SAML Contracts in England

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring SAML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAML over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 386 528
Rank change year-on-year +6 +142 +77
Contract jobs citing SAML 112 160 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.43% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.88% 2.01% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 105 84
10th Percentile £404 £375 £404
25th Percentile £437 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -5.83% -
75th Percentile £644 £645 £702
90th Percentile £750 £695 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £25.00 -
% change year-on-year +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 5,958 7,946 10,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.47% 21.32% 22.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,103 5,538 8,031
10th Percentile £355 £350 £385
25th Percentile £413 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £780 £800 £798
UK median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 266 142
10th Percentile £30.55 £23.80 £31.18
25th Percentile £44.38 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £57.75 £58.30 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -10.31% +21.50%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.41 £74.47 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SAML in England

SAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAML in England.

Daily rate trend for SAML in England

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAML in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAML in England

SAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAML in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 5 July 2025. 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 +7 54 £609 +9.73% 125
North of England +15 21 £488 -21.37% 31
Yorkshire +14 17 £439 +1.62% 10
Midlands -4 15 £422 -32.15% 38
East Midlands +3 14 £415 -33.17% 18
South East +35 7 £575 +15.00% 27
North West +4 4 £525 -17.32% 20
South West +27 2 £619 +37.50% 12
East of England +24 1 - - 13
West Midlands -2 1 £603 -7.23% 20
SAML
UK

SAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (9.82%) Confluence
2 5 (4.46%) CMS
2 5 (4.46%) Headless CMS
3 3 (2.68%) WebSphere
3 3 (2.68%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.79%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (3.57%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.89%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.89%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 58 (51.79%) AWS
2 52 (46.43%) Azure
3 42 (37.50%) Entra ID
4 26 (23.21%) GCP
5 18 (16.07%) SaaS
6 17 (15.18%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (9.82%) Azure AKS
7 11 (9.82%) OCI
8 10 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (8.04%) Serverless
10 8 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 7 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (6.25%) SuccessFactors
12 6 (5.36%) Amazon Cognito
12 6 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (4.46%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (4.46%) Amazon S3
13 5 (4.46%) GitHub
14 4 (3.57%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.71%) SSL
2 9 (8.04%) Kerberos
3 6 (5.36%) Firewall
3 6 (5.36%) HTTP
3 6 (5.36%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.79%) DNS
4 2 (1.79%) Internet
4 2 (1.79%) VPN
5 1 (0.89%) DHCP
5 1 (0.89%) Wireless
5 1 (0.89%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.46%) DynamoDB
2 3 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.79%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.79%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.89%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.89%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 11 (9.82%) JIRA
2 7 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.57%) Git
4 3 (2.68%) Log4j
5 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.89%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.89%) GitLab
5 1 (0.89%) Maven
5 1 (0.89%) Postman
General
1 35 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.54%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.36%) Banking
5 3 (2.68%) Finance
6 2 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.79%) French Language
6 2 (1.79%) Publishing
6 2 (1.79%) Retail
7 1 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (34.82%) Architect
2 12 (10.71%) Security Architect
3 10 (8.93%) Analyst
3 10 (8.93%) Business Analyst
3 10 (8.93%) IAM Specialist
4 9 (8.04%) AWS Specialist
5 8 (7.14%) Lead
6 6 (5.36%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
6 6 (5.36%) Identity Management Engineer
7 5 (4.46%) Designer
7 5 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.46%) Solutions Designer
8 4 (3.57%) Consultant
8 4 (3.57%) Developer
8 4 (3.57%) Security Engineer
8 4 (3.57%) ServiceNow Architect
8 4 (3.57%) Systems Analyst
9 3 (2.68%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (2.68%) Lead Architect
9 3 (2.68%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (80.36%) OAuth
2 77 (68.75%) OpenID
3 40 (35.71%) LDAP
4 24 (21.43%) OAuth2
5 21 (18.75%) REST
6 17 (15.18%) JSON
6 17 (15.18%) SailPoint
7 16 (14.29%) SOAP
8 12 (10.71%) Hibernate
8 12 (10.71%) Spring
9 11 (9.82%) JDBC
10 8 (7.14%) JWT
10 8 (7.14%) ODBC
10 8 (7.14%) Web Services
11 7 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
12 5 (4.46%) XML
13 4 (3.57%) HTML
13 4 (3.57%) HTML5
13 4 (3.57%) Middleware
13 4 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.86%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 14 (12.50%) Onboarding
4 8 (7.14%) Security Posture
5 7 (6.25%) PKI
6 6 (5.36%) Management Information System
7 5 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.79%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.79%) Replication
9 1 (0.89%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.89%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.89%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.89%) PMI
9 1 (0.89%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.89%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.36%) Linux
2 3 (2.68%) Windows
3 2 (1.79%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.79%) Unix
4 1 (0.89%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 44 (39.29%) RBAC
3 37 (33.04%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (32.14%) Identity Management
5 34 (30.36%) DevOps
6 25 (22.32%) CI/CD
7 22 (19.64%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 18 (16.07%) Agile
9 17 (15.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (15.18%) Migration
10 15 (13.39%) Containerisation
11 14 (12.50%) Mentoring
11 14 (12.50%) Roadmaps
12 13 (11.61%) Regulatory Compliance
12 13 (11.61%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (10.71%) Cloud Security
14 11 (9.82%) Integration Patterns
15 10 (8.93%) DevSecOps
15 10 (8.93%) Privileged Identity Management
15 10 (8.93%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (24.11%) Java
1 27 (24.11%) Python
2 21 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 12 (10.71%) JavaScript
4 5 (4.46%) Bash
4 5 (4.46%) Groovy
4 5 (4.46%) SQL
5 4 (3.57%) C#
6 1 (0.89%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.89%) Bicep
6 1 (0.89%) Ruby
6 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.89%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.89%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.89%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.93%) Degree
4 8 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 8 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (6.25%) OCP
5 7 (6.25%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.57%) CISSP
7 2 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.79%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.89%) CBAP
8 1 (0.89%) CISM
8 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.89%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (21.43%) GDPR
2 22 (19.64%) HIPAA
3 20 (17.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 15 (13.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (12.50%) NIST
6 7 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.79%) NCSC
7 2 (1.79%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.79%) QA
7 2 (1.79%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.89%) GRC
System Software
1 34 (30.36%) Active Directory
2 15 (13.39%) Docker
3 7 (6.25%) OpenAM
4 4 (3.57%) OpenDJ
4 4 (3.57%) OpenIDM
5 2 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 65 (58.04%) Single Sign-On
2 29 (25.89%) Kubernetes
3 18 (16.07%) Terraform
4 12 (10.71%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.68%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.68%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (1.79%) Ansible
8 1 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 33 (29.46%) Microsoft
2 23 (20.54%) Ping Identity
3 18 (16.07%) IBM
4 17 (15.18%) Okta
5 11 (9.82%) ForgeRock
6 10 (8.93%) Oracle
7 8 (7.14%) Alibaba
7 8 (7.14%) CyberArk
7 8 (7.14%) SAP
8 7 (6.25%) ServiceNow
9 6 (5.36%) Qualtrics
10 4 (3.57%) BMC
10 4 (3.57%) Dynatrace
10 4 (3.57%) HP
10 4 (3.57%) Ivanti
10 4 (3.57%) OpenText
10 4 (3.57%) Remedy
10 4 (3.57%) Splunk
11 3 (2.68%) Red Hat
12 2 (1.79%) TIBCO