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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 367 405
Rank change year-on-year +6 +38 +120
Contract jobs citing SAML 220 104 143
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.42% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.80% 1.88% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 78 95
10th Percentile £406 £467 £333
25th Percentile £463 £538 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £616 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +7.13% -4.17%
75th Percentile £618 £669 £694
90th Percentile £715 £776 £750
UK median daily rate £537 £607 £600
% change year-on-year -11.53% +1.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
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 7,860 5,541 7,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.99% 22.62% 19.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,285 3,772 5,376
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 86 187
10th Percentile £35.15 £27.30 £21.08
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.56 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.80 £82.53 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 March 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 March 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 -3 101 £563 -10.71% 15
North of England -46 36 £470 -10.48% 2
South West +3 29 £555 -16.23%
Yorkshire -36 27 £470 +0.21% 1
Midlands -44 25 £438 -24.73% 1
West Midlands -45 22 £350 -41.40% 1
South East -56 16 £600 -4.38% 6
North West -25 9 £470 -10.48% 1
East of England - 7 £425 - 2
East Midlands -32 3 £438 -21.52%
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 (5.45%) Confluence
2 6 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.36%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 8 (3.64%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.45%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 118 (53.64%) Azure
2 81 (36.82%) Entra ID
3 59 (26.82%) AWS
4 28 (12.73%) GCP
5 19 (8.64%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (8.18%) OpenShift
7 17 (7.73%) PaaS
8 15 (6.82%) SaaS
9 12 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (5.45%) Serverless
10 9 (4.09%) GitHub
11 8 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (3.18%) Azure Storage
12 7 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (3.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (3.18%) IaaS
12 7 (3.18%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.27%) Azure AKS
13 5 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (2.27%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 44 (20.00%) DNS
2 43 (19.55%) Kerberos
3 30 (13.64%) Firewall
4 20 (9.09%) SSL
5 17 (7.73%) HTTP
6 15 (6.82%) DHCP
7 12 (5.45%) IPsec
7 12 (5.45%) VPN
8 9 (4.09%) HTTPS
8 9 (4.09%) Wireless
9 8 (3.64%) LAN
9 8 (3.64%) Network Security
9 8 (3.64%) TCP/IP
9 8 (3.64%) WAN
10 7 (3.18%) BIG-IP
10 7 (3.18%) Cisco ASA
10 7 (3.18%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (3.18%) Ethereal
10 7 (3.18%) Reverse Proxy
10 7 (3.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.18%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.36%) BigQuery
2 3 (1.36%) GIS
2 3 (1.36%) Power BI
3 2 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.91%) MySQL
3 2 (0.91%) Tableau
4 1 (0.45%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.45%) Metadata
4 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.45%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 26 (11.82%) Jenkins
2 12 (5.45%) JIRA
3 4 (1.82%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (1.82%) GitLab
3 4 (1.82%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.36%) Git
5 2 (0.91%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.91%) Postman
5 2 (0.91%) Selenium
6 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.45%) Gatling
6 1 (0.45%) git-flow
6 1 (0.45%) gulp
6 1 (0.45%) JMeter
6 1 (0.45%) JUnit
6 1 (0.45%) Maven
6 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.45%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 88 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 42 (19.09%) Finance
3 37 (16.82%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (7.27%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.36%) Banking
7 13 (5.91%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (4.09%) Aviation
8 9 (4.09%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.27%) Legal
10 3 (1.36%) Retail
11 2 (0.91%) Billing
11 2 (0.91%) Military
12 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.45%) Law
12 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (29.55%) Architect
2 18 (8.18%) Developer
2 18 (8.18%) Senior
3 14 (6.36%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (5.91%) Analyst
4 13 (5.91%) CyberArk Architect
5 11 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (5.00%) Security Architect
6 10 (4.55%) Consultant
6 10 (4.55%) Technical Architect
7 9 (4.09%) Network Engineer
7 9 (4.09%) Security Engineer
8 8 (3.64%) Applications Engineer
8 8 (3.64%) Cybersecurity Architect
9 7 (3.18%) Business Analyst
9 7 (3.18%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (3.18%) ForgeRock Developer
9 7 (3.18%) Lead
10 6 (2.73%) Senior Architect
10 6 (2.73%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (75.91%) OAuth
2 133 (60.45%) OpenID
3 70 (31.82%) OAuth2
4 66 (30.00%) LDAP
5 19 (8.64%) REST
6 17 (7.73%) SailPoint
7 15 (6.82%) JWT
7 15 (6.82%) RESTful
8 12 (5.45%) .NET
9 9 (4.09%) GraphQL
10 7 (3.18%) Web Services
11 6 (2.73%) Spring
11 6 (2.73%) Spring Boot
12 5 (2.27%) .NET Core
12 5 (2.27%) .NET Framework
12 5 (2.27%) HTML
12 5 (2.27%) XACML
13 4 (1.82%) CSS
13 4 (1.82%) J2EE
13 4 (1.82%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.82%) Onboarding
2 26 (11.82%) Cloud Native
3 21 (9.55%) Replication
4 17 (7.73%) Management Information System
5 12 (5.45%) Private Cloud
6 11 (5.00%) PKI
7 9 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (3.18%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.73%) Security Posture
11 5 (2.27%) BYOD
11 5 (2.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (1.36%) Mobile App
13 3 (1.36%) Product Ownership
14 2 (0.91%) AI Agents
14 2 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
14 2 (0.91%) Mainframe
14 2 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (19.09%) Windows
2 30 (13.64%) Windows Server
3 15 (6.82%) Linux
4 4 (1.82%) AIX
4 4 (1.82%) CatOS
4 4 (1.82%) Solaris
5 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (35.00%) Identity Access Management
2 72 (32.73%) RBAC
3 58 (26.36%) DevOps
4 57 (25.91%) CI/CD
5 56 (25.45%) Cybersecurity
6 43 (19.55%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (17.73%) Identity Management
8 36 (16.36%) Migration
9 32 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (13.18%) Secrets Management
11 28 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
12 27 (12.27%) Architectural Patterns
13 25 (11.36%) Agile
13 25 (11.36%) Design Patterns
14 24 (10.91%) Privileged Access Management
15 23 (10.45%) SIEM
16 22 (10.00%) Validation
17 21 (9.55%) Microservices
17 21 (9.55%) Roadmaps
17 21 (9.55%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 58 (26.36%) PowerShell
2 45 (20.45%) Python
3 26 (11.82%) Java
4 18 (8.18%) JavaScript
5 16 (7.27%) SQL
6 10 (4.55%) C#
7 9 (4.09%) Bash
7 9 (4.09%) Go
8 5 (2.27%) Groovy
9 4 (1.82%) Bicep
10 3 (1.36%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.36%) PHP
11 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 77 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 50 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 26 (11.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (8.64%) DV Cleared
5 17 (7.73%) Degree
6 16 (7.27%) CISSP
7 9 (4.09%) TOGAF Certification
8 8 (3.64%) CISM
9 6 (2.73%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.27%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.36%) PhD
12 2 (0.91%) CCSP
13 1 (0.45%) HND
13 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (18.18%) GDPR
2 35 (15.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (13.64%) NIST
4 24 (10.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 15 (6.82%) NCSC
6 9 (4.09%) PCI DSS
6 9 (4.09%) SOC 2
7 8 (3.64%) HIPAA
8 5 (2.27%) Data Quality
8 5 (2.27%) PSD2
9 4 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (1.82%) QA
10 3 (1.36%) GRC
10 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (1.36%) SLA
11 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 89 (40.45%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.91%) Docker
3 11 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.18%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.73%) RACF
6 2 (0.91%) OpenAM
6 2 (0.91%) OpenDJ
6 2 (0.91%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.45%) Squid
Systems Management
1 99 (45.00%) Single Sign-On
2 44 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 40 (18.18%) Kubernetes
4 26 (11.82%) Terraform
5 5 (2.27%) PingFederate
6 2 (0.91%) Ansible
6 2 (0.91%) Grafana
6 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.45%) Argo
7 1 (0.45%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Identity Manager
7 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 98 (44.55%) Microsoft
2 34 (15.45%) CyberArk
3 29 (13.18%) Okta
4 24 (10.91%) Splunk
5 17 (7.73%) VMware
6 16 (7.27%) Ping Identity
7 12 (5.45%) ForgeRock
7 12 (5.45%) Google
8 10 (4.55%) ServiceNow
9 9 (4.09%) Cisco
9 9 (4.09%) Palo Alto
9 9 (4.09%) SAP
10 7 (3.18%) BeyondTrust
10 7 (3.18%) CheckPoint
10 7 (3.18%) F5
11 6 (2.73%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.82%) Netskope
12 4 (1.82%) Oracle
13 3 (1.36%) ESRI
13 3 (1.36%) SolarWinds