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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 398 377
Rank change year-on-year +7 -21 +140
Contract jobs citing SAML 208 83 161
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.35% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.60% 1.56% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 57 109
10th Percentile £358 £406 £375
25th Percentile £450 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% -0.83%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £860 £790 £708
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - £24.34
25th Percentile £51.25 - £24.59
Median hourly rate £66.21 - £25.00
75th Percentile £83.76 - -
90th Percentile £86.28 - -
UK median hourly rate £66.21 - £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 7,994 5,328 7,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.25% 22.36% 20.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,285 3,689 5,337
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.26%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £792 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.78% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 94 234
10th Percentile £30.66 £27.97 £22.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.70 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.25 £74.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 23 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAML in England over the 6 months to 23 May 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 23 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 -5 105 £548 -13.10% 23
North of England -51 38 £556 +5.95% 12
Midlands -54 25 £400 -8.99% 1
Yorkshire -47 23 £575 +22.60% 2
South East -52 23 £663 +15.22% 10
West Midlands -44 20 £350 -41.96% 1
North West -30 14 £550 +4.76% 10
South West -27 8 £550 -11.11% 4
East Midlands -32 5 £438 -0.46%
East of England - 2 £425 - 6
North East - 2 £413 - 1
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 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.37%) Confluence
3 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.44%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 8 (3.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 120 (57.69%) Azure
2 95 (45.67%) Entra ID
3 65 (31.25%) AWS
4 38 (18.27%) GCP
5 19 (9.13%) SaaS
6 18 (8.65%) OpenShift
7 16 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (4.81%) Serverless
10 8 (3.85%) PaaS
11 7 (3.37%) IaaS
12 6 (2.88%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (2.88%) GitHub
12 6 (2.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (2.88%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.40%) Cloud Run
13 5 (2.40%) Google Workspace
14 4 (1.92%) Azure AKS
14 4 (1.92%) OneDrive
14 4 (1.92%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 44 (21.15%) DNS
2 37 (17.79%) Kerberos
3 28 (13.46%) SSL
4 26 (12.50%) Firewall
5 22 (10.58%) HTTP
6 21 (10.10%) DHCP
7 18 (8.65%) VPN
8 17 (8.17%) IPsec
9 15 (7.21%) TCP/IP
10 14 (6.73%) WAN
11 13 (6.25%) HTTPS
11 13 (6.25%) LAN
12 12 (5.77%) Wireless
13 11 (5.29%) Network Security
14 10 (4.81%) BIG-IP
14 10 (4.81%) Cisco ASA
14 10 (4.81%) Cisco Nexus
15 9 (4.33%) Wireshark
16 8 (3.85%) Ethereal
17 7 (3.37%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.81%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.40%) 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 17 (8.17%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.81%) Browser DevTools
3 9 (4.33%) JIRA
4 5 (2.40%) GitLab
5 4 (1.92%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.44%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.96%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.96%) Git
7 2 (0.96%) Postman
7 2 (0.96%) Selenium
8 1 (0.48%) Gatling
8 1 (0.48%) JMeter
8 1 (0.48%) JUnit
8 1 (0.48%) Moq
8 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.48%) WebDriver
General
1 69 (33.17%) Social Skills
2 50 (24.04%) Finance
3 30 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (12.02%) Documentation Skills
5 22 (10.58%) Public Sector
6 16 (7.69%) Banking
7 14 (6.73%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.40%) Retail
9 4 (1.92%) Military
10 3 (1.44%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.44%) Legal
11 2 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (28.85%) Architect
2 16 (7.69%) Developer
3 14 (6.73%) Senior
3 14 (6.73%) Technical Architect
4 13 (6.25%) CyberArk Architect
5 12 (5.77%) Network Engineer
6 10 (4.81%) Analyst
6 10 (4.81%) Lead
7 9 (4.33%) IAM Specialist
8 8 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
8 8 (3.85%) Consultant
8 8 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.88%) Java Developer
9 6 (2.88%) Security Architect
9 6 (2.88%) Security Engineer
10 5 (2.40%) Senior Architect
10 5 (2.40%) Senior Technical Architect
10 5 (2.40%) Support Engineer
10 5 (2.40%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (2.40%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (75.48%) OAuth
2 131 (62.98%) OpenID
3 81 (38.94%) LDAP
4 69 (33.17%) OAuth2
5 29 (13.94%) SailPoint
6 25 (12.02%) REST
7 13 (6.25%) RESTful
7 13 (6.25%) Web Services
8 11 (5.29%) JWT
9 10 (4.81%) .NET
9 10 (4.81%) SOAP
10 8 (3.85%) JSON
10 8 (3.85%) Spring Boot
11 7 (3.37%) Spring
12 5 (2.40%) FIDO
12 5 (2.40%) J2EE
12 5 (2.40%) JDBC
12 5 (2.40%) Middleware
12 5 (2.40%) XACML
13 4 (1.92%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (18.75%) Onboarding
2 31 (14.90%) Cloud Native
3 16 (7.69%) Replication
4 15 (7.21%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.33%) PKI
7 7 (3.37%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.88%) Security Posture
9 5 (2.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.40%) IoT
9 5 (2.40%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.92%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.92%) Clustering
10 4 (1.92%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.44%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.44%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.96%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.90%) Windows
2 18 (8.65%) Windows Server
3 16 (7.69%) Linux
4 5 (2.40%) CatOS
5 3 (1.44%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.96%) VMS
7 1 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (31.25%) Identity Access Management
2 64 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 64 (30.77%) DevOps
3 60 (28.85%) RBAC
4 46 (22.12%) Cybersecurity
5 36 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (15.87%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (15.38%) Migration
8 28 (13.46%) Roadmaps
8 28 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
9 26 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
9 26 (12.50%) Zero Trust
10 25 (12.02%) Design Patterns
11 24 (11.54%) Agile
11 24 (11.54%) Runbook
11 24 (11.54%) Threat Modelling
12 23 (11.06%) Architectural Design
12 23 (11.06%) Secrets Management
13 22 (10.58%) High Availability
13 22 (10.58%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 42 (20.19%) PowerShell
2 39 (18.75%) Python
3 35 (16.83%) Java
4 20 (9.62%) SQL
5 9 (4.33%) Go
6 8 (3.85%) Bash
6 8 (3.85%) C#
7 7 (3.37%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.40%) Bicep
9 3 (1.44%) Groovy
9 3 (1.44%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (31.73%) Security Cleared
2 52 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.69%) CISSP
4 15 (7.21%) Degree
5 13 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (4.33%) CISM
7 7 (3.37%) Azure Certification
7 7 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.40%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.92%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.44%) CSPO
11 3 (1.44%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.96%) CEH
12 2 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.48%) CCSP
13 1 (0.48%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (18.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 37 (17.79%) GDPR
3 36 (17.31%) NIST
4 21 (10.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 18 (8.65%) NCSC
6 7 (3.37%) HIPAA
6 7 (3.37%) PCI DSS
7 5 (2.40%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.92%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.44%) GRC
9 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.48%) QA
10 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (41.35%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.21%) Docker
3 10 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.81%) VMware NSX
4 6 (2.88%) RACF
5 2 (0.96%) Squid
Systems Management
1 83 (39.90%) Single Sign-On
2 47 (22.60%) Kubernetes
3 38 (18.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 26 (12.50%) Terraform
5 4 (1.92%) Ansible
5 4 (1.92%) CA Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.92%) 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 91 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 37 (17.79%) Okta
3 35 (16.83%) CyberArk
4 18 (8.65%) Splunk
5 16 (7.69%) ServiceNow
6 14 (6.73%) Google
6 14 (6.73%) Palo Alto
7 13 (6.25%) Cisco
7 13 (6.25%) Ping Identity
7 13 (6.25%) VMware
8 10 (4.81%) CheckPoint
8 10 (4.81%) F5
9 9 (4.33%) SAP
9 9 (4.33%) Zscaler
10 7 (3.37%) ForgeRock
11 6 (2.88%) Workday
12 5 (2.40%) SolarWinds
13 4 (1.92%) BeyondTrust
13 4 (1.92%) Citrix
13 4 (1.92%) Oracle