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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 386 375
Rank change year-on-year -10 -11 +146
Contract jobs citing SAML 209 89 166
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.37% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.60% 1.66% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 60 113
10th Percentile £356 £405 £375
25th Percentile £456 £467 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £638 £670 £675
90th Percentile £875 £790 £730
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 8,035 5,357 7,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.21% 22.39% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,295 3,715 5,407
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.26%
75th Percentile £630 £660 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £790
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £535
% change year-on-year +0.48% -2.34% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 96 236
10th Percentile £31.03 £29.66 £22.63
25th Percentile £51.25 £47.90 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.75 £66.38
90th Percentile £78.75 £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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -6 111 £548 -13.10% 24
North of England -50 37 £563 +7.14% 13
South East -34 24 £700 +21.74% 13
Yorkshire -41 22 £598 +27.40% 2
Midlands -48 21 £400 -7.99% 2
West Midlands -45 16 £345 -42.79% 2
North West -24 14 £550 +4.76% 11
South West -24 8 £550 -11.11% 2
East Midlands -31 5 £438 +1.74%
North East - 2 £413 - 1
East of England - 1 - - 5
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 (3.83%) Confluence
1 8 (3.83%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.44%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 8 (3.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 122 (58.37%) Azure
2 95 (45.45%) Entra ID
3 62 (29.67%) AWS
4 36 (17.22%) GCP
5 21 (10.05%) SaaS
6 18 (8.61%) OpenShift
7 16 (7.66%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (5.26%) Serverless
9 7 (3.35%) IaaS
9 7 (3.35%) PaaS
10 6 (2.87%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (2.87%) Cloud Run
10 6 (2.87%) GitHub
10 6 (2.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 6 (2.87%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.39%) Google Workspace
12 4 (1.91%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.91%) Slack
12 4 (1.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 46 (22.01%) DNS
2 35 (16.75%) Kerberos
3 29 (13.88%) SSL
4 26 (12.44%) Firewall
5 22 (10.53%) HTTP
6 21 (10.05%) DHCP
7 18 (8.61%) IPsec
7 18 (8.61%) VPN
8 15 (7.18%) TCP/IP
8 15 (7.18%) WAN
9 14 (6.70%) HTTPS
10 13 (6.22%) LAN
11 12 (5.74%) Network Security
11 12 (5.74%) Wireless
12 10 (4.78%) BIG-IP
12 10 (4.78%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (4.78%) Cisco Nexus
13 9 (4.31%) Wireshark
14 8 (3.83%) Ethereal
15 7 (3.35%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.78%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.39%) Metadata
3 3 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.44%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.44%) GIS
3 3 (1.44%) MySQL
3 3 (1.44%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.96%) 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 16 (7.66%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.78%) Browser DevTools
2 10 (4.78%) JIRA
3 5 (2.39%) GitLab
4 4 (1.91%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.44%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.96%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.96%) Git
7 1 (0.48%) JUnit
7 1 (0.48%) Moq
7 1 (0.48%) Postman
7 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 66 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 51 (24.40%) Finance
3 28 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (12.44%) Documentation Skills
5 23 (11.00%) Public Sector
6 17 (8.13%) Banking
7 14 (6.70%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.39%) Retail
9 4 (1.91%) Military
10 3 (1.44%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.44%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (29.67%) Architect
2 17 (8.13%) Developer
3 15 (7.18%) Technical Architect
4 14 (6.70%) Senior
5 13 (6.22%) CyberArk Architect
6 12 (5.74%) Network Engineer
7 9 (4.31%) IAM Specialist
7 9 (4.31%) Lead
8 8 (3.83%) Applications Engineer
8 8 (3.83%) Consultant
8 8 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (3.35%) Analyst
9 7 (3.35%) Security Architect
10 6 (2.87%) IAM Developer
10 6 (2.87%) Java Developer
10 6 (2.87%) Security Engineer
11 5 (2.39%) Senior Architect
11 5 (2.39%) Senior Technical Architect
11 5 (2.39%) Support Engineer
11 5 (2.39%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (75.60%) OAuth
2 134 (64.11%) OpenID
3 79 (37.80%) LDAP
4 73 (34.93%) OAuth2
5 26 (12.44%) SailPoint
6 25 (11.96%) REST
7 13 (6.22%) RESTful
7 13 (6.22%) Web Services
8 12 (5.74%) JWT
9 10 (4.78%) .NET
9 10 (4.78%) SOAP
10 8 (3.83%) JSON
10 8 (3.83%) Spring Boot
11 7 (3.35%) Spring
12 5 (2.39%) FIDO
12 5 (2.39%) J2EE
12 5 (2.39%) JDBC
12 5 (2.39%) Middleware
12 5 (2.39%) Node.js
12 5 (2.39%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (19.14%) Onboarding
2 34 (16.27%) Cloud Native
3 16 (7.66%) Replication
4 14 (6.70%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (5.26%) PKI
7 7 (3.35%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.35%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.39%) IoT
8 5 (2.39%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.91%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.91%) Clustering
9 4 (1.91%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.44%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.44%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.83%) Windows
2 18 (8.61%) Windows Server
3 16 (7.66%) Linux
4 5 (2.39%) CatOS
5 3 (1.44%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.96%) VMS
7 1 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (31.58%) Identity Access Management
2 65 (31.10%) CI/CD
2 65 (31.10%) DevOps
3 62 (29.67%) RBAC
4 46 (22.01%) Cybersecurity
5 36 (17.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (13.40%) Migration
7 27 (12.92%) Architectural Patterns
7 27 (12.92%) Roadmaps
7 27 (12.92%) Zero Trust
8 26 (12.44%) Stakeholder Management
9 25 (11.96%) Agile
9 25 (11.96%) Design Patterns
9 25 (11.96%) Runbook
9 25 (11.96%) Threat Modelling
10 23 (11.00%) Architectural Design
10 23 (11.00%) High Availability
10 23 (11.00%) Microservices
11 22 (10.53%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (21.05%) PowerShell
2 38 (18.18%) Python
3 34 (16.27%) Java
4 20 (9.57%) SQL
5 10 (4.78%) Go
6 9 (4.31%) Bash
7 8 (3.83%) C#
8 6 (2.87%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.39%) Bicep
10 3 (1.44%) Groovy
10 3 (1.44%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 52 (24.88%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.66%) CISSP
4 15 (7.18%) Degree
5 11 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (4.31%) CISM
7 7 (3.35%) Azure Certification
7 7 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.39%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.91%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.44%) CSPO
10 3 (1.44%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.96%) CEH
11 2 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.48%) CCSP
12 1 (0.48%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 37 (17.70%) GDPR
3 35 (16.75%) NIST
4 20 (9.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 18 (8.61%) NCSC
6 7 (3.35%) HIPAA
6 7 (3.35%) PCI DSS
7 5 (2.39%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.91%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.44%) GRC
9 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (41.15%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.18%) Docker
3 10 (4.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.78%) VMware NSX
4 6 (2.87%) RACF
5 2 (0.96%) Squid
Systems Management
1 89 (42.58%) Single Sign-On
2 48 (22.97%) Kubernetes
3 37 (17.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 28 (13.40%) Terraform
5 4 (1.91%) Ansible
5 4 (1.91%) CA Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.91%) PingFederate
6 3 (1.44%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.96%) Grafana
7 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.96%) 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 92 (44.02%) Microsoft
2 37 (17.70%) Okta
3 34 (16.27%) CyberArk
4 18 (8.61%) Splunk
5 17 (8.13%) ServiceNow
6 15 (7.18%) Google
7 14 (6.70%) Cisco
7 14 (6.70%) Palo Alto
7 14 (6.70%) Ping Identity
8 13 (6.22%) VMware
9 10 (4.78%) CheckPoint
9 10 (4.78%) F5
9 10 (4.78%) Zscaler
10 9 (4.31%) SAP
11 8 (3.83%) ForgeRock
12 6 (2.87%) Workday
13 5 (2.39%) SolarWinds
14 4 (1.91%) BeyondTrust
14 4 (1.91%) Citrix
14 4 (1.91%) Oracle