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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 387 374
Rank change year-on-year +3 -13 +138
Contract jobs citing SAML 204 82 159
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.34% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.58% 1.51% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 57 109
10th Percentile £359 £412 £375
25th Percentile £450 £495 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £624 £675 £675
90th Percentile £806 £790 £740
UK median daily rate £545 £578 £600
% change year-on-year -5.75% -3.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £24.34
25th Percentile £51.25 - £24.59
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £25.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £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 7,910 5,413 7,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.24% 22.29% 20.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,256 3,741 5,341
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.52%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 101 230
10th Percentile £30.98 £33.25 £22.42
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.95
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -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 20 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
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 20 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 +8 106 £540 -14.29% 22
North of England -41 38 £556 +5.95% 10
Midlands -47 25 £400 -8.99%
Yorkshire -43 23 £575 +22.60% 1
West Midlands -33 20 £350 -41.96%
South East -53 18 £625 +8.70% 13
North West -32 14 £550 +4.76% 8
South West -32 7 £550 -11.11% 2
East Midlands -30 5 £438 -0.46%
East of England - 3 £425 - 8
North East - 2 £413 - 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 8 (3.92%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.43%) Confluence
3 5 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.47%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 8 (3.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.49%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 114 (55.88%) Azure
2 91 (44.61%) Entra ID
3 62 (30.39%) AWS
4 38 (18.63%) GCP
5 19 (9.31%) SaaS
6 18 (8.82%) OpenShift
7 16 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (4.90%) Serverless
10 9 (4.41%) PaaS
11 7 (3.43%) IaaS
12 6 (2.94%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (2.94%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.45%) Cloud Run
13 5 (2.45%) Google Workspace
14 4 (1.96%) Azure AKS
14 4 (1.96%) GitHub
14 4 (1.96%) OneDrive
14 4 (1.96%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 44 (21.57%) DNS
2 37 (18.14%) Kerberos
3 27 (13.24%) SSL
4 25 (12.25%) Firewall
5 22 (10.78%) HTTP
6 21 (10.29%) DHCP
7 17 (8.33%) IPsec
7 17 (8.33%) VPN
8 14 (6.86%) TCP/IP
8 14 (6.86%) WAN
9 13 (6.37%) HTTPS
9 13 (6.37%) LAN
10 11 (5.39%) Wireless
11 10 (4.90%) BIG-IP
11 10 (4.90%) Cisco ASA
11 10 (4.90%) Cisco Nexus
11 10 (4.90%) Network Security
12 9 (4.41%) Wireshark
13 8 (3.92%) Ethereal
14 7 (3.43%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.90%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.45%) Metadata
3 3 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.47%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.47%) GIS
3 3 (1.47%) MySQL
3 3 (1.47%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.98%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.49%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.49%) DB2
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.49%) Parquet
5 1 (0.49%) Power BI
5 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.90%) Browser DevTools
3 9 (4.41%) JIRA
4 5 (2.45%) GitLab
5 4 (1.96%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.47%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.98%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.98%) Git
7 2 (0.98%) Postman
7 2 (0.98%) Selenium
8 1 (0.49%) Gatling
8 1 (0.49%) JMeter
8 1 (0.49%) JUnit
8 1 (0.49%) Moq
8 1 (0.49%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.49%) WebDriver
General
1 68 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 50 (24.51%) Finance
3 30 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (12.25%) Documentation Skills
5 20 (9.80%) Public Sector
6 16 (7.84%) Banking
7 14 (6.86%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.45%) Retail
9 3 (1.47%) Legal
9 3 (1.47%) Military
10 2 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (27.45%) Architect
2 18 (8.82%) Developer
3 15 (7.35%) Senior
4 13 (6.37%) CyberArk Architect
4 13 (6.37%) Technical Architect
5 12 (5.88%) Network Engineer
6 10 (4.90%) Analyst
7 9 (4.41%) IAM Specialist
7 9 (4.41%) Lead
8 8 (3.92%) Applications Engineer
8 8 (3.92%) Consultant
9 7 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.94%) Java Developer
10 6 (2.94%) Security Engineer
11 5 (2.45%) IAM Developer
11 5 (2.45%) Senior Architect
11 5 (2.45%) Senior Technical Architect
11 5 (2.45%) Support Engineer
11 5 (2.45%) Systems Engineer
11 5 (2.45%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (75.00%) OAuth
2 128 (62.75%) OpenID
3 78 (38.24%) LDAP
4 65 (31.86%) OAuth2
5 27 (13.24%) SailPoint
6 25 (12.25%) REST
7 13 (6.37%) RESTful
7 13 (6.37%) Web Services
8 11 (5.39%) JWT
9 10 (4.90%) SOAP
10 9 (4.41%) .NET
11 8 (3.92%) JSON
12 7 (3.43%) J2EE
12 7 (3.43%) Spring
12 7 (3.43%) Spring Boot
13 5 (2.45%) FIDO
13 5 (2.45%) JDBC
13 5 (2.45%) Middleware
13 5 (2.45%) XACML
14 4 (1.96%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 39 (19.12%) Onboarding
2 30 (14.71%) Cloud Native
3 16 (7.84%) Replication
4 15 (7.35%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.41%) PKI
7 6 (2.94%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.45%) IoT
8 5 (2.45%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.96%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.96%) Clustering
9 4 (1.96%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.96%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.47%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.98%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.98%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (0.98%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (15.20%) Windows
2 18 (8.82%) Windows Server
3 16 (7.84%) Linux
4 5 (2.45%) CatOS
5 3 (1.47%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.98%) VMS
7 1 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (31.37%) DevOps
1 64 (31.37%) Identity Access Management
2 60 (29.41%) CI/CD
2 60 (29.41%) RBAC
3 42 (20.59%) Cybersecurity
4 38 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (15.69%) Migration
6 31 (15.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 26 (12.75%) Zero Trust
8 25 (12.25%) Design Patterns
8 25 (12.25%) Runbook
9 24 (11.76%) Architectural Patterns
9 24 (11.76%) Roadmaps
9 24 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
10 23 (11.27%) Architectural Design
10 23 (11.27%) Secrets Management
11 22 (10.78%) High Availability
11 22 (10.78%) Identity Management
11 22 (10.78%) Threat Modelling
12 21 (10.29%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 42 (20.59%) PowerShell
2 39 (19.12%) Python
3 35 (17.16%) Java
4 20 (9.80%) SQL
5 9 (4.41%) Go
6 8 (3.92%) Bash
6 8 (3.92%) C#
7 7 (3.43%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.45%) Bicep
8 5 (2.45%) Groovy
9 3 (1.47%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (29.90%) Security Cleared
2 47 (23.04%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.37%) Degree
3 13 (6.37%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (5.88%) CISSP
5 8 (3.92%) CISM
6 7 (3.43%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.96%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.96%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.49%) CCSP
11 1 (0.49%) CEH
11 1 (0.49%) CRISC
11 1 (0.49%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (18.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 36 (17.65%) NIST
3 34 (16.67%) GDPR
4 21 (10.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 17 (8.33%) NCSC
6 7 (3.43%) HIPAA
6 7 (3.43%) PCI DSS
7 5 (2.45%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.96%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.47%) GRC
9 3 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.49%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.49%) QA
10 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 84 (41.18%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.35%) Docker
3 10 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.90%) VMware NSX
4 6 (2.94%) RACF
5 2 (0.98%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.98%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.98%) OpenIDM
5 2 (0.98%) Squid
Systems Management
1 82 (40.20%) Single Sign-On
2 45 (22.06%) Kubernetes
3 36 (17.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 25 (12.25%) Terraform
5 4 (1.96%) CA Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.96%) PingFederate
6 3 (1.47%) Ansible
6 3 (1.47%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.98%) Grafana
7 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.98%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.49%) CASB
8 1 (0.49%) Consul
8 1 (0.49%) Packer
8 1 (0.49%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 90 (44.12%) Microsoft
2 34 (16.67%) CyberArk
2 34 (16.67%) Okta
3 18 (8.82%) Splunk
4 16 (7.84%) ServiceNow
5 14 (6.86%) Google
6 13 (6.37%) Palo Alto
6 13 (6.37%) VMware
7 12 (5.88%) Cisco
8 10 (4.90%) CheckPoint
8 10 (4.90%) F5
9 9 (4.41%) Ping Identity
9 9 (4.41%) SAP
9 9 (4.41%) Zscaler
10 6 (2.94%) ForgeRock
10 6 (2.94%) Workday
11 5 (2.45%) SolarWinds
12 4 (1.96%) BeyondTrust
12 4 (1.96%) Citrix
12 4 (1.96%) Oracle