SAML Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring SAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SAML 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.93% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £505 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £550 £588 £635
% change year-on-year -6.50% -7.36% +10.43%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 40 30 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 12.35% 15.63% 9.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 22 11
10th Percentile £481 £401 £363
25th Percentile £534 £416 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% +2.27% -29.60%
75th Percentile £950 £528 £572
90th Percentile - £611 £650
North West median daily rate £525 £447 £500
% change year-on-year +17.45% -10.60% -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £37.25 - £45.91
25th Percentile £44.41 - £45.96
Median hourly rate £66.07 - £46.03
75th Percentile £74.26 - £46.11
90th Percentile - - £46.15
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% +46.17%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAML relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

SAML job vacancy trend in Lancashire

SAML
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing SAML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing SAML

SAML
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 30 July 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
Preston - 2 £550 -
SAML
North West

SAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) OAuth
1 3 (100.00%) OpenID
1 3 (100.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Operational Stability
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) CyberArk
2 2 (66.67%) BeyondTrust
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Thycotic
3 1 (33.33%) Okta