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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 389 420
Rank change year-on-year +38 +31 +112
Contract jobs citing SAML 222 93 145
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.36% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.92% 1.59% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 63 101
10th Percentile £406 £465 £325
25th Percentile £438 £525 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £651 £700
90th Percentile £715 £740 £843
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £25.00
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.00 - £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 7,598 5,832 7,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.74% 22.56% 20.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,100 3,821 5,543
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £416 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £669
90th Percentile £738 £788 £769
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.69% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 75 196
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.74 £24.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £47.38 £43.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £52.20
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +19.74% -19.70%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.63 £67.13
90th Percentile £80.20 £76.09 £77.02
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +19.05% -19.23%

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 21 February 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
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 21 February 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 +13 97 £575 -4.17% 22
North of England -32 38 £453 -13.71% 3
South West - 35 £540 - 2
Yorkshire -39 26 £469 -21.83% 2
Midlands -41 26 £447 -25.50% 5
West Midlands -37 22 £450 -25.86% 5
South East -38 14 £600 -4.38% 13
North West -26 12 £453 -13.71% 1
East of England - 8 £425 -
East Midlands -28 4 £442 -26.29%
North East - 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 12 (5.41%) Confluence
2 10 (4.50%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.70%) Apache
3 6 (2.70%) IIS
3 6 (2.70%) iPlanet
3 6 (2.70%) JBoss
3 6 (2.70%) WebSphere
3 6 (2.70%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.35%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 7 (3.15%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.45%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 120 (54.05%) Azure
2 83 (37.39%) Entra ID
3 66 (29.73%) AWS
4 30 (13.51%) GCP
5 23 (10.36%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (10.36%) OpenShift
6 22 (9.91%) SaaS
7 19 (8.56%) PaaS
8 12 (5.41%) Serverless
9 11 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (4.95%) GitHub
10 9 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (3.60%) IaaS
11 8 (3.60%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.15%) Azure Storage
12 7 (3.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (2.25%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (2.25%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 49 (22.07%) Kerberos
2 40 (18.02%) DNS
3 32 (14.41%) Firewall
4 19 (8.56%) SSL
5 16 (7.21%) VPN
6 15 (6.76%) DHCP
7 11 (4.95%) IPsec
7 11 (4.95%) Network Security
8 10 (4.50%) HTTP
9 9 (4.05%) Wireshark
10 8 (3.60%) Wireless
11 7 (3.15%) HTTPS
11 7 (3.15%) Reverse Proxy
12 6 (2.70%) BIG-IP
12 6 (2.70%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (2.70%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (2.70%) Ethereal
12 6 (2.70%) LAN
12 6 (2.70%) WAN
13 4 (1.80%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.70%) Oracle Database
2 5 (2.25%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.80%) Power BI
4 3 (1.35%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.35%) GIS
4 3 (1.35%) Metadata
5 2 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.45%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.45%) Parquet
6 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (14.86%) Jenkins
2 11 (4.95%) JIRA
3 10 (4.50%) Git
4 6 (2.70%) Bitbucket Server
4 6 (2.70%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (2.25%) GitLab
5 5 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.80%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.90%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.90%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.90%) Maven
7 2 (0.90%) Postman
7 2 (0.90%) Selenium
8 1 (0.45%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.45%) Gatling
8 1 (0.45%) git-flow
8 1 (0.45%) gulp
8 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 91 (40.99%) Social Skills
2 41 (18.47%) Finance
3 36 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (14.86%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (6.31%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.86%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (4.95%) Aviation
8 9 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.60%) Banking
10 5 (2.25%) Legal
11 3 (1.35%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.90%) Billing
12 2 (0.90%) Military
13 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Law
13 1 (0.45%) Publishing
13 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 63 (28.38%) Architect
2 21 (9.46%) Senior
3 18 (8.11%) Developer
4 15 (6.76%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (6.31%) Analyst
6 13 (5.86%) CyberArk Architect
6 13 (5.86%) Security Engineer
7 12 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (5.41%) Consultant
8 11 (4.95%) Network Engineer
8 11 (4.95%) Security Architect
9 9 (4.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.05%) Technical Architect
10 8 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (3.60%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 8 (3.60%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.15%) Business Analyst
11 7 (3.15%) ForgeRock Developer
11 7 (3.15%) Lead
11 7 (3.15%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (76.13%) OAuth
2 144 (64.86%) OpenID
3 73 (32.88%) LDAP
4 67 (30.18%) OAuth2
5 17 (7.66%) REST
6 16 (7.21%) SailPoint
7 15 (6.76%) JWT
7 15 (6.76%) RESTful
8 12 (5.41%) .NET
9 9 (4.05%) GraphQL
10 7 (3.15%) Web Services
11 6 (2.70%) Spring
12 5 (2.25%) .NET Core
12 5 (2.25%) .NET Framework
12 5 (2.25%) AngularJS
12 5 (2.25%) HTML
12 5 (2.25%) React
12 5 (2.25%) Spring Boot
12 5 (2.25%) XACML
13 4 (1.80%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.32%) Onboarding
2 28 (12.61%) Cloud Native
3 22 (9.91%) Replication
4 17 (7.66%) Management Information System
5 12 (5.41%) Private Cloud
6 11 (4.95%) PKI
7 9 (4.05%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (2.25%) BYOD
10 5 (2.25%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.35%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.35%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
14 1 (0.45%) Algorithms
14 1 (0.45%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 46 (20.72%) Windows
2 35 (15.77%) Windows Server
3 22 (9.91%) Linux
4 5 (2.25%) Unix
5 4 (1.80%) AIX
5 4 (1.80%) CatOS
5 4 (1.80%) Solaris
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (37.39%) Identity Access Management
2 70 (31.53%) RBAC
3 66 (29.73%) CI/CD
4 65 (29.28%) DevOps
5 56 (25.23%) Cybersecurity
6 45 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (18.02%) Identity Management
8 36 (16.22%) Migration
9 32 (14.41%) Stakeholder Management
10 31 (13.96%) Infrastructure as Code
11 29 (13.06%) Secrets Management
12 27 (12.16%) Architectural Patterns
13 26 (11.71%) Agile
13 26 (11.71%) Privileged Access Management
13 26 (11.71%) SIEM
14 23 (10.36%) Design Patterns
14 23 (10.36%) Zero Trust
15 22 (9.91%) Multi-Factor Authentication
15 22 (9.91%) Roadmaps
15 22 (9.91%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 63 (28.38%) PowerShell
2 43 (19.37%) Python
3 24 (10.81%) Java
4 19 (8.56%) JavaScript
5 16 (7.21%) SQL
6 12 (5.41%) Groovy
7 10 (4.50%) C#
8 9 (4.05%) Go
9 8 (3.60%) Bash
10 5 (2.25%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.80%) Bicep
12 3 (1.35%) PHP
13 2 (0.90%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 76 (34.23%) Security Cleared
2 50 (22.52%) SC Cleared
3 29 (13.06%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (8.56%) DV Cleared
5 18 (8.11%) CISSP
6 17 (7.66%) Degree
7 9 (4.05%) TOGAF Certification
8 8 (3.60%) CISM
9 7 (3.15%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.25%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.35%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.35%) PhD
13 2 (0.90%) CCSP
14 1 (0.45%) HND
14 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (20.27%) GDPR
2 40 (18.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (14.41%) NIST
4 22 (9.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 15 (6.76%) NCSC
6 14 (6.31%) SOC 2
7 9 (4.05%) PCI DSS
8 7 (3.15%) HIPAA
9 6 (2.70%) QA
10 5 (2.25%) PSD2
11 4 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (1.80%) Data Quality
12 3 (1.35%) GRC
12 3 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (1.35%) SLA
13 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (44.14%) Active Directory
2 19 (8.56%) Docker
3 10 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.70%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.25%) RACF
5 5 (2.25%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 2 (0.90%) OpenAM
6 2 (0.90%) OpenDJ
6 2 (0.90%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.45%) Squid
Systems Management
1 107 (48.20%) Single Sign-On
2 42 (18.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 38 (17.12%) Kubernetes
4 30 (13.51%) Terraform
5 9 (4.05%) PingFederate
6 6 (2.70%) CA Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.70%) CA Wily
7 5 (2.25%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.25%) Tivoli
8 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.35%) Ansible
9 3 (1.35%) SCCM
10 2 (0.90%) Grafana
11 1 (0.45%) Argo
11 1 (0.45%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.45%) Oracle Identity Manager
11 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 110 (49.55%) Microsoft
2 33 (14.86%) CyberArk
2 33 (14.86%) Splunk
3 30 (13.51%) Okta
4 19 (8.56%) Ping Identity
5 16 (7.21%) VMware
6 13 (5.86%) Google
7 12 (5.41%) ForgeRock
8 8 (3.60%) Cisco
8 8 (3.60%) Oracle
8 8 (3.60%) Palo Alto
8 8 (3.60%) SAP
8 8 (3.60%) ServiceNow
9 7 (3.15%) AppDynamics
9 7 (3.15%) BeyondTrust
10 6 (2.70%) Broadcom
10 6 (2.70%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.70%) F5
10 6 (2.70%) IBM
11 4 (1.80%) Zscaler