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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 399 416
Rank change year-on-year +51 +17 +121
Contract jobs citing SAML 216 89 142
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.34% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.97% 1.52% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 58 99
10th Percentile £409 £493 £323
25th Percentile £447 £538 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £604 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.01% +0.58% -4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £651 £688
90th Percentile £715 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £530 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -11.67% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £25.00
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.00 - £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 7,269 5,867 7,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.83% 22.40% 20.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,873 3,763 5,638
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £659 £661
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £535
% change year-on-year -4.65% +0.47% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 75 182
10th Percentile £34.40 £26.35 £25.85
25th Percentile £50.00 £47.38 £45.96
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.13 £66.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.60 £76.26 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 +30 94 £600 - 22
North of England -31 38 £453 -13.71% 6
South West - 35 £540 - 3
Yorkshire -30 26 £469 - 4
Midlands -40 24 £500 -16.67% 5
West Midlands -30 20 £550 -9.39% 5
South East -33 13 £588 -6.75% 13
North West -22 12 £450 -14.29% 2
East of England - 8 £425 - 1
East Midlands -31 4 £442 -26.29%
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 11 (5.09%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.63%) Confluence
3 7 (3.24%) Apache
3 7 (3.24%) IIS
3 7 (3.24%) iPlanet
3 7 (3.24%) JBoss
3 7 (3.24%) WebSphere
3 7 (3.24%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.93%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 7 (3.24%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.46%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 114 (52.78%) Azure
2 76 (35.19%) Entra ID
3 64 (29.63%) AWS
4 31 (14.35%) GCP
5 24 (11.11%) OpenShift
6 23 (10.65%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (10.65%) SaaS
7 18 (8.33%) PaaS
8 12 (5.56%) Serverless
9 11 (5.09%) GitHub
10 9 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (3.70%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (3.24%) IaaS
13 5 (2.31%) Azure Storage
13 5 (2.31%) Cloud Run
14 4 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 50 (23.15%) Kerberos
2 40 (18.52%) DNS
3 30 (13.89%) Firewall
4 19 (8.80%) SSL
5 15 (6.94%) DHCP
6 14 (6.48%) VPN
7 11 (5.09%) IPsec
8 10 (4.63%) HTTP
9 9 (4.17%) Network Security
9 9 (4.17%) Wireshark
10 7 (3.24%) HTTPS
10 7 (3.24%) Reverse Proxy
11 6 (2.78%) BIG-IP
11 6 (2.78%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (2.78%) Cisco Nexus
11 6 (2.78%) Ethereal
11 6 (2.78%) LAN
11 6 (2.78%) WAN
11 6 (2.78%) Wireless
12 4 (1.85%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.24%) Oracle Database
2 5 (2.31%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.85%) Power BI
4 3 (1.39%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.39%) Metadata
5 2 (0.93%) GIS
6 1 (0.46%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (15.74%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.63%) Git
2 10 (4.63%) JIRA
3 7 (3.24%) Bitbucket Server
3 7 (3.24%) CA Release Automation
4 6 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (2.31%) GitLab
6 4 (1.85%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.93%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.93%) Maven
7 2 (0.93%) Selenium
8 1 (0.46%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.46%) Gatling
8 1 (0.46%) git-flow
8 1 (0.46%) gulp
8 1 (0.46%) JUnit
8 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.46%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.46%) webpack
General
1 90 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.06%) Finance
3 34 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (15.74%) Documentation Skills
4 13 (6.02%) Influencing Skills
4 13 (6.02%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.09%) Aviation
6 9 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.70%) Banking
8 4 (1.85%) Legal
9 3 (1.39%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.93%) Billing
10 2 (0.93%) Military
11 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Law
11 1 (0.46%) Publishing
11 1 (0.46%) Retail
Job Titles
1 61 (28.24%) Architect
2 19 (8.80%) Senior
3 15 (6.94%) Developer
3 15 (6.94%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (6.02%) Analyst
4 13 (6.02%) CyberArk Architect
5 12 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (5.56%) Consultant
5 12 (5.56%) Security Engineer
6 11 (5.09%) Security Architect
7 9 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (4.17%) Network Engineer
7 9 (4.17%) Technical Architect
8 8 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (3.24%) Business Analyst
9 7 (3.24%) Cybersecurity Architect
9 7 (3.24%) ForgeRock Developer
9 7 (3.24%) Lead
9 7 (3.24%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (75.93%) OAuth
2 138 (63.89%) OpenID
3 76 (35.19%) LDAP
4 63 (29.17%) OAuth2
5 15 (6.94%) JWT
5 15 (6.94%) REST
6 13 (6.02%) RESTful
6 13 (6.02%) SailPoint
7 10 (4.63%) .NET
8 9 (4.17%) GraphQL
9 7 (3.24%) Web Services
10 5 (2.31%) AngularJS
10 5 (2.31%) Spring
10 5 (2.31%) XACML
11 4 (1.85%) HTML
11 4 (1.85%) Node.js
11 4 (1.85%) React
11 4 (1.85%) Spring Boot
12 3 (1.39%) CSS
12 3 (1.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.28%) Onboarding
2 26 (12.04%) Cloud Native
3 22 (10.19%) Replication
4 16 (7.41%) Management Information System
5 13 (6.02%) Private Cloud
6 9 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (4.17%) PKI
7 6 (2.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.85%) BYOD
8 4 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.85%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.39%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.39%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.93%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.46%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.46%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 47 (21.76%) Windows
2 36 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 23 (10.65%) Linux
4 6 (2.78%) Unix
5 4 (1.85%) AIX
5 4 (1.85%) CatOS
5 4 (1.85%) Solaris
6 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
2 67 (31.02%) RBAC
3 64 (29.63%) CI/CD
4 63 (29.17%) DevOps
5 54 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
6 44 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (17.59%) Identity Management
8 32 (14.81%) Migration
8 32 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
9 31 (14.35%) Infrastructure as Code
10 29 (13.43%) Secrets Management
11 26 (12.04%) Agile
11 26 (12.04%) Architectural Patterns
11 26 (12.04%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 26 (12.04%) SIEM
12 25 (11.57%) Privileged Access Management
13 23 (10.65%) Design Patterns
14 22 (10.19%) Architectural Design
14 22 (10.19%) Task Automation
14 22 (10.19%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 63 (29.17%) PowerShell
2 42 (19.44%) Python
3 22 (10.19%) Java
4 17 (7.87%) JavaScript
5 13 (6.02%) SQL
6 12 (5.56%) Groovy
7 9 (4.17%) Bash
7 9 (4.17%) Go
8 8 (3.70%) C#
9 6 (2.78%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.39%) Bicep
10 3 (1.39%) PHP
11 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 78 (36.11%) Security Cleared
2 52 (24.07%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (8.80%) DV Cleared
5 18 (8.33%) Degree
6 16 (7.41%) CISSP
7 8 (3.70%) CISM
7 8 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
8 6 (2.78%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.31%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.85%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.39%) PhD
12 2 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.93%) CCSP
12 2 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.46%) HND
13 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.46%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (21.76%) GDPR
2 41 (18.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (14.35%) NIST
4 23 (10.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 15 (6.94%) NCSC
6 14 (6.48%) SOC 2
7 10 (4.63%) PCI DSS
8 8 (3.70%) HIPAA
9 7 (3.24%) QA
10 5 (2.31%) PSD2
11 4 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (1.85%) Data Quality
12 3 (1.39%) GRC
12 3 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (1.39%) SLA
13 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (45.37%) Active Directory
2 20 (9.26%) Docker
3 10 (4.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.78%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 6 (2.78%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.31%) RACF
6 2 (0.93%) OpenAM
6 2 (0.93%) OpenDJ
6 2 (0.93%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.46%) Squid
Systems Management
1 108 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
2 43 (19.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 38 (17.59%) Kubernetes
4 29 (13.43%) Terraform
5 9 (4.17%) PingFederate
6 7 (3.24%) CA Single Sign-On
6 7 (3.24%) CA Wily
7 6 (2.78%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.78%) Tivoli
8 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.39%) Ansible
9 3 (1.39%) SCCM
10 2 (0.93%) Grafana
11 1 (0.46%) Argo
11 1 (0.46%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.46%) Oracle Identity Manager
11 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 109 (50.46%) Microsoft
2 34 (15.74%) Splunk
3 32 (14.81%) CyberArk
4 31 (14.35%) Okta
5 19 (8.80%) Ping Identity
6 17 (7.87%) VMware
7 11 (5.09%) ForgeRock
7 11 (5.09%) Google
8 9 (4.17%) Oracle
8 9 (4.17%) SAP
9 8 (3.70%) AppDynamics
9 8 (3.70%) ServiceNow
10 7 (3.24%) Broadcom
10 7 (3.24%) IBM
11 6 (2.78%) BeyondTrust
11 6 (2.78%) CheckPoint
11 6 (2.78%) Cisco
11 6 (2.78%) F5
11 6 (2.78%) Palo Alto
12 5 (2.31%) Zscaler