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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 377 389
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 +116
Contract jobs citing SAML 213 100 162
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.41% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.69% 1.84% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 74 112
10th Percentile £400 £464 £364
25th Percentile £463 £528 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £602 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.22% +0.25% -
75th Percentile £614 £669 £678
90th Percentile £715 £784 £749
UK median daily rate £540 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -10.00% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
UK median hourly rate - - £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 7,928 5,449 7,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.77% 22.48% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,311 3,760 5,406
10th Percentile £358 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £545
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -2.11% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 88 168
10th Percentile £35.03 £26.85 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.20 £37.02
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £78.63 £83.27 £75.00
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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -15 101 £545 -13.49% 13
North of England -48 37 £488 -7.14% 3
South West -2 25 £565 -8.69% 1
Midlands -51 25 £438 -23.91% 1
Yorkshire -41 23 £468 -0.21% 2
West Midlands -39 22 £350 -40.43% 1
South East -54 16 £600 -4.00% 7
North West -33 14 £550 +4.76% 1
East of England - 4 £425 - 3
East Midlands -31 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 13 (6.10%) Confluence
2 6 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.41%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (3.76%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.47%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 116 (54.46%) Azure
2 81 (38.03%) Entra ID
3 54 (25.35%) AWS
4 33 (15.49%) GCP
5 18 (8.45%) OpenShift
6 16 (7.51%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (7.51%) SaaS
7 14 (6.57%) PaaS
8 12 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (5.63%) Serverless
9 7 (3.29%) Azure Storage
9 7 (3.29%) GitHub
9 7 (3.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (3.29%) IaaS
9 7 (3.29%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.82%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.35%) Azure AKS
11 5 (2.35%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (2.35%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 48 (22.54%) DNS
2 39 (18.31%) Kerberos
3 31 (14.55%) Firewall
4 24 (11.27%) SSL
5 18 (8.45%) DHCP
5 18 (8.45%) HTTP
6 12 (5.63%) IPsec
6 12 (5.63%) VPN
7 10 (4.69%) HTTPS
8 9 (4.23%) TCP/IP
8 9 (4.23%) Wireless
9 8 (3.76%) LAN
9 8 (3.76%) WAN
10 7 (3.29%) BIG-IP
10 7 (3.29%) Cisco ASA
10 7 (3.29%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (3.29%) Ethereal
10 7 (3.29%) Network Security
10 7 (3.29%) Reverse Proxy
10 7 (3.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.88%) Metadata
3 3 (1.41%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.41%) GIS
4 2 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.94%) MySQL
4 2 (0.94%) Power BI
4 2 (0.94%) Tableau
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.47%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 26 (12.21%) Jenkins
2 13 (6.10%) JIRA
3 6 (2.82%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (1.88%) GitLab
4 4 (1.88%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.94%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.94%) Git
5 2 (0.94%) Postman
5 2 (0.94%) Selenium
6 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.47%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.47%) Gatling
6 1 (0.47%) git-flow
6 1 (0.47%) JMeter
6 1 (0.47%) JUnit
6 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.47%) WebDriver
General
1 76 (35.68%) Social Skills
2 45 (21.13%) Finance
3 32 (15.02%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (13.62%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (7.51%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.57%) Banking
7 13 (6.10%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.35%) Aviation
9 5 (2.35%) Retail
10 3 (1.41%) Legal
11 2 (0.94%) Billing
11 2 (0.94%) Military
12 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 59 (27.70%) Architect
2 19 (8.92%) Senior
3 14 (6.57%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (6.10%) CyberArk Architect
5 12 (5.63%) Analyst
5 12 (5.63%) Developer
6 10 (4.69%) Consultant
6 10 (4.69%) Technical Architect
7 9 (4.23%) Network Engineer
8 8 (3.76%) Applications Engineer
8 8 (3.76%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (3.29%) Business Analyst
10 6 (2.82%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 6 (2.82%) IAM Specialist
10 6 (2.82%) Lead
10 6 (2.82%) Security Architect
10 6 (2.82%) Senior Architect
10 6 (2.82%) Tester
11 5 (2.35%) Active Directory Engineer
11 5 (2.35%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (75.59%) OAuth
2 132 (61.97%) OpenID
3 69 (32.39%) LDAP
4 67 (31.46%) OAuth2
5 20 (9.39%) SailPoint
6 18 (8.45%) REST
7 16 (7.51%) JWT
8 11 (5.16%) RESTful
9 10 (4.69%) .NET
10 8 (3.76%) GraphQL
11 7 (3.29%) Web Services
12 6 (2.82%) Spring
12 6 (2.82%) Spring Boot
13 5 (2.35%) .NET Core
13 5 (2.35%) .NET Framework
13 5 (2.35%) XACML
14 4 (1.88%) ARM Templates
14 4 (1.88%) J2EE
14 4 (1.88%) JSON
14 4 (1.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.49%) Onboarding
2 27 (12.68%) Cloud Native
3 21 (9.86%) Replication
4 12 (5.63%) PKI
4 12 (5.63%) Private Cloud
5 10 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.76%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.88%) Clustering
8 4 (1.88%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.41%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.41%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.41%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.94%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (0.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (20.19%) Windows
2 30 (14.08%) Windows Server
3 17 (7.98%) Linux
4 4 (1.88%) AIX
4 4 (1.88%) CatOS
4 4 (1.88%) Solaris
5 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (32.86%) RBAC
2 69 (32.39%) Identity Access Management
3 59 (27.70%) DevOps
4 54 (25.35%) CI/CD
5 50 (23.47%) Cybersecurity
6 40 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (16.90%) Migration
8 33 (15.49%) Identity Management
9 31 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
10 28 (13.15%) Infrastructure as Code
11 26 (12.21%) Secrets Management
12 24 (11.27%) Agile
13 23 (10.80%) Design Patterns
13 23 (10.80%) Threat Modelling
13 23 (10.80%) Validation
14 22 (10.33%) Architectural Patterns
14 22 (10.33%) Privileged Access Management
15 21 (9.86%) High Availability
15 21 (9.86%) Runbook
15 21 (9.86%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 50 (23.47%) PowerShell
2 38 (17.84%) Python
3 29 (13.62%) Java
4 16 (7.51%) JavaScript
4 16 (7.51%) SQL
5 11 (5.16%) C#
6 10 (4.69%) Bash
7 9 (4.23%) Go
8 5 (2.35%) Groovy
9 4 (1.88%) Bicep
10 3 (1.41%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 76 (35.68%) Security Cleared
2 48 (22.54%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.80%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (8.92%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.69%) Degree
6 9 (4.23%) CISSP
7 5 (2.35%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.35%) CISM
8 3 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.94%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.47%) CEH
10 1 (0.47%) HND
10 1 (0.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (17.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 36 (16.90%) GDPR
3 35 (16.43%) NIST
4 19 (8.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 15 (7.04%) NCSC
6 9 (4.23%) SOC 2
7 8 (3.76%) PCI DSS
8 6 (2.82%) HIPAA
9 5 (2.35%) Data Quality
10 4 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (1.41%) GRC
11 3 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (1.41%) QA
12 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 92 (43.19%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.16%) Docker
2 11 (5.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.29%) VMware NSX
4 6 (2.82%) RACF
5 2 (0.94%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.94%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.94%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.47%) Squid
Systems Management
1 93 (43.66%) Single Sign-On
2 49 (23.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 39 (18.31%) Kubernetes
4 25 (11.74%) Terraform
5 8 (3.76%) PingFederate
6 4 (1.88%) CA Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.94%) Ansible
7 2 (0.94%) Grafana
8 1 (0.47%) Argo
8 1 (0.47%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle Identity Manager
8 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.47%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 94 (44.13%) Microsoft
2 36 (16.90%) CyberArk
3 32 (15.02%) Okta
4 24 (11.27%) Splunk
5 17 (7.98%) VMware
6 14 (6.57%) Ping Identity
6 14 (6.57%) ServiceNow
7 12 (5.63%) Google
8 9 (4.23%) BeyondTrust
8 9 (4.23%) Cisco
8 9 (4.23%) Palo Alto
9 8 (3.76%) SAP
10 7 (3.29%) CheckPoint
10 7 (3.29%) F5
10 7 (3.29%) ForgeRock
11 6 (2.82%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.88%) Netskope
12 4 (1.88%) Oracle
13 3 (1.41%) ESRI
13 3 (1.41%) Forcepoint