SAML Contract Job Trends in London

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring SAML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 334 330
Rank change year-on-year +25 -4 +128
Contract jobs citing SAML 71 39 73
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.49% 0.26% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.88% 1.00% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 25 52
10th Percentile £413 £433 £400
25th Percentile £475 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £700
90th Percentile £688 £762 £840
England median daily rate £516 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -13.96% - -6.25%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,782 3,902 4,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.28% 25.66% 25.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,556 2,548 3,677
10th Percentile £359 £379 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £663 £708 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 30
10th Percentile £33.79 £34.83 £31.77
25th Percentile £43.13 £37.88 £36.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -9.30% -17.31%
75th Percentile £63.38 £63.13 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.80 £71.90 £78.75
England median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SAML job vacancy trend in London

SAML
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SAML

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAML in London over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAML in London

SAML
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SAML.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SAML

SAML
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Central London +7 9 £575 -4.17% 6
West London - 1 £425 - 4
SAML
England

SAML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 13 (18.31%) Confluence
2 2 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (16.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 42 (59.15%) Azure
2 32 (45.07%) Entra ID
3 15 (21.13%) AWS
4 11 (15.49%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (14.08%) SaaS
6 9 (12.68%) GitHub
7 8 (11.27%) GCP
8 6 (8.45%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (5.63%) PaaS
11 3 (4.23%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (2.82%) OneDrive
12 2 (2.82%) OpenShift
13 1 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (1.41%) Boomi
13 1 (1.41%) Datadog
13 1 (1.41%) IaaS
13 1 (1.41%) Route 53
13 1 (1.41%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 18 (25.35%) SSL
2 9 (12.68%) Firewall
3 6 (8.45%) DNS
3 6 (8.45%) Network Security
4 5 (7.04%) VPN
5 4 (5.63%) Internet
5 4 (5.63%) TCP/IP
5 4 (5.63%) Wireshark
6 3 (4.23%) BGP
6 3 (4.23%) Kerberos
6 3 (4.23%) OSPF
7 2 (2.82%) DHCP
7 2 (2.82%) Extranet
7 2 (2.82%) S/MIME
8 1 (1.41%) HTTP
8 1 (1.41%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.41%) SMS
8 1 (1.41%) SMTP
8 1 (1.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.41%) Power BI
1 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (18.31%) JIRA
2 5 (7.04%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.23%) GitLab
4 2 (2.82%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.82%) Fiddler
4 2 (2.82%) Git
4 2 (2.82%) Maven
4 2 (2.82%) Postman
5 1 (1.41%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.41%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.41%) Gatling
5 1 (1.41%) git-flow
5 1 (1.41%) gulp
5 1 (1.41%) JMeter
5 1 (1.41%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.41%) Selenium
5 1 (1.41%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.41%) webpack
General
1 32 (45.07%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.72%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.86%) Finance
4 6 (8.45%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.63%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.63%) Legal
6 2 (2.82%) Banking
7 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.41%) Law
7 1 (1.41%) Police
7 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (42.25%) Architect
2 13 (18.31%) Senior
3 10 (14.08%) Security Engineer
3 10 (14.08%) ServiceNow Architect
4 9 (12.68%) Developer
4 9 (12.68%) Senior Architect
5 5 (7.04%) Security Architect
5 5 (7.04%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Administrator
7 3 (4.23%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (4.23%) ForgeRock Developer
7 3 (4.23%) Lead
7 3 (4.23%) Network Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Network Security Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Senior Developer
8 2 (2.82%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Security Architect
8 2 (2.82%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (66.20%) OpenID
2 46 (64.79%) OAuth
3 24 (33.80%) LDAP
4 19 (26.76%) OAuth2
4 19 (26.76%) REST
5 16 (22.54%) AngularJS
5 16 (22.54%) HTML
6 14 (19.72%) SOAP
7 13 (18.31%) HTML5
7 13 (18.31%) RabbitMQ
8 12 (16.90%) Apache Camel
8 12 (16.90%) JDBC
8 12 (16.90%) jQuery
8 12 (16.90%) JSON
8 12 (16.90%) ODBC
8 12 (16.90%) Web Services
9 6 (8.45%) SailPoint
10 4 (5.63%) React
10 4 (5.63%) RESTful
11 3 (4.23%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) Management Information System
2 8 (11.27%) PKI
3 7 (9.86%) Onboarding
4 5 (7.04%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (5.63%) BYOD
5 4 (5.63%) Private Cloud
5 4 (5.63%) Security Posture
6 3 (4.23%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.82%) Replication
8 1 (1.41%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.41%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.41%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.63%) Linux
1 4 (5.63%) Windows
2 2 (2.82%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.41%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.41%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (36.62%) DevOps
1 26 (36.62%) Identity Access Management
2 23 (32.39%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (26.76%) Agile
3 19 (26.76%) Microservices
4 18 (25.35%) CI/CD
5 15 (21.13%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 14 (19.72%) ITSM
7 13 (18.31%) Identity Management
7 13 (18.31%) Integration Patterns
7 13 (18.31%) Scrum
8 12 (16.90%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (16.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (16.90%) Zero Trust
9 10 (14.08%) B2C
9 10 (14.08%) RBAC
10 8 (11.27%) Cloud Security
10 8 (11.27%) DevSecOps
10 8 (11.27%) Incident Response
10 8 (11.27%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 18 (25.35%) JavaScript
1 18 (25.35%) PowerShell
2 11 (15.49%) Python
3 10 (14.08%) Java
4 3 (4.23%) Bash
4 3 (4.23%) Groovy
5 2 (2.82%) Go
6 1 (1.41%) C#
6 1 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (28.17%) Security Cleared
2 16 (22.54%) SC Cleared
3 12 (16.90%) Degree
4 7 (9.86%) CISSP
5 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (5.63%) Azure Certification
7 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (2.82%) CCSP
8 2 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (2.82%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.82%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.41%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.08%) GDPR
2 6 (8.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (7.04%) HIPAA
3 5 (7.04%) NIST
3 5 (7.04%) SOC 2
4 4 (5.63%) PCI DSS
5 3 (4.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (2.82%) NCSC
7 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.41%) PSD2
7 1 (1.41%) QA
7 1 (1.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (33.80%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.23%) Docker
3 2 (2.82%) OpenAM
3 2 (2.82%) OpenDJ
3 2 (2.82%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 44 (61.97%) Single Sign-On
2 12 (16.90%) Terraform
3 7 (9.86%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.41%) Ansible
6 1 (1.41%) Argo
6 1 (1.41%) Grafana
6 1 (1.41%) HP Operations Orchestration
6 1 (1.41%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 28 (39.44%) Microsoft
2 15 (21.13%) ServiceNow
3 12 (16.90%) BMC
3 12 (16.90%) HP
3 12 (16.90%) Ivanti
3 12 (16.90%) Remedy
4 10 (14.08%) CyberArk
4 10 (14.08%) Okta
5 6 (8.45%) ForgeRock
5 6 (8.45%) Splunk
5 6 (8.45%) Zscaler
6 5 (7.04%) Google
7 3 (4.23%) Ping Identity
8 2 (2.82%) NetIQ
8 2 (2.82%) Optimizely
9 1 (1.41%) Adobe
9 1 (1.41%) Citrix
9 1 (1.41%) Intel
9 1 (1.41%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.41%) Salesforce