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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 392 370
Rank change year-on-year +2 -22 +131
Contract jobs citing SAML 210 84 165
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.35% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.63% 1.58% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 58 112
10th Percentile £358 £407 £375
25th Percentile £450 £480 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £598
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.77% -0.42%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £656
90th Percentile £875 £790 £734
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £24.34
25th Percentile £51.25 - £24.59
Median hourly rate £77.50 - £25.00
75th Percentile £82.37 - -
90th Percentile £85.72 - -
UK median hourly rate £77.50 - £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 7,978 5,315 7,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.22% 22.33% 20.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,268 3,680 5,354
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £421 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -0.90%
75th Percentile £630 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £792
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 95 235
10th Percentile £30.77 £28.13 £22.60
25th Percentile £51.25 £40.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.62 £68.38 £66.50
90th Percentile £78.88 £81.01 £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 26 May 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 May 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 May 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 +2 109 £550 -12.70% 27
North of England -52 36 £563 +7.14% 10
Midlands -45 25 £400 -8.99%
South East -45 24 £700 +21.74% 12
Yorkshire -44 21 £598 +27.40% 1
West Midlands -42 20 £350 -41.96%
North West -28 14 £550 +4.76% 8
South West -24 8 £550 -11.11% 2
East Midlands -31 5 £438 -0.46%
North East - 2 £413 - 1
East of England - 1 - - 6
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 8 (3.81%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.33%) Confluence
3 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.43%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 8 (3.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 120 (57.14%) Azure
2 94 (44.76%) Entra ID
3 64 (30.48%) AWS
4 38 (18.10%) GCP
5 20 (9.52%) SaaS
6 18 (8.57%) OpenShift
7 15 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (4.76%) Serverless
10 7 (3.33%) IaaS
10 7 (3.33%) PaaS
11 6 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (2.86%) Cloud Run
11 6 (2.86%) GitHub
11 6 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (2.86%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.38%) Google Workspace
13 4 (1.90%) Azure AKS
13 4 (1.90%) OneDrive
13 4 (1.90%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 45 (21.43%) DNS
2 35 (16.67%) Kerberos
3 28 (13.33%) SSL
4 26 (12.38%) Firewall
5 22 (10.48%) HTTP
6 21 (10.00%) DHCP
7 18 (8.57%) VPN
8 17 (8.10%) IPsec
9 15 (7.14%) TCP/IP
10 14 (6.67%) WAN
11 13 (6.19%) HTTPS
11 13 (6.19%) LAN
12 12 (5.71%) Wireless
13 11 (5.24%) Network Security
14 10 (4.76%) BIG-IP
14 10 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
14 10 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
15 9 (4.29%) Wireshark
16 8 (3.81%) Ethereal
17 7 (3.33%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.38%) Metadata
3 3 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.43%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.43%) GIS
3 3 (1.43%) MySQL
3 3 (1.43%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.48%) DB2
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.48%) Parquet
5 1 (0.48%) Power BI
5 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (8.10%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.76%) Browser DevTools
3 9 (4.29%) JIRA
4 5 (2.38%) GitLab
5 4 (1.90%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.43%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.95%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.95%) Git
7 2 (0.95%) Postman
7 2 (0.95%) Selenium
8 1 (0.48%) Gatling
8 1 (0.48%) JMeter
8 1 (0.48%) JUnit
8 1 (0.48%) Moq
8 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.48%) WebDriver
General
1 67 (31.90%) Social Skills
2 50 (23.81%) Finance
3 30 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.90%) Documentation Skills
5 22 (10.48%) Public Sector
6 17 (8.10%) Banking
7 14 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.38%) Retail
9 4 (1.90%) Military
10 3 (1.43%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.43%) Legal
11 2 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (29.05%) Architect
2 17 (8.10%) Developer
3 14 (6.67%) Senior
3 14 (6.67%) Technical Architect
4 13 (6.19%) CyberArk Architect
5 12 (5.71%) Network Engineer
6 10 (4.76%) Analyst
7 9 (4.29%) IAM Specialist
7 9 (4.29%) Lead
8 8 (3.81%) Applications Engineer
8 8 (3.81%) Consultant
8 8 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (3.33%) Security Architect
9 7 (3.33%) Security Engineer
10 6 (2.86%) IAM Developer
10 6 (2.86%) Java Developer
11 5 (2.38%) Senior Architect
11 5 (2.38%) Senior Technical Architect
11 5 (2.38%) Systems Engineer
11 5 (2.38%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (74.76%) OAuth
2 132 (62.86%) OpenID
3 80 (38.10%) LDAP
4 71 (33.81%) OAuth2
5 29 (13.81%) SailPoint
6 26 (12.38%) REST
7 13 (6.19%) RESTful
7 13 (6.19%) Web Services
8 12 (5.71%) JWT
9 10 (4.76%) .NET
9 10 (4.76%) SOAP
10 8 (3.81%) JSON
10 8 (3.81%) Spring Boot
11 7 (3.33%) Spring
12 5 (2.38%) FIDO
12 5 (2.38%) J2EE
12 5 (2.38%) JDBC
12 5 (2.38%) Middleware
12 5 (2.38%) Node.js
12 5 (2.38%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (18.10%) Onboarding
2 33 (15.71%) Cloud Native
3 16 (7.62%) Replication
4 15 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (5.24%) PKI
7 7 (3.33%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.33%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.38%) IoT
8 5 (2.38%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.90%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.90%) Clustering
9 4 (1.90%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.43%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.43%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.76%) Windows
2 18 (8.57%) Windows Server
3 16 (7.62%) Linux
4 5 (2.38%) CatOS
5 3 (1.43%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.95%) VMS
7 1 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (31.43%) CI/CD
1 66 (31.43%) Identity Access Management
2 64 (30.48%) DevOps
3 61 (29.05%) RBAC
4 47 (22.38%) Cybersecurity
5 37 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (16.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 29 (13.81%) Migration
8 28 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (12.86%) Architectural Patterns
9 27 (12.86%) Roadmaps
10 25 (11.90%) Agile
10 25 (11.90%) Design Patterns
10 25 (11.90%) Threat Modelling
10 25 (11.90%) Zero Trust
11 24 (11.43%) Runbook
12 23 (10.95%) Architectural Design
12 23 (10.95%) Microservices
12 23 (10.95%) Secrets Management
13 22 (10.48%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 42 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 40 (19.05%) Python
3 36 (17.14%) Java
4 20 (9.52%) SQL
5 10 (4.76%) Go
6 8 (3.81%) Bash
6 8 (3.81%) C#
7 7 (3.33%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.38%) Bicep
9 3 (1.43%) Groovy
9 3 (1.43%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (31.90%) Security Cleared
2 53 (25.24%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.62%) CISSP
4 15 (7.14%) Degree
5 11 (5.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (4.29%) CISM
7 7 (3.33%) Azure Certification
7 7 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.38%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.90%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.43%) CSPO
11 3 (1.43%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.95%) CEH
12 2 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.48%) CCSP
13 1 (0.48%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (18.10%) GDPR
1 38 (18.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 36 (17.14%) NIST
3 21 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 19 (9.05%) NCSC
5 7 (3.33%) HIPAA
5 7 (3.33%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.38%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.90%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.43%) GRC
8 3 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.48%) QA
9 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (40.95%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.14%) Docker
3 10 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.76%) VMware NSX
4 6 (2.86%) RACF
5 2 (0.95%) Squid
Systems Management
1 86 (40.95%) Single Sign-On
2 49 (23.33%) Kubernetes
3 37 (17.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 27 (12.86%) Terraform
5 4 (1.90%) Ansible
5 4 (1.90%) CA Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.90%) PingFederate
6 3 (1.43%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.95%) Grafana
7 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.95%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.48%) Argo
8 1 (0.48%) CASB
8 1 (0.48%) Consul
8 1 (0.48%) Packer
8 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 90 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 38 (18.10%) Okta
3 35 (16.67%) CyberArk
4 18 (8.57%) Splunk
5 16 (7.62%) ServiceNow
6 15 (7.14%) Google
7 14 (6.67%) Palo Alto
8 13 (6.19%) Cisco
8 13 (6.19%) Ping Identity
8 13 (6.19%) VMware
9 10 (4.76%) CheckPoint
9 10 (4.76%) F5
10 9 (4.29%) SAP
10 9 (4.29%) Zscaler
11 7 (3.33%) ForgeRock
12 6 (2.86%) Workday
13 5 (2.38%) SolarWinds
14 4 (1.90%) BeyondTrust
14 4 (1.90%) Citrix
14 4 (1.90%) Oracle