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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 403 419
Rank change year-on-year +31 +16 +133
Contract jobs citing SAML 177 92 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.32% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.51% 1.47% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 58 97
10th Percentile £400 £346 £317
25th Percentile £427 £508 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.67% - -6.90%
75th Percentile £595 £650 £700
90th Percentile £688 £711 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -13.58% - -7.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.00 - -

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 7,065 6,261 7,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.23% 21.87% 21.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,702 4,001 5,812
10th Percentile £350 £360 £363
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £631 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £505 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -7.17% -1.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 76 167
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £31.70
25th Percentile £45.00 £43.38 £46.18
Median hourly rate £59.50 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.88 £65.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.22 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

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 December 2025.

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 26 December 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 +23 66 £525 -12.50% 26
South West - 34 £545 - 16
North of England -30 32 £448 - 34
Midlands -44 20 £538 -10.42% 29
Yorkshire -23 19 £468 - 16
West Midlands -26 17 £563 -5.82% 18
South East -21 14 £575 -8.00% 36
North West -15 13 £446 - 16
East of England - 9 £425 - 23
East Midlands -23 3 £415 -30.83% 9
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 21 (11.86%) Confluence
2 11 (6.21%) Apache
2 11 (6.21%) IIS
2 11 (6.21%) JBoss
2 11 (6.21%) WebSphere
3 10 (5.65%) iPlanet
3 10 (5.65%) WebSphere Application Server
4 7 (3.95%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.56%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (5.08%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 86 (48.59%) Azure
2 58 (32.77%) Entra ID
3 56 (31.64%) AWS
4 23 (12.99%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (11.30%) GCP
6 18 (10.17%) SaaS
7 13 (7.34%) PaaS
8 11 (6.21%) OpenShift
9 10 (5.65%) GitHub
10 9 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (4.52%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.82%) Azure Storage
12 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (2.26%) Power Platform
13 4 (2.26%) Serverless
14 3 (1.69%) Azure API Management
14 3 (1.69%) Azure Functions
14 3 (1.69%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 34 (19.21%) Kerberos
2 25 (14.12%) Firewall
3 23 (12.99%) DNS
3 23 (12.99%) SSL
4 11 (6.21%) VPN
5 7 (3.95%) Wireshark
6 6 (3.39%) Network Security
7 5 (2.82%) Internet
7 5 (2.82%) SSH
8 4 (2.26%) HTTP
8 4 (2.26%) HTTPS
8 4 (2.26%) IPsec
8 4 (2.26%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.26%) Wireless
9 3 (1.69%) BGP
9 3 (1.69%) BIG-IP
9 3 (1.69%) DHCP
9 3 (1.69%) LAN
9 3 (1.69%) OSPF
9 3 (1.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.65%) Oracle Database
2 4 (2.26%) Power BI
3 3 (1.69%) Metadata
4 1 (0.56%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.56%) GIS
4 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (14.12%) Jenkins
2 21 (11.86%) JIRA
3 15 (8.47%) Git
4 11 (6.21%) Bitbucket Server
4 11 (6.21%) CA Release Automation
5 8 (4.52%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (2.26%) GitLab
7 2 (1.13%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.13%) Fiddler
7 2 (1.13%) Maven
7 2 (1.13%) Postman
7 2 (1.13%) Selenium
8 1 (0.56%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.56%) JMeter
8 1 (0.56%) JUnit
8 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.56%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 71 (40.11%) Social Skills
2 30 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (15.25%) Finance
4 21 (11.86%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (7.34%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.21%) Aviation
7 10 (5.65%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.26%) Legal
9 3 (1.69%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.13%) Banking
10 2 (1.13%) Billing
10 2 (1.13%) Retail
11 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Law
11 1 (0.56%) Police
11 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 41 (23.16%) Architect
2 21 (11.86%) Senior
3 15 (8.47%) Developer
4 12 (6.78%) Azure Engineer
4 12 (6.78%) Security Engineer
4 12 (6.78%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (6.21%) Analyst
5 11 (6.21%) Consultant
6 10 (5.65%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (4.52%) Business Analyst
8 8 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (4.52%) Security Architect
9 7 (3.95%) ForgeRock Developer
9 7 (3.95%) Senior Architect
9 7 (3.95%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (3.39%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.39%) Lead
10 6 (3.39%) Network Engineer
10 6 (3.39%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (74.58%) OAuth
2 114 (64.41%) OpenID
3 63 (35.59%) LDAP
4 51 (28.81%) OAuth2
5 19 (10.73%) REST
6 13 (7.34%) AngularJS
6 13 (7.34%) HTML
6 13 (7.34%) SailPoint
7 12 (6.78%) JWT
8 11 (6.21%) SOAP
9 10 (5.65%) HTML5
9 10 (5.65%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (5.65%) Web Services
10 9 (5.08%) Apache Camel
10 9 (5.08%) JDBC
10 9 (5.08%) jQuery
10 9 (5.08%) JSON
10 9 (5.08%) ODBC
10 9 (5.08%) RESTful
11 6 (3.39%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.17%) Onboarding
2 16 (9.04%) Management Information System
3 11 (6.21%) PKI
3 11 (6.21%) Private Cloud
4 10 (5.65%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (4.52%) Replication
6 7 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.82%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.26%) BYOD
8 4 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.26%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.13%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.13%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (20.90%) Windows
2 25 (14.12%) Linux
2 25 (14.12%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.52%) Unix
4 5 (2.82%) AIX
4 5 (2.82%) Solaris
5 2 (1.13%) CatOS
6 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (37.29%) Identity Access Management
2 49 (27.68%) RBAC
3 47 (26.55%) DevOps
4 43 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (20.34%) CI/CD
6 35 (19.77%) Identity Management
7 32 (18.08%) Cybersecurity
8 30 (16.95%) Migration
9 27 (15.25%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 26 (14.69%) Agile
10 26 (14.69%) Privileged Access Management
11 22 (12.43%) Microservices
11 22 (12.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 19 (10.73%) Zero Trust
13 17 (9.60%) Change Management
14 16 (9.04%) Incident Response
14 16 (9.04%) Integration Patterns
14 16 (9.04%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (9.04%) Validation
14 16 (9.04%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (27.68%) PowerShell
2 31 (17.51%) Python
3 25 (14.12%) JavaScript
4 16 (9.04%) Java
5 15 (8.47%) Groovy
6 11 (6.21%) Bash
7 8 (4.52%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.26%) C#
8 4 (2.26%) SQL
9 3 (1.69%) PHP
10 2 (1.13%) Go
11 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 58 (32.77%) Security Cleared
2 34 (19.21%) SC Cleared
3 25 (14.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (10.17%) Degree
5 17 (9.60%) CISSP
5 17 (9.60%) DV Cleared
6 9 (5.08%) CISM
7 8 (4.52%) AWS Certification
7 8 (4.52%) TOGAF Certification
8 6 (3.39%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.82%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.69%) PhD
12 2 (1.13%) CCSP
12 2 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.56%) CISA
13 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (19.21%) GDPR
2 24 (13.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (9.60%) NIST
4 11 (6.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (5.65%) SOC 2
6 9 (5.08%) HIPAA
7 8 (4.52%) PCI DSS
8 7 (3.95%) QA
9 5 (2.82%) PSD2
10 4 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (2.26%) Data Quality
11 2 (1.13%) NCSC
11 2 (1.13%) SLA
12 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 86 (48.59%) Active Directory
2 15 (8.47%) Docker
3 8 (4.52%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 6 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.69%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.13%) OpenAM
6 2 (1.13%) OpenDJ
6 2 (1.13%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.56%) Firmware
7 1 (0.56%) RACF
7 1 (0.56%) Squid
Systems Management
1 91 (51.41%) Single Sign-On
2 27 (15.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 17 (9.60%) Terraform
4 11 (6.21%) CA Single Sign-On
5 10 (5.65%) CA Wily
5 10 (5.65%) Kubernetes
6 9 (5.08%) PingFederate
6 9 (5.08%) Progress Chef
7 8 (4.52%) Tivoli
8 4 (2.26%) Ansible
8 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.69%) SCCM
10 2 (1.13%) Grafana
10 2 (1.13%) Tivoli Identity Manager
11 1 (0.56%) Argo
11 1 (0.56%) HP Operations Orchestration
11 1 (0.56%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.56%) Oracle Identity Manager
11 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 88 (49.72%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.43%) Splunk
3 19 (10.73%) CyberArk
3 19 (10.73%) Ping Identity
4 15 (8.47%) Okta
4 15 (8.47%) ServiceNow
5 13 (7.34%) VMware
6 12 (6.78%) IBM
7 11 (6.21%) AppDynamics
7 11 (6.21%) Broadcom
7 11 (6.21%) Oracle
8 10 (5.65%) ForgeRock
9 9 (5.08%) BMC
9 9 (5.08%) HP
9 9 (5.08%) Ivanti
9 9 (5.08%) Remedy
10 7 (3.95%) BeyondTrust
10 7 (3.95%) SAP
10 7 (3.95%) Zscaler
11 5 (2.82%) Google