAP
5 41 (19.71%) REST
6 34 (16.35%) SailPoint
7 25 (12.02%) SOAP
8 20 (9.62%) JSON
9 17 (8.17%) JWT
9 17 (8.17%) Web Services
10 14 (6.73%) RESTful
11 12 (5.77%) .NET
12 11 (5.29%) Middleware
13 10 (4.81%) XML
14 9 (4.33%) GraphQL
14 9 (4.33%) Kafka
14 9 (4.33%) Swagger
15 8 (3.85%) OpenAPI
16 7 (3.37%) .NET Core
16 7 (3.37%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 35 (16.83%) Onboarding
2 30 (14.42%) Cloud Native
3 19 (9.13%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (9.13%) PKI
4 16 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (6.25%) Security Posture
6 11 (5.29%) Product Ownership
7 10 (4.81%) Management Information System
8 8 (3.85%) IoT
9 6 (2.88%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.88%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.92%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.92%) Clustering
11 4 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.92%) Operational Technology
12 3 (1.44%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.69%) Windows
2 15 (7.21%) Linux
3 4 (1.92%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.44%) Unix
4 3 (1.44%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.96%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.96%) VMS
6 1 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.48%) CatOS
6 1 (0.48%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (30.77%) Identity Access Management
2 58 (27.88%) RBAC
3 55 (26.44%) CI/CD
4 52 (25.00%) DevOps
5 43 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (16.83%) Zero Trust
7 31 (14.90%) Migration
8 30 (14.42%) Roadmaps
9 29 (13.94%) Runbook
10 28 (13.46%) Cybersecurity
10 28 (13.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 27 (12.98%) Integration Patterns
12 26 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 25 (12.02%) Event-Driven
13 25 (12.02%) ITIL
14 24 (11.54%) API Integration
14 24 (11.54%) Microservices
14 24 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
15 22 (10.58%) Analytics
15 22 (10.58%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (22.12%) Python
2 43 (20.67%) PowerShell
3 28 (13.46%) Java
4 16 (7.69%) SQL
5 14 (6.73%) Bash
6 9 (4.33%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.85%) C#
8 5 (2.40%) Bicep
9 4 (1.92%) Groovy
10 3 (1.44%) Go
10 3 (1.44%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.96%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.96%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.48%) Perl
12 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.48%) R
12 1 (0.48%) Ruby
12 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 39 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 30 (14.42%) Degree
4 22 (10.58%) CISSP
5 14 (6.73%) Azure Certification
6 13 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (4.81%) AWS Certification
7 10 (4.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (4.81%) CISM
8 9 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.88%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.40%) CSPO
11 4 (1.92%) CEH
11 4 (1.92%) GIAC
12 3 (1.44%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.44%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.96%) CRISC
13 2 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (13.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (13.46%) NIST
3 26 (12.50%) GDPR
4 9 (4.33%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.37%) NCSC
6 6 (2.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (2.40%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.92%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.96%) QA
10 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.48%) GRC
10 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 93 (44.71%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.77%) Docker
3 4 (1.92%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.44%) OpenAM
4 3 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.48%) RACF
5 1 (0.48%) Squid
Systems Management
1 69 (33.17%) Single Sign-On
2 31 (14.90%) Kubernetes
3 28 (13.46%) Terraform
4 24 (11.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 9 (4.33%) Ansible
6 4 (1.92%) CA Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.92%) PingFederate
6 4 (1.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (1.44%) Grafana
7 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.44%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.96%) Consul
8 2 (0.96%) Packer
8 2 (0.96%) 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 91 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.54%) Okta
3 22 (10.58%) Google
4 18 (8.65%) Ping Identity
5 17 (8.17%) CyberArk
6 16 (7.69%) ServiceNow
7 14 (6.73%) Cisco
7 14 (6.73%) Oracle
7 14 (6.73%) Palo Alto
8 11 (5.29%) Zscaler
9 10 (4.81%) BeyondTrust
10 9 (4.33%) ForgeRock
10 9 (4.33%) MuleSoft
10 9 (4.33%) SAP
11 8 (3.85%) Workday
12 7 (3.37%) F5
12 7 (3.37%) IBM
13 6 (2.88%) Informatica
14 5 (2.40%) Citrix
14 5 (2.40%) TIBCO