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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 386 398
Rank change year-on-year -15 +12 +102
Contract jobs citing SAML 212 117 153
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.43% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.50% 1.92% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 77 98
10th Percentile £396 £402 £363
25th Percentile £460 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% -6.67%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £643
90th Percentile £820 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £538 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -6.52% +2.68% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 3
10th Percentile £55.50 - £24.34
25th Percentile £72.50 - £24.59
Median hourly rate £77.50 - £25.00
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile £87.16 - -
UK median hourly rate £77.50 £55.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +40.91% +120.00% -

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 8,465 6,107 7,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.86% 22.27% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,558 4,200 5,303
10th Percentile £363 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £521 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -5.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £746 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £540
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 135 248
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.15
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +3.18% -6.96%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -21 105 £538 -11.60% 28
South East -33 42 £750 +30.43% 15
North of England -58 38 £563 +18.42% 5
Yorkshire -47 22 £620 +41.23% 1
Midlands -43 16 £401 -3.37% 1
North West -37 15 £525 - 4
West Midlands -50 12 £375 -37.81% 1
East Midlands -24 4 £420 +1.14%
South West -34 4 £550 -11.11%
North East - 2 £413 -
East of England -15 1 - - 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 9 (4.25%) Confluence
2 5 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.47%) Apache
3 1 (0.47%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (0.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.94%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.47%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 132 (62.26%) Azure
2 101 (47.64%) Entra ID
3 75 (35.38%) AWS
4 42 (19.81%) GCP
5 30 (14.15%) SaaS
6 16 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (5.19%) GitHub
8 11 (5.19%) OpenShift
9 10 (4.72%) Serverless
10 7 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.83%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (2.83%) Cloud Run
11 6 (2.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (2.36%) Boomi
12 5 (2.36%) Google Workspace
12 5 (2.36%) IaaS
12 5 (2.36%) PaaS
13 4 (1.89%) OneDrive
13 4 (1.89%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 29 (13.68%) DNS
2 25 (11.79%) SSL
3 24 (11.32%) Firewall
4 23 (10.85%) Kerberos
5 19 (8.96%) TCP/IP
6 17 (8.02%) Network Security
7 15 (7.08%) HTTP
8 14 (6.60%) VPN
9 11 (5.19%) DHCP
9 11 (5.19%) IPsec
10 10 (4.72%) WAN
11 8 (3.77%) LAN
11 8 (3.77%) Wireless
12 7 (3.30%) HTTPS
13 6 (2.83%) SD-WAN
14 4 (1.89%) BIG-IP
14 4 (1.89%) Cisco ASA
14 4 (1.89%) Internet
14 4 (1.89%) NGFW
14 4 (1.89%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.30%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.36%) Metadata
3 3 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.42%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.42%) MySQL
3 3 (1.42%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.94%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.47%) Db2
5 1 (0.47%) GIS
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.47%) Parquet
5 1 (0.47%) Power BI
5 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (7.08%) JIRA
2 14 (6.60%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.19%) Browser DevTools
4 5 (2.36%) Git
5 3 (1.42%) Fiddler
5 3 (1.42%) GitLab
6 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.47%) Moq
6 1 (0.47%) Postman
6 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 65 (30.66%) Social Skills
2 51 (24.06%) Finance
3 32 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (13.21%) Documentation Skills
5 26 (12.26%) Public Sector
6 17 (8.02%) Banking
7 10 (4.72%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.36%) Legal
8 5 (2.36%) Military
8 5 (2.36%) Retail
9 4 (1.89%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.94%) Publishing
11 2 (0.94%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 62 (29.25%) Architect
2 18 (8.49%) Technical Architect
3 16 (7.55%) Developer
4 14 (6.60%) IAM Specialist
5 13 (6.13%) Senior
6 10 (4.72%) Lead
6 10 (4.72%) Network Engineer
6 10 (4.72%) Security Engineer
7 9 (4.25%) Analyst
7 9 (4.25%) CyberArk Architect
8 8 (3.77%) Consultant
8 8 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (3.30%) IAM Developer
9 7 (3.30%) Security Architect
10 6 (2.83%) Java Developer
11 5 (2.36%) Applications Engineer
11 5 (2.36%) Integration Architect
11 5 (2.36%) Product Owner
11 5 (2.36%) Support Engineer
11 5 (2.36%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (72.17%) OAuth
2 143 (67.45%) OpenID
3 78 (36.79%) OAuth2
4 73 (34.43%) LDAP
5 35 (16.51%) SailPoint
6 33 (15.57%) REST
7 19 (8.96%) Web Services
8 18 (8.49%) SOAP
9 13 (6.13%) JSON
9 13 (6.13%) JWT
10 12 (5.66%) RESTful
11 9 (4.25%) .NET
12 7 (3.30%) Middleware
12 7 (3.30%) Spring Boot
13 6 (2.83%) FIDO
13 6 (2.83%) Spring
14 5 (2.36%) GraphQL
14 5 (2.36%) Jakarta EE
14 5 (2.36%) JDBC
14 5 (2.36%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 43 (20.28%) Onboarding
2 34 (16.04%) Cloud Native
3 16 (7.55%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (7.08%) PKI
5 13 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (6.13%) Security Posture
6 10 (4.72%) Product Ownership
7 9 (4.25%) Management Information System
8 8 (3.77%) IoT
9 6 (2.83%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.83%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.89%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.89%) Clustering
11 4 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.89%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.89%) Replication
12 3 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.96%) Windows
2 15 (7.08%) Linux
3 5 (2.36%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.89%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.94%) Unix
5 2 (0.94%) VMS
6 1 (0.47%) CatOS
6 1 (0.47%) CentOS
6 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (28.77%) CI/CD
1 61 (28.77%) DevOps
1 61 (28.77%) Identity Access Management
2 54 (25.47%) RBAC
3 43 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (19.81%) Cybersecurity
5 34 (16.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 34 (16.04%) Zero Trust
6 32 (15.09%) Roadmaps
7 31 (14.62%) Migration
8 30 (14.15%) Runbook
9 28 (13.21%) Agile
10 27 (12.74%) Stakeholder Management
11 26 (12.26%) Microservices
12 25 (11.79%) API Integration
13 24 (11.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 23 (10.85%) ITSM
15 22 (10.38%) Architectural Patterns
16 21 (9.91%) Containerisation
16 21 (9.91%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 44 (20.75%) Python
2 38 (17.92%) PowerShell
3 32 (15.09%) Java
4 21 (9.91%) SQL
5 10 (4.72%) Bash
6 8 (3.77%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.30%) Go
8 5 (2.36%) C#
9 4 (1.89%) Bicep
10 3 (1.42%) Groovy
10 3 (1.42%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.94%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.47%) Perl
12 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (27.36%) Security Cleared
2 50 (23.58%) SC Cleared
3 29 (13.68%) Degree
4 23 (10.85%) CISSP
5 12 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (5.19%) Azure Certification
7 10 (4.72%) CISM
8 9 (4.25%) AWS Certification
8 9 (4.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.83%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.36%) CSPO
11 4 (1.89%) CEH
11 4 (1.89%) GIAC
12 3 (1.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.42%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.94%) CRISC
14 1 (0.47%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (18.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 38 (17.92%) NIST
3 28 (13.21%) GDPR
4 17 (8.02%) NCSC
5 9 (4.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (3.77%) Data Quality
7 6 (2.83%) HIPAA
7 6 (2.83%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.89%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.42%) GRC
10 2 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.47%) QA
11 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 82 (38.68%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.13%) Docker
3 5 (2.36%) RACF
4 4 (1.89%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.42%) OpenAM
5 3 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.47%) Squid
Systems Management
1 74 (34.91%) Single Sign-On
2 41 (19.34%) Kubernetes
3 27 (12.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 27 (12.74%) Terraform
4 7 (3.30%) Ansible
5 4 (1.89%) CA Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.89%) PingFederate
5 4 (1.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.47%) Argo
7 1 (0.47%) CASB
7 1 (0.47%) Consul
7 1 (0.47%) Grafana
7 1 (0.47%) Packer
7 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 85 (40.09%) Microsoft
2 30 (14.15%) Okta
3 29 (13.68%) CyberArk
4 19 (8.96%) Ping Identity
5 18 (8.49%) Google
5 18 (8.49%) ServiceNow
6 14 (6.60%) Cisco
6 14 (6.60%) Palo Alto
6 14 (6.60%) Splunk
7 11 (5.19%) Zscaler
8 10 (4.72%) ForgeRock
9 9 (4.25%) SAP
10 8 (3.77%) Oracle
10 8 (3.77%) Workday
11 7 (3.30%) F5
12 6 (2.83%) BeyondTrust
13 5 (2.36%) Citrix
13 5 (2.36%) CrowdStrike
13 5 (2.36%) VMware
14 4 (1.89%) Netskope