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

 6 months to
26 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 400 390
Rank change year-on-year -28 -10 +106
Contract jobs citing SAML 204 119 143
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.43% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.39% 1.94% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 79 90
10th Percentile £363 £402 £363
25th Percentile £455 £440 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £570
Median % change year-on-year -7.57% -0.35% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £646 £649
90th Percentile £753 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% -5.00%
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 8,530 6,125 7,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.86% 22.21% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,592 4,224 5,184
10th Percentile £363 £350 £360
25th Percentile £430 £413 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% -5.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £809
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 139 235
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £50.88 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.20 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -16.00%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -37 93 £525 -13.65% 43
South East -30 50 £500 -13.04% 13
North of England -59 37 £563 +19.17% 11
Yorkshire -42 21 £623 +41.80% 5
North West -34 15 £525 -10.75% 7
Midlands -53 14 £400 -3.61% 3
West Midlands -44 11 £375 -37.81% 3
South West -35 4 £550 -4.35% 2
East Midlands -25 3 £402 -3.13%
North East - 2 £413 -
East of England -25 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 14 (6.86%) Confluence
2 5 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.49%) Apache
3 1 (0.49%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (0.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.47%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.98%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.49%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 136 (66.67%) Azure
2 103 (50.49%) Entra ID
3 74 (36.27%) AWS
4 41 (20.10%) GCP
5 34 (16.67%) SaaS
6 19 (9.31%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (5.88%) GitHub
9 11 (5.39%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (4.90%) IaaS
10 10 (4.90%) PaaS
11 9 (4.41%) Azure AKS
12 8 (3.92%) Boomi
12 8 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (3.43%) Serverless
14 6 (2.94%) Azure API Management
14 6 (2.94%) Azure App Service
14 6 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (2.45%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 27 (13.24%) SSL
2 26 (12.75%) DNS
3 24 (11.76%) Firewall
4 19 (9.31%) Kerberos
4 19 (9.31%) TCP/IP
5 16 (7.84%) HTTP
5 16 (7.84%) Network Security
6 14 (6.86%) VPN
7 12 (5.88%) IPsec
8 10 (4.90%) WAN
9 8 (3.92%) DHCP
9 8 (3.92%) LAN
9 8 (3.92%) Wireless
10 7 (3.43%) HTTPS
11 6 (2.94%) SD-WAN
12 4 (1.96%) BIG-IP
12 4 (1.96%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (1.96%) Internet
12 4 (1.96%) NGFW
12 4 (1.96%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
1 8 (3.92%) NoSQL
2 7 (3.43%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.45%) Metadata
4 3 (1.47%) MySQL
4 3 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.98%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.98%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (0.98%) Parquet
6 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.49%) Db2
6 1 (0.49%) GIS
6 1 (0.49%) Power BI
6 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (7.84%) JIRA
2 11 (5.39%) Browser DevTools
3 9 (4.41%) Git
4 5 (2.45%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.47%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.98%) GitLab
7 1 (0.49%) Moq
7 1 (0.49%) Postman
7 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 56 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.10%) Finance
3 32 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (12.25%) Public Sector
5 21 (10.29%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (6.37%) Banking
7 6 (2.94%) Legal
8 5 (2.45%) Military
8 5 (2.45%) Retail
9 4 (1.96%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.47%) Publishing
10 3 (1.47%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (24.51%) Architect
2 23 (11.27%) Developer
3 18 (8.82%) Technical Architect
4 14 (6.86%) IAM Specialist
5 13 (6.37%) Senior
6 10 (4.90%) Lead
6 10 (4.90%) Network Engineer
7 9 (4.41%) Consultant
7 9 (4.41%) Security Engineer
7 9 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (3.92%) Analyst
9 7 (3.43%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (3.43%) IAM Developer
10 6 (2.94%) Java Developer
10 6 (2.94%) Security Architect
11 5 (2.45%) Applications Engineer
11 5 (2.45%) Integration Architect
11 5 (2.45%) Product Owner
11 5 (2.45%) Support Engineer
11 5 (2.45%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (75.49%) OAuth
2 133 (65.20%) OpenID
3 80 (39.22%) OAuth2
4 60 (29.41%) LDAP
5 42 (20.59%) REST
6 35 (17.16%) SailPoint
7 24 (11.76%) SOAP
8 21 (10.29%) Web Services
9 19 (9.31%) JSON
10 16 (7.84%) JWT
11 15 (7.35%) RESTful
12 14 (6.86%) .NET
13 9 (4.41%) Middleware
13 9 (4.41%) XML
14 8 (3.92%) .NET Core
14 8 (3.92%) .NET Framework
14 8 (3.92%) Entity Framework
15 7 (3.43%) GraphQL
15 7 (3.43%) Kafka
15 7 (3.43%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 34 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 26 (12.75%) Cloud Native
3 18 (8.82%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (7.35%) PKI
5 14 (6.86%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (6.37%) Security Posture
7 9 (4.41%) Management Information System
7 9 (4.41%) Product Ownership
8 8 (3.92%) IoT
9 6 (2.94%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.96%) Clustering
11 4 (1.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.96%) Operational Technology
12 3 (1.47%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.98%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.35%) Windows
2 13 (6.37%) Linux
3 4 (1.96%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.98%) Unix
4 2 (0.98%) VMS
4 2 (0.98%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.49%) CatOS
5 1 (0.49%) CentOS
5 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (30.39%) Identity Access Management
2 56 (27.45%) CI/CD
2 56 (27.45%) RBAC
3 55 (26.96%) DevOps
4 47 (23.04%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (16.18%) Cybersecurity
5 33 (16.18%) Zero Trust
6 31 (15.20%) Migration
6 31 (15.20%) Roadmaps
7 29 (14.22%) Runbook
8 26 (12.75%) Agile
8 26 (12.75%) Microservices
9 24 (11.76%) API Integration
9 24 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
9 24 (11.76%) Integration Patterns
9 24 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 21 (10.29%) Analytics
10 21 (10.29%) ITIL
11 19 (9.31%) Computer Science
11 19 (9.31%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 45 (22.06%) Python
2 39 (19.12%) PowerShell
3 29 (14.22%) Java
4 23 (11.27%) SQL
5 10 (4.90%) Bash
5 10 (4.90%) C#
5 10 (4.90%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.94%) Bicep
7 4 (1.96%) Groovy
8 3 (1.47%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.98%) Go
9 2 (0.98%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.49%) Perl
10 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (23.04%) Security Cleared
2 36 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 29 (14.22%) Degree
4 23 (11.27%) CISSP
5 14 (6.86%) Azure Certification
6 12 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (4.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (4.90%) CISM
8 9 (4.41%) AWS Certification
8 9 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.94%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.45%) CSPO
11 4 (1.96%) CEH
11 4 (1.96%) GIAC
12 3 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.47%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.98%) CRISC
13 2 (0.98%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (13.73%) NIST
3 25 (12.25%) GDPR
4 8 (3.92%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.43%) NCSC
6 6 (2.94%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (2.45%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.98%) GRC
8 2 (0.98%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.49%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.49%) QA
9 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 85 (41.67%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.90%) Docker
3 5 (2.45%) RACF
4 4 (1.96%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.47%) OpenAM
5 3 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.49%) Squid
Systems Management
1 70 (34.31%) Single Sign-On
2 26 (12.75%) Kubernetes
2 26 (12.75%) Terraform
3 24 (11.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 7 (3.43%) Ansible
5 4 (1.96%) CA Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.96%) PingFederate
5 4 (1.96%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.49%) Argo
7 1 (0.49%) CASB
7 1 (0.49%) Consul
7 1 (0.49%) Grafana
7 1 (0.49%) Packer
7 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.49%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 88 (43.14%) Microsoft
2 27 (13.24%) Okta
3 18 (8.82%) CyberArk
3 18 (8.82%) Google
3 18 (8.82%) Ping Identity
4 17 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 14 (6.86%) Cisco
5 14 (6.86%) Palo Alto
6 12 (5.88%) Oracle
7 11 (5.39%) Zscaler
8 10 (4.90%) ForgeRock
8 10 (4.90%) SAP
9 9 (4.41%) Workday
10 7 (3.43%) BeyondTrust
10 7 (3.43%) F5
10 7 (3.43%) MuleSoft
11 5 (2.45%) Citrix
11 5 (2.45%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (2.45%) IBM
11 5 (2.45%) VMware
70 SAML jobs in England